By Adam Kealoha Causey, Las Vegas Review-Journal VIRGINIA CITY — Mining may not get top billing anymore, but this town built high on Northern Nevada hillsides still packs that history into its punch. Today tourism is big business, and there’s something here for everybody who likes tales of yesteryear, whether rooted in fact or fiction. […]
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WinterWonderGrass is a boutique winter music and craft beer festival featuring more than 15 bands and 12 California breweries over three days. Headliners of the March 20-22 festival at Squaw Valley include Trampled by Turtles, Greensky Bluegrass, The Infamous Stringdusters and Elephant Revival as well as bluegrass legend Sam Bush. California favorites Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers, […]
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By NPR In the early 1990s, a team of researchers decided to follow about 40 volunteer families — some poor, some middle class, some rich — during the first three years of their new children’s lives. Every month, the researchers recorded an hour of sound from the families’ homes. Later in the lab, the team […]
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By Amy Farley, Travel + Leisure For our annual forecast of the trends that will define travel for the coming year, Travel + Leisure looked at the big changes in store for air travel, hotels, websites, and gadgets. Airports will become more enjoyable. Tech gadgets will continue to shrink and get smarter: phalets (smartphone-tablet hybrids), […]
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By Martin Griffith, AP RENO — Nevada officials have launched a new bid to give Mark Twain recognition in the state where he assumed his pen name 150 years ago, but it doesn’t come without opposition. The Nevada State Board on Geographic Names is again pushing a proposal to name a scenic Lake Tahoe cove […]
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Orange cats are different from other cats. Some say they are three times as likely to be male, but the main difference is in their personalities — orange cats are frequently described as more friendly, goofy, and people-oriented than other cats. They love to sit on your lap and are happiest while you are petting […]
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By Kathryn Reed Most SnowGlobers were bouncing to the music blasting from the speakers on Day 1 of the three-day South Lake Tahoe music festival, but plenty more were chilling in the warming tent. A sea of bodies at the three stages moved to the music supplied by bands and disc jockeys. While the temperature […]
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Sierra Sotheby’s International Realty made donations to Sierra Nevada College of Incline Village and Mt. Tallac Continuation School in South Lake Tahoe. Incline Village agent Terry Barbery established the Terry Barbery Scholarship Fund for deserving Sierra Nevada College students. The $1,000 scholarship will be applied to the student’s tuition and financial needs for the semester. […]
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By Huffington Post Daily exercise can mitigate the effects of overdoing it around the holidays, a small study suggests. The Journal of Physiology study showed that people who exercise on a daily basis are less affected by the negative health effects of one week of overeating, such as poor blood sugar control and expression of […]
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By Pam Belluck, New York Times A popular surgical procedure worked no better than fake operations in helping people with one type of common knee problem, suggesting that thousands of people may be undergoing unnecessary surgery, a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports. The unusual study involved people with a torn […]
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