Music on the Lawn is a series of free concerts throughout the summer on the Valhalla Grand Lawn. All concerts are from noon-2pm. Kicking off the daytime Series for Father’s Day will be the South Tahoe High School Jazz Band on June 16. June 30: Exceeding 55 plays 1960-70s folk rock in three part harmonies. […]
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New York alt-rock band The Virgins will perform at Lake Tahoe on June 8. Having toured earlier this year with The Killers, The Virgins have also shared the stage with Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, Patti Smith, along with appearances on David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon. The show at […]
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Thunderbird Lake Tahoe presents a musical extravaganza for the whole family on Father’s Day — June 16. In the spirit of Nevada’s Western heritage, cowgirl singer-songwriter, guitar player and yodeler Kristyn Harris will perform at historic Thunderbird Lodge in Incline Village. In 2012, 18-year-old Kristyn Harris was a top five finalist for Academy of Western […]
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By Kathryn Reed It won’t just be the students at Mount Tallac High School who will be graduating June 7. So will their leader. Susan Baker is calling it quits after 23 years in Lake Tahoe Unified School District. She is no ordinary educator in charge of ordinary students. She is a force at the […]
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By Mandy Kendall How often do you think about the way you breathe? If you’re like most people, it is something we don’t have to think about … so we don’t. There is so much else going on in our lives, who has time to concentrate on breathing!? It happens without us thinking about it […]
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By Ted Long This week we learned about two unlikely connected subjects, Hostage-Crisis Negotiations and the Emergency Services Department. The hostage presentation was by Detective Sean Fitzgerald. Like those before him, he was personable and likable, although he tried a little too hard, in my opinion, to by funny. Many of us had hoped to […]
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By Robert S. Wood I’ve found an easy offbeat painless strategy for losing weight and staying slim without dieting. If you’ve tried everything else — with poor results — you might give this a whirl. I credit a simple combination of often overlooked strategies to satisfy hunger, but avoid the overeating that puts on pounds. […]
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By Karen Ravn, Los Angeles Times “Prolonged sitting is not what nature intended for us,” says Camelia Davtyan, clinical professor of medicine and director of women’s health at the UCLA Comprehensive Health Program. “The chair is out to kill us,” says James Levine, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. Most of us […]
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Cleo is a 4-year-old Treeing Walker Hound. She has a nice, soft bay when she gets excited, but she is a nice dog who is quite well-mannered. And she has one blue eye and one brown eye. Cleo used to live with lots of dogs and gets along well with them, plus she likes children. […]
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The National Pony Express Association will conduct its annual re-ride of the Pony Express Trail from St. Joseph, Mo., to Sacramento June 17-27. This ride is 24 hours a day, nonstop by more than 600 riders and horses covering the 1,966 mile route of the Pony Express National Historic Trail from Missouri through Kansas, Nebraska, […]
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