Issue: July 07, 2011

Hi everybody.
"When you're alone, and life is making you lonely, you can always go ... downtown!" In this week's cover story, RN&R editor D. Brian Burghart visits East Fourth Street, long considered one of downtown Reno's most troubled drags, but perhaps finally in the midst of a revitalization. Nearby, RN&R news editor Dennis Myers visits what's left of "Tent City" outside of the homeless shelter in downtown Reno. In his editor's note, Brian writes about a sneak preview he got of CommRow, the climbing wall and recreation center currently under construction in the old Fitzgeralds building, and columnist Bruce Van
Dyke ruminates on the relative safety of, you guessed it, downtown Reno.
Be sure to pick up a newsprint version of the paper for exclusive cartoons and columns, and, as always, thanks for reading! If it weren't for you, we'd have to move to the suburbs.
Cheers,
Brad Bynum
Arts Editor, Reno News & Review
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Renovation
A combination of unlikely forces brings a flickering economic candle to East Fourth Street.
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Regent criticized
Leavitt called arrogant for juggling agenda.
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On the wing
Let’s do special events right, if we’re going to do them.
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Downtown musings
Bruce looks at recent violence and its meaning.
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Setting Amodei’s record straight
Mark Amodei served us well in state government, and if elected he will do the same in the Congress.
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Campaign ads from logic hell
Special election’s Sept. 13 and Repubs are campaigning like crazy folks who don’t do math and can’t remember recent history.
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Steamy romance
What is steampunk? “It’s Victorian style and technology [combined] with modern technology,” says Lauren Reeser, president of Great Basin Costume Society.
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Worst. Year. Ever.
Most Julys, Bob Grimm picks the 10 best and five worst movies of the year so far, but 2011 has been so bad, he’s flipped the script.
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You don’t stop
The Speak Your Mind festival is the biggest local hip-hop event of Artown.
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Good grade
A pizza place in South Reno that’s been in business for 18 years for good reason.
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Leafless in Nevada
You won’t find any Nissan Leafs in Nevada yet because the state wasn’t considered ready for them.
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Save the Earth (Day)
Nevada Econet is trying to pass the torch.
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What’s SUP on the Comstock
Residents rally against a special use permit for drilling in the Comstock.
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E. coli’s better side
Scientists are turning E. coli into energy.
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Eco-Event: Booker T greenhouse benefit
Listen to a legend, support a greenhouse: July 13.
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