Nevada County Art, Culture & Media Articles

Read the digital version of the guide at issuu.com/TheTahoeWeekly.com. The Films Quality Ski Film Tour Oct. 27 | Olympic Village Lodge | Olympic Valley The second annual Quality Ski Time Film Tour offers an all-new lineup of ski films, a …

Magic hour is that time just after sunrise or right before sunset when everything seems somehow perfect. Capturing this special moment was the mission of Steve and Todd Jones of Teton Gravity Research in their newest film, “Magic Hour.” Of …

Galen Brown’s art has been described as meditative, mesmerizing and hypnotic and at first glance it’s easy to see why. His style of art takes years to make and if you look closely at any of his projects, you’ll notice …

Marjorie Voorhees, born and raised in Sierra Valley, lives in Sattley 2 miles away from Country Class Collectibles at Sattley Cash Store that she has managed for the past seven years. She grew up in a family with 12 children; …

There is an adage: “Behind every great man is a great woman.” That couldn’t be truer than in the relationship between the famous 19th Century Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and his beloved wife and muse Fanny Osbourne. Stevenson was …

The Sierra Valley comes alive on Sept. 24 with local ranchers, artists and makers highlighting all the homemade goods grown and produced in this expansive mountainous region of Northern California. Back for its fifth year, Sierra Valley Art + Ag …

Sept. 4 | Commons Beach | Tahoe City Sept. 9-10 | Carson Valley Inn Casino | Minden, Nev. Sept. 17 | Somersett Music on the Green | Reno, Nev. Sept. 22 | Street Vibrations | Reno, Nev. For 32 years, …

A heap of layered, flowery, colorful abstractness catches my eye. It is hanging up in one of the rooms of the Melhop Gallery 7077 in Zephyr Cove, Nev. Visual artist and gallery owner Frances Melhop explains that it is the …

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Looking back at the Sixties and Seventies in Santa Cruz

Peter Goin presents a photographic history of the Tahoe Basin over a 100-year period in “The Nature of Lake Tahoe: A Photographic History, 1860-1960.” With more than 200 duotone and color photographs, this collection showcases Tahoe’s elemental identity, including photographs …

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

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

Travel, food, true crime politics—there’s a show for everyone. Here are some top-rated podcasts that focus on some aspect of California culture.

Plenty of East Coast comedians make California the butt of their jokes. Here are some locals who’ve earned the right to make fun of this place.

The work of 19 artists dealing with the effects of fire on the ecology of California is on display at the Truckee Donner Community Recreation Center.