The the fifth annual Pain McShlonkey Classic returns to Squaw Valley on March 14. This action packed on-and-off mountain event serves as a fun tribute to legendary skier Shane McConkey where the winner is crowned fastest snowblader on the planet. Celebrated for his playful spirit, McConkey was the mastermind behind the original Pain McShlonkey Open that […]
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• Bear Smart is a program for Incline Village-Crystal Bay businesses to learn how to protect waste from wildlife. For more info, call 775.832.1284 or email wastenot@ivgid.org. • Diamond Peak is planning to close April 12. • Tahoe Truckee Unified School District is working on the 2015-16 budget that will require approximately $1.1 million in […]
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By Associated Press A long anticipated El Nino has finally arrived. But for drought-struck California, it’s too little, too late, meteorologists say. The National Weather Service on Thursday proclaimed the phenomenon is now in place. It’s a warming of a certain patch of the central Pacific that changes weather patterns worldwide, associated with flooding in […]
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“Fed Up” is a film about the food industry from Katie Couric, Laurie David (Oscar winning producer of “An Inconvenient Truth”) and director Stephanie Soechtig. It will be shown March 24 in Truckee at the North Tahoe High School auditorium at 5:30pm. Soup, pizza and salad provided by Food Services will be available in the dining commons […]
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The second annual Celebrity Comedy Night benefiting the Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe is March 21. Tickets are $25. All proceeds benefit the HSTT, which provides care to Truckee and North Lake Tahoe’s homeless pets. Headliners Rocky LaPorte and Mike Pace will provide an evening of laughs at the Community Arts Center, 10046 Church St., Truckee. […]
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By Charlie Zaharoff, Outdoor Why did Marriott, a top-three global hotel chain with no particular emphasis on the adventure-travel niche, just partner with GoPro to let guests borrow Hero4 cameras at 18 of their Caribbean and Latin American locations? “It’s low-hanging fruit,” says Daniel Kelsay, GoPro’s Resort and Camp marketing manager. “Marriott’s guests have always […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe is no ordinary forest. And Jeff Marsolais wouldn’t have it any other way. The 40-year-old is now at the helm of the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. As forest supervisor he is responsible for managing the 191,000 acres that surround the lake itself. This encompasses about 80 percent of the […]
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By Ian Ayres, New York Times The recent reunion show for the 40th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live” re-aired a portion of Eddie Murphy’s 1984 classic “White Like Me” skit, in which he disguised himself to appear Caucasian and quickly learned that “when white people are alone, they give things to each other for free.” The […]
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By Eliza Barclay, NPR When admiring such enticing items at the grocery store as an avocado for $1.50, an $8 chocolate bar or fresh wild Alaskan salmon for $20 a pound, you’ve probably experienced sticker shock. Indeed, retailers and restaurants offer myriad opportunities to blow your food budget in one fell swoop. But our spending on […]
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By Kathryn Reed Sometimes it amazes me the things I’ve never made. I checked off another one last weekend. Polenta. Considering it’s just cornmeal, it is pretty amazing restaurants can charge high prices for it. I realize it depends what is on top of it, but still. And anytime wild mushrooms are part of any […]
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