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The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is encouraging local residents and part-time homeowners to become “wildfire aware” by taking advantage of public education activities during Lake Tahoe Wildfire Awareness Week happening May 26 to June 3.

“With the fifth anniversary of the Angora fire coming up, this is a good opportunity for our community to discuss the importance of wildfire awareness,” said Joanne Marchetta, Executive Director of TRPA.

"The Five-Year Engagement" sets out to explore the theme of self-sacrifice as it relates to romantic love.The film begins by making its case for a pair of lovebirds who meet-cute at a New Year's Ev...

"In this country our courts are the great levelers. In our courts, all men are created equal."That line is from Gregory Peck as attorney Atticus Finch in the brilliant 1962 film "To Kill A Mockingb...

Lake of the Sky Outfitters will be showing the award winning documentary about the Pacific Crest Trail entitled "Walking the West." Admission is free but please RSVP as we have limited seating. There will be a free raffle after the film.

Call 541-1027 to RSVP. See them on Facebook or go Lake of the Sky Outfitters website at www.lakeoftheskyoutfitters.com

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"And ... action!" For the third year, the Banff Mountain Film Festival will present adventurous, adrenaline-fueled movies in Stateline on Monday at 7 p.m.Also for the third year, David Schlosser...

The blockbuster film "The Hunger Games," now at the Heavenly Village Cinema in South Lake Tahoe, is an entertaining sci-fi film that has broken box-office records nationwide. Its chief virtue is the star, Jennifer Lawrence, as Katniss Everdeen, who lives with her widowed mother and younger sister Primrose Everdeen (Willow Shields). They are in district 12 of the world government which has replaced all others worldwide following a disastrous world war.

The U.S. Forest Service and Lake Tahoe Community College will host a free screening of “Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time” On March 28. Filmmakers Ann and Steve Dunsky will be available to answer questions after the screening.

The action-comedy film "21 Jump Street," currently playing at the Horizon Stadium at Stateline, Lake Tahoe, may seem a little familiar to those who saw the teen comedy "Project X" recently. And for good reason, the writer for both films was Michael Bacall. There's much of the same in both films, high school affairs drugs and teen mammoth parties.

Make no mistake about it, "John Carter," a movie playing now at the Horizon Stadium Cinemas at Stateline, Lake Tahoe, is a multi-million-budgeted film that takes itself seriously, although audiences may not. It's ripped from the pages of a 1912 newspaper series by Edgar Rice Burroughs of "Tarzan fame" (newspapers ran fun things like that in better times).

One of the largest environmental film festivals in North America, the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival returns to South Shore today for the seventh consecutive year. With a growing public ...

The film "The Vow," currently on view at the Heavenly Village Cinema in South Lake Tahoe, is a good bad film. The bad is the sweetness-loaded script and the apparently rock-dumb male lead, Channing Tatum, as Leo Collins. The good is co-star Rachel McAdams as Paige Collins. This is billed as a romantic comedy, ideal as a "date" outing. Maybe, but ...

Movie opens with a brief scene of now and then goes back to five years earlier when Paige and Leo exchanged vows in a yuppie-like wedding. Thus, "The Vow."

Here is this week's fishing report for rivers, lakes and streams in Nevada, Northern California, the Sierra and Southern Oregon. This report is through Feb. 21.

Jill Kinmont Boothe, the former ski champion and Olympic hopeful who was left paralyzed after a skiing accident in Utah in 1955 and whose life story was the subject of the film "The Other Side of the Mountain" and a subsequent sequel, died Thursday at Carson Tahoe Hospital in Carson City, the Los Angeles Times reports. She was 75.
Ruth Rhines, senior deputy coroner of Carson City, confirmed that Boothe died. A cause of death wasn't given and Rhines could not confirm reports that Boothe died of complications related to surgery.

On Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 the Tahoe Project and Mo's Place are partnering to host the Tahoe venue for the first annual World Happy Day, when thousands of people will join together in communities around the globe to watch the award-winning film "Happy." Local musician and entrepreneur Tyler Lewis will play live music after the screening and DJ the dance party after that. Plan on a happy night out!

Extreme snow sports legend and Transformers film wingsuit stuntman JT Holmes has finished shooting promotional TV spots for the Tahoe Fund’s Plate for Powder program, which gives purchasers of California and Nevada

The sci-fi-horror film "Underworld Awakening 3D" playing at the Horizon Stadium Cinemas in Stateline is the fourth iteration of the series, in this case starring Kate Beckinsale as Selene for the third time.
Selene has been in suspended animation in a freezer for 12 years bust breaks out to find that humankind is at war with the vampires in the population a well as the werewolves.

The snow forecast to hit the Lake Tahoe region during the next few days is expected to give the Tahoe Fund's Plate for Powder program a boost along with Sierra ski resorts and businesses. Drivers who purchase a California or Nevada Tahoe vehicle license plate will receive two free ski lift or Nordic tickets to the resort of their choice. New Tahoe plates cost $50 in California and $61 in Nevada.

The year of 2011 was anything but quiet for the California Department of Fish and Game.
Pesky bears, a roaming gray wolf, significant poaching arrests, tsunami relief work and dramatic wildlife rescues were among the stories that captured the public’s attention.
DFG also welcomed new Director Charlton H. Bonham, who was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown in August.

NEVADA CITY, Calif. - For 10 years, this small town known for its gold mining history has hosted the largest environmental film festival in the nation. Founded by the South Yuba River Citizen's Lea...

In spring 2011, local mountain guide Adrian Ballinger became the first person to summit three 8000-meter peaks within a three-week period. Ballinger summitted ...www.laketahoenews.net/2011/12/winter-f...