Hi, Nevadans!

In case you missed it, we’re looking for your favorite Reno spots for our 2025 Food Guide. We know Reno is full of great places to eat, drink, and shop for food, and we think it’s time to put them in the spotlight. Fill out this survey to let us know which can’t-miss spots should make our list!

In other news, the Animal Foundation is overcrowded again. If you’d like to help, the foundation is offering pet foster parents $200 to home a dog for a month.

Have a good week!

Jannelle Calderón

Newsletter Editor, The Nevadan / El Nevadense

🐉 Dragon Lights Reno — From Sept. 26 to Nov. 30 at Wilbur D. May Arboretum and Botanical Gardens in Reno’s Rancho San Rafael Park. This lantern festival features magical creatures illuminated in dazzling colors. There will also be food and beverages available for purchase. Find tickets online.

🌻 Grand reopening: Community Garden at the Winchester Dondero Cultural Center — Saturday, Sept. 27 from 9-11 a.m., located at 3130 McLeod Drive in Las Vegas. There will be community mural painting, a free gardening workshop, live music, delicious food, and a limited number of free trees for families to take home.

💃 Fiesta at the Plaza — Saturday, Sept. 27 from 4-9 p.m. at the Carolyn G. Goodman Plaza (525 S. Main St.) in Downtown Las Vegas. Bring your lawn chair or blanket to sit on the grass and enjoy live music, dance performances, activities for children, food trucks, and more.

Love dogs? The Animal Foundation will pay you to help pups in need

The Animal Foundation is offering to pay residents to foster dogs amid overcrowding at its shelter. (Madeline Bowen/Unsplash).

By Sam Cohen

Due to a recent influx, The Animal Foundation is seeking residents’ help to save dogs’ lives by providing them with a temporary foster home.

The goal is to place as many dogs as possible into foster homes for at least a month, which will allow for more space at the shelter. Clark County residents who are able to care for an eligible animal for the entire four-week period will receive $200 from The Animal Foundation.

Payments will be made once the month-long foster period is over, but foster parents will receive all necessary supplies, including food, for free when they pick up their pooch.

8 ways to scream your way through Halloween 2025 in Las Vegas

A terrifying theme park, a frightening festival, a petrifying parade, and a murderous mansion— these are just a few of the best and scariest Las Vegas Halloween haunts for 2025. (Universal Horror Unleashed)

By Aleza Freeman

Are you already looking forward to Halloween? Adults and kids alike are already getting into the spirit, preparing to decorate and dress up, carve pumpkins, face their fears, trick-or-treat, and eat candy.

From haunted houses to a haunted mansion, a frightening festival to a petrifying parade, here is a look into the best ways to celebrate and scream your heart out this Halloween in Las Vegas.

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It’s not about Kimmel: ACLU of Nevada, Rosen among those warning speech is under federal assault: “The Nevada organization normally focuses on ‘dire and grave threats’ to the rights of Nevadans, [noted Athar Haseebullah, executive director of the ACLU of Nevada] but the network yanking Kimmel from his show after being urged to act by Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr ‘raises a series of issues.’ … Haseebullah said Kimmel’s monologue wasn’t ‘bombastic’ and didn’t use obscene or prohibitive language that could result in an FCC fine.” (Nevada Current)
The secret spice of Tamba’s innovative Indian cuisine: collaboration: “‘It’s a lot of seasoned personalities, but absolutely no egos.’ Executive chef Anand Singh himself brings about half of that pedigree. From Mumbai to the Maldives to the Seychelles to Mexico (where Dhillon recruited him from the acclaimed Arbol in Cabo San Lucas), Singh boasts a résumé that’s less a list of bullet points than a narrative arc of accumulated tools and techniques from international kitchens. At Tamba, he presides over the fiery side of things with wok, tandoor, Josper charcoal oven, and mangal grill.” (Desert Companion)