News
Requiem for a Reno landmark
PHOTO/FRANK X. MULLEN: Harrah’s shut down during the COVID closures and now will remain dark. By Frank X. Mullen If Harrah’s walls could talk, they also would sing and laugh. The voices of Sammy Davis […]
Month: June 2020
COVID-19
Pandemic Chronicles: Mandatory masks, our remake of 1918
PHOTO/NEVADA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: two Nevada women, identified as “Mrs. A. L. Hart and Mamie,” wearing surgical masks during the 1918 Flu Epidemic. By Frank X. Mullen We’ve been down this road before, a century ago, […]
News
City life
Kid’s camps: the shows must go on
PHOTO/GIRLS ROCK RENO: A group rehearses at last year’s Girls Rock Reno band camp. By Frank X. Mullen In the face of a pandemic, creative souls turn adversity into art. It has always been so. […]
City life
Midtown rises from the rubble
PHOTO/FRANK X. MULLEN: Bartender Kaitlyn Troutman draws a pint at Brauhaus 701. By Frank X. Mullen After enduring nearly two years of operating within a construction zone, overlaid by months of an unexpected lockdown, the […]
COVID-19
Pandemic Chronicles: Players return to Reno
PHOTO/FRANK X. MULLEN: Downtown Reno, nearly deserted for 78 days, reawakens By Frank X. Mullen Gamblers are returning to Reno’s slot machines and gaming tables, but slowly. Some are worried about safety; some don’t seem […]
City life
LGBTQ Pride Festival Goes Virtual
PHOTO/NORTHERN NEVADA PRIDE: The Pride Parade on Virginia Street in 2018 By Frank X. Mullen Nothing was going to stop this year’s Northern Nevada Pride Festival from happening. Well, virtually nothing. In a sad summer […]
COVID-19
Voters stand in line for hours
PHOTO/FRANK X. MULLEN: Voters wait to cast their ballots in Washoe County Tuesday By Frank X. Mullen A pandemic stole a lot of the experiences Jessica Cartwright was supposed to have during her landmark 18th […]
City life
Pandemic Chronicles: Food banks beating hunger pains
PHOTO/Catholic Charities: Employees pack food at Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada. By Frank X. Mullen There’s no reason for anyone to go hungry in the Reno area, even during this economic meltdown. That will be […]
Government
Lawmakers take aim at police reforms
IMAGE/Reno Police Department: The green boxes indicate new policies adopted June 5. By Frank X. Mullen As the federal government recoils from investigating systemic bias and racism in the nation’s local police agencies, Nevada officials […]
COVID-19
Doctors urge caution as coronavirus complication strikes kids
At her pediatric office in Oroville, Dr. Maria Alice Alino meets little resistance when discussing measures to prevent coronavirus. Parents, teens and children get into that mindset when they walk in, because she enforces a […]
Essays
Racism infects America
Words are not enough to heal what’s wrong with our communities and law enforcement By Reuven H. Taff A young black Jewish couple in my congregation take a Shabbat walk in their neighborhood and stand […]