Books
Isabelle Allende Speaks At UNR on Thursday
I must urge any one who appreciates Allende’s work, along with anyone who love great authors and great books to attend Allende’s lecture on Thursday at 7pm in the ballroom of the Joe Crowley Student Union at UNR and hosted by The Reno Latino Research Center. I’ve seen Allende speak twice and both times [...]
Vanity Search Alert
Most of the time it’s horrifying to do a vanity search, but today I got a nice surprise. One of my favorite literature professors at California State University at San Bernardino, Phil Page, name checked me in the Acknowledgments section of his book Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Literature.
“Another former student, Tracy Viselli, [...]
Fabulous Susan Faludi’s L.A. Times Op-ed
Thanks to Blue Lyon for pointing out Susan Faludi’s fabulous op-ed for the L.A. Times. Whether you plan to vote for Hillary Clinton or not, understanding the difference between how a female electorate votes and how a female electorate votes for a female presidential candidate in THIS America is important. And men, this is a [...]
Are We Happy Now?
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola [...]
Reno and Beyond: Mancake Jay Kincaid In A Bikini?
I always suspected that Stanley Scandalmonger was into S&M, But a rack is pretty extreme. Even I don’t have one of those in my closet.
If only Gayliens would take over earth.
I’m sure like me you are one of the millions of Americans who I didn’t remember that Monday was Constitution Day, but its a [...]
Reno and Beyond: Big Brother Wants You To Be Quiet
The minx got an email from someone working on the city’s plan to build a year round market in downtown and as DMD notes, the city council approved the idea last week. I hope they follow my advice and try for something like Eastern Market in D.C. Eastern Market is a popular neighborhood [...]
Reverse Speech Going Strong: 17 Years After The Infamous Judas Priest Trial in Reno
Reverse Speech is still popular seventeen years after the Judas Priest “subliminal messages” Reno suicide trial.
Reno and Beyond: Nevada Assembly Democrats Go Online
Downtown Makeover Dude has taken up commenter Steve’s question about whether Montage developer Fernando Leal is working with the Carano family to buy up every structure withing a block’s radius of the Montage. Cantankerous commenter Sara Lee may have known what she’s talking about after all. Is the fourth bid on Fitzgerald’s a [...]
Reno and Beyond: This Is Me On Peter O’Toole
Stanley Scandalmonger began the blog coverage of today’s Gibbons-related embarrassment–but this one did not take place on his website. Aspiring to be like Rudy (Giuliani ), Gibbons has appointed the seemingly scandalous Philip Galeoto to be his Director of Public Safety. Remember Bernie Kerik? There are a couple of odd things about [...]
Reno and Beyond: Help The RSCVA In Your Underwear At 2AM
New poll! Look to your upper-left in the Red Bar of Content.
Reno sisters are doing it for themselves. The minx needs to get in on some of this action–she’s not really cut out for a 9-5 gig either.
Speaking of sisters, Nevada’s Katharine Jefferts Schori becomes the first woman to lead the Episcopal [...]
Billy Bragg At The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco: The Late Show
Its probably no surpise to most of you that I would be a fan of Billy Bragg, the singer-songwriter who has championed “the radical dissenting tradition” found in the music of Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Victor Jara, Johnny Cash and The Clash among others. However, as much as I identify with Bragg’s [...]
What Terrorists Want
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat by Lousie Richardson sounds like a terrific book. From the reviews I’ve read, Richardson dispassionately and straight forwardly explores the social and political phenomenon of terrorism (a phenomenon that has existed for centuries), the nature of al Qeada in particular, and how the [...]
Reno And Its Discontents : Place Blogging In Reno
Okay, I lied earlier about not blogging this weekend, but its not my fault! First, I didn’t want anyone to worry that I was going to pull a Gilles Deleuze and throw myself off the balcony after the tone of my most recent post, “Its Just Overkill” Second, it seems that D. Brian Burghart, [...]
Ehrenreich Bitch Slaps Ex Wonkette Old School Style
And Ana Marie Cox deserved it big time….Ehrenreich’s reply to Cox’s less than funny, clever or even knowledgeable review of Katha Pollitt’s Virginity or Death! And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Times in the NYTimes is spot on and the conclusion is just perfect:
Cox seems to have missed the irony of [...]
