By Julie Brown, Powder On Saturday afternoon at Squaw Valley, a couple bartenders tapped a few kegs, pulled out the bar stools, and opened the renowned Chamois for business. Cars started to pull up one after the other and soon the parking lot was as full as if it were a sunny powder day. Groups […]
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By Huffington Post New research is telling the world something that dog owners have known all along — that canines have emotions just like humans. Gregory Berns, a professor of neuroeconomics at Emory University, has spent the past two years training dogs to go into an MRI scanner “completely awake and unrestrained.” Berns says the […]
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Mark Twain said, “Good friends, good books. This is the ideal life.” The South Lake Tahoe Friends of the Library has taken this poignant quote to heart and is hosting a unique fundraising event called A Toast to Twain. On Nov. 3 from 4-7pm a party in the library will be held in honor of […]
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The Friends of the Library and South Lake Tahoe Master Gardeners are partnering to present Gary Romano, author of “Why I Farm: Risking it All for Life on the Land”, in a talk and book signing as part of the Friends of the Library fall programming. The Oct. 22 6pm event is free and open […]
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Glen looks a little like a mop — but under all that hair is a very nice, somewhat shy, fluffy Shih Tzu (best guess) mix. He came into the shelter very matted, and was glad for a quick haircut. He will benefit from some professional grooming, and will be quite beautiful when his hair grows […]
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By Kim Wyatt STATELINE — A few minutes into the finale, “Auden’s Train,” I wondered if Nicky Sanders had sold his soul — the Steep Canyon Rangers’ fiddler stole the show at the MontBleu showroom Saturday night. Mashing up songs from “Norwegian Wood” to the “Nutcracker Suite March” and bluegrass is no small feat, and […]
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A house in Incline Village just sold for $19.75 million. Known as the StoneGate estate, it had been listed by Chase International. The name is from the exterior granite stonework. For that price tag, the buyer gets a private pier, 100 feet of sandy beach and more than 10,000 square feet of living space — […]
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By Stephen Magagnini, Sacramento Bee Do you ever wonder about your chances of winning on the slot machines at Red Hawk, Thunder Valley, Cache Creek, Jackson or other area Indian casinos? California’s more than 50 Indian casinos earn around $7 billion a year, according to industry economist Alan Meister. About 70 percent of that – […]
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By Kathryn Reed I kept hoping “Portraits of Change: Unparalleled Freedoms, Unanticipated Consequences” would get better. This book had so much potential. Mary White Stewart, who is a professor of sociology at UNR, published the book this year. It’s a look at four generations of her family – including herself, her daughters, her mom and […]
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By Robert S. Wood I never thought I’d get to Antarctica. Way too expensive, though I’d lived and worked in the Arctic and traveled Patagonia as far south as the tip of South America. I badly wanted to compare the two polar regions, which I knew to be vastly, wildly different. In the north one […]
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