Issue: August 16, 2007
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Just deserts
The Best in the Desert Vegas to Reno off-road race is barely a week away. Are you ready to rumble?
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Biking good in the neighborhood
Critical Mass commemorates the hot nights of August by celebrating bicycles.
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Freedom fighter
After having to fight for her job after coming out as a lesbian, Sandy Bandy filed the first discrimination charge in Nevada based on sexual orientation.
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School work
Students should work after school if they want to. It’s too bad some have to.
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Letters for August 16, 2007
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Off with their heads
Bruce Van Dyke takes issues with his editors.
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Those who don’t like Nevada are full of No. 2
Don’t let the statistics fool you; Nevada is good for business.
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Profligate pedicure
In the end, I couldn’t imagine polish on my toenails.
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Artistic vision
In the 15 years spanning Ray Valdez’s new exhibit, he became a felon, a free man, a teacher, a husband, a father and an artist.
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South rises again
Transcending a trip to the bottom of Walden’s pond, Reno’s award-winning weekly open-mic series opens its second act.
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Wake-up call
Loathing and Loathing in Reno. A novel of bleakness and destitution, alcohol and junk food, set in the cheap, seedy underbelly of weekly motels and failed suicide attempts.
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Still waters
The Church of Scientology Mission of Sierra Nevada offers a method to improve minds and straighten out lives.
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Swede music
Swedish sugar-pop so rich with sweetening, you’ll leave the performance with diabetes.
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McLovin it
Seth Rogen just can’t lose. The new “It” comic stays on top of the world with yet another golden blockbuster full of belly laughs.
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Old is the new “new”
Veteran musicians swear that what’s old can be made new again in the group Promises Promises.
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Bigger is better
Jump off the Sushi Pier into an all-you-can-eat fish fest.
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The fruity meat technique
Cooking your meat in fruit will create a party in your mouth.
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Eco-chic boutique
First Elegant earth-friendly wares in Reno.
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Sierra trees stressed
Sierra conifers are dying twice as fast as two decades ago.
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