30 Apr The Gift of Music Through the Bal Bijou
Bijou means “jewel” in French, and as an adolescent boy in the early 1950s, the Bal Bijou on Lake Tahoe’s South Shore was the crown jewel of my and many others’ social and cultural lives....
30 Apr Tahoe’s Top Speakeasy
Minted during the 1920s and ’30s Prohibition era, secretive speakeasies were so named for “the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors.” Today, the term also refers to the...
30 Apr Best of Tahoe 2024 Readers’ Poll
Tahoe residents and visitors selected their favorite places around the lake to eat, drink, shop and play in TQ’s 2024 Best of Tahoe Readers’ Poll....
30 Apr One Love for Lake Tahoe
Those who live outside the Lake Tahoe Basin tend to view this place as one destination—and, technically, they are not wrong. But those of us who live here know there are at least two Tahoes, North Tahoe and South Tahoe, with many smaller subcommunities with...
22 Feb A Chic Nest on a Rugged Ridge
Roughly once a decade, Reno couple Tamra and Darin Murphy build a new house. “The first was for our babies. The second was for our teenagers. This is our empty nest home,” Tamra says. With each home, she adds, they just get better. Tamra does much of...
22 Feb Building Heirlooms for Audiophiles
It’s a Tuesday morning and Truckee resident Steve Morris is sitting inside his woodshop, softly nodding his head. Two Against Nature, Steely Dan’s Grammy Award-winning album, is pumping through nearby stereo speakers, reverberating the small room with snappy drumbeats and funky guitar licks....
22 Feb A Luxury Lodge Fit for Lake Tahoe
Shawback Design, Griggs Custom Homes, Inc., and architect James Crippen first came together about 20 years ago to build a rustic lodge on Lake Tahoe for a family with young girls. After two decades of enjoyment, the family assembled the same team to modernize their lakefront...
22 Feb A Home to Hang Your Hat and Park Your Boots
In an era of building ever bigger, a Southern California couple had an unusual request for their 2-acre Martis Camp lot: Design something small and simple with a cool and fresh Western style where their family of four could comfortably vacation year-round....
22 Feb Where Good Things Grow
On a morning when Truckee is blanketed in snow, the inside of Good Anya Plant Shop is lush and inviting, a multitude of well-loved plants radiating their positive energy onto anyone who walks through the door....
22 Feb Rooted in Site and Kin
For a Bay Area couple with children and a close extended family, their vision for a new home in Martis Camp was deeply felt, well-researched and founded on their own experience. “It was a very rooted project,” says architect Clare Walton. “It was rooted not...