• The Black Bear Inn in South Lake Tahoe is serving dinner Wednesday-Sunday. Reservations are mandatory.

• Red Hut Café at Ski Run Boulevard is offering dinner Thursday-Friday-Saturday.

• Bona Fide Books is seeking short fiction and nonfiction selections of 500 words or less for a Tahoe anthology. Subjects may range from the gritty to the sublime. Submissions will be open Jan. 1 through May 1. Send work to submissions@bonafidebooks.com or P.O. Box 550278, South Lake Tahoe, CA 96155.

• The Sierra Ballet Theatre Company will be performing Madeline’s Christmas at MontBleu in Stateline on Dec. 17 and Dec. 18 at 7pm.

• The Iron Girl triathlon is coming back to the South Shore for a second year. It will be in September again.

• Dirk Yuricich is having an open house Dec. 11-12 from noon-5pm at the gallery at 171 Shady Lane, Stateline.