Renoites

Brian Helander and Roger Bergmann on Reno's Gay Rodeo

50 years ago, Reno hosted the first gay rodeo, an opportunity for LGBTQ participants and fans to enjoy the rodeo in a more inclusive and accepting environment. Since then, the International Gay Rodeo Association has helped put on gay rodeo events acr…

Matthew Hawkins on the Making (and Makeup) of Dark Prison Haunted House

Spooky Season has arrived and one of the best ways for scare enthusiasts to get the most out of it is to spend some time getting chased by monsters and zombies and horrors of all kinds (without ever being in real danger.) And of course the best place…

Katey Roshetko on Local Broadcast Media and Reno's "Morning Break"

As the media landscape changes and we deal with new ways to get news and information, broadcast television still plays an important role. The national 24-hour cable networks aren't equipped to report on issues that are specific to Northern Nevada, an…

Lyric Burt on Carson City's Short Film Community and Competitions

Several times a year, dozens of amateur Northern Nevada filmmakers work to create short films 5-9 minutes long, in only 2 weeks. Their submissions are judged and winners are chosen in categories including Best Director and Audience Choice, and the fi…

Nicole Anagapesis on Mutual Aid in Reno

*This episode contains adult language Family Soup Mutual Aid has been serving dinner to 150-200 local residents, many of them unhoused, every Tuesday night at the Believe plaza in downtown Reno for the last several years. This "distribution" event al…

Tyler Colton on the Bar Owner Experience in Reno

Tyler Colton moved to Reno from New York about 6 years ago to transition from a long career as a professional celebrity hair stylist into a bar owner and operator here in the Biggest Little City. Named after his cat, he opened The Emerson in Midtown …

Vanessa Vancour on Bilingual Storytelling and Language Access

For any business or nonprofit or government agency, it is very important to be able to tell the story about what you do and why it matters. It is important to relay information clearly and in a culturally appropriate way. In a state like Nevada, with…

Sharon Chamberlain on Providing Health Care for the Underserved

Federally Qualified Health Centers were created during the civil rights era to bring health care to more people, particularly underserved communities. Here in Northern Nevada, HOPES was originally a clinic for patients with HIV but has since expanded…

Lucia Starbuck on Reporting the Purple Politics of Nevada

Nevada has an unusual legislative calendar, in which our legislature doesn’t meet every year, but every other year. And they don’t meet the entire year either- the session is only 120 days. 120 days to do all the lawmaking for a state of millions of …

Sara Going on Creating Safer Streets for Bikes (and Everyone Else)

The Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) is the agency that handles much of how we get around in Reno. They design and execute road projects, manage our local public transit, and very soon they will be installing bike infrastructure along several…