Reno Street Audio

"I have grown it to where I’m now supplying seven different restaurants, the Great Basin Food Co-op, and Riverside Farmer’s Market which is a fantastic farmers market." Gaia Osborne interviews Walker Sauls, the co-owner of Biggest Little Mushrooms, a gourmet mushroom farm in Reno, Nevada.

Jessica and Joseph Daylover, a polyamorous couple, are influencers in Reno who promote and practice polyamory while raising a family. With reporter Kingkini Sengupta, they discuss their path into polyamory, their challenges, their rewards and people’s reactions, including from their own families.

“We’re looking for businesses with heart,” Donna Walden says of her drive to make our area greener, by looking for partnerships with local businesses to lessen their environmental damage. “They care about sustainability, they want to know what more they can do to help keep Nevada beautiful for future generations.” On this episode, Gaia Osborne talks to Walden, the founder of GreenUp! who helps sma...

“I had grandparents or grandmothers that were in their nineties and even 103 and it just seemed like, it's nice to be able to help folks that don't have the ability physically, maybe financially to live comfortably and safely. And so it seemed like a good, a good fit,” says Katie Pace of becoming executive director of an organization which has its mission to ensure safe and healthy housing for tho...

Many mental health issues that people face as adults result from traumas they faced as a child. Christopher Conway, 56, a therapist, decided to address this problem by creating a foundation based out of Reno that helps people facing such traumas to open up about their experiences and receive resources to be able to manage them. Conway started the National Foundation for Adult Victims of Childhood...

As part of a series on local entrepreneurs, Jacob Kostuchowski interviews Kyle Jennings and Bradley Linde, the owners and operators of local coffee shop, Buzzed Coffee. Jennings and Linde talk about the community and culture they want to foster, marketing strategies and more on this week's episode of the Our Town Reno Podcast.

Since we featured them in a web article earlier this year, the Reno band Flamingos in the Tree, an indie basement pop band, has reached new heights. Jaden Urban catches up with lead vocalist Daniel Escovar to find out about this sudden fame in this bonus podcast episode.

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.

Jacob Kostuchowski interviews Francisco Moreno, the young creator of the clothing brand Anime Galore. He asks Moreno about what it's like being a young business owner, how to grow a social media presence, and why he goes for "subtle" anime wear.

Reno’s Victoria Scott, a scientist-turned-writer, is capturing some of Reno’s skyline and signage in her photography. After a career as a software engineer working at NASA, Scott came out as a transgender woman during the pandemic. Scott found going back in person to the Houston office and explaining this unappealing. With a few years moonlighting as an automotive writer in her free time under her...

Starting with an extension card hooked up to a mini-fridge in their front yard, Claire Holden didn’t let the daunting size of Reno’s vulnerable population stop them from helping feed the community the best way they could. The Biggest Little Free Pantry program is a mutual aid network that acts as a tool for the community to take care of itself. Listen in as reporters Parker Samuelson and Vanessa R...

Sue Smith, a former Ward 4 City Council member in Reno from 1987 to 1991, enjoys the UNR campus where she used to be a student, the beautiful fall weather we’ve been having in October, the local arts and theatre community, and so many aspects of the Biggest Little City, but there is one current negative amid all these positives: she believes our local governance needs to open up again. Listen to h...

Kendra Bertschy, a local criminal public defense attorney running for Reno Justice Court, Department 2, remembers the decisive moment that propelled her into compassionate commitments, including helping foster kids and troubled youths, both as a volunteer and in her work. She pauses though, before answering, during our outdoor interview, with the Truckee River flowing behind us, and pedestrians wa...

Meghan Ebert is the Ward 4 candidate trying to topple incumbent Bonnie Weber, amid a surge of development, she believes is not always in the best interests of actual residents.

For our episode #200, Jacob Kostuchowski goes to a rally of families of northern Nevada residents killed by local police, which took place September 17th, outside the Bruce R. Thompson US Courthouse and Federal Building.

The Northern Nevada Literacy Council is a non-profit organization aiming to help raise literacy rates in Nevada, which also offers free access to a program that helps adults get their high-school equivalency, regardless of how much education they already have. “I say it's never too late,” Adrienne Santiago, Executive Director of the NNLC, said. “I say come on in to come talk to us, let us get your...

The Access for Community and Cultural Education Programs & Trainings (ACCEPT) is a non-profit organization in Northern Nevada specializing in health education and services for clients with HIV, and now also helping other marginalized communities. Founded after the tragic death of two men due to AIDS, the group has been serving the Northern Nevada area for nearly thirty years. “In the early ninetie...

Reno City Council selected Kathleen Taylor, but there was another candidate much more representative of current issues of concern, such as protecting abortion rights and speaking for the working class amid an affordable housing crisis. Kingkini Sengupta interviews Jakki Duron, who was unhoused herself as a teenager, and was willing to represent those struggling in our community, but was passed ove...

Steve Boyer a foodie entrepreneur in Reno describes his new curbside mobile oyster venture, as well as how he survived the pandemic and previous business failures.

Painter Zoe Bray explains her pursuits in fostering eco-art and reaching back to her Basque heritage in Reno. “You don't need all this artificial stuff, but you have the most amazing nature around you and get yourself familiarized with that, and learn to care about your environment in the process. And so I think that's empowering to both children and adults and very freeing too,” Bray says of the...

Remi Jourdan has been busy all summer preparing the musical portion of the Sept 8-11 Reno Tahoe International Art Show, in its first edition, with stages at the Reno Sparks Convention Center, a special night at Cargo and a gala at the Nevada Museum of Art. He's also behind Tunetrax a global platform for musicians and their fans. In this episode, he discusses other ideas for more musical festivals...

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.

Band members found a book called “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius. In the book there was a sentence that said “the kiss of charity”. They changed the name to Charity Kiss. While the band has been able to form a good following here in Reno, the band’s ultimate goal is to relocate to Los Angeles. “We’ve established a lot here in Reno and we love it here,” Ziegler said. “But the scene is pretty small...

J Gip has had many brushes with depression and death, but he's lived to tell his tales with hip hop. He wanted to share his ordeals with our music reporter Jaden Urban to show hope is possible even in the bleakest of moments. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available 24 hours in English, Spanish. Call 800-273-8255 for any urgent situation.

As part of our summer music series showcasing local bands and musicians with recent interviews by Jaden Urban, we find out more about local teenager 88 Strait and include snippets of his music.