On the heels of National Bike Month, the Tour De Nez and the Reno Film Festival, Reno’s cycling culture gets a special pre-release screening of Veer. This award-winning, feature length documentary film explores America’s fast-growing bicycling...
Topics: Cycling, Featured

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It’s the call we’ve anticipated, yet somehow we never expected to get. A ski BASE jump gone bad and the friend-turned-living-legend lives no more. He is just legend now. Skiing has lost it’s greatest nut. Family, friends and fans across the world...
Topics: adam comey, Featured, Freeskiers, freeskiing, IFSA, lhotse merriam, shane mcconkey, Ski, Skiing, Squaw

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[ Thursday, April 2, 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] There's an art event Thursday night benefiting a few of the Holland Project Core Members (Toni, Tony, Omar, Nick) and their Artist collective, Sleepytime Projects.  It also features the artwork...
Topics: art, artists, design, Events, photography, Reno

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Despite only being a family of four, as of last count we own 24 helmets. Maybe more. There’s probably a ‘couple old ‘dain-duckets hanging out in the basement somewhere. That’s an average of six helmets per family member....
Topics: bikes, brain damage, Cycling, Family 2.0, head injury, helmet laws, helmets, kids, Natasha Richardson, Parenting, safety, Skiing

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[ Wednesday, April 1, 2009; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] What was once lost will not be forgotten. The Reno-Tahoe AIGA crew cooked up a cool awards party for all the stuff that’s never seen the light of day (and perhaps shouldn’t) or minimally was that...
Topics: aiga, art, awards, design, Events, Reno, social

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