Category: Personalities
TQ’s Summer Reading Recommendations
TQ‘s staffers and contributors share their summer reading recommendations with you By TQ Staff No matter what some of us do in the summer–hikes deep into Desolation Wilderness, beachside sunning on Lake Tahoe or sail camping in Emerald Bay–we’re the types who’ll have a book in our backpack or beach bag. If you’re still looking […]
A Talented Trio
Visual, literary and performing artists achieve acclaim Written by Alison Bender With the breadth of talent in the Tahoe region, it’s not easy to cull from a list of the area’s best artists. Between the mountain air, stunning scenery and the appreciative audiences, the area draws outstanding talent. For the Best of Tahoe issue, we […]
Reno Honors Golden David Wise
Olympic half-pipe champ talks family, taking time off By Kristin Close David Wise toured his hometown as a champion Saturday. That evening, the City of Reno hosted a Parade of Champions for Wise, a 2014 Olympic Gold Medalist in skiing halfpipe in Sochi, Russia, and the first Reno resident to win winter gold. Wise attended […]
My Sierra: Finding Fro
High on Donner Summit sits a trove of untold stories from one of Tahoe’s great writers. Written by David Bunker “Let me grab a flashlight,” says Norm Sayler as he stands poised at the brink of Donner Summit Historical Society’s shadowy basement. He retrieves the light and we descend the stairs. Even when […]
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 […]
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 […]
Q&A with Jeremy Jones
By Seth Lightcap North Tahoe professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones could double for a tight rope–walking circus juggler. The balancing act of business, politics and play that this 37–year–old father of two pulls off has made him one of the most highly respected athletes in the action sports world. Ten years of daring first descents […]
