Reno News & Review

Khanh Huynh didn’t grow up dreaming of owning a restaurant. She came to Reno from Vietnam in the late 1990s with her mother and her brother to build a new life from scratch. She went to hair school, a practical choice, but cooking and creating always pulled at her. Life brought marriage and motherhood, and some hard times—challenges learning English, people judging her, her ...

The one art venue in the region that people most often tell me they’ve never visited is St. Mary’s Art Center in Virginia City. It’s that big, brick building from 1875 with the wide, two-story porch that you can see if you stand on the town’s main drag, C Street, and look downhill.

During the Comstock Lode boomt...

The Adicts are at the pinnacle of punk rock thanks to hook-y anthems and a trademark Clockwork Orange “droog” look. For more than 50 years, the raucous U.K. outfit has been crafting crunchy and fun up-tempo jams that range from the goofy “My Baby Got Run Over by a Steamroller” to the political “Viva La Revolution” to the heartfelt “Troubadour.” Their live shows are ...

The 1963 film adaptation of William Golding’s literary classic (and middle-school English-class staple) Lord of the Flies, by director Peter Brook, is a masterpiece. It’s one of the great films that captures the essence of the origin tome perfectly.

The characters of Ralph, Piggy, Jack, Simon and other English schoolboys—marooned on an island after a p...

When you see the new Reno indie-rock band Nosebone, you might get a strong sense of déjà vu.

All three members—Mikie Ramirez on bass and vocals, Penny Notasquare on guitar and vocals, and Scaught Bates on drums—used to be in The Shames, a popular punk band in town that was together for 15 years. But Nosebone is a different prospect from The Shames in many ways. Wit...