El Dorado County Art, Culture & Media Digest

With the generous support of their community of donors, the Tahoe Arts Project announced that all public performances of their 38th season will be free of charge.

The Tahoe Beach Club sponsored Alpenglow Festival raised over $50,000 to be granted to local artists and nonprofit Clean Up The Lake.

Applications are open for middle and high school students to submit designs for the 2024-25 El Dorado Transit Design a Bus Wrap Contest.

The bankruptcy court approved the sale of radio stations KRLT and KTHO to Rothschild Broadcasting for $275,000.

Celebrating 30 years of local service, Child Advocates of El Dorado County is holding a Family Fun Day on Saturday, September 28 at The Hangar Lake Tahoe featuring food, games, arts and crafts and guest Tahoe Toogee.

The second annual Lake Tahoe Comic Con will take place September 14 and 15 at the Tahoe Blue Event Center..

Information about the National Night Out celebration for the Georgetown Divide Community to be held in Garden Valley Park on August 6.

A list of local August 6 National Night Out celebrations.

Founded in 1987 to study the works of the Bard, the Placerville Shakespeare Club announced that Lisbeth Powell and Darlene Tarlton will share the leadership as co-presidents.

Three bands are featured in the August 3 benefit concert at Sugar Pine Point State Park in Tahoma.

This year the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival is presents The Merry Wives of Windsor along with the musical Always…Patsy Cline through August 26.

The nonprofit Olde Coloma Theatre is asking the community for donations to fund the next phases of renovations for the theater building on Monument Road in Coloma.

More than half of the U.S. House supports a bill to extend the funds, but it can’t get out of committee.

Meet Justin Boyd, who nurtures the community with food and live music.

Tom Watts has been announced as the featured artist of the Tahoe Art League spring event.

I thought my journalism and others’ could change policy, perhaps even inspire a New Deal-style response equal to the challenge. Such was my naiveté.

It quickly became clear that Elon Musk’s SpaceX was responsible for the show. The lights were a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 new Starlink satellites into orbit. The rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 7:30 p.m., and it’s trail was visible from Los Angeles to Joshua Tree National Park.

Local South Tahoe High grad and award-winning documentary filmmaker Michelle Aguilar-Ficara announced a three day program of screenings, discussions, networking and connecting with filmmakers in the fall.

The March 11 edition of the Los Angeles Times print edition will be its last at the Los Angeles Times Olympic printing plant in Los Angeles.

Journalism and democracy are undeniably intertwined. As the late media critic James Carey put it, “No journalism, no democracy; but, equally, no democracy, no journalism.”

UC Merced will be highlighted on an Amazon Prime show that showcases universities around the world.

The Grateful Dead have broken the record for the most Top 40 albums to chart on the Billboard 200.

She toured the world wowing audiences, and she captured the public’s imagination for decades. No, not Taylor Swift; Ellen Beach Yaw, also known as Lark Ellen.

James Dean’s last stop before he died in a car crash was at Blackwell’s Corner, a gas station in rural Kern County. His memory isn’t the draw it once was.

A shrink-wrapped Endeavour was hoisted and then carefully placed in its final location at the still-under-construction Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.

The proposal aims to help working artists become arts teachers in elementary schools.

A combination of tax credits, revenue sharing and coupons could bring stability, writes Steven Waldman, president of Rebuild Local News.

Pasadena is the only California city named a travel destination for 2024 by The New York Times. This comes despite the Los Angeles-area city being just the 45th-largest city in the state.

Philadelphia-based Audacy, which has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with $1.9 billion in debts, owns six radio stations in the Bay Area. These include 95.7 The Game, KCBS and 102.1 Jams.

The Nevada City Film Festival is now open to submissions, and applicants who live in Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Sacramento, Sierra, Butte Sutter or Yuba counties can submit for free.

Under new state laws, five cities will test cameras to catch speeding drivers and cruising bans will be lifted statewide. The first is supposed to improve road safety, but critics of the second say it will endanger the public.

State audits of the University of California and the California State University found both systems have failed to comply with decades-old state and federal laws mandating the return of Native ancestral remains and cultural artifacts. Only UCLA and Cal State Long Beach have returned a majority of their collections.