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Growing Dead Winter Carpenters still fit into the Divided Sky
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 1:52pmThe Dead Winter Carpenters are heating things up."We're touring, practicing and working really hard, putting it all together," said fiddle player Jenni Charles.The North Shore band coalesced fro...
Actual mother and son star in LTTC's first play of the season, 'Distracted'
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 1:48pmConsidering that approximately 2.5 million children, according to the Centers for Disease Control, are being medicated for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, the first theater production ...
Improv features two headliners and a head case
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 1:40pmI went on YouTube to check out Bruce Fine's parody of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" and I have to admit I was cracking up. It received a couple hundred thousand hits. Not bad, Bruce. B...
Take Manhattan - please!
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 1:34pmBen Stiller leads an ensemble in this production that trades plausibility for a shot at winning a Miss Congeniality award. Stiller plays Josh Kovacs, building manager of a Trump-like Tower playe...
Junior Brown's amazing night at Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 1:31pmSmoke rose from the strings of Junior Brown's "guit-steel" as he picked into musical yesteryear Friday, Nov. 4, in the Crown Room at Crystal Bay Casino. It was my first Junior Brown concert, and...
UNR scientists explore climate change in the Sierra using art
Submitted by Editor on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 12:34pm
By Mike Wolterbeek
Scientists from the University of Nevada, Reno helped renowned environmental artists Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison create an exhibition on display at the Nevada Museum of Art in downtown Reno that predicts the potential effects of climate change on the Sierra Nevada mountains.
“The exhibition by the Harrisons helps people see how climate change may alter natural areas that many of us enjoy,” Thomas Albright, professor of geography in the University’s College of Science, said.
Sierra College calls for artists for handmade Sierra holiday
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 2:41pmTRUCKEE - Sierra College announces the inaugural Handmade Sierra Holiday: Fine Art and Craft Sale. All artisans from painters and printmakers to fine woodworkers, jewelers, potters, soap makers ...
Art Matters: It has to go with my couch, right?
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 2:30pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - How many times have I heard that question directly or subliminally during my gallery and private sales experience and wanted desperately to ask, "Is that like a dating pr...
Tahoe symphony orchestra and chorus presents 'Messiah'
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 2:19pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus announces its sixth annual production of Handel's "Messiah" with performances in five locations, including the Resort at Squaw Cree...
Muralist John Holland to visit Tahoe Art League
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 1:43pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Local artist John Holland will make a presentation to the Tahoe Art League at its monthly meeting Wednesday. John will explain how he progresses from the design and plann...
Sweet as can be: Sweet potatoes
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 11/04/2011 - 12:43pmTRUCKEE/TAHOE - Sweet potato hash. Sweet potato fries. And sweet potato pies. No matter how you choose to slice, dice or devour this succulent vegetable, sweet potatoes are a healthy and versatile ...
More to pumpkins than meets the carved-out eye
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 11/04/2011 - 12:21pmTAHOE/TRUCKEE - Pumpkins just can't catch a break. These forgotten fruits shine once a year, gutted and mangled into ghastly creatures then tossed into the Dumpster as soon as their spookiness spoi...
What's Cookin' at Callie's Cabin: Mountain comfort fall fruit salad
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 11/04/2011 - 11:29amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - I admit it. I've been fantasizing about making comfort foods including pecan pie, chocolate cake, oatmeal cookies and cheesy pizza. The thing is, in the fall we can start...
Blues Broads bring history to Harrah's South Shore Room
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 11/04/2011 - 10:54amWhen she lived in Austin, Angela Strehli helped build the city's greatest blues club. Now a Northern Californian, she has compiled an all-star group of women blues singers, along with a dose of ...
Sweet idea: Chocolate, Wine and Roses Festival
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 11/04/2011 - 6:00amChocolate, wine and roses are all the sweeter when they are helping othersProject MANA and the Tahoe SAFE Alliance receive the benefit Saturday, Nov. 5, from the 23rd Chocolate, Wine and Roses F...
Dad's LPs comes out rocking
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 12:19pmSpider webs, dangling skeletons and orange-illuminating jackolanterns provided ambiance to Dad's LPs maiden voyage at Divided Sky on Thursday, Oct. 29. Although it was a band debut, the eclectic...
Christopher Titus' dark past enhances White House bid
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 12:13pmChristopher Titus returns to a familiar venue Saturday when the comedian performs at MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa.Titus' first time on a big stage was in the showroom when the casino was Caesars...
Sweet idea: Chocolate, Wine and Roses Festival
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 12:10pmChocolate, wine and roses are all the sweeter when they are helping othersProject MANA and the Tahoe SAFE Alliance receive the benefit Saturday, Nov. 5, from the 23rd Chocolate, Wine and Roses F...
Funny stuff at Improv with Havey, Chappell
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 11:54amHis love of movies is second only to his love of comedy - and both work best without a script. Those traits make Allan Havey, the Improv headliner through Sunday, Nov. 6, a natural and one of my...
'In TIme' might be longer than desired
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 11:50amThe premise of "In Time," a film written and directed by Andrew Niccol, is built upon the indisputable truth that time is our most valuable asset.In his dystopian, futuristic world, locking down...
Out on home video
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 11:36amGrade BDirected by Stephan J. Anderson, Don HallVoices of Jim Cummings, Craig Ferguson, John Cleese, Tom Kenny, Bud Luckey, Jack Boulter, Travis Oates, Kristen Anderson-LopezDisney//Rated G//Animat...
Bassnectar, Pretty Lights to play New Year's festival
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 8:37amWith headliners like Pretty Lights, Bassnectar, Thievery Corporation and the Glitch Mob, SnowGlobe Music Festival - far away from the aimless wanderers on Casino Corridor - will undoubtedly be t...
Halloween on a budget
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 9:06amTAHOE/TRUCKEE - October means cooler temperatures, colorful leaves and tons of tricks and treats. A home-brewed Halloween party will have every ghoul and goblin screaming and laughing in fun del...
Sierra-at-Tahoe 2011-2012 Improvements
Submitted by Editor on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 7:27amHere's a nice warmup to what's ahead at Sierra-at-Tahoe.
Art Matters: 'Plein air' ... what did you say?
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 6:00amRight in the middle of a perfectly eloquent description to a client of how many artists work, I notice a disconnected, puzzled or glazed look that begs, "No kidding, must be a French pastry. Just w...
College photography student hosts art show
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 6:00amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The black-and-white photography exhibit in the Lake Tahoe Community College Theatre Foyer is titled "The Neglected and Forgotten" and are by photographer and student Carl...
'Written on the Body' art reception at Bona Fide Books
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 6:00amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Bona Fide Books will host a reception for Shelley Hocknell Zentner's new collection, "Written on the Body," at 6:30 p.m., Nov. 5 at Bona Fide HQ in Meyers.The event is fr...
Halloween festivities for kids and adults
Submitted by Editor on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 1:43amTerror in Tahoe, a new event for South Shore, culminates this weekend.
Hosted by the City of South Lake Tahoe Community Services/Parks and Recreation, and the South Tahoe Chamber of Commerce, organizers have prepared a haunted trail in the woods behind the ice rink at the Campground by the Lake on Highway 50, dead in the center of South Lake Tahoe.
What's Cookin' at Callie's Cabin?: The big pumpkin chill
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 6:30pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - As a kid I remember it didn't bother me when, in tale of Cinderella, the fairy godmother turns a pumpkin into a carriage, but it later morphs to a pumpkin. I must have...
SnowGlobe Music Festival announced for South Lake
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 5:47pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - It looks like visitors to South Lake Tahoe and residents will finally have something to do on New Years Eve, rather than wander aimlessly on Highway 50."This is part o...
Comfort food led to 'Man vs. Food' series
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 1:09pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Ah, heartache.It leads to the writing of sonnets, the composition of songs and countless drowning of sorrows through wine, whiskey and the consumption of copious amoun...
Friends of the Library Book Sale
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 11:30am
Event Date:
November 5, 2011 - 10:00am The Friends of the Library Book Sale is the perfect place to get great books at bargain prices. The Nov. 5 sale will be held at the South Lake Tahoe branch of the El Dorado County Library, 1000 Rufus Allen Blvd, South Lake Tahoe, Calif. The book sale hours are from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
'Man v Food' host Adam Richman featured at South Lake Tahoe Food and Wine Festival
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 4:19pm
One of the culinary events of the season, the Lake Tahoe Food and Wine Festival, arrives at Harrah's and Harveys Lake Tahoe beginning Friday and lasting through Sunday.
Former South Tahoe student returns from Broadway to work with high school drama class
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 9:25amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - When Sebastiani "Bubba" Romagnolo was in drama class at South Tahoe High School, he put in extra effort, to say the least. Romagnolo performed in numerous plays, worki...
The truth about Pop Fiction: it's a funky good time
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 3:54pmWhether you are bringing "Jessie's Girl," "Jack and Diane" or the "Dancing Queen" to the 33rd annual Freakers Ball this Saturday, Oct. 29, the band Pop Fiction will have the music to make eveCop...
Game wants to inspire the next Barack Obama
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 3:49pmRyan JohnsonGame had no shortage of trials and tribulations growing up, including getting shot multiple times. During his recovery, he was able to study the art of rapping and hip-hop, which beg...
The Improv welcomes Cotter to Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 3:45pmJust like last week, Harveys' Improv has a debut appearance. I've been waiting for Tom Cotter to get up here and still can't believe it's taken more than 10 years to get him to play our little r...
When You've Seen One, You've Only Just Begun
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 3:40pmThe 22nd screen adaptation of "The Three Musketeers" is a tepid rendition of the Alexander Dumas 1844 classic.The film is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, who seeks another vehicle to star his 37...
Former Blue Turtle answers call to rock with Dad's LPs
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 3:37pmJay Seals has found an alternative to Blue Turtle Seduction.He is playing in an alternative rock-based band. Dad's LPs performs free on Thursday at a familiar Blue Turtle haunt, the Divided Sky....
Todd Clouser's tasteful jazz is hardly dinner music
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 3:30pmTodd Clouser is not limited by geographic or musical borders.A native of Minnesota, he has lived in Mexico for five years, and while Clouser can be considered a jazz guitarist, he's clearly influen...
Terror in Tahoe turns campground into haunted attraction
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 8:43amIt's not often people get a chance to do charity work by hacking faux bodies to pieces.Terror in Tahoe is taking full advantage of the Halloween opportunity."At night, it's really ghoulish," sai...
Italian wine making on a small scale
Submitted by Don Quilici on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 12:17am
On Saturday, Oct. 1, four of us (Bob and Lorraine Scholes of Dayton, Nev. and Elaine and I had the opportunity to visit a small vineyard called Corte de Valle in the Tuscany Region of Northern Italy.
It is one of a number of Bed & Breakfast vineyards (large and small) that are located along the Chianti Road between Siena and Florence.
We saw their small sign as we drove past, and on the spur of the moment, decided to turn around and visit there. It was a great decision.
Spring art show winners on display at college
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 12:07pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - "The Winners Art Show" is on display at Lake Tahoe Community College.The Student Art Show spring quarter winners have on display their winning pieces plus three most rece...
What's Cookin' at Callie's Cabin? Rice pudding to the rescue
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 11:50amI love cranberries. They are sweet and tart, and fresh berries are available on the South Shore before Thanksgiving. That's the good news. The downside is, my past week still has bittersweet aft...
33rd Freaker's Ball Rocks the House at MontBleu Oct. 29
Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 10:38amWhether it’s the 16 ft. clown, Lady Gaga lookalikes, entire Addams Family, Tricky Dick Nixon, a deck of playing cards, a human lobster bib or a zombified super hero, there's only one place at South Tahoe to see the outrageous unveil itself through costume and it could be worth a $10,000 in contest prizes.
Anonymous donor gives $25K to Thunderbird Preservation Society, seeks match
Submitted by admin on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 5:34pm
An anonymous donor who presented $25,000 to the Thunderbird Preservation Society has offered a second donation for the same amount on the condition the public can match it by Thanksgiving, according to a news release.
Frank Sinatra Jr. returns to Harrah's Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 4:43pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - When he calls on the phone, he introduces himself thusly: "Hello, this is Frank Sinatra. I understand that you wanted to speak with me." None of this Frank Sinatra Jr....
At the Improv: Eddie Ifft and Frances Dilorinzo
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 12:31pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - It's been a while since we had a brand new headliner up here and we're going to get two of them over the next few weeks, beginning this week with Eddie Ifft. No, I tho...
Game preps his game for Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 12:29pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Hip hop star Game makes his way to Tahoe once again, but this time brings his rap game."I've definitely been to Tahoe and I've definitely had a Tahoe and I definitely had...
Legendary Rhythm and Blues revue makes waves in South Shore
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 12:27pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - "You gotta serve somebody!" belted out Tommy Castro while covering the classic Bob Dylan tune to a seated audience in Harrah's Lake Tahoe South Shore Room on Oct. 15. ...
