Jim Gilmore, acclaimed author of “The Experience Economy and Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want”, will headline the Rural Roundup April 18-20 at the Hyatt Regency in Incline Village. Gilmore, whose book was recognized by Time magazine as one of the “Ten Ideas That Are Changing the World,” asserts that consumers want authentic products and experiences […]
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By Anita Creamer, Sacramento Bee In the spring of 1942, Donna Nakashima’s father came home to Florin on leave from the U.S. Army to help his widowed mother gather the family’s belongings – one suitcase per person – as they prepared for wartime incarceration. Renowned photographer Dorothea Lange captured the moment. A uniformed Ted Miyata […]
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By Susan Wood In terms of warmth and ambiance, Lake Tahoe’s best fireplace, aka woodstove, sits in my house. There’s something about plunking down on a cushy sofa with clinking glasses of wine in dim light and watching the dancing wood fire through the glass while the house stays at a toasty temperature. After all, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Performing arts is more like a disappearing act for many small communities – especially for the schools in those towns. Not so on the South Shore. With an annual budget of $100,000, Tahoe Arts Project is able to bring three to four shows a year to more than 5,000 children from Alpine […]
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By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times Vitamin D may be helpful in protecting highly active pre-teen and teen girls, such as those who play sports, from stress fractures, researchers reported this month. The study was surprising because calcium has long been considered the nutrient most vital to bone health in children. But, in developing children, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Baseball is a pretty simple sport – throw, catch, hit. The business of baseball is a bit more complex as spelled out in “Moneyball”, the book by Michael Lewis. But it was also clearly pointed out if baseball were run more like a business than an old boys’ club, some teams would […]
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The study of climate change through Earth history has produced a wealth of information on the operation of the ocean-atmosphere system during climate transitions as well as the feedbacks that impact the magnitude and rate of climate change on the planet. Although the understanding of the science of climate is built on a firm foundation, […]
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By Linda Perlstein, Newsweek In the beginning, your kids need you—a lot. They’re attached to your hip, all the time. It might be a month. It might be five years. Then suddenly you are expected to send them off to school for seven hours a day, where they’ll have to cope with life in ways […]
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Award-winning poet and editor Ravi Shankar will be in Meyers on March 31 to give a poetry workshop from 3-6pm at Bona Fide HQ. The cost is $25. Interested participants should bring 10 copies of a poem to the workshop. Advance reservation is necessary, as space is limited. To sign up, call or email Suzanne […]
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“Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time” will be shown at the Duke Theatre at Lake Tahoe Community College in South Lake Tahoe on March 28 at 7pm. Admission is free. Doors open at 6:30pm. A question and answer session will follow the documentary about this legendary conservationist.
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