The Lake Tahoe premier of “Some Thing Else” will be Oct. 16 on the North Shore. Powderwhore Productions, the Salt Lake City film crew celebrating its 10th year of ski filming, captures some of the steepest and deepest powder on the expeditions to remote mountain ranges. Part ski-porn, part-documentary, “Some Thing Else” is a propaganda […]
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By Suzy Strutner, Huffington Post You know the feeling: you wake up after a long night’s sleep in a hotel bed, slip into your fuzzy hotel-issued slippers and hotel-issued robe, step onto the fluffy hotel carpet and think “WHY is this so amazing?!” The question is certainly intriguing. So we asked a handful of HuffPost […]
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By Amy B Wang, Arizona Republic The command that blared from the radio was one Gary Dahlen had never heard before, not in all his years piloting helicopters over wildfires. All available helicopters prepare for an emergency launch. He hardly knew what to make of it. “I was thinking maybe structures were threatened,” Dahlen said […]
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By Van Tieu, KRNV-TV INCLINE VILLAGE — It’s a celebration of life and love that almost never was. Fifteen months later, six Doberman-mix puppies that were left for dead in a dumpster are now healthy, happy, and hungry for birthday cake. Each individual cake was homemade with TLC and topped with peanut butter. “I don’t […]
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By Associated Press RENO — Nevada ranks last in the nation for flu vaccination rates, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study for the 2013-14 flu season that has Nevada 50th on the list, behind Florida and Wyoming, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported. South Dakota placed first nationwide […]
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The High Fives Foundation – Winter Empowerment program is helping two area winter action sports athletes transition to adaptive sports. The nonprofit board awarded a grant to Steven Jacobo of Gardnerville for $2,100 and Jeff Andrews of Truckee for $4,250. In February 2013 Jacobo, a Gardnerville native, was snowboarding at Sierra-at-Tahoe when he hit an unfamiliar jump […]
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Cozy is a 2-year-old gray Tiger medium hair cat who was left behind when her owners moved. She came to the shelter with kittens, but now that they have all been adopted. She is ready to find her own home. She is a big cuddler. Cozy’s adoption fee has been sponsored. Cozy is spayed, microchipped, […]
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Lynsey Dyer, a premier big mountain freeskier, is the vision — and star — behind the first-ever crowd-sourced, crowd-funded all-women’s ski movie, “Pretty Faces.” “We are on a mission to make skiing and the outdoors look so fun that no girl will ever want to stay inside,” Dyer said in a press release. “Through this […]
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Three art exhibits will be open to the public through Dec. 5 at Lake Tahoe Community College. All three will launch with an artist’s reception and talk on Oct. 2 at 5. In the Haldan Art Gallery inside the library building are the works of Candace Nicol in her show “Postures and Parts: Construction of the […]
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By Alexandra Svokos, Huffington Post While some parents want certain books removed from schools, teachers are remembering the important reasons to keep them in the classroom. This week is the 32nd annual Banned Books Week, described by organizers as a “celebration of the freedom to read.” Books have been banned from libraries and schools for […]
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