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When the South Lake Tahoe arts community calls out, Trey Stone and his band are there to headline the show. The community is invited to join the Trey Stone Band for three hours of R&B, funk and soul at an outdoor concert — Music at the Moose — to benefit the Tahoe Arts Project at 5 p.m. today, Wednesday, July 25, at the Moose Lodge, 961 Eloise Avenue in South Lake Tahoe.
The cost is $10 for adults and free for children. Dished up for purchase at this community benefit concert include burgers and hot dogs, soda, ice cream, and more. There's a cash bar available and a raffle will be held. All proceeds benefit the Tahoe Arts Project.

Get ready to laugh! Wednesday Night Comedy begins at the Carson Nugget in Carson City starting July 25, 2012 at 7 PM in the Show Lounge.
Chris Strait kicks off the Wednesday night events. He is an expert on people and reminds us how funny life can be. You may have seen him on E! or Tru-TV’s, “The Smoking Gun.”
Seating is limited. There is no cover; however, there is a two drink minimum.

Wednesday Comedy Night Schedule
7/25 - Chris Strait / Alyssa Cowan
8/1 - Kelly Monteith / Drake Nelson
8/8 - Morgan Preston / James Hennigan
8/15 - Tyler Boeh / John Ager

The Tahoe Resource Conservation District (Tahoe RCD) has hired a new District Manager, John Skeel, who officially takes over duties on July 19 at Tahoe RCD’s offices in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.
Skeel has 24 years of experience working with government organizations and not-for-profit agencies, focused primarily on community services, parks and recreation.

The Lake Tahoe Winter Games Exploratory Committee announced additional members of its Board of Directors Wednesday after convening its inaugural meeting in Olympic Valley, Calif. last week. Members of the board unanimously supported that the organization turn its attention to the next available (when the United States Olympics Committee decides to bid) Winter Olympic games while simultaneously focusing its efforts on attracting world class sporting events to the region in preparation for a potential bid.

We are seeing a trend towards intimate weddings for our brides and grooms and this isn't just a Lake Tahoe wedding trend, it's widespread. An intimate wedding is a celebration of two people being married with a few friends and family members present as they begin their new life together.

Why are intimate weddings on the rise?

The Lake Tahoe Lifestyle Festival, formerly the "Bijou Bash" will be held on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Bijou Community Park.
Barton Health and the City of South Lake Tahoe have made a collaborative effort to combine Barton's Family Health Day and the Bijou Bash - two annual events created for our community and visitors alike. Emphasizing health, recreation and fun.

Heavy-hitting comedy, celebrity golf and blockbuster concerts make for a sizzling summer at Tahoe South with an dynamic lineup that includes legendary actor-comedian Robin Williams; hall-of-fame athletes teeing it up at the American Century Championship and Grammy award-winning pop-rock group, Maroon 5.

Tahoe South's new Truth or Dare Facebook game conjures up the electrical, wild-child spirit of a sun-drenched summer while encouraging users to play Truth or Dare with their Facebook friends.

Part Magic 8 Ball, part electronic truth serum, this game pushes and tests users and their friends to fess it up — or not. After all, sharing revealing truths and embarrassing photos is basically what Facebook was made for, right?

Tim Anderson, co-owner of South Tahoe CrossFit, won the Masters Division in the Reebok CrossFit Games in southern California on Sunday. This makes him "fittest" man in his age group of 55-60.
The games were at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., where thousands of participants were whittled down to around a 100 of the fittest men and women in the world.

The 23rd Annual Lake in the Sky Air Show is quickly approaching. This year we will have a “Pre-Flight” party at the Embassy Suites featuring special guest speaker Sully Sullenberger, pilot meet and greet and a musical performance by the Manhattan Dolls. (See PDF below.)

The Tahoe flea market runs every weekend from May to September, 8am- 5pm. Lots of vendors selling crafted items, antiques, garage sale and more. The market is at 1635 Elks Club Drive, South Lake Tahoe.

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This July, Squaw Valley saddles up again for Wild West Weekend with a host of western-themed events high in the Sierra. Wild West Weekend offers adults and kids the opportunity to channel their inner-cowboys at the High Camp Corral for western-style fun. Pony rides, a petting zoo, western shoot-outs, and two days of live music are all part of the western weekend on July 21 and July 22.

Every summer writers of all stripes — poets, novelists, screenwriters and writers of memoirs, histories, essays and short stories — descend on Squaw Valley and Lake Tahoe for a week of intensive literary activity. The valley buzzes with metaphors flying and manuscripts flapping, as over 250 writers, editors and publishers convene in two separate week-long workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoir and screenwriting.

For the second time in less than a year, Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III will speak at Lake Tahoe, this time as a special guest speaker of the 2012 Lake in the Sky Air Show, Aug. 24-26 at the Lake Tahoe Airport.
Sullenberger gained fame when he successfully landed US Airways Flight 1549, which had been disabled by striking a flock of Canada geese, in the Hudson River off Manhattan, New York City, on January 15, 2009. All of the 155 passengers and crew aboard the aircraft survived.

Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe, a 94-member non-profit community-service organization of professional and business women from California and Nevada announced their 2012 - 2013 Board of Directors at Harrah’s Resort in Stateline, June 27.
SI Sierra Nevada Region Governor-Elect Janice Labadie, a florist from Davis, Calif. and Regional Secretary Patricia Papp, a South Lake Tahoe Realtor and member of sister organization SI Tahoe Sierra, were both on hand to install the new board.

This July, Squaw Valley welcomes the return of the Art, Wine and Music Festival with exquisite artwork, fine wine and internationally acclaimed classical and world guitar music. Now in its second year of partnership with the Sierra Nevada Classical Guitar Society, the event is truly a delight for the senses. The festival will take place Saturday, July 14 and Sunday, July 15 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in The Village at Squaw Valley.

With an extremely high threat of forest fire at Lake Tahoe and the Sierra this summer, Heavenly Mountain, Northstar California and Kirkwood resorts have put a number of precautionary measures in place, including banning all smoking on their respective mountains for the summer.

The Nevada Highway Patrol, along with the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, Sparks Police Department, and the Carson City Sheriff’s Office are planning a sobriety check point for the Fourth of July holiday.
The check point will be held in Incline Village at Lake Tahoe and is being funded by a Joining Forces grant from the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety.
Due to the fireworks display and other special events planned at Lake Tahoe, a large increase in both vehicular and pedestrian traffic expected during the holiday.

While current American Heart Association heart failure prevention guidelines warn against habitual coffee consumption, some studies propose a protective benefit, and still others find no association at all. Amidst this conflicting information, research from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center attempts to shift the conversation from a definitive yes or no, to a question of how much.

The 43rd annual Squaw Valley Community of Writers will convene again this summer with acclaimed workshops in Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction and Screenwriting. As part of the workshop, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers will be hosting an extraordinary evening of poetry readings on Thursday, June 28, at 8 p.m. in The Olympic Village Lodge at Squaw Valley.

As part of the evening of poetry, Kazim Ali, Robert Hass, Sharon Olds, Claudia Rankine and C.D. Wright will read from their published and unpublished work, including poems written in Squaw Valley just days before.

The Ski Run Boulevard "Market on the Run" Farmers' Market begins today, Friday, June 22, between 3 and 8 pm in South Lake Tahoe. The Farmers Market will be held every Friday afternoon throughout the summer between Larch and Birch on Ski Run Boulevard.

June Mountain Ski Area on Thursday suspended its operations for the foreseeable future, according to a Mammoth Mountain press release as reported in the Mammoth Times.

The owners of two South Lake Tahoe businesses, Paradise Real Estate and Paradise Timeshare-Resale, have moved their offices to new locations at The Shops at Heavenly Village in South Lake Tahoe. Dan Spano, the owner/broker of Paradise Real Estate and Carl Thoms, the owner/broker of Paradise Timeshare Resale have moved into Suites 36C and 37, respectively, in between the Heavenly Village Cinema and the new Lakefront Wedding & Events office and adjacent to the miniature golf course.