MOVIE REVIEW: Fighting

Take Fight Club, neuter, lobotomize, add a love-story and you’ve got Fighting. The film isn’t entirely horrible. It just lacks much needed teeth and brains. Terrence Howard’s performance alone is worth seeing it for. Howard offers another compelling performance as Harvey Boarden, a comically polite, Woody Allen-esque hustler. Channing Tatum, on the other hand, reprises his perpetual character—the strong but boring type.

Reno Bike Project We heART Bikes Fundraiser Slideshow

The Reno Bike Project asked local artists to create bike-themed art for their 2nd annual “We heART Bikes” Fundraiser. Proceeds benefit the Reno Bike Project, a local non-profit community advocating the benefits of bicycle riding and offering a community garage for fixing bikes and learning about them.
–Photos by Nicole da Roza.

The world has no use for another scarred man: Splitting the difference between Paul Blart and Observe and Report

It’s always interesting when two films that have close subject matter come out at that same time. People don’t know how to react to it. Three films is totally a craze, or a “new direction in cinema to reflect our time.” But two films about the same thing is just awkward. It makes all the critics feel like somebody’s copying somebody else.

Lincoln Hall: Then and now

There is a rather interesting building that stands across from the towering, neighboring structures of Nye and Argenta Hall. This building, made of reddish-brown brick capped with an old bell tower pales in comparison to the modern looks of Nye and Argenta, attracting hundreds of students every year.

The biggest little bicycle shop: The Reno Bike Project

Let’s make a distinction here. The average Reno bicycle shop is about business; new bicycles and parts all at a price that may keep college students out of the shop. The Reno Bike Project, however, is about community.