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Tahoe Music, Events & Festivals Guide, Summer 2022

Read the digital version of the guide at issuu.com/TheTahoeWeekly.com. Add your events to our calendar here Live Music Free outdoor summer concerts Ongoing | Area venues Enjoy the summer with one of Tahoe’s free summer concert series: Tuesdays features Bluesdays …

Fabulous Festival Foods

The music is good, the dancing is epic and summer festivals have arrived. When planning to attend a festival, one of the most important things to consider is hydration and nutrition. While many festivals have food vendors, other festivals such …

Image caption: Oakland’s Grand Lake Theatre, built in 1926.
Movie Theater Magic

Benign weather has kept some of California’s historic cinema palaces alive past the century mark. We pay homage to ten of the best.

Sculpture to feature eagle, cutthroat

Tahoe Fund and Clean Up The Lake announced the new art installation created from some of the 25,000+ pounds of litter removed from Lake Tahoe will take the form of a bald eagle holding a Lahontan cutthroat trout. More than …

Piper J Gallery: New gallery, community space in Truckee

Piper Monika Johnson has always had an eye for art and design, which shines through in her newest venture: the Piper J Gallery in the Garden Folly building on 10153 West River St. in Truckee. Johnson highlights a variety of …

Melhop Gallery °7077: Art with conceptual, ethical substance

Works of art pop out on stark white walls in a storefront in the Safeway Shopping Center in Zephyr Cove next to Engel & Völkers. This bright and airy space on the corner of Highway 50 and Elks Point Road …

Campbell publishes book

Truckee’s Michael H. Campbell, retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, is the author of “The 3 Foot Pipe: Rail Road Right of Ways.” The book is about using the almost 162,500 miles of railroad right-of-ways as a vehicle to carry water …

Scott Thompson: Capturing Tahoe’s beauty from behind the lens

I’m looking at a print of a picture taken of Old Highway 40 above Donner Lake. The curvature of the icy Rainbow Bridge spans beneath a slowly rising sun, creeping its way over the Sierra Nevada. Between the bridge and …

Image caption: From Past to Present: The range of California art in the museums listed below is represented by the Crocker Art Museum’s exterior: one half completed in 1872, the other added in 2010.
Golden State Treasures

Gold Rush-era landscapes, funk art sculptures, pop art statements, Chicano art movement masterworks—here are 10 places to explore the work of California artists.

Image caption: State Sen. Steve Glazer speaks at a hearing of the Governmental Organization Committee on March 29.
Calling Emergency to Save Journalism

California has lost 25 percent of its newspapers and seen a circulation plummet over the past 15 years. A bill in the State Legislature, SB 911, could help.

Drone shows in Tahoe City, Kings Beach

The North Tahoe Business Association and Tahoe City Downtown Association announced that its Independence Day celebrations will return this summer featuring drone shows instead of fireworks on July 3 in Kings Beach and July 4 in Tahoe City, citing noise …

Muse Art Reclaimed: Bringing local artists, community together

Muse Art Reclaimed owners Peggy Lindquist and Renee Koijane are in a bright, cozy, sunlit space surrounded by beautiful handmade art and a delicious batch of moist peanut-butter cookies that Lindquist made the night before. The two business partners opened …

New kids on the block: Tahoe’s newest DJs

Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is the queen of dance music. It moves and grooves and takes listeners on an immersive journey. The beats drop, the dance floor comes to life and the DJ weaves his or her magic, connecting the …

Tahoe City’s waterfront focus of book

Author Bo Grebitus recently released “Touching History: Rediscovering Tahoe City’s Hidden Waterfront,” featuring a collection of historic images of the town’s once thriving waterfront district including docks for steamships that traversed Lake Tahoe as the area’s only transportation and the …

Phyllis Shafer: Figure Studies

Phyllis Shafer’s figure drawings hang salon-style featuring charcoal and pencil drawings of people of different ages and shapes in her exhibit “Figure Studies” on display at Western Nevada College’s Bristlecone Gallery through April 20. Shafer is well known for her …

Dennis Alexander: Filling Tahoe’s stages with music

Kings Beach resident Dennis Alexander, a DJ for KTKE 101.5 FM for the past 20 years, has created a career out of his passion for music. It all started with a wild idea, his pitch and a chocolate chip cookie. …

Arts For the Schools live performances return

Arts For The Schools has returned to offering onStage Live performances, starting with QUITAPENAS, which means "to remove worries” on March 11. This band, made up of first-generation sons of immigrant parents from Guatemala and Mexico, offer tropical Afro-Latin songs …

Roberts releases new book

Suzanne Roberts explores the link between death and desire in her new book of essays, “Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties.” In diverse landscapes from the Mekong River’s floating markets to Fire Island’s beaches to Nashville’s honky-tonks and …

Art out of the Ashes

When the Caldor Fire ripped through the south side of the Tahoe Sierra last summer, it burnt more than 221,000 acres of forest between Grizzly Flats and Echo Summit and on both sides of Christmas Valley. It was a scary …

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