Professor Alain Goriely might not be Calamity Jane riding the Deadwood Stage but he could just be one of the first people to truly understand what makes a "whip crack-away". As a staple element of ...

RENO, Nev. — The Reno Police Department (RPD) is cracking down on cracking whips, posting recently to social media to remind citizens of an ordinance that bans whips in Reno's Downtown Corridor.

After almost three years of quiet, whip-cracking is back in downtown Reno. In 2021, the Reno City Council passed an ordinance banning the possession and use of whips without a permit after receiving ...

In the right hands, bullwhips can halve playing cards or deliver earsplitting cracks. And then there’s April Choi, a whip performer. She can play Jenga with a whip, flicking individual bricks from a ...