By Kathryn Reed The United States in the early and mid-1930s wasn’t anything like it is today. People on the East Coast barely could find Seattle on a map. The Olympics truly were a contest of amateur athletes. And, of course, Hitler was creating a dictatorship few saw coming. This is the backdrop for “The […]
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By Candace Jackson, Wall Street Journal A Truckee property sold Thursday for $1.6 million—in bitcoins. The property is one of just a handful of residential real estate transactions in months that have used virtual currency—and potentially a record in terms of price. The price in bitcoins was 2,739. The 1.4-acre acre home site has views […]
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Shilo is a very sweet girl who is a bit subdued at the shelter. She is very quiet and mellow, but we think she will perk up once she gets into a good new home. She is about 6 years old, house trained, and she walks very nicely on the leash. She is OK with […]
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By Kathryn Reed There is one less hotel in South Lake Tahoe renting by the week or month. The Vagabond Inn on Highway 50 is now the Trailhead – A Lake Tahoe Lodge. Owners from China took over at the first of the year, having paid $1.3 million for the property that is walking distance […]
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Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus concludes its summer season with a four-concert series. The program includes the “Faure Requiem”, Liszt’s “Hungarian Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra”, and the Tchaikovsky “Violin Concerto in D Major” with featured guest artist Elizabeth Pitcairn playing the legendary Red Stradivarius. Performances are Sept. 10, 12,* 14, and 16 in the […]
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By Brad Plumer, Vox The next time you find yourself in a casino, pause for a second to appreciate the architecture. Casinos put an enormous amount of thought into their designs. The layout of the tables, the patterns on the carpet, the lighting — they’re all explicitly engineered to make gambling more seductive and get […]
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North Shore residents were not happy with the noise, fire concerns, curfew, parking and trash problems in neighborhoods because of concerts in July. North Tahoe Public Utility District, and concert promoter PR Entertainment, are taking steps now to reduce the impact on the surrounding neighborhoods during the August concert. Rebelution, Iration, The Green, and Stick […]
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By Cameron Hunt McNabb, Salon In 2007, BBC reporter and presenter John Humphrys wrote an essay pointedly titled: “I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language.” In it, Humphyrs lamented that: “the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan […]
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By Jen Marchain Henry David Thoreau said, “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve always imagined” – a simple sentiment so often difficult to achieve in such a consumable world of distraction and strife. But for South Lake Tahoe native Nikki Grant, she is keeping it real and all in […]
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By Anahad O’Connor, New York Times Kim A. Williams, the president-elect of the American College of Cardiology, often sees patients who are overweight and struggling with hypertension, Type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol. One of the things he advises them to do is to change their diets. Specifically, he tells them to go vegan. Williams […]
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