Most neighborhoods have a certain look. They are part of a master plan, built with a cohesive design, and easy to name and navigate. But not this one. This southwest Reno enclave is well hidden, strangely hard to define, packed with a who’s-who of longtime...
Ten minutes before the Magique show begins, 12 performers and crew members disappear into a labyrinth of dark hallways behind the Nugget Casino Resort’s Celebrity Showroom stage. Off stage, two laptops play soft music for audience members as they file into the room to find...
If you don’t like MidTown now, just wait five minutes, and things could change. The 100-plus-year-old Reno neighborhood started with dental offices, car dealerships and essential services, then in the 1990s and early 2000s turned to strip clubs, sex shops and seediness. Today, amid its...
On any night of the week, climbing gyms across Reno fill with men and women, young and old, crawling up weird plastic shapes bolted to walls erected inside cavernous industrial buildings....
This all-volunteer, 75-year-old Tahoe tradition is home mountain to multiple Olympic and World Cup ski champions, with big plans for the next quarter century ...
A new refuge for relaxation opened its doors in October 2018. The 21,000-square-foot Spa at Silver Legacy, where everything from the design to the spa products are inspired by natural items indigenous to the Reno and Lake Tahoe outdoors, shattered any preconceived notions about spas...
The exterior of the museum was designed with classic cars in mind, photo courtesy National Automobile Museum Reno’s acclaimed National Automobile Museum shines thanks to an avid collector and a generous gift “Few material things have been as important to America as the automobile. The manufacture of...
In November 1870, bandits pulled off the first train robbery in the American West Frank Mitchell, a seasoned Wells Fargo guard, was hunkered down with his partner in the express car of the Overland Express heading east from San Francisco when he heard a knock on...
After a 17-year playing career and stints as a manager and TV analyst, Williams is back on the field, now as a third base coach for the Oakland A’s, photo by Michael Zagaris, courtesy Oakland A’s Former Carson High and San Francisco Giants star Matt Williams returns...
Prized downtown ballpark and the pro teams that share it bolster the city’s rising status When an afternoon thunderstorm pounded Greater Nevada Field this past summer, a shoeless Reno Aces President Eric Edelstein joined Director of Field Operations Joe Hill and his crew, wielding rakes and...