Unlike other bike shops, the Reno Bike Project sells only recycled frames — every one of the Reno Bike Project’s 200 or so bikes was donated. They’ve sold bikes for as much as $200, but they’ve also traded a fixed bike for a broken bike so a homeless man had a way to get around town.

Almost nothing can stop 20-year-old Jeff Fiddler from riding his bike. Not riding through snow, not a car backing into him, not hitchhiking back from Pyramid Lake in riding cleats and spandex shorts after suffering a flat tire.

Vampires bite their way back onto the big screen in a film where the only thing that rises is a creeping terror. “30 Days of Night” probably won’t make audiences jump out of their seats, but every moviegoer who sees this will get creeped out.

As the three workers debate about the future of their interest, there’s a calendar hanging in front of them, previewing “30 Days of Night,” a horror movie from Columbia pictures opening Friday about an Alaskan town besieged by vampires in the middle of winter.

Thomas Lennon plays hot-pants-wearing Lt. Jim Dangle on Comedy Central’s show “Reno 911!” Dangle is the leader of the fictional Reno Sheriff’s Department, overseeing seven of the most bungling cops on TV.

“The shorts are more horrible than you could possibly imagine,” Thomas Lennon said. “Like, I thought the shorts were a very funny idea. You have to understand, we shot the pilot for ‘Reno 911!’ in the year 2000. It was basically right around the Y2K scare. We’re nosing up on a decade in them.”

The NMA showed “Paris Je T’aime,” an independent French film with English subtitles, for the premiere and hoped to draw in University of Nevada, Reno students with future films in the series.

The explosive popularity of the three “Halo” games has beget its share of spin-offs —novels, comic books, action figures and a rumored in-the-works-movie with Peter Jackson. But the videogame might be a lot closer to Core Humanities than the “Halo” gamers realize.

As far as crime dramas go, “Eastern Promises” lacks the edge-of-seat tension that might be expected, but it does create compelling characters worth watching.

When Kanye West moved the release date of his new album, “Graduation,” up a week to come out the same day as 50 Cent’s “Curtis,” a rap feud was born.

Kanye West revisits familiar CD stomping grounds on his new album, “Graduation;” except this time, he’s cut out the campy skits and made his as-always masterfully produced tracks even better.

In the roughly four months Days No Different has spent in their current form, they’ve gotten in spatula fights, played a 14-year-old girl’s birthday party and even beaten 25-year-old lead singer John Gray’s dad in a battle of the bands.

A lady in the front row yells at her 62-year-old husband, Rich LeFevre, as he shovels ribs into his mouth as fast as he can. He’s easily the oldest person of the 13 in the timed eat-off and he’s almost a tray behind the two people ahead of him.

Catch up on the summer music you missed with Japanese poetry.