Robert Irvine is the featured celebrity chef for the fourth annual South Lake Tahoe Food and Wine Festival at Harrah’s and Harveys Lake Tahoe on Nov. 9-10. Irvine is the of Food Network’s “Dinner Impossible,” “Restaurant: Impossible” and “Worst Cooks in America”. The event includes tasting, discussions, presentations and demonstrations by celebrated food and wine […]
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By Ted Genoways, Bloomberg To slake North America’s seemingly bottomless thirst (sales have almost tripled since 1995), and to meet growing demand in Asian and European markets, tequila producers have tripled the production of pure agave over the past decade through new growing, production, and distillation methods. But these methods, scientists warn, have left the […]
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By Melinda Beck, Wall Street Journal The Wolff family of Paramus, N.J., was eyeing the gathering clouds and debating whether to cancel a planned park trip when 6-year-old Leora piped up with an idea: “Let’s call Grandma. Her knees always know when it’s going to rain!” Leora’s grandmother, Esther Polatsek, says she started being sensitive […]
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Prescribed burning in the Eldorado National Forest will resume as soon as air quality and vegetation conditions are right, possibly this week. Residents of Pollock Pines and travelers along Highway 50 will see smoke rising from a 250-acre prescribed burn planned on Peavine Ridge about a mile north of Pollock Pines and west of the […]
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Two Incline Village students are taking part in Dance in the Sun for Animals, a nonprofit organization that helps kids help animals in need. Teacher Heidi Timinsky founded DSA with the goal of empowering children to realize that they can make a positive difference in the world through helping animals in need. DSA is set […]
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A massive contingent of firefighting units passed through South Lake Tahoe this afternoon en route to St. Theresa Catholic Church where the services for Mitch Underhill started at 2pm. A CareFlight helicopter flew overhead, following the line of emergency vehicles along Highway 50 from Lake Valley to the church. The 34-year-old Lake Valley firefighter died […]
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By Michael J. Joyner, Outside We all know that sitting around is bad for your health, and that exercising is good for you. But what happens to people who exercise regularly and then sit around all day? This is one of the hot new topics in exercise and public health research. The idea is that […]
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The Coldstream PC-1 draft EIR is being recirculated for an additional 45 days to address new impacts in biological and natural resources and historic and cultural resources. Since circulation of the original draft EIR, the project applicant has made minor refinements to the design of the project and two new technical studies have been prepared […]
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Applications for federal historic preservation grants administered by the Nevada Historic Preservation Office will be accepted until Dec. 6 at 5pm. Grant funding is provided by the National Park Service as part of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and is used to support the preservation efforts of government agencies and nonprofit organizations. Grants may […]
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By Sue Shellenbarger, Wall Street Journal The teen years are often fraught with door-slamming, eye-rolling and seeming insensitivity, even by kids who behaved kindly before. Some parents worry that they’re doing something wrong, or that their children will never think of anyone but themselves. New research shows that biology, not parenting, is to blame. In […]
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