By Howie Nave It’s that time of year again folks, the Super Bowl of the motion picture industry known as the Academy Awards. This year promises to be what I think will be an exciting one in part because of its host: comedian Chris Rock. Talk about perfect timing, huh? First the old farts who […]
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Hungrytown, which has been touring internationally for more than 10 years, will be performing in South Lake Tahoe March 19. The stop is part of a 42-date, 14-state tour in support of their album, “Further West.” The album made the top 10 on the American Folk DJ charts for two months last summer. Hungrytown will […]
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By Kathryn Reed “American Pickers” has been on TV for nearly a decade and not a single episode has featured someone from the Tahoe-Reno area. That might change. This show that airs on the History Channel is labeled a documentary, but it’s also part reality show. Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz scour people’s collections – […]
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By Edward Ortiz, Sacramento Bee Charitable giving scored a banner year in 2015 with the Sacramento Region Community Foundation, the largest area manager of charitable funds to nonprofits, posting a record year for new funds established. The foundation operates like an investment house for charitable accounts opened by donors in Sacramento, Yolo, El Dorado […]
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Mewtoo is a nice 1-year-old girl who has been at the shelter the longest of all cats, perhaps because she needs to be an only pet. She is affectionate and does like children. Adoption fees for cats have been reduced to $30 this month. Mewtoo is spayed, microchipped, tested for FIV, and vaccinated. She is […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories about Park City, Utah. By Susan Wood PARK CITY – If a hotel property is only as good as its leadership, then Goldener Hirsch would medal in guest services. But it’s also about teamwork at this hotel that is steps from Deer Valley, the ski […]
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“Vagina Monologues” return Feb. 26-27 for the 14th year in South Lake Tahoe. The award-winning play “The Vagina Monologues” is based on V-Day founder/playwright Eve Ensler’s interviews with more than 200 women. With humor and grace the production celebrates women’s sexuality and strength. Our cast is made up of community members, students, mothers, daughters, sisters, […]
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Timothy Roger Stoll died suddenly of galloping pneumonia on Feb. 12, 2016. He was 77. Dr. Stoll, an icon of the Tahoe area, practiced dentistry for more than 50 years in South Lake Tahoe and Minden. He was born June 16, 1938. While a young boy vacationing with his family in Zephyr Cove in the 1940s […]
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Eric Munsing will give a talk titled Cars that Run on Sunshine: Making Electricity Greener on March 2 at Lake Tahoe Community College. Munsing will talk about the opportunities and challenges facing California in the state’s effort to reach its climate change goals. Renewable energy and electric vehicles are considered to be two important energy […]
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By Soumya Karlamangla, Los Angeles Times Under a law expected to go into effect by April, women in California will be able to stop by their neighborhood pharmacy and buy birth control pills without a prescription. Proponents argue that easing women’s access to birth control will reduce unintended pregnancies, which make up as many as […]
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