• The bankruptcy hearing for South Tahoe Area Transportation Authority has been moved to March 14.

• A veteran of Truckee’s now-defunct Joe Coffee, Chris McCormick, is back at it lending his savvy barista expertise to Elijah Bleu’s House of Coffee & Good Eats in Truckee.

• According to the Reno Gazette-Journal, Richard Femenella, the Palmer Group’s senior VP of operations, has been scouting locations for a possible Palmer property – as in Charlie Palmer Steak — at Lake Tahoe.

• The third annual Mardi Gras Magic Dinner & Dance to benefit Austin’s House is March 4 at 6pm in the Valley Ballroom at the Carson Valley Inn. Austin’s House is the only emergency children’s shelter in rural Northern Nevada. For info, call (775) 267.6711.

• Cutthroat’s Saloon Beer Dinner on March 4 features Mammoth Brewing Company. Call the Incline Village restaurant at (775) 832.1234, ext. 6730 for a reservation or more information.