El Dorado Arts Council’s latest exhibition will celebrate the 1960 Winter Olympics. This curated exhibition of art, memorabilia, and promotional items from the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley runs Jan. 12-March 9 at the organization’s Fausel House Gallery in Placerville. Generously loaned from the Museum of Sierra Ski History and 1960 Winter Olympics, and […]
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Jeanie is a 6- or 7-year-old tabby short hair cat. She loves people, but would like to be an only cat in her new home. Jeanie loves to be petted and is very friendly. Jeanie is spayed, microchipped, tested for FIV, and vaccinated. She is at the El Dorado County Animal Services shelter in Meyers, […]
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South Tahoe High School students this month will be performing the 1920’s musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” It is based on the 1967 Academy Award-winning film. The show goes back to the height of the jazz age in New York City, when “moderns,” including a flapper named Millie Dillmount, were bobbing their hair, raising their hemlines, […]
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David Stryder Franklin, age 44, passed away in a tragic accident on Jan. 1, 2018, in Costa Mesa, Calif. Funeral services will be at Pacific View Memorial Park and Mortuary located at 3500 Pacific View Drive in Corona del Mar, on Jan. 12, 2018 at 2pm. Stryder was born in Hollywood on March 25, 1973, […]
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Lake Tahoe Golf Course will be partnering with Rotary of South Lake Tahoe to present the comedy “Divorce Southern Style” by Jennifer Jarrett. It is considered a fast-paced, funny farce. It centers on the schemes of a middle-aged divorcee who decides that the time is ripe to get back together with her ex-husband. Auditions for […]
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Escobar Training Grounds, where Chris Cocores honed his mixed martial arts skills, is having a fundraiser Jan. 13 for the former South Lake Tahoe resident. Cocores broke his back, arm and has internal injuries after being in a vehicle accident last month that killed his girlfriend and dog. Proceeds/donations from mixed martial arts and self-defense […]
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TOCCATA — Tahoe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus — lost a singer in November. Phil Stevenson was a founding member of TOCCATA. He accompanied the group on the 2015 and 2017 concert tours to Italy and Austria. The Jan. 7 kick off performance to the 13th season will be to celebrate his memory. All donations to […]
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By Justin Cheng, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jure Leskovec and Michael Bernstein, The Conversation “Fail at life. Go bomb yourself.” Comments like this one, found on a CNN article about how women perceive themselves, are prevalent today across the internet, whether it’s Facebook, Reddit or a news website. Such behavior can range from profanity and name-calling to […]
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Bona Fide Books in Meyers has two events coming up this month. The first is the Correspondence Club on Jan. 8 at 6pm. The focus will be mail art, creating correspondence using everyday items. This art form is an artistic movement centered on sending small scale works, interesting/fun inclusions, and unique mailings through the […]
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By Peter Whoriskey, Washington Post TULSA, Okla. — Tom Coomer has retired twice: once when he was 65, and then several years ago. Each time he realized that with just a Social Security check, “You can hardly make it these days.” So here he is at 79, working full time at Walmart. During each […]
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