This Week

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WINTER TIME BREWS

Freeze your Pints Off

Under the Rose Brewing Company presents an outdoor winter beer festival with more than 12 local breweries showcasing their strong beers, winter warmers and barrel-aged brews. The beer fest will also include music by DJ MoJo JoJo and three food trucks. Participating breweries include Under the Rose Brewing Company, Great Basin Brewing Company, Brasserie Saint James, The Brewer’s Cabinet, Pigeon Head Brewery, The Brew Brothers, The Brewing Lair, StoneyHead Brewery, High Sierra Brewing Company, BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse, Tahoe Mountain Brewing Co. and The Depot Craft Brewery Distillery. Participating local vendors include Mellow Yellow Food Truck, Electric Blue Elephant Food Truck, Full Belly Deli Food Truck and Hub Coffee Roasters. Proceeds will benefit the Nevada Craft Brewers Association. The event begins at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21, at Under the Rose, 559 E. Fourth St. Tickets are $46-$65. Call 657-6619 or visit www.undertherosebrewing.com. —Kelley Lang weekly PIcks

eagles and Agriculture

The Carson Valley’s 13th annual celebration of wildlife and ranching explores the interaction between eagles and other raptors as they descend upon the valley’s ranches during calving season. The event is a combined effort of the Carson Valley Chamber of Commerce, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, The Nature Conservancy, Lahonton Audubon Society and local ranchers, and features bird-watching tours, visits to local ranches, a photography contest, workshops, demos and other activities. The festival takes place from Thursday, Feb. 19, through Sunday, Feb. 22, at the Carson Valley Inn, 1627 Highway 395, in Minden and other locations in the Carson Valley. Tickets range from $10 to $75. Call the Carson Valley Chamber at (775) 782-8144 or visit www.carsonvalleynv.org.

east Meets west

The world music concert features harpist Marina Roznitovsky of the University of Nevada, Reno and Chakrapani Singh on his kachappi veena. They will play a unique collaboration of Western and Indian classical music accompanied by Peter Fairley on tabla. The event begins at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21, at the Laxalt Auditorium in the Warren Nelson Building, 401 W. Second St. Tickets are $5-$30. Call 336-9733 or visit www.tach.info.

Astronomy: Jupiter’s Moons

The Astronomical Society of Nevada will discuss Jupiter’s four largest moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. These four moons are known as the Galilean Satellites, after the astronomer Galileo, who observed them in 1610. Each moon has unique attributes that will be discussed in detail. The presentation will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21, inside the Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, followed by outdoor telescope viewing. Admission is a $5 suggested donation per person. Call 849-4948 or visit www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

Finding the Forest: A Reading by Michael Branch

Mike Branch, a professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Reno, will read some of his creative nonfiction from a book in progress. Branch explores the relationship between Tahoe Basin forests and the health of the watershed in the western Great Basin Desert. The free reading begins at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at the W.M. Keck Museum inside the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering building at UNR, 1664 N. Virginia St. Call 682-6395 or visit http://guides.library.unr.edu/arboretum.