By Kathryn Reed MEMPHIS — Get to the back of the bus. I thought the man was kidding, but he kept repeating this mantra. No one had ever told me to do this before. I was not about to budge. I was getting mad. Mad that someone whose skin color was the same as mine […]
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Van Halen is a nice 5-year-old boy who is good with other animals. He’s a cute little mutt. We think he’s possibly a Dachshund-Yorkie-Chihuahua mix. He’s one of many dogs who have come to Tahoe from Contra Costa County to find new homes. Van Halen is neutered, microchipped, tested for heart worm, and vaccinated. He […]
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By Susmita Baral, NPR Bingeing has become many people’s favorite way to consume television. But marathon-viewing doesn’t just change how we watch, it also affects how we eat. While the culture of the Netflix all-nighter is relatively recent, researchers have been studying the links between TV viewing and mindless eating for years. And the news […]
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Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus continues its 11th annual WinterFest with Elizabeth Pitcairn in Concert, performing with the legendary Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius violin. The program opens with Felix Mendelssohn’s symphonic choral masterpiece Elijah (Part 2), featuring vocal soloists Anna Helwing, Joy Strotz, and Becky Earl, sopranos; Liudmila Mullin, mezzo soprano; Brad Perry and Sherman Modeste, […]
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By Associated Press Cancer is becoming the No. 1 killer in more and more states as deaths from heart disease have declined, new health statistics show. Nationwide, heart disease is still the leading cause of death, just ahead of cancer. While death rates for both have been falling for nearly 25 years, heart disease has […]
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Author Bill Morgan will share his newest book “Morgan’s Tahoe” on Jan. 23 at 1pm at the South Lake Tahoe Library. This book is a memoir of his time with the U.S. Forest Service at Lake Tahoe and, later, of his experiences as executive director of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency during one of the most […]
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The Squaw Valley Prom is a notoriously high-energy event attracting 1,100 partygoers grooving to the sounds of San Diego-based electro hip hop soul collective Vokab Kompany. The event will take place at Squaw Valley’s Olympic House on Feb. 20 at 8pm. The 12th annual prom is themed a luau, with guests hula-ing their way through the night. […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Jan Aphelin paid her way through college by working as a “camera girl” snapping commissioned photos of the high rolling gamblers and highfalutin clients of Reno’s swankiest casinos and clubs. She photographed the elite – some of them celebrities, including actress Debbie Reynolds […]
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Learn Something New Every Day at the Douglas County Public Library will increase people’s knowledge of myriad things. Every day the library will share a bit of interesting information mined from one of the many books and other materials in the library’s collection such as the first recorded to climb on a snowcapped peak was by […]
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By Ashley Whillans, Washington Post Every day, we are confronted with choices about how to spend our money. Whether it’s thinking about picking up the tab at a group lunch or when a charity calls asking for a donation, we are faced with the decision to behave generously or not. Research suggests that spending money […]
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