One year after her first visit, Beth Macmillan returns to preview the 2025 Artown Festival. This year features a new venue necessitated by the downtown bridge repairs, one notable reunion and many exhibits, activities and performances to appeal to everyone.

Marla Paulina is an impresario, keeping cabaret style dance performances alive in the Reno area. Her latest effort is Velvet Moon, opening later this month. Marla details how a show like this, with multiple dancers, aerial acrobatics and vocalists, comes to life.

Tim Young is just beginning his time as the Executive Director of Arts For All Nevada. As he settles into the job at the historic Lake Mansion, he introduces us to the many services the organization provides and invites us all to participate in the exploration of arts and culture.

A few years ago, Kris Vagner saw that arts journalism was dwindling, so she decided to do something about it. She founded Double Scoop, a statewide online arts news source that is in its seventh year providing information that may otherwise not be reported.

When music lover Ford Goodman learned from professional musicians how the business of music works, with many great performers laboring with limited opportunities, he was motivated to find a better way, and the result is For The Song. Goodman explains how this throwback model takes a retro approach to funding artists and brings more great performances to the Reno area.

Jessica Santina has been writing theater reviews for the Reno News & Review for years, and in a smaller city like Reno that can be sensitive work. It can also be difficult working with your spouse, and since Jessica is married to this podcast’s host it might make for an unusual episode.

Emily Skyle-Golden founded and nurtured the Cordillera Film Festival in Reno into one of the coolest film festivals in the world, with year-round events including the upcoming Future Filmmakers Foundation Film Day coming up on April 19th. Emily tells us about the event and why it’s such an important part of Cordillera’s mission

Karen Terrey is the newly-appointed Poet Laureate of Nevada County and is just now beginning her term. She describes her vision of “bridging the county” to unite the two distinct arts districts on either side of the Sierra and gives a reading of two of her powerful poems.