By Mike Tierney, New York Times As broadband Internet service becomes increasingly widespread and free in public places, it has remained, to travelers’ frustration, stuck in the slow lane on airplanes. But with recent developments in technology, sluggish in-flight Internet speed is starting, however fitfully, to change. Still, it might not catch up to passengers’ […]
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Two poets will be reading from their works at Lake Tahoe Community College on Nov. 13. Poet and journalist Ilyse Kusnetz, and Julia Shipley, teacher, farmer, and poet, will also answer audience questions about their writing process, and sign copies of their books for sale that night. Kusnetz is the author of “Small Hours”, winner of […]
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By Kathryn Reed In two weeks the Tahoe Women’s Community Fund has raised $20,000 to be invested on the South Shore and has signed up 125 members. This nonprofit entity was launched last month with the goal of securing money from members that will then be doled out to entities roughly from Glenbrook to Meyers […]
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Actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and director Rob Schneider will host a screening of his most recent project, “Real Rob”, at Sierra Nevada College on Nov. 9 from 5-7pm. It is an upcoming Netflix original series slated to drop Dec. 1. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Schneider, hosted by SNC writer in […]
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Author Chris Millis will read from his work on Nov. 6 at Sierra Nevada College’s Tahoe’s Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences building, room 139. The free event is from 7-9pm. On Nov. 7, Millis will put on a writing workshop 10am-noon. Cost is free for students, $50 for others. Go online to register. Millis is the […]
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MontBleu Convention Center is about to be transformed into a winter wonderland with trees and wreathes decorated by schoolchildren and local designers. The seventh annual Festival of Trees and Lights is Dec. 2-6. All proceeds will support prevention programs and trauma services for Barton Memorial Hospital’s Level III Trauma Center. During the day, as well as […]
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November is National Novel Writing Month, and the South Lake Tahoe library is inviting teens and young adults to meet up with fellow writers for an afternoon of free socializing, discussion, and – of course – writing. Bring whatever it is you happen to be working on, whether it is a book, poem or short […]
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Local artist and teacher Catherine Lockner will share techniques for how to create a quick portrait. This free art demonstration will take place as part of the Tahoe Art League’s monthly meeting on Nov. 11 at 6pm at the South Lake Tahoe Senior Center. Lockner, a professor of art and art history at Lake Tahoe Community College, […]
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By Kevin Schultz, San Francisco Chronicle Suzanne Kisting’s burly 10-year-old, 120-pound St. Bernard, Moose, hobbled down the 40 stairs of her former San Francisco apartment every morning, crippled by pain from severe arthritis. Kisting tried everything she could to ease it, buying expensive prescriptions drugs and taking him for acupuncture treatments. But none of it worked […]
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Longtime South Lake Tahoe resident Mary E. “Betty” Duke died Oct. 29, 2015. She was 90. Betty was born on Feb. 27, 1925, in Monroe, La., to Albert and Clara Olsen. Betty was an active volunteer with many organizations. She enjoyed reading, traveling, playing piano and accordion, dancing, and the outdoors, but especially anything involving her family. […]
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