Reno News & Review

Let me begin with a statement of fact: I, Michael Moberly, am no longer fun.

I mean this in the sense that 2016 me would say to me now, “You are not fun.” I abstain from alcohol; I have a 2-year-old kid, so I am naturally sleepy most of the time; and, being in my late 30s, my tolerance for the general shenanigans found in the world after midnight is rather low.

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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is wall-to-wall “WTF?!”—and I couldn’t be happier. In a summer that has had a lot of humdrum offerings, this strange, beautiful and bizarre concoction qualifies as a nice level set.

Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s film is at once an ode to ’80s slasher films, a satire of the same thing and, somehow, an autobiograp...

A new festival with Reno bands will bring the noise to downtown Reno this fall.

Rage on West Street was announced in early August and is set for 2 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 26, with free music at Wingfield Park, 2 S. Arlington Ave., which reopened in June.

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Writer-director David Robert Mitchell, maker of the modern horror classic It Follows, attempts something completely different with The End of Oak Street. While I admire the go-for-broke premise, the finished product left me a bit dismayed.

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Elvis Presley and a clown walk into a bar … and after some music, comedy and magic, out walks Clownvis Presley.

With full clown makeup and the trademark Elvis jumpsuit, shades and slicked-back hair, Clownvis Presley has crafted a unique persona, mixing comedy with crooning vocals on original music—and, of course, classics by The King and others (with a fair share o...