This Week

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First Thursday at NMA/ First Thursday Art Walk

Cinco de Mayo Festival Reno The 15th annual celebration of Mexican heritage offers three days of entertainment for all ages starting on Friday, May. 2. The festival includes carnival rides, live Latin music, dance performances and popular local DJs. More than 100 vendors will offer games, prizes, specialty items, clothes, art, crafts, community information, Mexican food and other cuisine in Grand Sierra Resort’s north parking lot, 2500 E. Second St. Headlining acts include Los Tremendous de Mexico on Friday, La Raza Obrera and Efrain Elizade on Saturday and Los Morros del Norte and Banda Los del Pueblo on Sunday. The crowning of Miss Cinco de Mayo 2014 takes place on Sunday. Gates are open from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, May 2, and noon to 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, May 3-4. Admission is $5 for people ages 12-65, and free for children under age 12 and seniors. Visit www.cincodemayoreno.com. Viva la fiesta fiesta fiesta Fiesta T T TT he 15th annual celebration of Mexican heritage offers three days of entertainment for all ages starting on Friday, May. 2. The festival includes carnival Cin C o de Mayo Festival Reno rides, live Latin music, dance performances and popular local DJs. More than 100 vendors will offer games, prizes, specialty items, clothes, art, crafts, community information, Mexican food and other cuisine in Grand Sierra Resort’s north parking lot, 2500 E. Second St. Headlining acts include Los Tremendous de Mexico on Friday, La Raza Obrera and Efrain Elizade on Saturday and Los Morros del Norte and Banda Los del Pueblo on Sunday. The crowning of Miss Cinco de Mayo 2014 takes place on Sunday. Gates are open from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, May 2, and noon to 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, May 3-4. Admission is $5 for people ages 12-65, and free for children under age 12 and seniors. Visit www.cincodemayoreno.com.

The Nevada Museum of Art will hold its monthly First Thursday event featuring fine art, beer and wine and music by the Coney Dogs. The event begins at 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 1, at the NMA, 160 W. Liberty St. General admission is $1-$10 and free for NMA members and children age 5 and younger. Call 329-3333 or visit www.nevadaart.org. After visiting the NMA, drop by Liberty Fine Art Gallery, 100 W. Liberty St., for its monthly event from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Visit www.libertyfineartgallery.com. Other galleries with First Thursday events include Noble Pie Parlor, 239 W. Second St., www.facebook.com/NoblePieParlor, Java Jungle, 246 W. First St., www.javajunglevino. com, and Artspace, RAWR, se7en and West Street Wine Bar at West Street Market, 148 West St., www.facebook.com/WestStreetMarket. Genoa Cowboy Festival The festival celebrates the unique forms of cowboy poetry, Western music and the Western lifestyle all weekend long beginning Friday, May 2, in the town of Genoa. Free activities and demonstrations include open houses at various art galleries, a Western mercantile row, leather carving, blacksmithing, Dutch oven cooking and roving entertainers at various venues in Genoa and the Carson Valley. Ticketed events include workshops, cowboy poetry readings, tours, Chautauqua performances and concerts by headlining acts Hot Club of Cowtown and Ronstadt Generations, among others. The celebration takes place from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, May 2-3, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 4. A day pass is $15 per person per day and $10 for kids. A three-day pass is $30 for adults and $15 for kids. Tickets for the Hot Club of Cowtown concert on Friday, May 2, are $35. Tickets for the Ronstadt Generations concert on Saturday, May 3, are $35. Both shows start at 7 p.m. and take place at the Mormon Station Main Stage Concert Tent. Call (775) 782-0326 or visit www.genoacowboyfestival.org. SilverState Tattoo and Arts Festival Nightmare Studios, Kingpin Tattoo Supply and Tattoo Artist Magazine present the second annual festival featuring artists from all over the world. There will be tattoo contests, exhibits, live tattooing, painting, seminars, live entertainment and more inside the Naples Ballroom in the Peppermill Resort Spa Casino, 2707 S. Virginia St. Doors are open from noon to 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, May 2-3, and from noon to 8 p.m. on Sunday, May 4. Call 324-0666 or visit www.silverstatetattoo.com. Sunland No. 2: Art & Music The Holland Project hosts the second event in its quarterly salon-style discussion series, Sunland. The theme is “Art and Music” and the symbiotic relationship between the two. Omar Pierce of 1-800-Cherrys, Jon Kortland of Iron Lung and Feeding and Matt Sullivan from Light in the Attic Records will discuss the connection between art and music and the artists, photographers, designers and documentarians who help define certain bands, scenes and genres. Kyle Bladow will moderate the event, which begins at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, at Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave. Admission is free. Call 742-1858 or visit www.hollandreno.org.

—Kelley Lang