Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Granite Bay, on May 14 will present awards to high school students who earned the top spots in this year’s Congressional Art Competition. The theme of this year’s competition is Proclaim Liberty. The honorees are: First place — Liberty In Music/Artist Meghan Bryd South Tahoe High School/Teacher Candi Lincoln Second place — […]
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South Tahoe High School’s drama department will be putting on Robert E. Sherwood’s 1936 Pulitzer Prize winning drama “Idiot’s Delight”. A cast of eccentric and international guests – countesses, arms dealers, showgirls, revolutionaries, charlatans and lovers – spend a fateful weekend in a resort hotel in the Italian Alps. While songs are sung and dances […]
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By Mary Catherine O’Connor, Outside In 2012, advocacy group 5 Gyres, which draws attention to the epidemic of ocean trash and the impact photo-degraded plastic is having on ocean ecosystems, turned its attention to the Great Lakes. Suddenly, the group’s workload skyrocketed. “We found high concentrations of micro-plastics, more than most ocean samples collected worldwide,” […]
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Champions of Nevada’s rural tourism industry were recognized this month at the VolunTourism Awards ceremony during the Nevada Commission on Tourism’s Rural Roundup conference. In the Reno-Tahoe Territory, Dwight Borges was recognized. He is an active member of the Reno-Tahoe Territory, serving as chairman of the group’s website committee. The owner of Borges Sleigh and […]
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By Aaron Hurst, Washington Post The key to not growing up to be money obsessed and unhappy at work is simple: Have a strong relationship with your mother. It has been understood since the 1970s that our initial development of values and behaviors happens during our middle- and high-school years. And research has consistently shown […]
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Author and Sierra Nevada Native Gary D. Noy will talk about his newest book “Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues” on May 20 at 6pm. This collection highlights unusual or lesser-known stories of the Sierra Nevada experience. Some stories are adventurous, some are horrifying, some are inventive, but all are windows into […]
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Do you love to travel and wish you could better tell the tales of your adventures? Have you written travel stories and would like to learn how to polish them for publication? Lake Tahoe Community College will be offering a special topics course in travel writing beginning May 21. The six-week class meets Wednesday evenings […]
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By Clive Thompson, Mother Jones My airplane home from Boston is delayed for takeoff, so the woman next to me pulls out her phones to get some work done. Like many of us, she has two—an iPhone for her personal life and a BlackBerry paid for by her employer. “It’s a dog leash,” she jokes. […]
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By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times Want the potential mental and physical health benefits of meditation without the work of chasing away all those intrusive thoughts and feelings? Try laughing, a new study suggests. Laughter — the real kind associated with genuine joy and mirth — sets off brain wave patterns quite similar to those […]
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By Ilyce Glink, MoneyWatch Going green may solicit an eye roll these days, but the smart homeowner knows that energy-efficient and green features can mean money in your pocket. “The energy-efficiency trend is highly driven by money,” said Sandy Gordon, LEED-accredited interior designer at Madison, Wis.-based Sandy Gordon Interiors. “If we can tell our clients […]
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