By Jeremy Miller “Lucy” is the latest from writer/director Luc Besson (“The Family”, “The Fifth Element”) starring Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, and Min-sik Choi. Lucy (Johansson) is an American girl caught on the wrong side of a deal in Japan. What starts as a menial delivery of goods to the upper echelon of the Japanese […]
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Candidates are slowly qualifying for the Nov. 4 ballot. The filing period closes Aug. 8. It will be extended to Aug. 13 if an incumbent does not file or qualify. New for Lake Tahoe Unified School District and Lake Tahoe Community College is that the five members now represent specific districts. That means people will […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee Two people suffered non-life-threatening injuries Friday afternoon when a helicopter assisting with the annual Jeepers Jamboree crashed along the Rubicon Trail. Four people were on board. A man with head injuries and a man with leg injuries were flown to a Reno hospital, according the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office. […]
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By Candace Taylor, Wall Street Journal Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison has sold one of his Glenbrook properties for $20.35 million, according to public records. The sale closed in mid-July and names the buyer as a California-based entity called Residential Property Mgmt LLC. The property is one of three parcels Ellison had listed together for $28.5 […]
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By Lake Tahoe News staff It all started with roasting coffee beans on a stovetop. Tim Curry of Reno now operates Wood-Fire Roasted Coffee, an independent craft coffee roasting business, using an old-style Italian wood-fired roaster. He just expanded into the Lake Tahoe market, with beans available at Overland Meats and Grassroots in South […]
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A California couple may face child endangerment charges because their grandson who was in their care nearly shot his little finger off. The name and hometown of the people involved are not being released by South Lake Tahoe police officers. “That fact that he has special needs could be considered by the DA to be […]
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By Andrew Alden, KQED-TV Once upon a time, geologists tell us, a massive chunk of Lake Tahoe’s West Shore collapsed into the water in a tremendous landslide. The water responded by sloshing high onto the surrounding shores in a series of landslide tsunamis. A major new study in the journal Geosphere adds much new detail […]
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By Brianna Sacks, Los Angeles Times When Lagunitas Brewing Co. fills its beer bottles, Northern California’s Russian River provides the main ingredient. Lagunitas has become one of the fastest-growing stars of California’s booming craft beer scene. But the Russian River is shrinking after three years of punishing drought. “We are at the maximum growth threshold […]
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• Kirk Hardie, co-founder and co-executive director of the Tahoe Institute for Natural Science, will lead a bird walk along the Rainbow Trail at Taylor Creek on the South Shore on Aug. 7 from 8-10am. Meet at the Taylor Creek Visitor Center building next to the Rainbow Trail sign. • On Aug. 9, Pony Express […]
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By Paul Rolly, Salt Lake Tribune Homophones, as any English grammarian can tell you, are words that sound the same but have different meanings and often different spellings — such as be and bee, through and threw, which and witch, their and there. This concept is taught early on to foreign students learning English because […]
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