The Wanderlust Festival, a one-of-a-kind yoga and music festival, returns for a fourth year to Squaw Valley July 26-29. The yogis teaching and speaking at this year’s North Lake Tahoe festival include Baron Baptiste, Shiva Rea, Jonny Kest, Baxter Bell, Adam Rinder and Seane Corn. The music lineup includes the reggae sounds of Ziggy Marley, […]
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Bona Fide Books annually awards the Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize for an unpublished collection of poems. Submissions for this year’s contest are being taken until Aug. 31. The winner will receive publication, 10 copies, a $500 cash award, and a reading at Lake Tahoe. Submit a previously unpublished, full-length poetry manuscript of between 48 […]
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AAUW home tour focuses on old cabins By Jessie Marchesseau Original old Tahoe cabins all over the area. The little box-like ones clad in weathered wood siding or just plain logs. It’s hard not to wonder what those little gems look like inside and what they looked like way back when. Saturday’s American Association of […]
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By Mandy Kendall In today’s fast-paced world circumstances arise in most of our lives that have our stress levels rising, along with our blood pressure. Although occasional increases in blood pressure are not dangerous, it does become an issue when the pressure levels don’t drop again. Unfortunately high blood pressure often has no detectable symptoms […]
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TOCCATA continues its summer season with a chamber music series performed by Trios Las Americas. The trio consists of Argentians Maria Luciana Gallo, cello and Pablo Rocchietti, piano; and American clarinetist, Karl Busch. They will perform works by Piazzolla, Bruch, Beethoven, and Brahms. Concerts are July 11 at 7 pm at the TOCCATA Performing Arts […]
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In an effort to encourage families to attend this year’s Lake Tahoe Reggae Festival, tickets for kids 12 and under are $10, and all children 6 and younger are free. These special kids’ tickets can be picked up at the box office only. Kids must be present with adult ticketholders. June 30 is the inaugural […]
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By Dina Kupfer, KRNV-TV SPARKS — Call it ironic that Bruce Osgood would have the word “good” in his last name. Four times a week, this retired 72 year old can be seen doing a good deed – picking up trash along Pyramid Highway. “My goal right now is to keep the Pyramid Lake Highway […]
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The audiences will likely be dancing in their seats at Sierra Tahoe Children’s Theater’s performances of the “The Rockin’ Tale of Snow White” on Friday. This doo wop, be bop, hip hop rendition of the fairytale features a cast of 39 local children who have participated in the annual theater workshop for the last two […]
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“The Lake burst upon us – a noble sheet of blue water lifted six thousand three hundred feet above the level of the sea, and walled in by a rim of snow-clad mountain peaks that towered aloft full three thousand feet higher still! It was a vast oval, and one would have to use up […]
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By Fu-Tong Liu We think of our skin as protecting us but often ignore the importance of protecting our skin. With summer here, this is risky. Melanoma, a deadly type of skin cancer, is on the rise. Among the 3.5 million skin cancers that will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year, about 76,000 will […]
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