Alpenglow Sports’ fourth installment of the 10th anniversary Winter Film Series will feature internationally acclaimed alpinist Kelly Cordes. The free show will be Feb. 25 at 7pm at Squaw Valley’s Olympic Village Lodge. Cordes will present a sampling of the stories told in his 2015 book “The Tower,” a climbing historical of Patagonia’s otherworldly and […]
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By Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times When Bernie Sanders released his long-awaited health care plan last month, it was light on the details. But it did include one major, crowd-pleasing promise: Under his Medicare-for-all proposal, no American would ever have to pay a deductible or co-payment to receive health care again. Deductibles and other forms […]
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By Kim Wyatt “Between the World and Me” By Ta-Nehisi Coates Spiegel & Grau, 176 pages, $24 hardcover One-line review: A challenging, lyrical and heartbreaking must-read for Americans. “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates is titled after Richard Wright’s 1935 poem of the same name about a lynching. This powerful book, written as […]
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By Don Champion and Arielle Miller, CBS News It’s one of the great debates among pet owners: should you let your dog or cat sleep on the bed? Some germophobes would never consider it, while others love snuggling up with their pet at the end of the day. One concern, however, has been whether sharing […]
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El Dorado County health officials are monitoring information and guidance from the California Department of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding the Zika virus. While the risks associated with the virus are currently low in California, health officials recommend individuals, particularly pregnant women, check and follow CDC travel advisories before going […]
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By Mike Errico, New York Times Every couple of months, I see another post in my Facebook feed about a band that was cut off by an 18-wheeler or skidded on a patch of black ice and rolled their van into a ditch. Some members are injured, and they’re launching a Kickstarter campaign to pay […]
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By Kimber Laux, Las Vegas Review-Journal If you want something wearable and shiny this Valentine’s Day, start dropping hints now. According to the Retail Association of Nevada, only one in five Nevadans are planning to buy jewelry for their Valentine. On the bright side, you’re about 25 percent more likely to receive candy this Sunday, a […]
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The Alpenglow Mountain Festival, a nine-day celebration of human-powered mountain sports, kicks off with the critically-acclaimed 5Point Film Festival’s “On the Road” series on Feb. 20 at 7pm at Squaw Valley’s Olympic Village Lodge. The 5Point Festival, one of four distinct film nights during the Mountain Festival, is a collection of adventure film shorts films […]
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By Christopher Elliott, USA Today When it comes to vacation rentals, there are surprises — and there are surprises. Good surprises, such as the one Ana O’Reilly encountered when she checked into a villa in Palm Springs, Calif., are rare. She was dumbstruck to discover the home looked better than the pictures in the listing, […]
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By Andrew Demillo, AP LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The National Park Service needs to broaden its appeal to millennials as it celebrates its 100th birthday this year, the director of the agency said last week as he touted civil rights sites that aren’t traditionally viewed as parks to a younger audience. Park Service Director Jon […]
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