AltWeeklies Wire
Teddy Baernew
With the hit movie Cinderella Man being released on video, Max Baer Jr. is objecting to its portrayal of his father, boxer Max Baer, as a brute.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
12-20-2005 |
Movies
Reno's Women of Rocknew
Being told you're a female Jello Biafra or a Nick Drake sound-alike, enjoying fan flirtation and impressing your grandma are some of the perks of being a woman rocker.
Reno News & Review |
Stephanie Perry |
11-04-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Stranger Than Fictionnew
Arthur Miller's obscure play about a famed, self-doubting, mistreated actress who's making a movie in Reno, Nev., was revived by the Goodman Theatre in Chicago last year but has yet to be performed in the town in which it is set.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
11-04-2005 |
Books
A Tricycle Built for Sevennew
The German-engineered septocycle, also known as a conference bike, combines a guard-lowering silliness factor with mechanical engineering prowess.
Reno News & Review |
Kris Vagner |
10-31-2005 |
Environment
Why Can't We Sleep?new
Our need for Zs is competing against some deeply entrenched societal expectations, and Thomas Edison can take part of the blame.
Reno News & Review |
Kris Vagner |
10-14-2005 |
Science
Homeland Security Welfare Stories Pile Upnew
Money to protect the homeland is being allocated not on the basis of need but of congressional pull.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
10-07-2005 |
Politics
Tags: Congress, Nevada, Senate, Calif., al-Qaeda, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, gold rush camp in the Sierra foothills, Nevada City, Nevada Sens. Harry Reid and John Ensign, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, U.S. Rep. Christopher Cox, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California amendment
Harry Reid Under Pressurenew
Nevada's senior senator is on the hot spot as a result of George W. Bush's latest Supreme Court pick.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
10-07-2005 |
Politics
Kids Must Learn the Constitution, Dammitnew
Schools around the nation spent an extra day teaching the U.S. Constitution because Congress threatened their funding if they didn’t.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
09-30-2005 |
Politics
Pulling the Plugnew
Telecom law revisions in Nevada could lead the way for the nation to get rid of community access television.
Reno News & Review |
Deidre Pike |
08-08-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
War of the Energy Worldsnew
A coalition of Nevadans say wind and geothermal power could achieve the same goals as a coal-burning plant proposed for the Nevada desert without environmental devastation.
Reno News & Review |
Deidre Pike |
07-26-2005 |
Environment
Tags: Sierra Club, San Diego, acid-rain-causing nitrogen oxide (NOx) and sulfur dioxide (SOx), cartographer, Friends of Nevada Wilderness, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, Public Resource Associates, Sempra Energy compressed coal-burning plant, Smoke Creek Desert, supply power to California. David Rumsey, the Gerlach General Improvement District and the Pyramid Lake Tribe, toxic emissions, Washoe County, Western Resource Advocates, Wildlife
Karl Rove: The Early Yearsnew
The Bush aide’'s Nevada years are already starting to develop their own mythology.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
07-26-2005 |
Politics
Police Go After Gangs of Unruly Sober, Chaste Kidsnew
Don't do chemicals? Don't smoke? No promiscuous sex? "Straight edgers" in Reno, Nev., hope to get past the media hysteria to promote their positive lifestyle.
Reno News & Review |
Stephanie Perry |
07-05-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Confessions of an eBay Opium Addictnew
A pleasure trip to the Internet auction site eBay sent the author into the hell of opium addiction.
Reno News & Review |
Peter Thompson |
03-17-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Bush Administration Revokes Torture Policy Authored by Nevadannew
The Bush administration revoked its permissive torture policy just days before attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales faced Senate questioning about his espousal of the policy, which was written by Nevada lawyer Jay Bybee.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
01-17-2005 |
Politics
Anti-Evolutionary Teachings Reenter Schools in New Formnew
Creationists have changed their strategy in order to gain acceptance from the scientific community and to get their materials into public schools. Gone is talk of God and the Bible. Anti-evolutionary advocates instead speak of "intelligent design."
Reno News & Review |
Deidre Pike |
01-17-2005 |
Education
