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This year’s Artown is ‘Heartown’

July 6, 2020 Frank X. Mullen 0

IMAGE/ARTOWN: This year’s poster is the work of artist Ivette Valenzuela. Scroll to the end of the story for a look at the complete artwork. By Frank X. Mullen The usual large outdoor gatherings are […]

Pandemic Chronicles: ‘They are not just numbers’

July 3, 2020 Frank X. Mullen 0

IMAGE/FRANK X. MULLEN: Bruce McAllister is shown is an inset photo above the three memorial stones recently placed at the VA hospital in Reno in tribute to the the front-line workers who died of COVID-19. […]

Kid’s camps: the shows must go on

June 22, 2020 Frank X. Mullen 0

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. […]

Midtown rises from the rubble

June 19, 2020 Frank X. Mullen 0

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 […]

LGBTQ Pride Festival Goes Virtual

June 14, 2020 Frank X. Mullen 0

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 […]

Pandemic Chronicles: Food banks beating hunger pains

June 9, 2020 Frank X. Mullen 1

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 […]

Reno curfew causes confusion

June 3, 2020 Frank X. Mullen 0

UPDATE: Reno officials the afternoon of June 3 rescinded the citywide curfew order, but encouraged the public to limit gatherings to 50 people or fewer on public streets, plazas and other public spaces, nightly from […]