Red Carpet

Ronald McDonald House Charities® Northern Nevada (RMHC® Northern Nevada or the Reno Ronald McDonald House®) is now accepting registrations for its 4th Annual Red Shoe Gala at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015. The event will raise money for the organization’s mission of keeping families together while their child receives treatment at an area hospital, continuing its theme to “Make Someone Happy!”

The third annual City Wide Short Film Competition kicked off Saturday evening with a red carpet event and then a screening of the short films. Seventeen teams created short 1 to 10 minute films to be shown to the public and voted on. All movies were required to use the same line of dialog, prop and sound effect.

The winners are:

Tonight, Saturday, is the third annual City Wide Short Film Competition. In its third year we have 17 teams creating a short 1 to 10 minute film in the space of one week.

The community is invited to attend the showing and watch how the participants added three ingredients to each of their films. Teams could select from 4 genres but each must use the same three ingredients, a prop, sound effect and line of dialog, ensuring the film was made for this competition and into the last week of production.

I apologize, Carson City. You have some decisions to make. There is quite a bit going on whether you want something family friendly, adults only, indoors, outdoors, or a combination of it all. The weekly Farmers Market at Third and Curry St. is always a good way to start the weekend. Yummy food, a bounce house for the kids, and beautiful flowers are hard to argue with. Keep reading for enough fun to make your head spin!

SATURDAY:

• Back to School at Carson Hot Springs (Free 17 and younger admission per paid adult; outdoor pools only; 7am-10pm)
• 21st Annual Silver Dollar Car Classic at Mills Park (8am-4pm show and shine, music, and vendors; Registration 8am-11am; Pancake Breakfast 8am-10:30am; Judging until 4pm)

The City Wide Short Film Competition is now underway. Seventeen teams will make a short film over the duration of one week. Three ingredients must be used in the one to 10 minute films.

Come see the results on Saturday, August 1 at 6 p.m. See the red carpet event unfold starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall.

Guests adorned in flapper dresses, feather boas and long pearl beads walked the red carpet at The Carson City Classic Cinema Club's first Hollywood Gala Saturday evening. In celebrating the Club's first Anniversary, the theme of the event was the First Academy Awards of 1929.

Today is a good day for Hollywood and not just because the original ‘Hollywood’ sign was officially dedicated today in 1923. Harrison Ford, Patrick Stewart, and Cheech Marin get to claim the day as their birthday. So does Cameron Crowe: screenwriter of movie favorites like Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Say Anything, and Jerry Maquire. Speaking of Hollywood, make sure to get your tickets to the Carson City Classic Cinema Club’s First Annual Hollywood Gala Dinner and Fundraiser coming up on Saturday. The theme is the first Academy Awards, so pull out all the stops for the red carpet. More information here.

MONDAY:

• Industrial Art at the CCAI Gallery in the Courthouse: 885 E. Musser (8am-5pm)
• CCAI Exhibit: BRIC Art 5 at the BRIC: 108 E. Proctor St. (8am-12pm and 1pm-5pm)

Newly crowned Miss USA 2014, Nia Sanchez, will return to her home state of Nevada for her official homecoming trip Wednesday, July 16 through Sunday, July 20. This will be Sanchez’s first celebration trip since becoming the first Miss USA from Nevada since she was crowned on Sunday, June 8.

Miss USA’s homecoming will kick off with a visit to the state’s capital, Carson City. Sanchez will have the opportunity to meet several government officials while visiting the historic Nevada State Capitol.

When Patricia Cabrera and her family walked through the doors Tuesday night, it was to a loud cheer from every crew member: “Welcome to McDonalds!”

Cabrera just so happened to be the first “official” customer of the new McDonalds on Winnie Lane and Carson Streets. She was among the 300 first customers, all of which received a free Big Mac per week for a year. Other prizes were given to customers as well: gift cards, coupons for free coffee, free ice cream cones. These gifts were the reason hundreds — well over that first 300 — lined up hours before the store officially opened at 6 p.m.

The McDonald's on Winnie Lane and Carson Street opened its doors early for a special crowd - the friends and families of its 70 new employees.

Sunday evening found the new facility packed full of customers (all of them somehow related to McDonald's employees) in preparation for the grand opening this upcoming Tuesday.

The Gold Hill Hotel features two Nevada historical presentations this month, one involving the controversial Cal-Neva Lake Tahoe gaming license associated with Frank Sinatra and the other focusing on Nevada's place in film history.

The Tuesday Night Lecture Series on the Sinatra's gaming license will be held April 15 with the film presentation on April 29. Programs begins with dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. with the lecture at 7:30 p.m. The cost is $20 for dinner and lecture and $5 for the lecture.