SUNDANCE BOOKS AND MUSIC: ANOTHER ATTRACTION FOR NON-GAMBLERS IN RENO

Normal 0 0 1 289 1648 13 3 2023 11.1539 0 0 0 Reno is widely known as a casino town, but where can you take visitors who don’t care to gamble?  I’ve previously blogged about a few noteworthy educational attractions for kids of all ages, such as the Wilbur D. May Museum at Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, the Animal Ark wildlife sanctuary, the scenic campus of University of Nevada, Reno and the free pipe organ...

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LITTLE HOUSE ON CENTER STREET IS A BIG TREAT IN MIDTOWN RENO

Normal 0 0 1 324 1847 15 3 2268 11.1539 0 0 0 Midtown Reno is an evolving neighborhood, the type of community that could someday be a darling of food and travel magazines like Sunset, Cooking Light and EveryDay with Rachael Ray.  Every new "sweet spot" like Little House on Center Street brings Midtown a notch closer to being a rave-worthy destination for both townies and tourists.Located at 725 S....

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PINING FOR POLISH CUISINE IN SOUTH RENO (PART 3)

Normal 0 0 1 323 1843 15 3 2263 11.1539 0 0 0 Holidays inevitably spark memories of unique foods which were traditionally served by your family — and Easter is no exception.On a recent shopping trek through South Reno, I spotted a couple of hard-to-find items that were always on my Polish grandparents’ Easter table when I was growing up in Chicago.At Cost Plus World Market, 4987 S. Virginia St., I saw a jar of...

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WHEN MICKEY ROONEY VISITED UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO

Normal 0 0 1 122 701 5 1 860 11.1539 0 0 0 I have known, for a while, that the lovely campus of University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) was the setting for a number of Hollywood movies in the 1940s.  Today, with the news about the passing of film legend Mickey Rooney, I remembered that one of those movies was Rooney’s “Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble.”This link from UNR tells more about this movie and other college capers...

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