Nevada County Art, Culture & Media Digest

A photo contest promoting dark sky lighting has been launched by the Nevada County Arts Council, Nevada County, the City of Nevada City and the City of Grass Valley.

The 3rd annual Nevada City Earth Fest Street Fair will is taking place downtown on Sunday, April 21 from 11AM - 5PM.

Leaders from YubaNet, KNCO and The Union will discuss the future of local media and other topics at the Nevada County Community Forum on Friday, April 19th 10:30 - 11:30AM.

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.

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.

The Story of Land, Water, and People, will be the 6th exhibit showing at ‘Uba Seo: Nisenan Arts and Culture in downtown Nevada City.

The Nevada County Library announced a new searchable online database of digitized photographs from the collection of the Doris Foley Library for Historical Research in downtown Nevada City.

Following an evening of recitation from high school students at the Eric Rood Center, the Nevada County Arts Council revealed the winners of its 2024 Poetry Out Loud County Championships.

The Center for the Arts is thrilled to present “Penntucky Country Music Series” at Penn Valley Rodeo Grounds, featuring Lonestar on July 20 and the Sawyer Brown on Sept. 8.

After five years as general manager at KVMR, Ali Lightfoot is returning to Colorado to be with family. “I will miss this incredibly dedicated and passionate group of staff and volunteers and this beautiful spot we live in,” Lightfoot said.

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.

Nevada County Arts Council has announced the hiring of Heather Heckler as Grass Valley-Nevada City Cultural District’s program manager, a new position at the heart of one of the state’s coveted California cultural districts.

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.

What do local authors, jewelry makers, actors, musicians, directors, dancers, photographers, filmmakers, sculptors, painters, and designers have in common? The Nevada County Arts Council is supporting them.

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.

Board member Steve Mendoza looks back at 2023, and the challenges faced by InConcert Sierra after its purchase of a 42,000-square-foot building to create the Crown Point Events Complex.

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.

As of Dec. 8, Grass Valley’s Del Oro Theatre and Sutton Cinemas will be under new ownership. New owner Brian Young will take over operations immediately.

Grass Valley-based songwriter Aaron Ross will debut his first book, “Famous Last Words,” featuring the song lyrics from 10 albums released between 2003 and 2023.

The 22nd annual festival takes place in-person Feb. 15-19.

With its hilly terrain, parts of Los Angeles aren’t always the easiest to build in. But that didn’t stop an architect from building a unique structure in Silver Lake.

An exhibition by Nevada City photographer Janice Rosner titled “Chill and Thrill: Wildlife and Landscapes in Winter’s Grasp” opens Dec. 4 at the Edward Jones gallery. The opening reception will be on Dec. 7.

Nevada City community radio station KVMR 89.5 FM will honor Steve Baker, its longtime program director (1998-2020), with a “Roast & Toast” party on Nov. 9.