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Our print edition features just some of the nearly 1,000 events in our jam-packed Event Calendar available at TheTahoeWeekly.com. So, as you read the amazing hike to Thimble Peak at Kirkwood or the fun trail ride with Piping Rock Equestrian Center in Truckee, keep in mind some of my favorites that stand out in this issue: • Children’s Environmental Science Day on Aug. 25 • Truckee Professional Rodeo Aug. 25-26 • Native American Basket Weavers Market on Aug. 26 • Lake Tahoe Music Festival Aug. 23-26 • Edible Garden Tour on Aug. 25 • Pitchfork & The Pan farm dinner on Aug. 28 • California Enduro on Aug. 25 & 26 

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SIGHTSEEING

Big Blue beckons at the beach at Skylandia Park on the North Shore. | Katherine E. Hill

ATTRACTIONS Cave Rock

North Lake Tahoe Demonstration Garden

East Shore

Drive through one of the area’s natural wonders at Cave Rock, the neck of an old volcano. The area is named for the small caves above Highway 50 that were cut by waves when Lake Tahoe was 200 feet higher during the ice ages.

Eagle Rock

Summer | Free (775) 586-1610, ext. 25 | demogarden.org Demonstrations of lake-friendly landscaping using native and adaptive plants, water conservation, soil stabilization techniques, defensible space from wildfires & BMPs. Self-guided tours & clinics. TART

West Shore

Eagle Rock, one of the lake’s famous natural sites, is a volcanic plug beside Highway 89 on the West Shore. Trail to top is on the south side. TART

Explore Tahoe

North Tahoe Arts Center

Tahoe Art League Gallery South Lake Tahoe

(530) 542-2908 | cityofslt.us Urban Trailhead at base of Heavenly Gondola with local exhibits and programs. BlueGo

(530) 544-2313 | talart.org Featuring local artists and workshops. Second location at Ski Run Center. BlueGo

Emerald Bay

Tahoe City

(530) 541-3030 | parks.ca.gov Lake Tahoe’s only island is located in Emerald Bay & is home to an old tea house. Boat access only. (Closed Feb. 1-June 15 for nesting birds.)

TART/BlueGo

Heavenly

(775) 586-7000 | skiheavenly.com Enjoy a 2.4-mile ride on the gondola to the top with panoramic views of Lake Tahoe and the Carson Valley. Ticket required. BlueGo

Tahoe City Field Station

West Shore

Parking fee | parks.ca.gov (530) 525-7232 Park | (530) 583-9911 Tours Sugar Pine Point State Park is home to the historic Ehrman Mansion (summer tours), see boathouses with historic boats and General Phipps Cabin built in the late 1800s. TART

High Camp

Olympic Valley

(800) 403-0206 | squawalpine.com Aerial tram rides with views of Lake Tahoe, Olympic Heritage Museum, events and more.

Ticket required. TART

Kings Beach

North Shore

northtahoebusiness.org Kings Beach is a popular spot for dining and shopping with the North Shore’s largest sandy beach located in the heart of town.

Free parking at North Tahoe Beach, Brook Street, Minnow and the Christmas Tree lot on Hwy. 28. TART

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Watson Cabin

(530) 583-1762 | northtahoemuseums.org Watson Cabin, built by Robert Watson and his son in 1909, is the oldest building in Tahoe City and on the National Register of Historic Places. (summer tours). TART

MUSEUMS Donner Memorial Visitor Center

Readings taken on Friday, August 17, 2018 ELEVATION :

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KidZone Children’s Museum

Truckee

Tues.-Sun. | Locals’ first Tues. half price (530) 587-5437 | kidzonemuseum.org For kids up to age 7 with interactive exhibits, science & art classes, the BabyZone for newborns to 18 months & the Jungle Gym for toddlers and older. TART South Lake Tahoe

Tahoe Science Center

Incline Village

Tues.-Fri. & by appt. | Free (775) 881-7566 | tahoesciencecenter.org University of California, Davis, science education center at Sierra Nevada College. Exhibits include a virtual research boat, biology lab, 3D movies and docent-led tours. Ages 8+. TART

Truckee Railroad Museum

Truckee

Sat.-Sun. & holidays truckeedonnerrailroadsociety.com Located in a caboose next to the Truckee Depot. Exhibits include the train’s role in logging, fighting snow on the railway, the role of Chinese emigrants and a children’s area. TART

VISITORS’ CENTERS Kings Beach State Rec. Area (Thurs.-Mon., summer)

Incline Village 969 Tahoe Blvd.

(800) 468-2463

South Lake Tahoe 3066 Lake Tahoe Blvd.

(530) 541-5255

Stateline 169 Hwy. 50 (775) 588-4591

Tahoe City 100 North Lake Blvd.

(530) 581-6900

Truckee 10065 Donner Pass Rd. (Depot) (530) 587-8808

U.S. Forest Service | Incline Village 855 Alder Ave., (775) 831-0914 (Wed.-Fri.)

(530) 541-5458 | laketahoemuseum.org Features Washoe artifacts and exhibits on early industry, settlers and archival films of Tahoe.

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U.S. Forest Service | South Lake Tahoe

Old Jail Museum

3080 N. Lake Blvd.

(530) 583-3593 (Fridays)

Truckee

(530) 582-0893 | truckeehistory.org One of a few surviving 19th Century jailhouses of its kind in the West used from 1875 until May 1964 (summer tours). TART

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Tahoe City

(530) 583-9283 | tahoemaritimemuseum.org Features guided tours, exhibits and hands-on activities for kids on Tahoe’s maritime history.

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U.S. Forest Service | Tahoe City

U.S. Forest Service | Truckee 10811 Stockrest Springs Rd. (530) 587-3558

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Tahoe Maritime Museum

Kings Beach Soda Springs

(530) 583-1762 | northtahoemuseums.org Featuring historic photos, the Steinbach Indian Basket Museum and local historical memorabilia. TART

East Shore

Olympic Valley

Truckee

(530) 543-2674 | fs.usda.gov Features Stream Profile Chamber to view slice of Taylor Creek, nature trails & more. BlueGo

Lake Tahoe Museum

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Tahoe City

Gatekeeper’s Museum

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Parking fee (530) 541-3030 | (530) 525-9529 ADA parks.ca.gov or vikingsholm.com Tour the grounds of Vikingsholm Castle (summer tours), see Eagle Falls and Fannette Island (the Lake’s only island), home to an old Tea House. TART/BlueGo

Taylor Creek Visitor Center South Lake Tahoe

CAPACITY: 9,500 C 50

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donnersummithistoricalsociety.org Museum at the corner of Old Highway 40 & Soda Springs Road. Take the 20-mile interpretive driving tour along Old 40. Maps online or at museum. TART

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(530) 541-5227 | tahoeheritage.org Once known as the “Grandest Resort in the World” as the summer retreat for three San Francisco elite families with the Baldwin Estate, Pope Estate & Valhalla. Grounds open yearround. BlueGo

CAPACITY: C 226,500

INDEPENDENCE N 16,696

(800) 403-0206 | squawalpine.com Squaw Valley, host of the VIII Winter Olympic Games in 1960, celebrates its Olympic History with the Tower of Nations with its Olympic Flame and the symbolic Tower of the Valley at the entrance to the valley. The Olympic Museum at High Camp features historic memorabilia and photographs. Tram ticket required. TART

Donner Summit Historical Society

South Lake Tahoe

May-October | thunderbirdtahoe.org Thunderbird Lodge is the former Whittell estate. This magnificent lakefront home features the Lighthouse Room, Old Lodge, 600’ underground tunnel (with a former lion cage) and Boat House, home to the “Thunderbird,” a 1939 wooden boat. Ages 6+ only. No on-site parking.

Tours by reservation only.

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truckeehistory.org | truckee.com The historic town of Truckee was settled in 1863, and grew quickly as a stagecoach stop and route for the Central Pacific Railroad. During these early days, many of Truckee’s historical homes and buildings were built including The Truckee Hotel (1868) and the Capitol Building (1868). Stop by the Depot for a walking tour of historic downtown. Paid parking downtown with free lot on Donner Pass Road next to Beacon. TART

Tallac Historic Site

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Olympic Museum

(530) 582-7892 | parks.ca.gov The Donner Memorial State Park features exhibits and artifacts on the Donner Party (184647) at the visitor center, and see the towering Pioneer Monument. TART

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Truckee

Summer | (530) 583-3279 | terc.ucdavis.edu This 1920s-era building features a history of the field station, current UC Davis research projects, interactive exhibits and demonstration garden. Ages 8+. TART

Thunderbird Lodge

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North Shore

visittahoecity.com Tahoe City is popular for shopping and dining with historical sites. At the junction of highways 89 & 28, visitors may see the Tahoe City Dam, Lake Tahoe’s only outlet, and Fanny Bridge. Peer into Watson Cabin (1909) in the center of town for a glimpse at pioneer life. Free parking at Commons Beach, Grove Street, Jackpine Street and 64 acres at Highways 89 & 28. TART

South Lake Tahoe

Hellman-Ehrman Mansion

Tahoe City

(530) 581-2787 | northtahoearts.com Featuring exhibits of work by local artists and works for sale by local artists. TART

South Lake Tahoe

Fannette Island

Incline Village

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Average Surface Water Temperature: 51.9˚F Average Surface Temperature in July: 64.9˚F Highest Peak: Freel Peak at 10,881 feet

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Shoreline: 72 miles Lake Tahoe has a surface area of 191 square miles. If Lake Tahoe were emptied, it would submerge California under 15 inches of water.

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Average Snowfall: 409 inches

TAHOE KEYS

Cascade Lake

Lake Tahoe sits at an average elevation of between 6,223’ and 6,229.1’. The top 6.1’ of water is controlled by the dam in Tahoe City and holds up to 744,600 acre feet of water.

Lake Tahoe is as long as the English Channel is wide.

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Average Water Temperature: 42.1˚F

There is enough water in Lake Tahoe to supply everyone in the United States with more than 75 gallons of water per day for 5 years.

Size: 22 miles long, 12 miles wide

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Watershed Area: 312 square miles

Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. (Crater Lake in Oregon, at 1,932 feet, is the deepest), and the 11th deepest in the world.

Natural rim: 6,223’

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Maximum depth: 1,645 feet

Volume: 39 trillion gallons

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LAKE TAHOE

How the lake was formed

About 3 to 5 million years ago, the valley that would become the Tahoe Basin sank between parallel fractures in the Earth’s crust as the mountains on either side continued to rise. A shallow lake began to form in the resulting valley.

Roughly 2 to 3 million years ago, erupting volcanoes blocked the outlet, forcing the lake to rise hundreds of feet above its current elevation, and eventually eroded down to near its current outlet.

Between 1 million and 20,000 years ago, large masses of glacial ice covered the west side of the Tahoe Basin. Current geologic theory suggests an earthen berm (moraine) left by a receding glacier near Olympic Valley acted as a dam, causing the lake level to rise and then draw down rapidly when the dam catastrophically failed. Between

7,000 and 15,000 years ago, a four-mile segment of the West Shore collapsed into the Lake causing a massive submerged debris avalanche, widening the Lake by three miles and creating McKinney Bay.1 The Tahoe Basin is mostly granite, with little topsoil, and therefore few nutrients have washed into the lake to promote the growth of algae and other organisms that make water murky.

As well, 40 percent of the precipitation falling into the Tahoe Basin lands directly on the lake. The remaining precipitation drains through the decomposed granite soil found in marshes and meadows, creating a good filtering system for water.

Urbanization of the Tahoe Basin has eliminated 75 percent of its marshes, 50 percent of its meadows and 35 percent of its steam zone habitats. About 85 percent of all wildlife in the Tahoe Basin use these habitats.

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About the lake Lake Tahoe is located in the states of California and Nevada, with two-thirds in California. It is fed by 63 streams and two hot springs.

The Truckee River is Tahoe’s only outlet and flows from the dam in Tahoe City east through Reno and eventually drains into Pyramid Lake in the Nevada desert.

However, water releases are not permitted when the lake surface level falls below the natural rim at 6,223.’ The lowest lake level on record (measured since 1900) was 6,220.26’ on Nov. 30, 1992.

The Lake of the Sky appears blue in color as other colors in the light spectrum are absorbed and blue light is scattered back.

Lake clarity The University of California, Davis, operates the Tahoe Environmental Resarch Center, which monitors, among other

things, the clarity of Lake Tahoe. Clarity has been measured since 1968 and was first recorded at 102.4’.

The waters of Lake Tahoe were clear to an average depth of 59.7 in 2017. The lowest average depth on record was 64.1’ in 1997. Lake Tahoe is losing clarity because of algae growth fueled by nitrogen and phosphorus.

Lake Tahoe’s discovery The first recorded discovery of Lake Tahoe by white explorers was on Feb. 14, 1844, when John Charles Frémont and Charles Preuss spotted the lake from atop Red Lake Peak. The lake went through several names before it was officially named Tahoe in 1945.

Tahoe is a mispronunciation of the first two syllables of the Washoe’s word for the lake – Da ow a ga, which means “edge of the lake.” 

Learn more: Visit the Tahoe Science Center in Incline Village or tahoesciencecenter.org. Sources: Tahoe Environmental Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Forest Service, “Tahoe Place Names” and David Antonucci (denoted by 1).

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bout 40 years ago I had the opportunity to ride a horse through the sage and aspen groves into what is now the Mount Rose Wilderness to spend the night under the stars. It was truly a memorable journey and made me feel like I was living in an Old West movie. Since that time, I’ve found myself on a horse only a few dozen times and the last time was way too long ago. So it was with a great deal of excitement and a bit of anticipation that I took on the assignment of hoping on a horse and going for a ride at the Piping Rock Equestrian Center on the sage brush outskirts of Truckee.

AUGUST 23 | THURSDAY Conversation Café Aspen Grove Community Center Incline Village

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Hobnob with locals, meet visitors and join in the fun — live music, activity booths, local vendors and food trucks. Free area shuttle each week. 5-8:30 p.m. | historictruckee.com

Duke, a gentle steed who came to Piping Rock from Montana.

As we headed out into the sagebrush,

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: My horse Duke; Riding across Prosser Creek; The horses all lined up waiting for riders; Campers learning the ropes in the corral.

it didn’t take me long to discover that Duke was not to be hurried.

When I arrived mid-morning, the enclosed barns and open corrals were bustling with activity, but there was a relaxed, accommodating atmosphere. I immediately got the feeling that this was a place that nurtured horses and was intent on helping everyone who visited learn to have fun riding. There was a group of kids doing crafts in the shade, getting ready for Critter Camp where they get to play with mini horses as well as alpaca, goats and chickens.

Meanwhile, an older group of kids were learning technique, riding around the corral as part of a summer camp. In another corral, a row of horses were all saddled up waiting for trail riders.

I joined a couple from Arizona and our guide Sam Bouchie on a two-hour ride.

Bouchie has worked at Piping Rock for four years and she hosted a big smile and a comforting demeanor. I found myself on Duke, a gentle steed who came to Piping Rock from Montana. As we headed out into the sagebrush it didn’t take me long 8

to discover that Duke was a steady horse that followed the other three, but was not to be hurried. While I could hear Bouchie regaling the couple on Tahoe history, I missed some of the details because Duke liked to ride with a bit of a buffer zone between him and the next horse up. Every once in a while, Duke would start trotting to catch up with the other horses and then slowly his pace would drop back again. This was all fine with me, slow and steady might not win the race, but it is a bit less dusty.

Our ride really felt like what a ride in the West should feel like. We walked along narrow trails surrounded by sage and grassy meadows, crossed Prosser Creek a few

times and eventually made our way past the Prosser Reservoir Dam to the shore.

We also got to see the now-debilitated dam, which 150 years ago was used to harvest ice in Prosser Creek. While enjoying views of Mount Rose, we rode past perhaps a half dozen deer, with neither the horses or the deer looking the least bit alarmed. The only time I saw Bouchie get a teensy bit flustered was when one of my fellow riders thought he saw a bear along the river bank. She was about ready to send us riding in another direction, before we confirmed it was indeed a rock.

Being on a horse again for me was a true joy. I’d spent a lot of days hiking Tahoe’s trails with a backpack, so it was nice to experience being on a trail, but without the aching feet and back. While the view from a horse is similar to what a hiker sees, you get a higher and wider panorama of the world on a horse and you have more time to look out and enjoy the view since you are not worrying about where you are putting your feet. It was a quick reminder of why horses were such an important part of life in the Old West.

I can’t wait to get out for another ride. | pipingrockhorses.com 

Summer lecture series Tahoe Maritime Museum | Tahoe City

Join the summer lecture series. Light refreshments served. 5 p.m. Free | tahoemaritimemuseum.org

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez of Earth Guardians Olympic Village Lodge | Olympic Valley

Enjoy a talk with Earth Guardians Youth Director Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, an 18-year-old indigenous climate activist and hip-hop artist.

5:30-8 p.m. $10-$25 | squawvalleyinstitute.org

Evening at Lake Mary Lake Mary Cabin | Norden

Join Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation for an evening in the mountains with board members, supporters and staff for a special dinner. 5:30-8 p.m. | eventbrite.com

Lisa Maloff University Center Open House The Lisa Maloff University Center South Lake Tahoe

Explore Lake Tahoe Community College’s new home for advanced degrees on the South Shore. The Lisa Maloff University Center at LTCC is now open, offering modern space and the latest technology for students seeking their bachelor’s and master’s degrees in South Lake Tahoe. Public welcome to tour the new facility. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free | (530) 541-4660, ltcc.edu

OUT & ABOUT

Aug. 23-29, 2018

Teen Center Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe Kings Beach

Teen Center at Boys & Girls Club for 7th graders and older. Computers, TVs, video games, books, pool table and board games.

Open gym Wednesday-Friday 6-7 p.m. 7 p.m. | (530) 546-4324, bgcnlt.org

Tahoe Star Tours Northstar’s Dark Skies Cosmoarium | Truckee

Northstar Dark Skies Cosmoarium offers star guide Tony Berendsen for an intimate look at the Sierra stars. View the cosmos through high-powered Celestron telescopes. 7-10 p.m. | eventbrite.com

AUGUST 24 | FRIDAY Save Tahoe Sunset Sail The Hyatt Regency | Incline Village

Join Mountain Area Preservation for an elegant evening sail aboard the “Sierra Cloud” catamaran. All proceeds benefit the Protect Our Mountains campaign battling the Martis Valley West project on Brockway Summit. Locally sourced beer, wine and gourmet appetizers provided. 4:30-7 p.m. | (530) 582-6751, mapf.org

Cool Car Cruizen Fridays Heavenly Village | South Lake Tahoe

Join the fun every Friday until Oct. 12.

All cool vehicles welcome. 5-8 p.m. Free | goodsamsaferide.com

Tahoe Pitch Camp and Showcase Area Venues | Truckee

Sierra Business Council and Tahoe Silicon Mountain announce the return of Tahoe Pitch Camp and Tahoe Pitch Showcase, a series of workshops culminating in a showcase for Tahoe/ Truckee entrepreneurs, startups and founders to present to the community innovative companies and ideas. 5:30-8 p.m. | tahoesiliconmountain.com

Tahoe Star Tours Northstar’s Dark Skies Cosmoarium | Truckee

Northstar Dark Skies Cosmoarium offers star guide Tony Berendsen for an intimate look at the Sierra stars. View the cosmos through high-powered Celestron telescopes. 7-10 p.m. | eventbrite.com

Stargazing Guided Tour Resort at Squaw Creek | Olympic Valley

information displays and guided hiking opportunities. Registration is required. Space is limited to 150 participants. No food will be provided. 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free | eventbrite.com

AUGUST 26 | SUNDAY Dinner with a View: Emerald bay and the Stories She Tells Emerald Bay State Park | South Lake Tahoe

Join an early evening at Vikingsholm for a picnic style barbecue by Big Blue Q of Tahoe, wine and beer, and a flashback into the days of Emerald Bay Resort, featuring Rosie Smith. Benefits the Sierra State Parks Foundation. 5-8 p.m. $70-$80 | (530) 5839911, sierrastateparks.org

Truckee Pro Rodeo McIver Arena | Truckee

Feel the excitement from the cowboys holding on for the rides of their lives on the back of a buckin’ bull. Your adrenaline will burst from the fierce competition. | truckeerodeo.org

AUGUST 27 | MONDAY Professional Ski Boot Fitting Incline Village Location | Incline Village

Alan Trimble will host boot fitting sessions to benefit the Diamond Peak Ski Team.

Trimble, the inventor of the Floating Ski Plate, is a professional boot designer who worked in research, design and development with Lange Boots. Registration required. 8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. | Diamond Peak Ski Team on Facebook

Tahoe City Waterfront Walking Tour Gatekeeper’s Museum | Tahoe City

A fun tour focusing on Tahoe City and the waters of Lake Tahoe throughout its history.

Topics include Truckee River dam, water clarity, historic sailing vessels, motor boat racing and Commons Beach. Meet at Gatekeeper’s Museum. 10-11:30 a.m. Free | (530) 448-4143, mountaintowntours.wordpress.com

Tahoe Star Tours Northstar’s Dark Skies Cosmoarium | Truckee

Northstar Dark Skies Cosmoarium offers star guide Tony Berendsen for an intimate look at the Sierra stars. View the cosmos through high-powered Celestron telescopes. 7-10 p.m. | eventbrite.com

Tech Tuesdays Incline Village Library | Incline Village

Offers kids a fun way to explore different ways to learn about technology. A new activity each week. 4-5 p.m. | (775) 832-4130

AUGUST 29 | WEDNESDAY Chamber Membership 101 California Welcome Center | Truckee

For new, current or potential members to learn about the benefits of belonging to the Truckee Chamber of Commerce. Coffee and pastries. 8-9 a.m. | chamber.truckee.com

Professional Ski Boot Fitting Incline Village Location | Incline Village

Alan Trimble will host boot fitting sessions to benefit the Diamond Peak Ski Team.

Trimble, the inventor of the Floating Ski Plate, is a professional boot designer who worked in research, design and development with Lange Boots. Registration required. 8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. | Diamond Peak Ski Team on Facebook

Our mission is to reduce the incidence of hunger and its detrimental effects upon individuals, families, the community and the region.

WEEKLY FOOD DISTRIBUTION: MONDAYS TAHOE CITY

WEDNESDAYS KINGS BEACH

3:00pm to 3:30pm Fairway Community Ctr. 330 Fairway Dr.

3:00pm to 3:30pm Community House 265 Bear St.

TUESDAYS TRUCKEE

THURSDAYS INCLINE VILLAGE

3:30pm to 4pm Sierra Senior Center 10040 Estates Dr.

3:00pm to 3:30pm St. Patrick’s Church 341 Village Blvd.

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Calling all nonprofit unicorns and social entrepreneurs looking for an inspiring space to work and connect with other changemakers.

A comfortable and creative space to advance world-saving efforts. Donations accepted.

1-5:30 p.m. Free | eventbrite.com

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Group presentations · In-home talks (530) 546-5612 · TheStormKing.com

AUGUST 28 | TUESDAY Professional Ski Boot Fitting Incline Village Location | Incline Village

Alan Trimble will host boot fitting sessions to benefit the Diamond Peak Ski Team.

Trimble, the inventor of the Floating Ski Plate, is a professional boot designer who worked

Come gaze into the vast beyond and learn about constellations, the history of reading stars, and perhaps a bit about your astrological sign. Reservations are required in advance.

9-10:30 p.m. $15-$25 | (866) 791-7417, destinationhotels.com

AUGUST 25 | SATURDAY

in research, design and development with Lange Boots. Registration required. 8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. | Diamond Peak Ski Team on Facebook

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Feel the excitement from the cowboys holding on for the rides of their lives on the back of a buckin’ bull. Your adrenaline will burst from the fierce competition. | truckeerodeo.org

Get Outdoors at Echo Summit Adventure Mountain Lake Tahoe | South Lake Tahoe

A special event to celebrate the National Trails System and a high-elevation Olympic training center, which were both established in 1968. The event will feature guest speakers,

Sponsored by the North Tahoe Environmental Education Coalition Contact Sarah Hockensmith (775) 298-0067 or sarah@tinsweb.org tinyurl.com/CESD-2018

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OUT & ABOUT

TheTahoeWeekly.com

EVENTS AUG. 29 | WEDNESDAY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9

Talk of the Town

F Campbell Photography | Truckee Rodeo

Truckee Philosophy | Truckee

Come get to know a Truckee Town council member, town manager and other key Town leaders. Two-way, informal listening sessions welcoming all Truckee residents and business leaders. No politicking. Bring ideas, passionate interest and tough questions to an open and transparent dialogue. 4-5:30 p.m. | townoftruckee.com

Tahoe Pitch Camp and Showcase

Courtesy Truckee Rodeo

F Campbell Photography | Truckee Rodeo

Area Venues | Truckee

ROPIN’, RIDIN’ AND WRANGLIN’ Experience Western culture at the 44th annual Truckee Professional Rodeo from Aug. 24 to 26 at McIver Arena. The fun starts on Aug. 24 at Kids’ Day with free rodeo-themed activities: roping, stick horse races and brushing horses. The rodeo queens will be on hand to teach kids all about the rodeo. They can watch a performance by the Truckee Donner Junior Horsemen Drill Team and enjoy a free barbecue lunch. That night, Men Wielding Fire will cater a barbecue dinner at 5 p.m., then until 8 p.m. there’s dummy steer roping and open barrel racing.

FRIDAY, AUG. 24 11 a.m.-1 p.m. | Kids Day | Free 5 p.m. | BBQ dinner, live music 5- 8 p.m. | Dummy steer roping & open barrel race

SATURDAY, AUG. 25

Aug. 26 is Tough Enough to Wear Pink Day to show support for breast cancer awareness. This second day will also feature mutton busting and a trick roper, as well as more rodeo events.

5-7:30 p.m. | Rodeo starts

Parking on the south-side lot is $10. Free shuttle parking is available along Soaring Way near the Truckee Tahoe Airport. A shuttle will pick up every 10 minutes at the corner of Aviation and Soaring. The shuttle will run from 3 to 10 p.m. on Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday. | truckeerodeo.org

Stargazing Guided Tour Resort at Squaw Creek | Olympic Valley

Come gaze into the vast beyond and learn about constellations, the history of reading stars, and perhaps a bit about your astrological sign. Reservations are required in advance. 9-10:30 p.m. $15-$25 | (866) 791-7417, destinationhotels.com

AUGUST 30 | THURSDAY

On Aug. 25, wear your best red, white and blue for Patriot Day. In addition to the traditional rodeo events, there will be mutton bustin’, a boot race for the kids and a performance by a world-renowned trick roper. Afterwards, a Western Dance will begin with local band, Everyday Outlaw.

General admission tickets for the grandstands and grass seating are $15 for adults, $10 for ages 6 to 12; ages 5 and younger can enter free of charge. Bags will be checked at the entrance. Do not bring food into the arena; there are vendors for food and drink, all of which will be taking cash only.

Sierra Business Council and Tahoe Silicon Mountain announce the return of a series of workshops culminating in a showcase for Tahoe/Truckee entrepreneurs, startups and founders to present to the community innovative companies and ideas. 6-8 p.m. | tahoesiliconmountain.com

3 p.m. | Gates open 4:45 p.m. | Truckee Donner Junior Horsemen Drill Team 8-10 p.m. | Western Dance with Everyday Outlaw

Professional Ski Boot Fitting Incline Village Location | Incline Village

Alan Trimble will host boot fitting sessions to benefit the Diamond Peak Ski Team.

Trimble, the inventor of the Floating Ski Plate, is a professional boot designer who worked in research, design and development with Lange Boots. Registration required. 8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. | Diamond Peak Ski Team on Facebook

Conversation Café Aspen Grove Community Center | Incline Village

This is a drop-in conversation forum every week except holidays. Participate with people sharing diverse views and a passion for engaging with others over topics and news. 10:1511:15 a.m. | (775) 832-1310

SUNDAY, AUG. 26

Help with computers

11 a.m. | Gates open

Ongoing computer help. First Thursdays of the month are “Exploring the Interweb,” second Thursdays are “Computers Questions with Carl LeBlanc,” third Thursdays are “Everything iPhone” and fourth Thursdays are differing themes about technology. 3-4 p.m. | placer.ca.gov

12:45 p.m. | Truckee Donner Junior Horsemen Drill Team 1 p.m. | Rodeo starts

Kings Beach Library | Kings Beach

A Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences Incline Village

Former EPA Region 9 Administrator Jared Blumenfeld discusses walking from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail and how it opened up new ways of thinking about our relationship with nature. The talk will combine his hiking photographs, stories and insights about the current state of environmental politics. 5:307 p.m. | (775) 881-7560, tahoe.ucdavis.edu

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Tahoe Star Tours Northstar’s Dark Skies Cosmoarium | Truckee

Northstar Dark Skies Cosmoarium offers star guide Tony Berendsen for an intimate look at the Sierra stars. View the cosmos through high-powered Celestron telescopes. 7-10 p.m. | eventbrite.com

The rising moon over majestic mountains and scurrying coyotes among soaring pines are only a couple of nature’s wonders greeting Coyote Moon golfers year after year.

This course, known for its preserved natural beauty and challenging, yet fair, greens, is a wonderful place to escape into the High Sierra while playing the game you love.

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Aug. 23-29, 2018

OUT & ABOUT

OLD GREENWOOD Gol f Course

STORY BY B R I T TA N Y N E G A A R D

Course Details 18 holes | par 72

Yardage 5,419 to 7,518

Slope 129 to 144

Ratings

or the serious golfers looking to walk in the shoes of one of the most iconic golfers of all time, Old Greenwood Golf Course is for you. It’s a signature Jack Nicklaus course where every hole is challenging and beautiful and you will be hard pressed to pick a favorite.

Old Greenwood Golf Course opened in 2004 and has since developed a reputation as one of the best upscale public courses in California and the country.

My golf partner and I set out to play early afternoon on a midsummer day and the conditions were excellent. We arrived early to take advantage of the complimentary practice facilities. It was both our first times at Old Greenwood and it certainly lived up to the hype. Old Greenwood is considered one of the top 100 Public Golf Courses in America, according to Golf Digest. The course opened in 2004 and has since developed a reputation as one of the best upscale public courses in California and the country.

Every hole will test you in its own unique way. Undulating greens and fairways peppered with challenging bunkers, water hazards and view obstructions pose a great challenge. Luckily, there are four sets of tee boxes for those who don’t want to take on the full 7,518 yards. It is suggested to pay close attention to the pin positions for that day and carefully plan out your execution. End up on the wrong side of these fast greens and you will be paying for it on your score card.

Despite the course challenges, we left feeling pretty good about the course play. How can you not feel good after playing a course designed by, Nicklaus, the Golden Bear himself ?

The staff was friendly and helped us navigate the course play on a busy summer day. The cart person was on point and offered us turkey-bacon-avocado wraps, which saved us over those long 18 holes.

Old Greenwood’s rates vary from $60 to $200 with special discount rates for Mountain Club members and golf association members. Old Greenwood’s Golf Academy also offers a 5-acre training complex with indoor and outdoor amenities. The academy is fully dedicated to instruction and offers numerous clinics, camps and lessons.

Old Greenwood is the perfect course to treat yourself to at the end of the summer. This challenging course is perfect to test your golf skills that you’ve been perfecting. | (530) 550-7024, golfintahoe.com 

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Or, schedule your tee time on Tuesday afternoons and stick around for the free concerts on the lawn at PJ’s from 5:30-7:30pm.

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OUT & ABOUT

TheTahoeWeekly.com

Family Fun Visit the Event Calendar at TheTahoeWeekly.com for a complete list of events.

Teen Center

Ride the Truckee River Railroad

Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe Kings Beach | Aug. 23, 24, 27-30

Truckee River Regional Park | Truckee | Aug. 25

Teen Center at Boys & Girls Club for 7th graders and older. Computers, TVs, video games, books, pool table and board games.

Open gym Wednesday-Friday 6-7 p.m. 7 p.m. | (530) 546-4324, bgcnlt.org

Kids of all ages, parents, grandparents and all others are welcome. Rides are free and donations are appreciated. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. | chamber.truckee.com

Lego Club Family Movies At Squaw

Courtesy UC Davis

The Village at Squaw Valley Truckee | Aug. 23, 30

Y O U N G A N D O L D L E A R N AT

SCIENCE DAY

The 18th annual Children’s Environmental Science Day, a free community event for children and families will be at Commons Beach in Tahoe City on Aug. 25 from 1 to 4 p.m. The event includes hands-on science activities designed to create an awareness of the unique ecology of Lake Tahoe and provide an opportunity for young and old alike to learn about environmental and Earth science.

The event is hosted by the North Tahoe Environmental Education Coalition, together with UC Davis scientists, staff and local agencies and organizations of the Lake Tahoe Basin.

Join them to learn about bird identification, invasive species, living with fire, seed dispersal, water-quality monitoring and the carbon cycle. There will be face painting, making weather in a bottle, recycling race and many more environmentally minded activities, demonstrations and craft making. Whether participants are 5 or 65, they will be walking away with a better understanding of this incredible environment we live and play in. | (775) 298-0067, sarah@tinsweb.org or tinsweb.org

Jr Forest Ranger

Toddler Story Time

Taylor Creek Visitor Center South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 23, 30

Incline Village Library Incline Village | Aug. 23, 30

A different action-filled project each week teaches kids 6 to 12 years old how the parts of nature are connected as they earn their Jr. Forest Ranger badges. 10 a.m. | takecaretahoe.org

Preschool story time Truckee Library Truckee | Aug. 23, Aug. 30

Pre-Schooler Story Time Tahoe City Library Tahoe City | Aug. 23, 30

For ages 3 years and older. A half-hour stay-and-play after the reading. 11:30 a.m. | (530) 582-7846, mynevadacounty.com

For ages 5 and younger. 10:30-11 a.m. | (530) 583-3382, placer.ca.gov

FREE BOWLING

With stories, puppets, music and movement for ages 18 months to 3 years.

11:15-11:45 a.m. | (775) 832-4130

Bowl Incline North Shore’s Complete Family Recreation Center VOTED BEST POOL ROOM ON THE NORTH SHORE! Automatic Scoring “Bumper Bowling,” Video Arcade, Billiards, Video Poker, Cocktails, ATM, Full Swing Golf Simulator 920 Southwood Blvd., Incline Village (775) 831-1900 email: bowlink@aol.com

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Family Fun Fridays KidZone Museum | Truckee | Aug. 24

Play-based class designed to inspire exploration and discovery through art. For ages 5 and younger. 11 a.m. | kidzonemuseum.org

Smoke Free Every Day!

Coupon good for the entire party.

Limit 1 free game per person per visit.

Not valid with other offers.

Not valid for league or tournament play.

Ongoing for kids on Saturdays. 12-1 p.m. | (530) 582-7846, mynevadacounty.com

Children’s Environmental Science Day Commons Beach Tahoe City | Aug. 25

Children’s Environmental Science Day is a free community event held annually for children and their families. The event includes hands-on science activities designed to create an awareness of the unique ecology of Lake Tahoe and provide an opportunity for young and old alike to learn about environmental and Earth science. 1-4 p.m. Free | (775) 2980067, tahoe.ucdavis.edu

Sky Tavern Grass Roots Bike Series Sky Tavern | Reno | Aug. 24

Toy Boat Buildling

Sky Tavern will be hosting a Grassroots Bike Series. It will be fun for the entire family.

All age groups and levels welcome. Come on up for some good ol’ family fun. Project Discovery will be off-ering Zip-line rides. 4:30-9:30 p.m. | skytavern.com

Tahoe Maritime Museum Tahoe City | Aug. 25

Teen Scene

Kids playtime

Kahle Community Center Stateline | Aug. 24

Truckee Library | Truckee | Aug. 27

Kids in grades 6-12 can shoot hoops, play volleyball, climb the rock wall and play arcade or video games. 6:30-9 p.m. $5 | (775) 586-7271

Truckee Library hosts an unstructured playtime for children and parents. Toys are provided. 4:30-5:30 p.m. | (530) 582-7846, mynevadacounty.com

Family Movie Night

Toddler Time

Northwoods Clubhouse | Truckee | Aug. 24

Truckee Library | Truckee | Aug. 28

Bring a favorite pillow and blanket and enjoy classic and new movies.All films are rated G or PG. 6:30 p.m. Free | tahoedonner.com

Work together to glue together the parts and then get creative with painting and decorating the boat. Ages 3 to 9. Drop in. 2-4 p.m. $5 | tahoemaritimemuseum.org

For ages 18 months to 3 years. A half-hour stay and play after the reading. 10:30 a.m. | (530) 582-7846

Tech Tuesdays Hang with Woodward Woodward Tahoe | Soda Springs | Aug. 24

Hot Wheels Junior series is offering an open skateboarding and BMX series contest for kids 16 and younger of all skill levels.

Multiple disciplines are available. Helmets are required. $40 | hotwheelsjrseries.com

Smokey Bear Taylor Creek Visitor Center South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 25

each person who bowls 2 games at regular price gets a 3rd game free with this coupon

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Families and friends can enjoy movies on the big screen in the Events Plaza each Thursday night until Aug. 30. Movies at 8:30 p.m., weather permitting. Blankets and warm clothes are recommended. 8:30-10:30 p.m.

Free | (530) 584-6266, squawalpine.com

Truckee Library | Truckee | Aug. 25

Come learn about wildfire safety on Taylor Creek’s Smokey Trail. 10 a.m. Free | takecaretahoe.org

Kid’s Nature Journal Club South Lake Tahoe Library South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 25

Learn skills for exploring the natural world and how to capture adventures in a nature journal. Some materials provided; bring a notebook and pen and dress for the weather.

10:30-11:30 a.m. | (530) 573-3185

Incline Village Library | Incline Village | Aug. 28

Offers kids a fun way to explore different ways to learn about technology. A new activity each week. 4-5 p.m. | (775) 832-4130

Story Time Truckee Library | Truckee | Aug. 29

For ages 6 months to 2 years. A half-hour stay and play after the reading. 10:30 a.m. | (530) 582-7846, mynevadacounty.com

Story time Zephyr Cove Library Zephyr Cove | Aug. 29

Enjoy stories, songs, activities and coloring.

11:30 a.m. | (775) 588-6411, catalog.douglas. lib.nv.us

Thats a Wrap Incline Village Library Incline Village | Aug. 29

Come on down to the library for a party celebrating all the reading you have done this summer. Count on refreshments, games and fun. 4-5 p.m. Free | (775) 832-4130

Aug. 23-29, 2018

OUT & ABOUT

Wet ‘n’ Dirty

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Water Ski · Wakeboard · Wakesurf

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Jet Ski Rentals (2015 Sea-Doo GTS 130) & Boat Charters

GEARING UP FOR

CALIFORNIA ENDURO

Northstar California transforms into an endurance mountain-biking mecca on Aug. 25 and 26 as the fifth stop on the California Enduro Series and the second stop on the Golden Tour. The two-day race tests riders’ endurance levels and technical skills on a variety of Northstar Bike Park trails. The California Enduro race welcomes the continent’s top competitors who are racing for the North American Enduro Champion title in the Enduro Continental Series. | northstarcalifornia.com

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Guided Wildflower Hikes Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows Olympic Valley | Aug. 23-30

This summer enjoy daily guided hikes until Sept. 3 at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. at High Camp. Dogs are welcome and there are no reservations necessary. 2:30 p.m. | (800) 4030206, squawalpine.com

Hike in Lower Carpenter Valley The Lower Carpenter Valley Truckee | Aug. 23, 26, 29

Truckee Donner Land Trust hosts a guided hike in the Lower Carpenter Valley. Enjoy a docent-led, 5+mile hike on mostly flat terrain on somewhat rough ranch roads at about 6,200 feet in elevation. Participants should be able to hike about 2.5 hours at a moderate pace with some stops. 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | tdlandtrust.org

Hike with a Ranger Heavenly Mountain South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 23-30

Hikes begin at the top of the gondola every day at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. until Sept. 2.

The guided moderate hikes last about an hour and a half. Closed toed shoes and drinking water required. Free hikes; gondola ticket required. First-come, first-served. 1 p.m. | (530) 543-2730

Introduction to Backpacking in the High Sierra Clair Tappaan Lodge | Norden | Aug. 23-25

Explore the Sierra Nevada in all its glory.

Learn how to become a confident backpacker and sleep in a cozy lodge or camp near lakes and mountains. Good camaraderie while learning backpacking skills. | (415) 977-5522, content.sierraclub.org

Service and Stewardship Clair Tappaan Lodge | Norden | Aug. 23-26

The mountains, meadows, lakes, and rivers that surround Truckee Donner are spectacularly beautiful and wonderful places to hike, swim, and play. Participants will be working in these gorgeous protected areas, hiking

and swimming, and returning each day to the Lodge for a delicious meal and time to relax in the hot tub. | (415) 977-5522, content. sierraclub.org

Shirley Canyon Guided Hike Resort at Squaw Creek Olympic Valley | Aug. 23, 24, 30

SAND HARBOR STATE PARK

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Reservations 530.581.4336

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Sierra Sunset Vista

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Resort at Squaw Creek Olympic Valley | Aug. 23, 28, 30

Summer Moonlight Hikes Incline Village Recreation Center Incline Village | Aug. 23

These mile-long, paved road hikes to the Crystal Bay lookout site, sponsored in collaboration with the National Forest Service, usually include a spectacular sunset and ensuing moonrise for seniors. Transportation included.

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Hike up Shirley Canyon for amazing vistas of Lake Tahoe past wildflowers, waterfalls and granite walls. Take the tram down after this 3.6-mile moderate hike. Includes lunch and naturalist guide. Reservations are required in advance. 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. $50-$80 | (866) 791-7417, destinationhotels.com

A short walk onto Resort at Squaw Creek golf course will place you right in the middle of the Olympic Valley. Watch a beautiful sunset while learning about the history of the valley.

Snack on some of our favorite cheeses and local wines. Reservations are required in advance. 7:30-9 p.m. $30-$50 | (866) 791-7417, destinationhotels.com

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Birding Opportunities Area Venues | Tahoe City | Aug. 24

Late summer and early fall is migration season, which means a lot of opportunities to get outside with Tahoe Institute of Natural Science. If you are new to birding, do not fret, we have extra binoculars to lend. Our tours cater to beginner birders, as well as advanced avian enthusiasts. | (775) 298-0060, tinsweb.org

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FEATURE

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SIERRA STORIES

BY MARK McLAUGHLIN

Truckee Vig ilantes | O r i g i n s o f E x t r a j u d i c i a l V i o l e n c e in the West, Part I was later appropriated as taking the law into your own hands. Vigilante committees were common throughout the West during the gold rush and for decades after, a time when weak government institutions and ineffective law enforcement struggled to deal with rampant criminality.

Truckee’s vigilante movement became legendary in California due to its ruthless effectiveness, especially when it was later tragically used on peaceful local Chinese immigrants, but it wasn’t the first place in the West to form one. In March 1836,

Truckee was an active railroad town and often overrun by swarms of transient hobos, pickpockets and thugs, along with unsavory men and loose women prone to drinking alcohol and dangerous behavior.

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n the second half of the 19th Century, the rough and tumble town of Truckee endured many years of shootouts, bar brawls and frequent street fights. The violence that marred Truckee’s reputation in its earliest decades required lawmen with nerves of steel and strong will. Men like that were hard to come by, but early Truckee residents were protected by some of the best in the West.

The list of Truckee’s earliest constables includes such luminaries as Steven Venard, Jacob Teeter, Jake Cross and James Reed.

These men were dedicated to duty and often went beyond the call to safeguard the Truckee community against criminal vio-

1856 Vigilante hanging in San Francisco. | Courtesy Harper’s Illustrated

lence. But Truckee was an active railroad town and often overrun by swarms of transient hobos, pickpockets and thugs, along with unsavory men and loose women prone to drinking alcohol and dangerous behavior.

In the 1870s and 1880s, Truckee’s saloons, dance halls and back alleys were rife with itinerant toughs and hoodlums. The leading townsmen felt compelled to organize a vigilance committee, an extrajudicial organization that deployed its own brand of violent enforcement to protect residents and businesses. Vigilante comes from the Spanish word for watchman or guard. It

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30-year-old Jose Domingo Feliz, a scion of one of Southern California’s wealthiest Spanish-descent families, was murdered in the small Mexican pueblo of Los Angeles. Feliz’s wife, Maria del Rosario Villa, and her paramour, Gervasio Alipas, were accused of the crime. Alipas was caught, shackled and locked up in the town’s adobe-walled jail. Maria holed up in a nearby building. When the local mayor decided against action to punish Maria, a group of vigilantes broke into where she was seeking protection and removed her.

Next, the lynch mob went for Gervasio and extracted him from prison. The doomed man smiled and told his abductors, “You did well not to delay.” The vigilantes had arrived just in time because Alipas had nearly cut through his iron manacles with a smuggled file. The posse took both Maria and Gervasio, stood them up against the hill behind the town’s only church and shot them dead. Their bullet-riddled bodies were carried to the jail and displayed on the ground in front as a bloody warning.

There were two successful, large-scale vigilante operations conducted in San Francisco during the Gold Rush era. A vigilance committee was first formed in San Francisco in 1851 by the town’s leading businessmen and frustrated residents to fight back against rampant crime and frequent destructive fires started by arsonists. Many of San Francisco’s law enforcement officers were corrupt and the city’s courts and justice system was rotten to the core. Criminal gangs dominated the rapidly growing town’s waterfront district, its saloons, gambling dens and houses of prostitution. San Francisco’s thriving business community was forced to pay protection money under threat of violence or intentional fire.

After the discovery of gold in 1848, San Francisco’s waterfront, now known as the Embarcadero, up through today’s North Beach and onto the slopes of Telegraph Hill, attracted some of the world’s worst human riffraff and miscreants. The quarter was known as the Barbary Coast for its

concentration of underworld culture focused on cheap lodging houses for sailors, hustlers and flimflam men, decrepit groggeries and seedy dance halls where customers were hustled by prostitutes of all nationalities. Unsuspecting sailors and miners were often entrapped by thieves in these dens of iniquity that provided tainted liquor or drugged them, after which the victims were robbed and often shanghaied — dumped onboard a merchant marine ship and forced to work for months or years before returning to the United States.

Dominant among this disparate collection of rogues and degenerates were the socalled Sydney Ducks, convicts who shipped in from the British penal colony at Sydney, Australia. Prison officials there sent their worst to San Francisco thereby getting rid of them once and for all. Other lawbreakers in the British colony were issued oneway tickets to the City by the Bay. Once they established a syndicate of organized crime, the denizens of San Francisco’s Sydney-Town bribed unscrupulous city officials and politicians for protection from prosecution. Robberies, assaults and other crimes were so numerous that no effort was ever made to tally them up. The city and business district were nearly destroyed by calamitous fires multiple times between December 1849 and June 1851. Investigations indicated that at least four of the conflagrations were started by Australian gang leaders Jack Edwards and Ben Lewis, but after they were arrested and brought to trial, they were promptly released by a paid-off judge. At one point more than 100 murders were committed in the space of a few months, yet not one criminal was executed for the capital crimes. San Francisco teetered on anarchy and it was into this breach that the first vigilance committee asserted itself.

Nearly 700 men signed up as members of the 1851 Committee, all swearing to uphold the “maintenance of the peace and good order of society” and that “no thief, burglar, incendiary or assassin shall escape punishment.” Bands of armed vigilantes scoured San Francisco rounding up, interrogating and incarcerating suspects. Nearly 30 were ordered out of the city, including 14 Ducks that were deported back to Australia. A $5,000 reward was offered for anyone found guilty of arson and committee members patrolled the streets at night.

Four men were hanged and one whipped.

When police tried to protect two of the men the cops had in custody, committee members stormed the jail. Relative peace returned to San Francisco and the committee dissolved itself just four months after forming. But five years later in 1856, the residents of San Francisco would again rise up against crime and corruption, this time with such force that the movement changed the entrenched political power structure in the city.

Stay tuned for Part II in the next issue and at TheTahoeWeekly.com.  Tahoe historian Mark McLaughlin is a nationally published author and professional speaker. His award-winning books are available at local stores or at thestormking.com. You may reach him at mark@ thestormking.com. Check out his blog at tahoenuggets.com or read more at TheTahoeWeekly.com.

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OUT & ABOUT

Aug. 23-29, 2018

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Mt. Rose Summit Trailhead Incline Village | Aug. 24

Burnt Cedar Beach | Incline Village | Aug. 26

TINS’ naturalist Sarah Hockensmith will share her passion for birds. Galena Falls will make for a perfect lunch stop while taking in the surrounding alpine meadows with colorful wildflowers and birds. 6.5 miles.

8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. | tahoerimtrail.org

Fly Fishing Techniques Tahoe Maritime Museum | Tahoe City | Aug. 24 This adventure consists of 3 to 4 hours of instruction on fly fishing. Daniel Ring, fly fishing guide and instructor, will teach the basics of the fly cast, as well as the proper techniques needed to catch a trophy trout on a fly.

9 a.m.-12 p.m. | tahoemaritimemuseum.org

Sky Tavern Grass Roots Bike Series Sky Tavern | Reno | Aug. 24

Sky Tavern will be hosting a Grassroots Bike Series. It will be fun for the entire family. All age groups and levels welcome. Come on up for some good ol’ family fun. Project Discovery will be offering Zip-line rides. 4:30-9:30 p.m. | skytavern.com

Taylor Creek Evening Programs Taylor Creek | South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 24

Sit under the stars and discover Taylor Creek’s Friday night programs at the Lake of the Sky Amphitheater. 8:30 p.m. | takecaretahoe.org

Echo Summit workday Echo Summit | Echo Lake | Aug. 25, Aug. 28

Join the TRTA for a large trail relocation project near Echo Summit. Meet at the Echo Summit trailhead and hike with tools 1.5 miles to the site. Register. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. | takecaretahoe.org

Tahoe Adventure Company Tahoe Vista | Aug. 25, 26

Join Tahoe Adventure Company for a Full Moon tour. Float in a kayak on the clear blue water while the sun sets the sky on fire, the full moon rises and the stars twinkle. 6:30-9:30 p.m. $65 | tahoeadventurecompany.com

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Waterman’s Landing | Carnelian Bay | Aug. 25 The Tahoe Cup Paddle Race offers both the recreational paddler and the race enthusiast an opportunity to participate in SUP, prone paddleboard or OC1 class races on Lake Tahoe. | tahoecup.org

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Rainbow Walk Taylor Creek Visitor Center South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 26, 28, 29

Join a naturalist for a walk down the Rainbow Trail to learn about the connection between Lake Tahoe and the meadow, marsh and stream. 10:30 a.m. | takecaretahoe.org

Eagle’s Nest Summit Hike Resort at Squaw Creek | Olympic Valley | Aug. 27 This difficult hike is extremely rewarding and has an amazing view of Lake Tahoe.

The hike will gain 1,990’ in elevation and is about 10.5 miles. Reservations are required in advance. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. | (530) 581-6610, destinationhotels.com

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Area Venues | Incline Village | Aug. 28

Hikers age 55 and older can visit different Tahoe locales as part of IVGID Senior Programs. Meet in Incline Village Recreation Center lobby. Bring water, lunch and wear appropriate clothing and shoes. 8:30 a.m.3 p.m. | yourtahoeplace.com

Resort at Squaw Creek Olympic Valley | Aug. 28, 29

This 1.5 mile leisurely walk has wonderful information about the Tahoe ecosystem. Learn about the history of the Olympic Valley, flora, fauna and Olympic Valley folklore. 11 a.m.-12 p.m. $10-$15 | (866) 791-7417, destinationhotels.com

McIver Arena | Truckee | Aug. 25, Aug. 26

The Gatekeeper’s Museum | Tahoe City | Aug. 29

Virginia City | Aug. 25

Established in 1956, Cotton Rosser and his family have worked to make the Flying U one of the most successful stock contracting firms in professional rodeo. Cotton has long been known for his outstanding rodeo productions, including National Finals Rodeo, the Houston Livestock Show, the Grand National Rodeo in San Francisco and the PRCA Wildest Richest Rodeo in the West. 1 p.m. | liquidblueevents.com

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Mt. Rose trailhead | Incline Village | Aug. 27

History Hike Skunk Harbor

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Paul Ackerman will host this pleasant hike that covers unique history of little known Pray Meadows and Skunk Harbor, arguably the most beautiful little bay on the lake. Along the way witness the remains of a lumber railroad built by D. L. Bliss. 8:30 a.m. | (530) 583-1762, northtahoemuseums.org

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Stanford Rock Trail Days West Shore | Tahoe City | Aug. 29

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FUN & GAMES

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Horoscopes

FIRE

EARTH

AIR

WATER

Puzzles

Michael O’Connor is an astrologer, counselor and life coach | SunStarAstrology.com

Leo (Jul 22-Aug 23)

The spotlight is on you. Yet it also means that you are meant to take new leads and not simply enjoy the attention. You are in a learning cycle and this can include getting trained or entering an apprenticeship…

Sometimes the first step is to ‘clear the way’. This could include a process of unlearning. The easiest way to unlearn is to replace the old with something new.

Aquarius (Jan 19-Feb 19)

Significant changes on relationship fronts are indicated now. These may manifest as orientations and not strictly as events. Meanwhile, cultural activities and travel should prove extra satisfying now.

Mars retrograde now in Capricorn indicates needed inner work, perhaps to break through subconscious resistance, doubt and lack of faith. Since your workload is doubled, allow yourself to rest more.

Virgo (Aug 23-Sep 22)

This creative cycle has strong practical applications for you. Focusing to organize, develop or build new modes of expression or new products and services is especially ideal. Taking new approaches is also implied. In all respects, the challenge is to open your heart and mind to new perspectives and possibilities that have actual application in your life.

Pisces (Feb 19-Mar 20)

A process of bringing your gifts to the fore in creative and realistic ways continues and is getting a big extra boost now. The focus now includes getting organized more than anything. But it too can constitute a creative process. Yet, the bigger and stronger creative focus has yet to fully arrive and will take a few months. So, how can you prepare the ground?

Libra (Sep 22-Oct 22)

Upward, onward, forward… however you choose to say it, this is the call now. Ideally, you are focused on a weave of all of the above. The time is right to be progressive. Doing so may require a deliberate determination to break free of your comfort zone. There is an old riddle that asks: “if the comfort remains, is it still a comfort?” The answer is meant to be: No. Change is the law and balance knows it.

Scorpio (Oct 22-Nov 21)

Aries (Mar 21-Apr 20)

A playful mood prevails. If you are taking anything seriously, or anyone, it is yourself, or your kids. Creative offspring is an operative word here. In other words, you are excited about your creations and how you can best engage them next. Sharing your love with significant others is highlighted. Altogether, this could manifest as a serious love interest.

Taurus (Apr 20-May 21)

A process of ascending to new heights continues. These may well imply new levels of power and leadership. This cycle has been active for well over a year now and there are only a few months left.

Last week’s Solar Eclipse is destined to be a boost of support for you. This is your cue to make the most of it.

Let your imagination be your guide.

Identifying with the ‘artist within’ aptly describes current influences. One way or another, we all have creative interests and if these are not evi-dent, deciphering what they are is a gift to self.

Diversity is great too so avoid thoughts like the jack is not the master… Enjoy the full spectrum. The first give to activate inspiration is an attitude of gratitude.

Sagittarius (Nov 21-Dec 21)

Mercury turns direct this week and this can prove to produce a great sigh of release for you. It may feel as though you have suddenly found your way again after feeling a bit lost. Enjoy it while you can, though, because the Sun entering Virgo by the end of the week will put you to work. Enjoy this window of respite with more action and less thought.

Sun and Mercury in Leo and Venus in Libra altogether imply an extra creative impulse for you.

This cycle has been active for many months, actually, but is at a peak point now. While you will always be a creative person, this cycle is scheduled to end soon so at least bathe in the feeling. Sometimes inspiration is triggered by melancholy or even sadness.

Trust the flow.

Capricorn (Dec 21-Jan 19)

The Saturn in Capricorn cycle began in November 2017. The lead-up to that time was a steady dissolving process of prior relationship status in your personal and/or professional life. This process was a feature of your destiny and began about 3 years ago. Resistance to this flow may be understood as ego-control. Your job now is to let go and let god, which can be translated as faithful cooperation.

Cancer (Jun 21-Jul 22)

Investment remains a keyword for you these days. The other keyword is balance. In other words, the best investment is into what contributes to you feeling more balanced. To answer this question well, you may have to step back from your life and then look back upon it reflectively. Where is there too much and where too little?

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Gemini (May 21-Jun 21)

What do some folks call a complete litter of newborn cats? The kitten caboodle.

Hocus Focus differences: 1. Bat is shorter, 2. Home plate is different, 3. Fence board is moved, 4. Clothesline is missing, 5. Glasses are missing, 6. Collar is smaller.

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Aug. 23-29, 2018

FEATURE

Dramatic views at Thimble Peak STORY & PHOTOS BY LISA MICHELLE

Thimble Peak was

plastered with untracked powder the last time I hiked up the steep slope after a spring storm.

A cloudless sky and spectacular view of the Sierra from 9,800 feet hasn’t changed as I approached the summit in midsummer. I was sweating and out of breath just below the peak; a cool breeze and a wellnourished marmot welcomed me. Two dark basalt towers stood aside the massive peak like vacant watchtowers. The marmot kept an eye on me, patrolling, as I inched my way up the craggy rock face.

My trek began at Kirkwood Mountain Resort.

I decided to take a shorter more direct route to Thimble Peak than the longer trails from Thunder

TOP RIGHT: The Wall at Kirkwood from Chair 6; BOTTOM RIGHT: Wildflowers at Kirkwood.

I WA S S W E AT I N G AND OUT OF B R E AT H J U S T BELOW THE PEAK; A COOL TOP LEFT: Trail along the ridge toward The Wall; BOTTOM LEFT: Crag on Thimble Peak.

Mountain or Horse Canyon. Below the Solitude chairlift, my hike became a treasure hunt of last season’s lost items. A lifetime supply of lip balm, lighters and right-handed gloves. Solitude was transformed from an intermediate run to a beginner slope — leveled by blossoming lupine and Indian paintbrush. Below me, Kirkwood’s Village Plaza looked like it could fit into a snow globe. Up ahead, cliffs walled me out, so I angled west toward Chair 6, also known as Cornice Express. Express, the name was a conundrum because the last quarter-mile is an uphill scramble and Kirkwood Inn & Saloon’s belly-buster burger I ate for lunch is living up to its name.

The ridgeline to Thimble Peak meandered east and was flat for a good while — a welcome relief from the previous hour-long quad-burning climb.

The path was barely visible; Silver Lake appeared and my stride stretched toward a series of rocky spires. A melodic wind hollered through a narrow gap in the mountain as I passed behind The Sisters.

Here, double black-diamond chutes were exposed and the drop had a dizzying effect on me. Caples Lake and Thimble Peak were in the distance. Like a prehistoric monument, a conglomerate rock resembled the profile of a poodle. Inspecting the pooch from the opposite side, I discovered a plaque dedicated to Dick Reuter, one of Kirkwood’s founding fathers. Just past The Wall, the rocky ridge requires climbing and not hiking, so I chose to

slip and slide across the shaley slope below. It confirmed my direct approach route was a bad decision.

The longer, less challenging trail from Horse Canyon or Thunder Mountain would have been a much better option.

To truly summit Thimble Peak required an exposed climb and as I wedged myself between a pyramid of volcanic rock, I reconsidered. The route up is not very technical, but climbing alone, regardless of classification, is never a good idea. I looked down at what is known as the backside of Kirkwood — one of my favorite places to ride in the winter — and reacquainted myself with the naked terrain.

In the distance, I located Round Top Peak, then Elephants Back, Hawkin’s, Steven’s and even Freel Peak were visible. A strong wind had its way with my ball cap and was a good excuse to descend and retrieve it. I worked my way around the peak, found my cap and a comfy place to rest. The dramatic view and peacefulness here awaked a feeling of gratitude.

The plus-sized marmot popped its head above a boulder, chirping at me until I exited his territory.

Besides getting an early start, the best way to tackle Thimble Peak is a personal preference.

Some hikers enjoy a scrambling, bush-whacking, high-altitude workout via the Kirkwood route, while others may opt for something less strenuous via the Horse Canyon Trailhead or the Thunder Mountain Trailhead.

If you prefer taking in the stunning views with the least amount of effort, I suggest a lift up the mountain. Kirkwood offers lift access to 12 hiking trails on weekends through Sept. 2.

BREEZE AND A WELL-NOURISHED MARMOT WELCOMED ME. Lift tickets can be purchased at the Kirkwood Mountain Sports or the Ticket Office in the Village Plaza. Disregarding the advantage of a lift ride, Thimble Peak is considered a difficult alpine hike and hikers should prepare accordingly. If it’s solitude you seek, I recommend approaching the peak from Kirkwood’s southeast side. I hiked more than six hours and besides the marmot, the only mammal I spotted was a tremendous buck with antlers hunters would drool over.

Drive time from South Lake Tahoe to Kirkwood is about 40 minutes. Horse Canyon Trailhead parking is 4 miles west of Kirkwood on State Route 88 and a half mile east of Silver Lake. Thunder Mountain Trailhead parking is less than 2 miles west of Kirkwood on State Route 88. | kirkwood.com. n

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THE ARTS

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Arts

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CREATIVE AWARENESS

Jukebox

International Film Festival

Darlene Murphy

K E E P I N G T H E A R T O F B A S K E T W E AV I N G A L I V E S T O R Y B Y K AY L A A N D E R S O N

arlene Murphy weaves willow baskets to keep the traditions of her family alive. Murphy’s descendants from the Western Shoshone tribe came from Death Valley, where her great-grandmother was a basket weaver, and throughout Nevada including Round Mountain, Austin and Ash Meadows, which is a wildlife refuge.

It was Murphy’s aunt Maggie Decker Darrough, whom she called Grandma Maggie, that made cradleboards for Murphy and her eight siblings that were used by her mother to carry her babies for their first year or so. The cradleboards have a sturdy, willow rod backing with either canvas or hides wrapped around the front.

But Murphy didn’t start basket weaving until after she retired from a 25-year career as a civil engineer at the Nevada Department of Transportation. In 2005, she took a basket-weaving class with her cousin in Carson City and was hooked.

“After retiring, I needed to do something and have always been a bit self-motivated.

My grandma always had willows that we gathered and cleaned, but other than that we were never really exposed to basket weaving,” she says.

Murphy began designing and constructing willow coil baskets with beaded exterior adornments, generally sold to fellow basket collectors and displayed in museums.

“Europeans buy them and sell them for triple the amount, because they don’t think there are any Native Americans around anymore,” she says.

Native Americans used handwoven baskets to carry utensils, cook with and gather food. Bigger cone-shaped baskets called burden baskets were used to carry pine cones and small woven baskets were used for acorn gravy and soups and to gather pine nuts. Murphy shows off a winnowing tray and displays how it’s used to clean pine nuts out of their cones by

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shaking them out and allowing the nuts to fall between the cracks of the willow rods.

In her collection, Murphy points out a cradleboard she made with buckskin that recently won first place in the Wa She Shu’ It Deh Native American Arts Festival held at Valhalla Tahoe on July 29.

At home, Murphy grows purple willows and sage root bush to create baskets. She 18

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TOP: An example of Darlene Murphy’s beaded bowls; BOTTOM: Darlene Murphy with a burden basket.

also accompanies other Native American women who’ve found places where willow still grows wild. It can only be harvested in the autumn, after the first freeze when the leaves fall off.

“Most native women want all natural stuff, not the reed you buy at the store,” Murphy says. “You have to know what type of willows to get, too.”

She is a fan of red bud willow that grows like a bush on the western side of the Sierra Nevada, like on the roadsides in Red Bluff of Northern California. She loves the work of the California Indian Basketweavers’ Association, whose members have better access to it.

Murphy usually gathers 200 to 300 willow branches at a time and brings them home to size and keep in water. She cleans them by scratching off the red and purple and puts them in bunches wrapped in cloth to restore their color.

“The brighter the color, the newer the basket,” she says. “The older the basket is, the yellower it gets.”

Murphy employs different styles of weaving to bring a basket together, such as the brick stitch. Then she’ll bead a drop stitch design on the first roll and keep doing designs on the exterior part of the basket to create a heavy, sturdy and beautiful piece.

She says that between gathering the

willows, weaving and decorating, making a medium-sized basket can take up to a year — a smaller one can take two to three weeks. After harvesting the strands, Murphy keeps the willows in warm water to keep them pliable and a sponge to soak them and keep them smooth.

She also makes necklaces, baby rattles, beaded earrings and small, beaded coil baskets.

“Beading is my favorite part,” she says.

She will often attach a woven baby rattle to the hood of the cradleboards she sells.

“Baskets have always been around me all my life,” Murphy says. “This is all dedicated to our grandmothers, past

The Jukebox International Film Festival returns for its second season on Aug. 23 and 24 in Carson City, Nev., featuring a variety of films, workshops and filmmakers panels.

The Film Festival is presented in conjunction with Jazz and Beyond: Carson City Music Festival, a month-long, multivenue concert series. The Festival is designed to complement the music festival by presenting films that celebrate music and musicians.

This year’s festival features narrative

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feature films and shorts; documentary feature films and shorts; and music videos. As well, there will be guest

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to our grandmothers,

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past relatives and

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– Darlene Murphy

featuring Royal Hartigan from Aug. 23 Tahoe City.

The Festival will take place at the Bob Boldrick Theatre at the Carson City Community Center. Tickets are available

relatives and ancestors. Without them we wouldn’t know how to do this.”

The Carson City, Nev., resident will be among the featured artists at the Native American Weaver’s Market on Aug. 26 in Tahoe City. | Gatekeeper’s Museum on Facebook

for purchase in advance and at the door, with an all-access pass $40. | jukeboxiff.org

Aug 23-29, 2018

Arts

THE

Knitting Group Atelier | Truckee | Aug. 28-Dec. 31

The group is open to all knitters, crocheters, loom artists every Tuesday. whatever your thread, you are welcome. This is a not a class, it’s a group intended for individuals who enjoy the company of other yarn artists. Bring a project or start a new one. 4-6 p.m. Free | (530) 386-2700, ateliertruckee.com

THE WORK OF HANS

MEYER-KASSEL An exhibition on the works of Hans MeyerKassel will be on display at the Nevada Museum of Art until Sept. 2 featuring more than 70 paintings with additional drawings, photographs, ephemera and artifacts drawn from private and institutional collections, including the Douglas County Historical Society and the Nevada Historical Society.

Particular emphasis is placed on MeyerKassel’s romance with Nevada, where from his home in Genoa, his more formal, classically influenced style mellowed into a painterly perfection that resulted in breathtaking interpretations of Nevada’s landscape.

Meyer-Kassel loved Nevada from the time of his first visit, and built his reputation as one of the most prolific and successful artists in the region. While his primary interest was portraiture, he also became known for his vividly colored floral still lifes, and his depictions of Nevada’s vast desert expanses, river valleys and cloud-filled skies. A monument to Meyer-Kassel was erected at the Genoa Courthouse Museum earlier this year. | nevadaart.org

“How to Cuss in Western” reading & signing Sundance Books and Music | Reno Aug. 29

Michael P. Branch will present his newest book, “How to Cuss in Western: And Other Missives from the High Desert.” 6:30-7:30 p.m. | (775) 786-1188, sundancebookstore.com

POD Exhibition: Collyn Aubrey

“Carson Valley in Spring, 1952” Hans Meyer-Kassel | Nevada Museum of Art and Tahoe, and the people that brought them together. | tahoemaritimemuseum.org

Jenny Raven- The Creative Growth Years 1979 Community Center Sierra Room | Carson City Aug. 23-Oct. 18 The Capital City Arts Initiative presents, “Jenny Raven: The Creative Growth Years 1979-1984.” 5-8 p.m. | (775) 283-7421, artsinitiative.org

The Nuclear Landscape Nevada Museum of Art | Reno Aug. 23-Oct. 26

Nevada’s past and future are intertwined with the nuclear history and politics of the United States, and visual artists from around the world have responded in a myriad of ways to this nuclear legacy. 10 a.m. | (775) 329-3333, nevadaart.org

1960 Winter Olympics Exhibit

“Portrait Collective” call to artists

Community Recreation Center | Truckee Aug. 23-Sept. 30

North Tahoe Arts | Tahoe City Aug. 23-Aug. 24

The Truckee Public Arts Commission is hosting a new exhibit that displays a variety of art and artifacts from the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Olympics. The display includes rarely seen photography of the 1960 Winter Olympics and other memorabilia including flags, uniforms, banners, pins, publications and more are on display. Free | (530) 587-2757, chamber. truckee.com

Andy Skaff exhibit Wolfdale’s | Tahoe City | Aug. 23-Dec. 31

Andy Skaff’s love of the West provides the inspiration for his light-filled, vibrant landscapes and cityscapes. His work ranges from classic, impressionist paintings to abstract distillations of familiar subjects. | askaff.com

“Coexisting” exhibit North Tahoe Arts Center | Tahoe City Aug. 23-Sept. 7

North Tahoe Arts presents “Coexisting.”

Now, more than ever, it is the time to coexist with Mother Earth. “Coexisting” documents and addresses environmental issues and offers a solution to inform, challenge and take action. | northtahoearts.com

Native American’s Weaver Market The Gatekeeper’s Museum | Tahoe City | Aug. 26

Meet weavers from all over California and Nevada. There will be baskets for sale and weaving demos. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free | (530) 583-1762, northtahoemuseums.org

Meshes Video Art Night: Shana Moulton

Sierra Nevada College | Incline Village Aug. 30-Sept. 28

This exhibition is a collection of artifacts from the artist’s personal therapeutic processes. “To My Brother” examines Collyn Ahren’s experiences with the lack of communication and certainty she experienced when her brother was sent away to U.S. Army Basic Combat Training. Reception on Aug. 30 from 5 to 7 p.m. with Artist Talk at 5:30 p.m. 5-7 p.m. | sierranevada.edu

The Holland Project | Reno | Aug. 27

MESHES is a free, monthly video art screening featuring works and video selections by emerging and established contemporary artists. This month features videos and performances by Shana Moulton that are surrealist visions into parallel realities that are humorous with a good dose of new age kitsch. 8:45-10 p.m. Free | (775) 750-4731

Visit the Event Calendar at TheTahoeWeekly.com for a complete list of events.

North Tahoe Arts is now excepting portrait submissions through Aug. 24 for its upcoming exhibit “Portrait Collective.” | northtahoearts.com

The T-Files: the Search for Tessie Tahoe Maritime Museum | Tahoe City Aug. 23-Jan. 6

This exhibits presents the stories of monsters that have a significant history, passed down from indigenous peoples, medieval travelers or reputable explorers. Along the way, the museum invites visitors to join us in the search for Lake Tahoe’s own monster, Tahoe Tessie. | tahoemaritimemuseum.org

Theses Exhibit Sierra Nevada College | Incline Village Aug. 23-31

Curated by Ashley Stull Meyers Featuring work by Karen Krolak, Sarah Lillegard, Chelsea Mandell and Sam Shear. | sierranevada.edu

Artist to You Festivals Round Hill Square | Zephyr Cove | Aug. 24-26

Explore the work of Tahoe artisans throughout the summer. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. | artisttoyoufestivals.com

Dealers of Dreams

Pacific Fine Arts

Tahoe Maritime Museum | Tahoe City Aug. 23-Jan. 6

Boatworks Mall | Tahoe City Aug. 24-Aug. 26

So popular was the Lake among boaters that many local marinas partnered with some of the most prestigious builders in the country in order to satisfy the needs of the Tahoe boating community. This exhibition explores the special relationship between boats, buyers

THE ARTS

Pacific Fine Arts Festival features paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, ceramics, graphics, jewelry and arts and crafts. 10 a.m.

-5 p.m.| pacificfinearts.com

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MUSIC SCENE

Music SCENE TheTahoeWeekly.com

LIVE MUSIC, SHOWS & NIGHTLIFE

Lake Tahoe Music Festival

S U M M E R ’ S FA N TA S T I C A L C L A S S I C A L C O D A STORY BY SEAN MCALINDIN

A

s fans of classical music well know, a coda is the concluding passage of a piece or movement, typically forming an addition to the basic structure. After a summer overflowing with cultural events by a world-class lake, the Lake Tahoe Music Festival is ready to take the season home. This will be your last chance to hear a full orchestra perform in luxurious outdoor locations in the Tahoe/Truckee region until next summer.

Aug. 23 | Sugar Pine Point State Park Aug. 24 | West End Beach Aug. 25 | Skylandia State Park & Beach Aug. 26 | PJ’s at Gray’s Crossing

This season’s schedule Courtesy Lake Tahoe Music Festival

will feature three distinct performances of 13 pieces ranging from an Italian opera to Shakespeare-inspired music to classics of Mozart and Beethoven, as well as a new composition by David Wendell Nelson.

This season’s schedule will feature three distinct performances of 13 pieces ranging from an Italian opera to Shakespeareinspired music to classics of Mozart and Beethoven, as well as a new composition

by David Wendell Nelson. Guest soloists will include Daniel Gilbert on clarinet and Robert Sicular as the narrator of the Shakespeare performances.

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Conductor and artistic director Timm Rolek has lead the Festival since 2003.

Rolek lives in the southern Oregon coastal town of Brookings with his wife and two King Charles spaniels.

“I’m a hired gun,” he jokes. “When I’m not in Tahoe, my annual schedule varies from year to year.”

The week of the festival is a whirlwind experience of connections, rehearsals, performances and unforgettable memories. Beginning on Aug. 19, 26 elite musicians from around the country will meet at Granlibakken to begin rehearsals three times a day. These young professionals, ages 18 to 30, are a mix of returning players and newbies, selected through a competitive audition process.

Each hour of musical performance requires about six hours of rehearsal. As the

performances begin in the evenings, the orchestra rehearses the movements for the coming days in the morning and afternoon. Although it’s intense and emotional, it is also an amazing way for the young musicians to bond with each other.

“That’s one of the big reasons why we do this,” says Rolek. “When I was in my 20s, there were many opportunities to connect with other players in settings like this, but they’ve kind of dropped off the map. The connections we make professionally can stick with us for a lifetime.”

This will also be Rolek’s third summer working in collaboration with Christin Hanna, the artistic director of Lake Tahoe Dance Festival, whose dancers will perform on Aug. 23 and 24 to music from Felix Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” that was

written to accompany Shakespeare’s play of the same name.

“Unless you are a ballet company in a very large city like San Francisco or Seattle, you can’t afford live music,” says Rolek.

“They usually dance to recorded music. It’s rare for smaller companies to dance with a live band. This is great reason to collaborate because they can’t do this without us.”

Aside from presenting diverse, quality aural experiences in one-of-a-kind outdoor settings, the Festival also works to create education and performance opportunities for aspiring young musicians in the Tahoe/Truckee school district.

“I think it’s part of our responsibility to keep the artform moving forward and the only way to do that is support new artists,” says Rolek. “At the end of the day, our main focus is supporting music in the schools and keeping instruments in the hands of Tahoe/Truckee students.”

While the Festival will provide scholarships to graduating senior musicians of the class of 2018-19, contemporary classical orchestras now have to think outside the box in order to maintain and grow future audiences.

“If want to look what the future classical of music could and should be, take a look at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s schedule for the year,” Rolek says. “They are on the cutting edge of mixing up genres. I think that’s the only way to keep this thing moving forward: adaptability across style, format, and locations.” | tahoemusic.org 

Aug. 23-29, 2018

THE

TRAVELING SPECTACULAR

E N T E RTA I N M E N T

CALENDAR

AUG. 23-30, 2018

Aug. 25 | 9 p.m.

Crystal Bay Casino | Crystal Bay, Nev.

AUGUST 23 | THURSDAY

AUGUST 24 | FRIDAY Chris Costa Tahoe Biltmore Lodge & Casino, Crystal Bay, 12 a.m.

Cirque Paris Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 12 a.m.

Summer Music Series High Camp Pool, Olympic Valley, 12-3 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Music Festival West End Beach, Donner Lake, Truckee, 5-7 p.m.

Paul Covarelli Boomtown Casino, Verdi, 5-9 p.m.

Comedy Happy Hour Lex Nightclub, Reno, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Guitarist Jack Di Carlo Gold Hill Hotel, Gold Hill, 5:30-8 p.m.

Heavenly Village Concert Series Shops at Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 5:30 p.m.

HopeFest8 Carson Tahoe Cancer Center, Carson City, 6-9 p.m.

Music on the Beach Kings Beach State Recreation Area, Kings Beach, 6-8:30 p.m.

Michelle Lambert at Thirsty Barrel Thirsty Barrel Taphouse & Grille, Grass Valley, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Latin Dance Social Peppermill Casino, Reno, 7 p.m.

Last Friday at Victorian Square Victorian Square, Reno, 7 p.m.

The Mark Castro Band Wolf Creek Restaurant, Markleeville, 7 p.m.

Brother Dan Palmer Washoe Camp Saloon, New Washoe City, 7 p.m.

Hot Jersey Nights Harrah’s, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Donny & Marie Harvey’s Outdoor Arena, Stateline, 7:30 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Sand Harbor State Park, Incline Village, 7:30 p.m.

Bobby Collins Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Legally Blonde - The Musical Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Steel Rockin’ Karaoke Ponderosa Saloon, Virginia City, 8 p.m.

MAGIC, MUSIC AND BURLESQUE take center stage at the surrealist vaudeville experience of the Traveling Spectacular, inspired by the dreams and dust of a bygone era. Allow your sense of wonder to ignite as you embark on a multisensory journey of the imagination. | crystalbaycasino.com Larry Utley

Cirque Paris Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 12 a.m.

Live at Lakeview Lakeview Commons, South Lake Tahoe, 4:30-8:30 p.m.

Truckee Thursdays Downtown Truckee, Truckee, 5-8:30 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Music Festival Sugar Pine Point State Park, Tahoma, 5-7 p.m.

Tuck Wilson Steamers, Kings Beach, 6-8:30 p.m.

DJ Trivia MidTown Wine Bar, Reno, 7 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Sand Harbor State Park, Incline Village, 7:30 p.m.

Bobby Collins Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Acoustic Wonderland Sessions Paddy & Irene’s Irish Pub, Sparks, 8 p.m.

Karaoke The Pointe, Reno, 8:30 p.m.

Karaoke 5 Star Saloon, Reno, 9 p.m.

LEX Unplugged Lex Nightclub, Reno, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

MUSIC SCENE

VAUDEVILLE

Live music Moody’s Bistro, Bar & Beats, Truckee, 8-11:55 p.m.

Ski Mask The Slump God Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, Reno, 8 p.m.

Karaoke The Pointe, Reno, 8:30 p.m.

Professor Columbo Moody’s Bistro, Bar & Beats, Truckee, 8:30-11:30 p.m.

Karaoke Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, Sparks, 9 p.m.

Chris D’Elia Grand Sierra Resort, Reno, 9 p.m.

Guest DJs St James Infirmary, Reno, 9 p.m.

Rock-N-Roll Experience Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 9 p.m.

An Evening At the Improv Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 9 p.m.

New Wave Crave Bar of America, Truckee, 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Bobby Collins Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 9:30 p.m.

DJ Roni V Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 10 p.m.

Dance party 5 Star Saloon, Reno, 10 p.m.

Soul Funk Disco The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 10 p.m.

DJ Show Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Stateline, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

AUGUST 25 | SATURDAY Chris Costa Tahoe Biltmore Lodge & Casino, Crystal Bay, 12 a.m.

Cirque Paris Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 12 a.m.

Music Together Truckee Recreation Center, Truckee, 12 a.m.

Reno Aloha Festival Wingfield Park, Reno, 10 a.m.

Music in the Park Alpine County Library Park, Markleeville, 5 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Music Festival Skylandia Park, Tahoe City, 5-7 p.m.

Paul Covarelli Boomtown Casino, Verdi, 5-9 p.m.

Heavenly Village Concert Series Shops at Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 5:30 p.m.

King of the Cage Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 6-10 p.m.

La Chamba Brewery Arts Center, Carson City, 7 p.m.

Carson City Ghost Walk McFadden Plaza, Carson City, 7-8 p.m.

Music at the Kentucky Mine Achilles Wheel Sierra City, 7:30 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Sand Harbor State Park, Incline Village, 7:30 p.m.

Bobby Collins Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Legally Blonde - The Musical Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Solid Gold Soul Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 8 p.m.

Karaoke The Pointe, Reno, 8:30 p.m.

Professor Columbo Moody’s Bistro, Bar & Beats, Truckee, 8:30-11:30 p.m.

An Evening At the Improv Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 8:30 p.m.

Karaoke Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, Sparks, 9 p.m.

Seduction Saturdays Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 9 p.m.

Saturday Night Karaoke Farah & Sons, Sparks, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Rock-N-Roll Experience Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 9 p.m.

Saturday Dance Party St James Infirmary, Reno, 9 p.m.

Deep House Lounge The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m.

New Wave Crave Bar of America, Truckee, 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Bobby Collins Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 9:30 p.m.

DJ Roni V Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 10 p.m.

Dance party 5 Star Saloon, Reno, 10 p.m.

DJ Show Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Stateline, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

ATLiens Invasion Tour ft. Jameston Thieves The BlueBird Nightclub, Reno, 10 p.m.

An Evening At the Improv Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 10:30 p.m.

Levitt AMP Summer Music Series Brewery Arts Center, Carson City

AUGUST 26 | SUNDAY Cirque Paris Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 12 a.m.

Reno Aloha Festival Wingfield Park, Reno, 10 a.m.

Sunday Gospel Brunch The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 12-3:30 p.m.

Concerts at Commons Commons Beach, Tahoe City, 4 p.m.

Midtown Social Commons Beach, Tahoe City, 4-7 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Music Festival PJ’s at Gray’s Crossing, Truckee, 4-7 p.m.

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CAITLIN JEMMA &

THE GOODNESS

AMERICAN ROOTS

Aug. 23 | 4:30 p.m.

Lakeview Commons | South Lake Tahoe Raised in the high desert of Northern Nevada, Caitlin Jemma is a small-town girl with a big heart. Marked by country and delivery with soul, her songs are love notes offering encouragement to be your baddest self in the pursuit of magic, adventure and discovery. She and her band The Goodness will be performing on the shores of Tahoe as the sun goes down. The Daily Faire will open the show. | liveatlakeview.com

Major Motion Pictures · Independent Films Live Music · Dance Performances

Eighth Grade Aug. 23, 5 & 7:15 pm BlacKkKlansman Aug. 24-Sept. 6 3100: Run and Become Sept. 28-30 Venom Sept. TBD Visit TahoeArtHausCinema.com for showtimes, schedule, events + tkts

THE COBBLESTONE CENTER 475 N LAKE BLVD., TAHOE CITY, CA | 530-584-2431

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SOLID GOLD

“ ’NIGHT, MOTHER”

SOUL

THEATER

Aug. 23-27, Aug. 30-Sept. 3 | 8 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe | Stateline, Nev.

Aug. 24-26, 30-31, Sept. 1 | 7:30 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Community College South Lake Tahoe

Larry Sabo Photography | Harrah’s Lake Tahoe

SOLID GOLD SOUL features America’s greatest soul music performed by Bobby Brooks Wilson, the son of legendary soul and pop singer Jackie Wilson. The lineup includes the world’s greatest tribute artists.

Twelve amazing performers come alive in high-energy homages to Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Sam Cooke, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Little Richard, Marvin Gaye and many more. | caesars. com/harrahs-tahoe MOTOWN

EVERYDAY

OUTLAW

CLASSIC COUNTRY

Aug. 25 | 8 p.m.

McIver Arena | Truckee TRUCKEE’S BEST COUNTRY band, Everyday Outlaw, is fronted by Split Rock Music owner Jake Zender who will tell you, “I can’t sing country.” But backed by some of the best musicians in the land, he delivers honest, heart-felt original material in a traditional baritone style. It’s a perfect fit for a night at the Truckee Rodeo. | tdrpd.org

ERICA

SUNSHINE

LEE

COUNTRY

Aug. 29-30 | 6 p.m.

Cottonwood Restaurant | Truckee NASHVILLE-RECORDING artist Erica Sunshine Lee has earned the reputation of “hardest working woman in country music” due to her uncompromising work ethic, established during her upbringing in rural Georgia. With her captivating songs and a truly engaging personality, Lee is traveling the world, gaining new fans in every city, state and country she plays. | cottonwoodrestaurant.com

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AUG. 26 | SUNDAY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21

Chris Costa Polo Lounge, Reno, 7 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Sand Harbor State Park, Incline Village, 7:30 p.m.

Bobby Collins Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Legally Blonde - The Musical Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Open Mic Comedy The Library, Reno, 8 p.m.

Canyon White The Hangar Bar, Reno, 8-11 p.m.

Rock-N-Roll Experience Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 9 p.m.

AUGUST 27 | MONDAY Song Group Tahoe Truckee School of Music, Truckee, 5:30-6:45 p.m.

AL1CE w/ Seasons Of Insanity The Saint, Reno, 7 p.m.

Red Dog Open Mic Red Dog Saloon, Virginia City, 7-10 p.m.

Solid Gold Soul Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 8 p.m.

Open Mic Whiskey Dicks, South Lake Tahoe, 9 p.m.

Live Band Karaoke Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 10 p.m.

AUGUST 28 | TUESDAY Cirque Paris Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 12 a.m.

Summer Concert Series PJ’s at Gray’s Crossing, Truckee, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Bluesdays Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, Olympic Valley, 6-8:30 p.m.

Mike Furlong Boomtown Casino, Verdi, 6-10 p.m.

Canyon Jam/Open Mic Living the Good Life, Carson City, 6:30 p.m.

Traditional Irish Session Ceol Irish Pub, Reno, 7 p.m.

Nick Guerra Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Buddy Emmer and guest Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 8 p.m.

A-Fect Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, Reno, 8 p.m.

Rod Stewart w/ Special Guest Cyndi Lauper Reno Events Center, Reno, 8 p.m.

Comedy Night The Jungle, Reno, 9 p.m.

AUGUST 29 | WEDNESDAY Cirque Paris Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 12 a.m.

Mr. Tahoe Cruise “Sierra Cloud”, Incline Village, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Music in the Park - Déjà Vu Truckee River Regional Park, Truckee, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Magic Fusion starring Robert Hall The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 7-8:15 p.m.

Open Mic Red Dog Saloon, Virginia City, 7 p.m.

Nick Guerra Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Gemini Syndrome, Messer Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday Night Jam Paddy & Irene’s Irish Pub, Sparks, 8 p.m.

A-Fect Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, Reno, 8 p.m.

Karaoke 5 Star Saloon, Reno, 9 p.m.

Hivemind The Bluebird, Reno, 9 p.m.

The Brevet Crystal Bay Casino, Crystal Bay, 10 p.m.

AUGUST 30 | THURSDAY Cirque Paris Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 12 a.m.

Live at Lakeview Lakeview Commons, South Lake Tahoe, 4:30-8:30 p.m.

Tuck Wilson Steamers, Kings Beach, 6-8:30 p.m.

Magic Fusion The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 7-8:15 p.m.

DJ Trivia MidTown Wine Bar, Reno, 7 p.m.

Hot Jersey Nights Harrah’s, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Nick Guerra Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Legally Blonde - The Musical Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Acoustic Wonderland Sessions Paddy & Irene’s Irish Pub, Sparks, 8 p.m.

Dylan Jakobsen Moody’s Bistro, Bar & Beats, Truckee, 8-11 p.m.

Greg Brown Miners Foundry Cultural Center, Nevada City, 8-11 p.m.

A-Fect Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, Reno, 8 p.m.

Karaoke The Pointe, Reno, 8:30 p.m.

Magic Fusion The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 9-10:15 p.m.

Karaoke 5 Star Saloon, Reno, 9 p.m.

Samantha Fish w/ Special Guest Alastair Greene Crystal Bay Casino, Crystal Bay, 9 p.m.

LEX Unplugged Lex Nightclub, Reno, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Civil War Days and Battle Trains Various locations in Virginia City, Virginia City

THIS WINNER OF the Pulitzer Prize, “ ‘Night, Mother,” written by Marsha Norman, is an eloquent, enthralling and ultimately shattering play that explores the final hour in the life of a young woman, who has decided that life is no longer worth living. It will be hosted by the Black Ice Theatre Company. | ltcc.edu

ROD STEWART W / SPECIAL GUEST CYNDI LAUPER

ROCK

Aug. 28 | 8 p.m.

Reno Events Center | Reno, Nev. TWO OF POPULAR music’s most iconic artists, Rod Stewart and Cyndi Lauper, team up for an unforgettable night of story, song, dance and pure joy. | visitrenotahoe.com

COCO

MONTOYA

Yves Bougardier

MUSIC SCENE

BLUES

Aug. 28 | 6 p.m.

Village at Squaw | Olympic Valley THE OLD WILLIE DIXON adage, “Blues is truth,” perfectly describes the searing, contemporary blues-rock of world-renowned guitarist and vocalist Coco Montoya. Taught by the “Master of the Telecaster,” Albert Collins, but with a hard-edged sound and style all his own, Montoya mixes his forceful, melodic guitar playing and passionate vocals with memorable songs, delivering the blues’ hardest truths. | squawalpine.com

Local

FOOD & WINE, RECIPES, FEATURES & MORE

TA S T Y TIDBITS

Aug. 23-29, 2018

LOCAL FLAVOR

flavor

Tahoe Pops Courtesy Slow Food Lake Tahoe

C O L D T R E AT S B O R N O U T O F P O P S I C L E A D D I C T I O N S T O R Y & P H O T O S B Y K AY L A A N D E R S O N

S How does your

garden grow Slow Food Lake Tahoe presents the High Sierra Edible Garden tour on Aug. 25 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Be inspired by edible gardens of all shapes and sizes, from a beginner container garden to a high-production permaculture greenhouse.

Participants will leave with ideas for his or her own garden space and resources to get started.

The tour will begin at the Truckee Demonstration Garden in Truckee Regional Park and proceed, caravan style, to a variety of Truckee home gardens. Tickets are $10 each. The event fills up quickly. Buy tickets in advance. | slowfoodlaketahoe.org

outh Lake Tahoe residents Adrienne Bush and Thomas Daly admit to having a problem with popsicles, but instead of trying to find a 12-step program to cure popsicle addiction, the couple decided to embrace it. Thus, Tahoe Pops was born.

Perched under an awning on a smoldering hot summer day at the Ski Run Marina, I am eating a creamy delicious Java Chip pop that is rich, chocolatey and smooth. It seems like Daly and Bush are trying to hold back from going back over to The Ice Shack and grabbing their own, but having all-you-can-eat access to housemade popsicles is one reason why they started the business.

“ I think people care about what they’re eating and we want to give them something they feel good about.”

Tahoe City Farmers Market Commons Beach | Tahoe City | Aug. 23, 30

Thursday mornings through Oct. 11. Enjoy fresh local produce, delicious food and incredible lake views. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Free | (530) 5833348, tahoecityfarmersmarket.com

Wine Walk Shops at Heavenly Village South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 23

Participants can sample wine crafted from Amador County Vitners Association, enjoy food specials and chances to win prizes at every location visited. Proceeds will benefit Live Violence Free. 4-7 p.m. $20 | theshopsatheavenly.com

Wine Tasting The Pour House | Truckee | Aug. 23

Enjoy a wine tasting during every Truckee Thursday this summer. | thepourhousetruckee.com

Ski Run Farmers Market Ski Run | South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 24

The market will feature more than 35 vendors. There is something for everyone. Ski Run market offers Organic farm fresh produce, local eats, a bounce house for kids, live music and locally made arts and crafts. 3-8 p.m. | skirunfarmersmarket.com

Food Truck Fridays Idlewild Park | Reno | Aug. 24

Reno Street Food came about in 2012 with just five trucks. There are now, in its seventh year, 30 deliciously packed food trucks, pop-up restaurants and food trailers every Friday. Local bands and artists are featured each week.

5-9 p.m. | facebook.com

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–Adrienne Bush

Bush started selling Hawaiian-style shaved ice on the South Shore of Lake Tahoe in 2011 and has always been committed to using only organic, natural, gluten-free, chemical-free flavors and syrups to match the powdered snow reminiscent of the snowballs that she ate growing up in Baltimore.

After Bush started the shaved ice company and met Daly, they found themselves buying boxes and boxes of popsicles together. It was then that they realized they had a popsicle problem — and that they could create better popsicles with more natural, healthy ingredients. They attended a Popsicle Fancying class in Miami and learned how to use a new popsicle machine that had just come on the market. The couple returned to Tahoe and started experimenting.

“We use Tahoe water as our main ingredient and try to source as locally as possible,” Bush says.

They played with flavors and ingredients, asking for feedback from friends and tweaking recipes. The couple started going to the local farmers’ markets and getting new ideas for popsicles to match what fruits were in season.

“Straight from farm to stick,” Daly says, also mentioning that they just got a fresh batch of strawberries in for their bestselling popsicle flavor.

“I notice that fresh fruit really changes the flavor. When you have a better fruit, then you tend to use less sugar to make the pops. It brings out more natural flavors,” Bush says.

Daly and Bush first introduced their Tahoe Pops this year at the Lightning In

Adrienne Bush and Thomas Daly have turned their popsicle addiction into a business.

A Bottle music festival in Central California and then at High Sierra Music Festival and Symbiosis Gathering.

“We usually set up in the kids and family camping zones,” Bush says. “The toasted coconut was popular at the yoga tent [at Lightning In A Bottle],” says Bush.

Tahoe Pops also opened in a 500-squarefoot flagship location at 2580 Lake Tahoe

Blvd. and made enough popsicles to get them through the summer season; they can produce 112 popsicles in half an hour. They are now ready to expand. While Tahoe has a short and sweet summer season, Bush and Daly would love to expand distribution into more year-round popsicle-eating markets such as Grass Valley.

For now, they are busy serving healthy pops and keeping people cool at their Ice Shack locations at Zephyr Cove Resort and Ski Run Marina.

“Selling them takes care of our popsicle habit. All of the money we would’ve spent on popsicles goes straight back into the business,” Daly says. “We’ve made about 15 to 20 different kinds of popsicles, but have kept about half of them for ourselves.

We’ve been together for six years and we’ve always had a popsicle problem. We would always go through withdrawals in winter, so we wanted to make it so that we had popsicles all the time.”

“We always have the staples, but we make time to try new flavors and use what’s in season,” Bush says. “I think people care about what they’re eating and we want to give them something they feel good about.” | tahoepops.com 

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Wine & Ribs Fundraiser California Building Reno | Aug. 25

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Community Health Alliance (CHA) is hosting its 7th annual Wine & Ribs fundraiser on Saturday, August 25 at 5 p.m. at the California Building at Idlewild Park in Reno.

Proceeds will benefit low-income and uninsured northern Nevadans to aid in the mission of CHA to provide quality, affordable, comprehensive health services to 5-10 p.m. | eventbrite.com

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Tahoe Food Hub is hosting Pitchfork & the Pan pop-up Farm Dinners on Aug. 28 at Lost Trail Lodge with Chef Wyatt Dufresne and Sept. 11 at Waddle Ranch with Chef Alex Tolger. Each dinner will spotlight the produce of one farm and feature a local rancher and California wine.

Meet the farmers who grow local food, hear his or her story and celebrate in the harvest.

The dinners are from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. and cost $100 per person.

The dinners will help support the Make the Move fund drive to raise $160,000 to move the Tahoe Food Hub to a warehouse in Truckee. Read more about the Make the Move fund drive at TheTahoeWeekly.com. Tickets for the dinners are available online. | tahoefoodhub.org

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A one-stop shop for patrons who can get seasonal fresh fruits and vegetables, local meats, fresh fish from pacific coast, baked goods, mushrooms, condiments, wines and wine tasting, deli meats and cheese, organic milk and dairy, and many other locally crafted artisan value-added products and crafts. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. | (530) 832-0114, sierravalleyfarms.com

Tahoe Donner Equestrian Center Truckee | Aug. 24

Dinner with a View: Emerald Bay and the Stories She Tells Emerald Bay State Park South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 26

Join an early evening at Vikingsholm for a picnic style barbecue by Big Blue Q of Tahoe, wine and beer, and a flashback into the days of Emerald Bay Resort, featuring Rosie Smith.

Benefits the work of the Sierra State Parks Foundation. Smith spent her teenage years working at the resort. 5-8 p.m. $70-$80 | (530) 583-9911, sierrastateparks.org

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Slow Food Lake Tahoe | Truckee | Aug. 27, 29

Grow food in Truckee? Join our tour.

We’ve set the date and are getting our garden locations lined up. If you have an edible, backyard garden that you love and want to share with other locals hungry for information on how to grow at high-altitude, we’d love to include you on our tour. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. | slowfoodlaketahoe.org

Reno Beer Crawl Downtown | Reno | Aug. 25

Get your hands in the soil, learn about mountain growing and make some new friends. All food grown goes to local seniors. | slowfoodlaketahoe.org

Truckee Tuesday Farmers Market Truckee River Regional Park | Truckee | Aug. 28

Come to the Farmers’ Market each Tuesday for fresh produce, prepared foods, crepes, baked goods, fish and meat, olive oil and artisan goods. 8 a.m. | chamber.truckee.com

Enter the wacky world of the Reno Beer Crawl. Purchase a commemorative cup or glass and get drink specials at as many as 20 different locations. It’s an easy walk (or crawl) to each downtown location. 6:15 p.m. $1-$5 | visitrenotahoe.com

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Food Truck Fridays

Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off

Idlewild Park | Reno | Aug. 24

Victorian Square | Reno | Aug. 29, Aug. 30

Reno Street Food came about in 2012 with just five trucks. There are now, in its seventh year, 30 deliciously packed food trucks, pop-up restaurants and food trailers every Friday.

Local bands and artists are featured each week. 5-9 p.m. | facebook.com

American Legion Hall Parking Lot South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 28

Enjoy the weekly farmers’ market every Tuesday until Oct. 9. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. | (530) 6221900, eldoradofarmersmarket.com

The Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off is America’s biggest and best free-entry barbecue festival. Come out and enjoy the country’s best grilling competition. Two dozen of the world’s top barbecue competitors serve up more than 240,000 pounds of ribs. 11 a.m.9 p.m. | (800) 843-2427, visitreno-tahoe.com

Truckee Community Farmers Market Tricounties Bank Plaza Truckee | Aug. 26

Truckee Community Farmers’ Market Sundays until Sept. 30. The Truckee Community Farmers Market, is a California Certified Farmers Market, is committed to showcasing locally grown and artisan-quality foods. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free | (530) 414-9181, slowfoodlaketahoe.org

Cowgirls and cowboys are invited to gather for an early evening trail ride followed by a social hour with beer, wine and appetizers.

5-7 p.m. | tahoedonner.com

Wine Wednesdays The Loft | South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 29

Free wine tasting from different featured winery each week. Enjoy free guest speaker and/or tasting notes from the featured winery.

4-7 p.m. | (530) 523-8024

Feed the Camel McKinley Arts & Culture Center | Reno | Aug. 29

Local food trucks convene under the Keystone Bridge, serving unique specialties along with local beer every Wednesday until Aug. 29. 5-8:30 p.m. Free | (775) 450-0062, facebook.com

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In the high-elevation vineyards of the Andes, Bonarda creates a fresh, spicy, licorice-flavored red wine. In spite of its second-citizen status among reds in Argentina, it is a major player from both a volume and quality standpoint. It’s a little harder to find stateside, but El Enemigo and Cruz Alta brands are usually available at larger wine retailers.

We are now on to Chile where quality focus has moved to proximal ocean regions such as Leyda, San Antonio and Casablanca where Chardonnay and Syrah are taking center stage. The former Marques de Casa Concha consistently produces one of the world’s great bargains in Chardonnay that combines richness, freshness and spiciness that reminds me of the best producers from Santa Barbara’s Sta. Rita Hills AVA. Matetic Vineyards is a Syrah-focused winery from Chile’s San Antonio Valley that garners accolades worldwide year after year. Both can be had for about $25 and rival wines at twice the price or more.

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I’ll tell you, second fiddle wines are often even more New Zealand Pinot rocks. | Courtesy Nobilo Wines

Overall, it was and is a wonderful system that works for everybody. Producers get to focus on one varietal that they make quite well and consumers get a reliably good and unique wine at a fair price. What could be better? I’ll tell you what, second fiddle — or second label — wines are often even more unique and yummy than the signatures and greater bargains to boot.

unique and yummy than the signatures and greater bargains to boot.

Yes, Virginia, they grow more than Sauvignon Blanc in New Zealand. Matter of fact, the new generation of Kiwi Pinot Noir, mostly from the south island, is rivaling the best from anywhere, especially in the $30 and under category. These Pinots offer real depth and deliciousness with classic dark cherries, spices and forest floor tones that reminds me of quality Willamette, Ore., Pinot. Three widely available can’t-miss options are Nobilo Wines Icon and Jules Taylor Wines from Marlborough and Mt. Difficulty’s Roaring Meg from Central Otago.

Spread your wine wings with these second fiddles and taste the joy.

In the Aug. 30 issue, I will cover Old World second fiddle wines.  Lou Phillips is a Level 3 Advanced Sommelier in Tahoe and his consulting business wineprowest. com assists in the selling, buying and managing wine collections. He may be reached at (775) 5443435 or wineguru123@gmail.com. Visit TheTahoeWeekly.com for more wine columns. Click on Wine Column under the Local Flavor tab.

Argentina’s second fiddle red. | Courtesy Lou Phillips

Let’s start in South America where Argentina is introducing wines made from the Bonarda and Torrontés grapes.

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’m not sure how many of you noticed the list of popular ingredients in the Aug. 2 issue when I was talking about marinades, but if you look again, you will notice they are almost identical to vinaigrette.

When you look at vinaigrette and a marinade side by side, there is not a lot of difference. Most of the difference would be in the ratio of the ingredients as opposed to the ingredients themselves.

It is common to use vinaigrette for a marinade and whatever is being cooked will come out great. Probably the biggest difference is the ratio of oil to vinegar.

Vinaigrette oil-to-vinegar ratio is usually around 3 to 1, while a marinade will often be closer to 1 to 1, or with even less oil.

Another thing to consider when making vinaigrette is if you want an emulsified dressing, in which the ingredients are separated until the time of use, then mixed together. A classic Italian dressing is a great example. When you look at the bottle, you will see the various layers and ingredients. Emulsified vinaigrette is more of a creamy dressing with all the ingredients bonded together. An example of this would be creamy Italian.

Just as in soups, a dressing that is creamy, doesn’t mean there is cream in it. There are a few ways to get this emulsification.

In my marinade article, I mentioned mustard and how you can substitute chili paste or some other ingredient to get the zip provided by the mustard. In a dressing, the mustard also helps bond the oil to the other ingredients. Another way to get an emulsification is to use an egg yolk. You don’t have to worry about the egg being raw because it will cook in the mixing process with the acid of the vinegar or citrus. You also can get that emulsification for a short period with almost any dressing with a vigorous shaking. If you want a true emulsification though, add the oil slowly to the mixed ingredients using a blender or at least hand whisking rapidly.

As for the rest of the ingredients, there will usually be a little garlic, herbs and spices, salt and pepper and some type of sweetener. There also can be various nuts and fruits. All of these things are going to end up on your salad so think about what flavors you are in the mood for and pick the ingredients you like.

Vinaigrettes will also keep in the refrigerator for a while because oil and vinegar are great natural preservatives. You can make different types of dressing, so you

VINAIGRETTE

don’t wear your taste buds out on one kind, day after day. Also, try to match your ingredients to their own strengths. If you are making a fruity dressing, use raspberry vinegar or other lighter vinegars and lighter herbs. I like sweet basil because it won’t mask the lighter flavors of the fruit. I’ll use thyme and other stronger herbs with balsamic or bolder dressings. You also can use various oils for different flavors.

When you look at vinaigrette and a marinade side by side, there is not a lot of difference.

One of the more interesting ways to change around the flavors is with the sweetener. I love to use various fruit juice concentrates, honey and — my favorite sweetener — maple syrup. The juice concentrate should be added as one of the first ingredients because you will need to be sure the dressing reaches the proper consistency when adding the oil. You can add a little more later to taste as you play with the final product. The thicker sweeteners can be slowly added toward the end to taste.

Here is a vinaigrette that is a type of French dressing that has no sweetener.

You can try changing it a little by adding maple syrup near the end of the blending process. With all this in mind, try experimenting with your vinaigrette and enjoy your dinner salad.  Smitty is a personal chef specializing in dinner parties, cooking classes and special events. Trained under Master Chef Anton Flory at Top Notch Resort in Stowe, Vt., Smitty is known for his creative use of fresh ingredients. Contact him at tmmsmitty@gmail.com or (530) 412-3598. To read archived copies of Smitty’s column, visit chefsmitty.com or TheTahoeWeekly.com. Click on Chef’s Recipe under the Local Flavor tab.

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3 C vegetable oil ¼ C white vinegar ¾ C red wine vinegar 1 egg yolk ½ yellow onion 1½ T Dijon 2 t curry powder Salt & pepper to taste

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Place half the curry and all the other ingredients except the salt and pepper and oil in a blender. Slowly add the oil. If the dressing gets too thick, add a little water and maple syrup, if desired, and continue until all at least most of the oil is used — all the oil if using maple syrup.

Add more curry, salt and pepper to taste.

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