Past Issue
» Feature The Lincoln Highway in Nevada
March/April 2013
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln Highway, but I fear the grand old road is fading from our collective memories. I want to remedy that. I urge you to get off the pavement for a while and experience a little of what traveling was like 100 years ago. Our Nevada adventure starts at Fernley and ventures east.
» Feature Nevada Sports
March/April 2013
Whether you’re root-root-rooting for the home team at a Las Vegas 51s or Reno Aces Triple-A baseball game, hitting the hardwood with the Reno Bighorns basketball team, or annoying everyone in earshot with your vuvuzela at a Las Vegas Legends soccer match, Nevada’s array of professional and collegiate sporting events will keep you entertained without breaking the bank. Play ball!
» City Limits All Seasons—1,000 Reasons
March/April 2013
The Biggest Little City in the World, America’s Adventure Place, A Little West of Center, Far From Expected…Reno has seen its fair share of nicknames and slogans—especially so in the last decade—and few of them have stuck. As the years-long game of musical mottos shows, the region was facing a bit of an identity crisis when President and CEO Chris Baum took the helm of the Reno-Sparks Convention & Visitors Authority at the start of 2012.
» Wide Open Thunder Mountain
March/April 2013
If you’ve ever traveled east from Reno, Fernley, or Lovelock to Winnemucca, you’ve driven by it. You might not have thought twice to look, and if you didn’t, you could easily have missed it even though it abuts Interstate 80. “It” is Thunder Mountain Indian Monument, nominally a monument but also an enigmatic roadside curiosity.
» Nature Sage Grouse
March/April 2013
During the breeding or strutting ritual, male sage grouse puff out their bright yellow throat sacs—which are bordered with white feathers—flare their sharply pointed tail feathers, and strut in an impressive display around the lekking ground in an attempt to attract females. The breeding season typically begins in mid-March and lasts through mid-May.
» Cravings License to Distill
March/April 2013
Like many Nevadans, George Racz came to the Silver State in pursuit of the American Dream. The Hungarian-born immigrant saw opportunity in the Las Vegas Valley, though it wasn’t gold or a huge jackpot he was after; it was a good cocktail. A fine drink wasn’t hard to come by in Sin City, but one made with locally distilled spirits was.
» History Pioneer Saloon
March/April 2013
In Goodsprings, the action is at the Pioneer Saloon, the last saloon standing—and continuously operating—from the burg’s glory days of the early 1900s. “At its peak in 1916 Goodsprings had 800 residents. Stores, restaurants, churches, a theater, and nine saloons lined Main Street. The Hotel Fayle, advertised as the ‘finest in the West,’ opened with great fanfare.”
» Events Spotlight Riding For a Cause
March/April 2013
Some ride for exercise, some for competition, and some for hope. In Las Vegas, you can ride for all three. On April 20, the Riders for Candlelighters Kids will pedal for an extraordinary cause. 2013 marks the Riders for Candlelighters cycling team’s fourth year.
» Shows Spotlight The Boyz Are Back
March/April 2013
Four-time Grammy-winning group Boyz II Men will headline at The Mirage in Las Vegas starting March 1. Shows are slated as far out as December 29. Best known for its ballads and a capella melodies such as “I’ll Make Love To You” and “One Sweet Day,” the trio will perform on Fridays and weekends at the Terry Fator Theatre.
» Know Your Nevada Spring Brings Warmer Weather and Events Galore
March/April 2013
Spring has arrived in Nevada—bringing with it all of the wonderful outdoor activities that Nevadans and visitors alike associate with life in the Silver State.
» People
Jones-ing for Lake Tahoe
Dewitt Jones and his younger brother Terry have, in many ways, conquered the world. In his younger years, Dewitt bypassed Harvard Business School to join an adventurous group that kayaked more than 1,000 miles up the coast of Japan. He later lived—more like camped—for a year in Yosemite National Park, researching for books and films he would produce about the life of John Muir.
You can imagine the people he met and the scenery he explored in his two decades as a photographer for National Geographic, from 1972 to ’92. There were such daring assignments as a chopper dropping him off on an iceberg in Canada’s Yukon Territory “so I could photograph the chopper in front of a massive glacier for scale,” Dewitt says. “He picked me up before I floated away!”
