Author Archive: tahoequa
Tahoe Trailblazing
Inside the evolving art of trailbuilding Written by Greyson Howard Trails etch into packed earth and chipped stone across the Tahoe landscape, zigzagging up the Sierra’s steep peaks, tracing a parallel course to its streams and rivers, dipping into shaded woods and bursting onto sunny meadows. Trails are a part of the region’s landscape, […]
Weekend Outlook: July 18-21
Happy ACC weekend, Tahoe! Valley temperatures are expected to hit triple-digits on both sides of the Sierra starting as soon as Friday this week, so expect a lot of traffic coming up to The Lake with you. Luckily, there are a lot of beaches and activities to keep you entertained up here on the mountain. […]
Sierra in the Raw
Making a personal lifestyle out of raw food Written by Julia Mueller When hearing the phrase ‘raw food,’ one may visualize iceberg lettuce, cherry tomatoes and baby carrots—in other words, rabbit food. But going raw means much more than simple salads. The rapidly growing whole food movement is creating strong nutritional awareness and the raw […]
The Man Behind the Bomb
Harvey’s bomb remains a teaching tool for FBI more than 30 years later Written by Matthew Renda In the early morning of August 26, 1980, three men dressed in blue worker’s coveralls wheeled an object roughly the size of a copy machine through a side entrance of Harveys Resort Hotel at Stateline, Nevada, perched on […]
Reaching New Heights: Tahoe’s Big Water Grille
Stellar food, views and service are on the menu at the Big Water Grille Written by Susan D. Rock Full disclosure. The Big Water Grille and I go way back. It is where my husband and I celebrated our engagement with a bottle of Moët White Star, where we tied the knot out on the […]
Born to be Wild: Tahoe’s wildflowers
A primer to some of Tahoe’s wildflower wonders Written by Allison Bender Summer in Tahoe means a spectacular display of colorful blooms: fields of yellow mule ears gazing at the sun, seas of blue lupine and orange poppies nodding in the wind. More than 700 kinds of wildflowers grow in the region, according to Zephyr […]
Art: Inside and Outside
Written by Trina Kleist Despite acclaim for Judith Scott’s fiber sculptures, controversy abounds over whether they are art – whether anything can be art if its creator lacks the intention of creating art. People in insane asylums drew attention as early as 1917 for their needlework, sketching and painting. In the 1940s, French avant-garde painter […]
Judith Scott in my dreams–One Writer’s Story
Written by Trina Kleist When I took this assignment from Tahoe Quarterly magazine, I had never heard of Judith Scott–not surprisingly, as I have no artistic involvement and only a self-educated layperson’s appreciation for art. So I sought out images of Scott’s fiber sculptures and absorbed them, trying to understand what to me seemed like […]
From Dutch Flat to Bali
Written by Trina Kleist DUTCH FLAT, Calif. – The connection between Dutch Flat and the Berkeley-Oakland area reaches to the 1880s and wraps the story of fiber artist Judith Scott to the Lake Tahoe region. Between the childhood separation of the fraternal twins and their reunion 36 years later, Judith’s sister Joyce Scott studied psychology […]
Featured: Judith Scott
Inside the life and works of Judith Scott Author Trina Kleist penned for us, along with our main arts feature in the Summer Tahoe Quarterly, a number of sidebars to better explain Judith Scott’s amazing story. Please take the time to peruse them: -What constitutes “outsider” art? -From Dutch Flat to Berkeley and Bali -Judith […]
