Category: Arts & Culture
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 […]
Weekend Outlook: July 3-7
Welcome to our very special July 4 weekend edition of Weekend Outlook! We hope you all are having a great holiday so far! We can’t possibly encapsulate all the fun stuff going on at The Lake and Truckee in this week’s installment, but here are a few events that caught our eye. Wednesday Enjoy […]
Les Misérables: From the Big Screen to the Village Green
Written by Kyle Magin In less than a week, the 50-member cast of the Tahoe Players’ production of Les Misérables takes the stage at Incline Village’s Village Green. Backed by an 18 piece orchestra including members of the Reno Philharmonic, it’ll mark the first Tahoe-area performance of the beloved classic by the Incline-based performing arts […]
Weekend Outlook: June 27-30
The second full weekend of summer has tons of fun in store in and around Tahoe. If you’re not already here, point the car up the hill and hit the gas, because it’s going to be HOT in the valleys this weekend. Thankfully, it’ll be beautiful up here, perfect swimming weather is in the forecast. […]
‘Battleborn’ Book Review
Short story collection finds life amidst Nevada’s unforgiving landscape Written by Matthew Renda Joan Didion wrote: “A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.” Claire Vaye Watkins, a 28-year-old writer, […]
Becoming Tahoe’s Mark Twain
Written by McAvoy Layne Becoming Mark Twain for a summer afternoon’s “Tales of Tahoe” cruise aboard the Tahoe Queen is a royal pain in the neck. I pull the ski mask over my head and adjust the mouth aperture to circumscribe my mustache. Then I feel my way outside, and while the children run off […]
Featured: John Pugh
Truckee muralist paints to trick the eye Written by Tanya Canino Perched on scaffolding against the huge wall of Chico State’s Taylor Hall, young artist John Pugh painted his future: a grand illusion of a wall crumbling away to reveal academe’s Greek columns underneath. Not only did the mural become an iconic campus fixture, its […]
Weekend Outlook: June 20-23
This weekend features the longest day of the year (Friday), a full moon (Saturday-Sunday), and a glorious-looking weather forecast. If you’re not up here and going full-tilt, you’re missing out. Here are a few reminders from us about what’s going on at The Lake and in Truckee this weekend. If you have an event to […]
