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CARSON CITY — Nevada is considering taking another stab at naming a cove on the east shore at Lake Tahoe after Samuel L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. But an ill-fated campfire at Tahoe is slowing the efforts of the state Board on Geographic Names.

Flash mobs have been blamed as a factor in looting during urban riots. But now a group of online activists is harnessing social media like Twitter and Facebook to get consumers to spend at locally owned stores in cities around the world in so-called Cash Mobs.

(Editor's note: This is the fourth in a regular feature by South Lake Tahoe-based Certified Wellness Coach and Advanced Integrative Therapist Krista Kline. Visit her website at www.kristaekline.com.)

I want to have fun and live life to the fullest, do it all, see it all! I love to laugh, spend time with family and friends, listen to music, travel, eat, try new things, be challenged, learn, help others, and the list goes on. What is on your list? What are you doing (or better yet, what aren't you doing) to have a little fun in your life?

The action-comedy film "21 Jump Street," currently playing at the Horizon Stadium at Stateline, Lake Tahoe, may seem a little familiar to those who saw the teen comedy "Project X" recently. And for good reason, the writer for both films was Michael Bacall. There's much of the same in both films, high school affairs drugs and teen mammoth parties.

South Tahoe High Performing Arts Department presents The Royal Family, a comedy by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber. Show dates are Friday March 30 at 7 p.m., Saturday, March 31 at 7p.m. and Sunday, April 1 at 2 p.m.
The Royal Family opened in New York City in 1927 and quickly became an enduring favorite. The story is a parody of Drew Barrymore’s great-grandparents, the Barrymore family of Broadway fame. Like the Barrymores, the Cavendish clan is dedicated to theatre. But, for all their eccentricities and inflated emotions, the Cavendish clan is a family like any other.

The last time Lake Tahoe hosted the Winter Olympics, John F. Kennedy was still a U.S. senator, Muhammad Ali was still Cassius Clay and Mike Eruzione was a 5-year-old.
The year was 1960, and the Squaw Valley Games boasted a grand total of 17 events.
Fast forward more than half a century and Lake Tahoe again wants to host the Olympics. By 2022, the year they're shooting for, the Winter Games will have more than 90 events.

It took 11 days and the help of dozens of strangers, but authorities have finally been able to locate the family of a pair of reclusive twin sisters who were found dead in their South Lake Tahoe home last month.
Patricia and Joan Miller lived for nearly 40 years in South Lake Tahoe but often shunned their neighbors. Their shared life ended in a mysterious double-death. Police found one sister in a bedroom, and the other in a hallway during a routine welfare check on Feb. 26. They were 73. Three cousins stepped forward Wednesday to identify the sisters.

RENO, Nev. (AP) - Olek Czyz scored 15 points and Malik Story 14 as Nevada held off New Mexico State 65-61 Thursday night to clinch the Western Athletic Conference regular-season championship.Dario ...

The action-thriller film "Act of Valor," now playing at Heavenly Village Cinema in South Lake Tahoe, merges real-life SEALs (we all know who the SEALs are, thanks to the Osama bin Laden assassination) with Hollywood actors in action photography taken during maneuvers at the SEAL training grounds.
No SEALs are identified by name, although there is a surprisingly length listing of SEALs who have died in action at the end of the film.

A California Senate delegation has been named to negotiate with Nevadans about Tahoe issues, but the Golden State also provided an earful for Silver Staters.
The delegation of three California state senators and staffers was named in response to the enactment by Nevada of Senate Bill 271, which threatened Nevada withdrawal from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) unless Nevada gets its way on some policy issues involving development at Lake Tahoe.

SEATTLE (AP) - The expert skiers wasted no time after an avalanche hit and swept their friends down a steep slope in Washington state. They immediately turned on their emergency beacons and began s...

What if Yoda could teach your kid to become a Jedi snowboarder? That's the goal of the Star Wars-themed snowboarding school that officially opened at Sierra-at-Tahoe. And folks there say there's nothing else like it in the universe.

Noted for being able to get in and out with relative ease, short check-in lines, and an uncrowded atmosphere, Reno-Tahoe International Airport was named as the Third Best Airport in the Nation for Skiers by Ski Magazine. The write-up was authored by Elyse Saugstad and Cody Townsend. Go here for the story, click through and see how other airports compare.

Jill Kinmont Boothe, the former ski champion and Olympic hopeful who was left paralyzed after a skiing accident in Utah in 1955 and whose life story was the subject of the film "The Other Side of the Mountain" and a subsequent sequel, died Thursday at Carson Tahoe Hospital in Carson City, the Los Angeles Times reports. She was 75.
Ruth Rhines, senior deputy coroner of Carson City, confirmed that Boothe died. A cause of death wasn't given and Rhines could not confirm reports that Boothe died of complications related to surgery.

The sci-fi thriller "Chronicle," currently showing at the Horizon Stadium inside the Horizon Casino Resort in Stateline at Lake Tahoe, explores the world of ESP in general and telekinesis in particular. The explorers at three teens, Andrew (Dane DeHaan), Steve (Michael B. Jordan) and Matt (Alex Russell). Most of the movie is composed of film clips from Andrew, a nerd and unpopular at school.

California's same-sex marriage ban has been ruled by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to be unconstitutional, and could likely bring about a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the voter-approved law known as Proposition 8.
The 2-1 decision by the panel found the 2008 ballot measure that limited marriage to one man and one woman, violated the U.S. Constitution. The architects of Prop. 8 have vowed to appeal.

The snowfall in January gave the Sierra snowpack a boost, but it is still well below average, according to the National Weather Service in Reno. The graph above shows the Snow Water Equivalent from the current water year through Feb. 1, the average water year (1971-2000), and the 2010-2011 water year.
The Snow Water Equivalent for this water year through Feb. 1 is around 5 inches, compared to more than 20 inches this time last year, according to the weather service.

The action-thriller film "The Grey," currently on view at the Heavenly Village Cinema in South Lake Tahoe, is a stark story of men in wilderness and their efforts to survive. Liam Neeson is the de facto leader after a jet carrying oil field workers crashes in the Alaskan wilderness. It is directed by Joe Carnahan, who also directed 2006's "Smokin' Aces" which was set at South Lake Tahoe and filmed inside MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa.

Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki told attendees of Wednesday's networking breakfast sponsored by the Northern Nevada Development Authority that he wants the 3.6 billion eyes that the Olympic Winter Games draws focused on one place in 2022: the Tahoe and Reno areas. Go here for the story.

The following is the complete text of President Obama's State of the Union address as written.
Remarks of President Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery
State of the Union Address
"An America Built to Last"
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Washington, DC

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans:

The sci-fi-horror film "Underworld Awakening 3D" playing at the Horizon Stadium Cinemas in Stateline is the fourth iteration of the series, in this case starring Kate Beckinsale as Selene for the third time.
Selene has been in suspended animation in a freezer for 12 years bust breaks out to find that humankind is at war with the vampires in the population a well as the werewolves.

CARSON CITY, Nev. - In the super-abridged version of the story, Jeff Potter complained to Carson City supervisors in 2006 that more mountain bike trails were needed in the area. Their response: ...

The civil lawsuit filed by a former Harrah’s Lake Tahoe casino host claiming Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger raped her while he was visiting Lake Tahoe for a celebrity golf tournament in 2008 has been resolved.

CARSON CITY — Nevada ranked 30th among the states in how it protects animals in 2011, scoring only 25 points out of a possible 66, The Humane Society of the United States said in a national report released Tuesday.