Bona Fide Books is offering a three-week class, “An Organized Mess: Making Graphic Novels” at its office in Meyers. The three-hour sessions will be held on April 16, 23, and 30 from 1-4pm. The cost is $119 for the series, and those 15 years and older are invited to attend. Class instructor Jared Manninen is […]
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With April being National Poetry month, Lake Tahoe Community College plans to put on its first poetry slam. Poetry slam is a modern form of self expression. The slam, to be hosted by Grand Slam champions Matt Blesse and Denise Jolly, is slated for April 26 at 7pm. in the LTCC Teaching and Learning Center. […]
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John Steinbeck dropped out of Stanford to write his first novel “Cup of Gold” – a swashbuckling Caribbean pirate romance which he completed at Tahoe’s Cascade Lake just prior to taking a job at the state Fish Hatchery just east of Tahoe City. There he met and wooed his first wife, terrorized visiting females, bragged […]
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The Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe is celebrating its 20th anniversary on April 27 with guest speakers and special observations to honor club supporters from the past 20 years. The BGCLT opened its doors in 1991 as a nonprofit organization dedicated to establishing youth development programs for the community of South Lake Tahoe. […]
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It’s one thing to approach a building project with environmentally responsible intentions, however it’s quite another thing to have the entire home built according to the exacting standards of LEED, an internationally recognized green building certification system. The latter is exactly what an Incline Village builder/Realtor couple accomplished with the construction of the first LEED […]
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By Paul McCutcheon You might not realize it, but if Fluffy or Skippy are listless, disobedient and getting sick all the time, chances are your pet doesn’t have some mysterious disease –- he or she may simply be stressed out. A lot of people think that stress is something that only affects humans, but it’s […]
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Grant applications for the Innovative Community Grants Program will be accepted until April 21 by the Placer County Department of Health and Human Services. The Innovative Community Grants Program aims to support the various groups and natural networks in Placer County that are currently providing assistance in keeping people well and preventing the need for […]
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By Dirk Johnson, New York Times CHICAGO — Locked in a climate-controlled vault at the Newberry Library here, a volume titled “The Pen and the Book” can be studied only under the watch of security cameras. The book, about making a profit in publishing, scarcely qualifies as a literary masterpiece. It is highly valuable, instead, […]
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Sandra Leigh Evans Hall of Steamboat Springs, Colo., has been hired to be executive director and CEO of the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association. Hall will start in May. Hall has served as the executive vice president of the Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association since 2000, where she managed a $1.2 million budget, 11 full-time […]
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By Sharon Begley, Newsweek Imagine the most mind-numbing choice you’ve faced lately, one in which the possibilities almost paralyzed you: buying a car, choosing a health-care plan, figuring out what to do with your 401(k). The anxiety you felt might have been just the well-known consequence of information overload, but Angelika Dimoka, director of the […]
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