01 Jul Rise of the Gym Climber
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....
27 Sep Sky Tavern: Bringing the Past Forward
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 ...
01 May Settling into Serenity
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...
25 Jun Road Trippin’ Through Time
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...
25 Jun Verdi’s Historic Train Heist
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...
25 Jun Back in His Domain
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...
26 Apr Reno’s Greater Nevada Field a Versatile Gem
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...
29 Sep Reno’s Full House
While business recruiters stuff Northern Nevada with new jobs, the community looks to developers to provide more housing National headlines may trace Reno’s current winning hand in job growth—the straight flush that has some calling the city and its outlying area “Silicon Valley east”—to the September...
29 Sep Mesa Rim on the Cutting Edge
Reno adds a world-class indoor climbing facility Climbers are moving indoors. The sport of indoor rock climbing is in steep ascent, underlined by the fact that it will make its Olympic debut at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games. “There is a change of philosophy from...
22 Jun A Long, Strange Trip
Nevada Museum of Art exhibition traces the history and evolution of Burning Man Among the tens of thousands of diehard “Burners” stretching the globe, only a select few know the history behind the countercultural phenomenon quite like Michael Mikel. With the assistance of Mikel and...