For more than two months Aggie and Olivia have been waiting for their next forever home. The two dogs lost their owner when she died in a mobile home fire in Stateline in November. “I’m trying to keep them together. I’m not sure how long I’ll wait before I split them up,” Kyla Long […]
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By Brady Dennis, Washington Post Each approaching blizzard brings warnings about the dangers of shoveling snow, an activity that sends thousands of Americans to emergency rooms each winter. Don’t tackle the walkway if you aren’t in good enough shape, say the experts. You can get hurt or, even worse, trigger a heart attack or stroke. Medically speaking, a […]
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By Perry Garfinkel, Los Angeles Times British author Graham Greene, in his 1980 book, “Ways of Escape,” put into words what most writers know: “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which […]
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By Matt McCue, 99U Chances are you’ve seen a James Niehues painting before, but you didn’t know it. His canvas is the ski trail map, which is often overlooked for its artistic value. But since 1986, Niehues has created more than 240 different maps for resorts on five continents including Aspen Highlands, Sun Valley, Vail, […]
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The Tahoe Improv Players will take the stage Feb. 6 at 7pm as a benefit for Tahoe Arts Project. The performance will take place at the Duke Theatre at Lake Tahoe Community College. Tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for children, and may be purchased at the door. In addition to the public performance, Tahoe […]
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By Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times To handle stress and adversity more effectively, we should probably pay closer attention to what is happening inside our bodies, according to a fascinating new brain study of resilience and why some people seem to have more of it than others. We live in difficult times. Worries about the […]
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Award-winning novelist and short story writer Rebecca Makkai will be giving a reading, engaging the audience in a Q&A, and signing books in the Aspen Room at Lake Tahoe Community College on Feb. 10. This free event is at 7pm. Books will be available for purchase. Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novels “The Hundred-Year […]
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Sting and Peter Gabriel are going on tour together, with one of their stops being in Stateline. They are the second act to be booked for the Harveys Outdoor Concert Series. Country star Keith Urban was the first. Sting and Gabriel will be in town July 15 at 7pm. Tickets go on sale Jan. 25. […]
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By Kathryn Reed A tropical country, surfers, a legendary wave, drug dealers and corporate greed – all the makings for fictional fantasy. Only this was reality. Controversy and years of legal haggling started in 2004 when a company received approval from Costa Rican government officials to build the world’s first yellow fin tuna farm off […]
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Science author and journalist David Quammen will give a lecture at UNR on Feb. 4 titled Ebola and Beyond: Scary Viruses in a Globalized World. It will focus on his most recent works about Ebola and AIDS – his books “The Chimp and the River” and “Ebola” – which stem from his acclaimed book about emerging […]
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