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1-09-2013 @ 11:03PM

Bryan said...

Regarding Reno and culture. Apparently these days one must redefine culture as the snooty hipster thing that is going on at the moment. In reality, if you follow that definition, Reno embraces the arts, has a quickly growing community that reflects that. If you would like to discuss what I consider to be true culture, the behaviors, beliefs, characteristics of a society, Reno definitely has culture, as every other city does. It's a culture of live and let live, do what you want as long as it doesn't harm me. I've travelled all over the world, seen, and appreciated the "culture" that is being referred to here, and visited most of the major museums, a lot of art galleries, and it would be stupid for me to not admit that some very popular "cultural" icons of this world are not much different, or better than paintings I did in junior high art class.
Reno is not Las Vegas, no one in Reno will contest that, if you want to appreciate that aspect, walk a block away from your casino and ask someone in a business what to do in the area. The answer might surprise you. Salt Lake City is mentioned in this article as having ski areas within an hour. How many world class ski areas are located within an hour of Reno? The answer is: almost as many as are near Salt Lake City, depending on what you consider world class. If you were to consider the definition of world class as I do after 35 years of skiing, Reno has more world class skiing destinations nearby.
I could have chosen to live anywhere I wanted to, I chose Reno because of its true culture. I can wake up in the morning, get a white mocha in a locally owned and operated coffee house, spend a couple of hours skiing at a world class resort, come home, ride my dirt bike, or hunt, in the middle of nowhere for the afternoon, return to town , visit a modern museum, have a gourmet meal at a one of a kind restuarant, do a little gambling, followed by an evening of original theatre, having a beer at a quaint microbrewery, or at a gentelmans club, and nobody will judge me on any of it. That is culture.

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