Reno News & Review

Elvis Presley and a clown walk into a bar … and after some music, comedy and magic, out walks Clownvis Presley.

With full clown makeup and the trademark Elvis jumpsuit, shades and slicked-back hair, Clownvis Presley has crafted a unique persona, mixing comedy with crooning vocals on original music—and, of course, classics by The King and others (with a fair share o...

When Plastic Paddy started playing one of its songs during a recent practice, the chords somehow seemed familiar. It wasn’t a traditional Irish folk song—one genre the band performs—but it had an atmosphere that made it feel like it was created long ago.

Then band member and banjo player David Leblanc started singing the lead part, and everything clicked: “She pack...

“I’m like a sadness doula,” said author Claire Vaye Watkins. In her novels, especially her latest, Yellow Pine, she trusts her readers to be able to sit with sadness and then move through it.

Rose, the main ...

After 28 years of teaching, I still get excited about the first day of school. The desks may be the same. Hamlet is still Hamlet. But when 180 students walk through the door, the world gets created again.

The week before students arrive is less exciting. It’s a time when districts roll out the next “big idea,” often in language that sounds vaguely...

Openings

A new music venue and craft-cocktail lounge, Tessie’s Cocktails & Chords—named for Tahoe Tessie, the serpentine creature that lives in Lake Tahoe, according to legend—opened in July at the newly remodeled Caesars Republic Lake Tahoe, formerly Harveys Lake Tahoe, at 18 U.S. Highway 50, in Stateline.

The lounge featur...