Issue: December 28, 2017
Hello Readers,
Welcome to this week's Reno News & Review! As 2018 sneaks up rapidly, we take a look back at some of the best of 2017.
The Brothers Grimm teamed up for a look back at the good, the bad and the abhorrent in movies this year. Nobody takes movie misdeeds to task—be they cinematic trespasses or the sexual misconduct that made headline after headline—like RN&R's movie guy, Bob Grimm. And nobody draws hilarious illustrations of Bob critiquing movies like his brother, Mike Grimm, who also pens the weekly Apoca-Clips comic.
Brad Bynum, Editor and music adviser extraordinaire, compiled his annual picks for 2017s best albums. Of course, best-of lists are products of their authors' tastes and contexts. Think of this one not as an objective roundup of the year's best-produced or most cutting-edge, but as a tasty buffet of soul-soothing comfort food.
We've also got all of the usual news, arts and music coverage this week. And check out the calendar if you haven't yet decided how you'll welcome in 2018.
Whether you're planning an epic night of carousing, a family-friendly gathering, or a quiet night with the cat, may your New Year's Eve be everything you hope it will be, and may your 2018 be full of wonderful people, places and experiences.
Thanks for reading the RN&R!
Kris Vagner
Arts Editor
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Bad apples, good movies
2017 was marked by great movies, rotten movies—and some shameful behavior.
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Move over, Oscar. Bob’s picks are in.
The last word on movies from 2017: It’s The Grimmy Awards.
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Feeling blue
A Steller’s jay lingered near the river in downtown Reno.
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Nevadan was on the list
Grant Sawyer considered for JFK running mate.
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Heller sticks it to veterans
Republican policies slow service to vets to a crawl.
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Adding to the story
One of our cover stories gets a follow-up.
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Next year’s got to be better?
The second year of the Trump era approaches.
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U.S. lags, China leads
With Trump as president, world leadership shifts.
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Zine scene
A Holland Project exhibition shows how, despite the instantaneousness of web publishing, handmade zines never left us.
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The edge of ’17
The RN&R’s resident music geek weighs in on the best new music of the year.
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Shrunken heads
This film starts as brilliant satire mixed with science fiction but ends poorly.
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Up to speed
The band is called Condemned Existence, but its members find too much meaning in their work to be labeled nihilists.
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Stay tuned
Mendoza’s Bar & Grill offers a seafood tower that really lives up to the name.
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A brick house
Brickie’s Tavern on Second Street has been a Reno establishment since 1956.
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