Mission Mountain Wood Band at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, Stateline. Tickets at 800.786.8208 or www.SouthShoreRoom.com.

Jose Feliciano at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, Stateline. Tickets at 800.786.8208 or www.SouthShoreRoom.com.

Queensryche at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, Stateline. Tickets at 800.786.8208 or www.SouthShoreRoom.com.

Alice Cooper’s Theatre of Death Tour comes to Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, Stateline. Tickets at 800.786.8208 or www.SouthShoreRoom.com.

Jackie Greene at Crystal Bay Club Casino. www.crystalbaycasino.com

Old Crow at Crystal Bay Club Casino. www.crystalbaycasino.com

Cecilio & Kapono, the Hawaiian superstars, at the Crystal Bay Club Casino. www.crystalbaycasino.com

Pilobolus, often noted as the nation’s most radically innovative dance company, performs Nov. 20 in Reno.

Pilobolus has broken boundaries in dance by departing from traditional movements in favor of its own exploratory style, derived through intense periods of improvisation and creative play. Merging wit and playfulness with athleticism and grace, Pilobolus creates fiercely modern performances that are engaging on a visual as well as emotional level and convey an inspirational sense of harmony. Dancers create shapes and forms with their bodies in a collaborative, and at times provocative, series of poses and movements that challenge the imagination. Twisted and entwined at one moment, gracefully balanced and fluid the next, Pilobolus’ dancers push their physical bounds to create the unexpected.

Pilobolus performs at 8 p.m. at Grand Sierra Resort’s Grand Theatre. Tickets are $30, $40 or $50 and are available at www.RenoIsArtown.com, at 800.648.3568 or in person with no ticket surcharge at the Grand Sierra Resort Box Office located at 2500 E. Second St.

Members of the community are invited to join Sierra Resort employees as they spread out to clean up the mountain. This year’s collection effort will cover a broader area than the inaugural year, with some teams heading up one of the chairlifts, some covering the base area, and some focusing on critical stream zones. All of the trash will be weighed and collected, with prizes given in a variety of categories. There will be a BBQ at the end of the day to celebrate Keepín Sierra Clean.

For more information, visit www.SierraAtTahoe.com or call (530) 659.7453.

Event schedule:

10am registration begins

10:30am ride to the top of Sierra Resort

12:30pm gather by the main lodge to weigh and collect trash

1pm BBQ begins

1:30pm  prizes distributed

2pm ski swap begins

3pm event concludes

Whether you are an experienced writer or finally daring yourself to start, you’ll find inspiration and motivation in this supportive dedicated group. Create new material, develop a writing practice, read, workshop, and write. The first four-week session meets in downtown Truckee on Monday nights from 6:30-8pm starting Sept. 21 and continuing through Oct. 12th; $55 for four weeks. Sessions will continue through the rest of the year.

Karen Terrey holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She is poetry editor for Quay, a literary arts journal, a past participant of the Squaw Valley Poetry Conference and the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference, and teaches creative writing at Sierra Nevada College. She recently returned from a summer writing workshop in Prague. See her blog at www.karenaterrey.blogspot.com. Contact her by phone at (530) 386-3901 or at tangledrootswriting@gmail.com for more info and to register.