Following its premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, the documentary feature film “Miss Representation” will be screened at the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation Queen of Heart’s lunch Feb. 15 at the Resort at Squaw Creek in Olympic Valley. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, “Miss Representation” exposes how mainstream media contribute to the […]
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On Jan. 9, the U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will begin aspen restoration work near the Pope/Baldwin Bike Path adjacent to Highway 89. A Forest Service contractor will use mechanical equipment to remove pine and fir trees from aspen stands. Most material will be hauled away. Some limbs may be piled outside […]
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The Haldan Art Gallery at Lake Tahoe Community College will open “Off the Press” on Jan. 12. The exhibition of contemporary printmaking from artists of the Bay Area starts with an artists’ reception from 6-8pm that Thursday. The exhibit will run through March 16. More information is online. The photography of Nina Aegerter will be […]
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Tower of Power rocks Harrah’s Lake Tahoe on Super Bowl weekend. They play Feb. 4 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $37.50. For more information, call 800.786.8208.
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Mark McLaughlin, author of “Longboards to Olympics: A Century of Tahoe Winter Sports”, presents stories and photos of the men and women who made Tahoe a world class ski mecca. The March 14 6-7pm event is part of the Explore Tahoe Winter Lecture Series. The event is at Explore Tahoe: An Urban Trailhead, 4114 Lake […]
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The Soup and Chili Showdown is going into its third year at the Rideout Community Center in Tahoe City on Feb. 25. The Tahoe City Recreation Department is inviting all amateur and professional cooks to show off their culinary talent in this year’s event which will feature a variety of categories in the soup and […]
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What Random Act of Kindness have you done, witnessed or been a recipient of? Let us know by writing about it at the end of this story and you may win something. Bob Sweatt is the latest winner of the RAOK promotion sponsored by Lake Tahoe News. He nominated a friend, but we have Bob’s […]
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By Jennifer M. Freedman, Bloomberg News Four years after Bruno Prior paid less than a dollar for an unprofitable ski resort in the Swiss Alps, the strength of the country’s currency has quashed the British entrepreneur’s dream of turning it around. The Swiss franc has risen 70 percent against the pound since August 2007, when […]
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• Peter Fink has been appointed to the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Commission. • It’s time to register to vote. Need to know how and what the deadline is? This website has info on every state. • Nevada traffic fatalities dropped in 2011 to 243. This compares to 257 Nevada traffic deaths in 2010. • […]
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