Our Town Reno

It’s the end of an era here, the end of our weeklies, we’ve consistently produced over the past two years for podcast platforms and for KWNK. We’ve interviewed people struggling on the streets and volunteers who do good to help them out, as well as movers and shakers, artists and illuminaries of our community, radical thinkers, doers and promoters. As we’ve gone independent, we no longer have the reporter bandwidth to be able to produce one episode every week. Going forward we will have occasional episodes. We are thinking of new types of interviews such as reporter’s notebooks with prominent journalists in the community, looking into cold cases or having audio mini documentaries as we once did at our beginnings. Thank you for being faithful listeners and keep us in your subscription as pretty soon a new episode here and there will pop up, not as a regular feature anymore but as an occasional bonus, to inform, to enlighten, to give sounds of our Reno, Our Town Reno, the biggest little streets, still rad, still getting better, growing, but in need of tlc, of vintage, of keeping public spaces public and of helping each other out. We will continue our regular postings on the BiggestLittleStreets Instagram which we are proud to say for a hyperlocal initiative has over 17k followers, on the Our Town Reno Facebook which has over 11k followers, on our Twitter/X, TikTok where one video got over 600 thousand views, on the Our Town Reno threads and Reddit where we need more followers to continue. We also have a weekly Our Town Reno Substack which you can get by email every week. If you’d like to contribute to this hyperlocal reporting endeavor you can subscribe via our Facebook for three dollars a month, via our Substack for whatever amount you choose with your credit card, and if you have Venmo via the ourtownreno account.

Luke Hill is a born-and-raised Renoite, a waiter at a local sushi restaurant, and a musician with the band Kings Row. In his bedroom, under a make-shift tent made from his comforter, he chats with Kade Collins about what it’s been like growing up in Reno and nearby suburbia through many economic shifts, including the current population and gentrifying development boom, how he barely avoids committing arson, his favorite areas of Reno, and Kings Row house concerts.

Jacob Kostuchowski talks with business owner Francesca Martinez, the owner of Bad Apple Vntg, a local boutique here in midtown Reno, to discuss her process of acquiring inventory and being a small business owner in a place like the Biggest Little City.

Jaden Urban goes to a garage concert which gets interrupted by police but is able to interview the band members behind Reno punk band Blind Fortune. Episode also includes snippets of some of their recent songs.

Reporter Heather Saxe interviews the founder of the Love and Mine Foundation Sarah Peterson. The Love and Mine Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide easier access to resources for victim-survivors of power based violence in the college aged demographic in the Reno community.