27 Nov Dreamy Lines and Perfect Polar Powder
Looking up at what we just experienced, my eyes glossed over. It was an emotional moment. The climbing, the skiing, the people—it all seemed to coalesce in this one moment....
27 Nov A Diamond in the Fluff
Kelsey and Chris Barkman know wine. And they know food. The energetic, entrepreneurial couple pair the best of both at their Petra Wine Bar & Restaurant at the Village at Northstar....
27 Nov The Enduring Spirit of a Gloriously Analog Ski Shop
Village Ski Loft in Incline Village has a smell. Like the apartment of a favorite ex, a hotel room on the first day of vacation, the growing-up home of your best friend. It’s the smell of both expectation and memory. It’s the discovery of finding...
27 Nov Gathering Space
Amanda Reinken fell in love with the Lake Tahoe region about a decade ago, when she and her husband Brian began visiting from their Dallas-area home. “We’d spend a couple weeks in the summer,” Reinken says. “The last couple years, we’ve done winter and fall...
27 Nov Words for Winter
Every fall, usually in late October, after the aspen leaves have floated to the forest floor, I ache for winter. Days become shorter, the hue of Lake Tahoe takes on a paler, subdued personality, and I often gaze west in an attempt to remember impending...
26 Nov A Master Tahoe Historian Pens His Most Ambitious Effort Yet
There are those who dabble in Tahoe history, and then there is David Antonucci, whose vast knowledge of the region’s storied past could only be accumulated through decades of ardent research and experience....
25 Sep High Altitude Hockey
Lake Tahoe is a winter sports epicenter. Some of the best snowboarders, skiers and mountaineers in the world train and compete along the lake’s scenic shores. In 2024, ice hockey players hoping for a shot at NHL glory will join them in calling Lake Tahoe home....
25 Sep Twilight of Tahoe’s Mark Twain
Summer 2023 marked the end of a long run for a beloved member of our region’s cultural fabric. McAvoy Layne appeared in his final Chautauquan performances as Mark Twain in venues where he’s entertained thousands over the decades, retiring from the stage on September 30...
25 Sep Making Music Learning Fun
Let’s start with some dissonance. Some frustration. That, unfortunately, is what many adults remember when they recall the piano lessons of their youth: hours spent squinting at sheet music and guiltily plunking out notes in front of a stern teacher who knows they didn’t practice....
25 Sep Decades-Old Mountain Mystery Put to Rest
Only while skiing Sun Valley Resort’s Bald Mountain was Jeanne Smith Gaida able to feel the spirit of a man who had cast a long shadow on her life....