Tantalizing Lake Tahoe

All the superlatives about Lake Tahoe are true.

It is majestic and inspiring, laid-back and full-out fun, whether you relish all the outdoor activities or find delight breathing in pine-scented air from a lounge chair. Here’s a few ideas to jump-start your imagination.

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Stars, Strings and Sips: Cle Hospitality

Do you ever look up at the night sky, sprinkled with stars, and feel awe?

We have and our upcoming “Stars, Strings, and Sipping” events, September through December, and will transform “awe” into “awesome” at either the Avalon Inn in Lake Tahoe and Carson Valley’s Historian Inn.

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Ski in Beer Foam to Help Others

Mother Nature has already done her part.

Her recent dusting of snow has made skiers and boarders long for the upcoming season.

Among them are athletes, from elementary students to adults, helped by Disabled Sports USA, the nation’s largest nonprofit, multi-sport and multi-disability organization.

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Salad Days

Knock, knock.
Who's there?

Lettuce.

Lettuce who?

Lettuce us begin the salad demonstration.

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Chautauqua Comes to Tahoe

Photo courtesy of Doug Mischler

Hungry for culture and entertainment people across late 19th and early 20th centuries, America gladly welcomed the Chautauqua's entertainers, writers, musicians and speakers on a variety of subjects.


They traveled the circuits from city to town and village squares to frontier outposts.

As an institution, Chautauqua had such overwhelming national appeal that President Theodore Roosevelt once called it “the most American thing in America.”

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Its the Bees Knees in Tahoe

Get a wiggle on, all you gold diggers and high hats, skirts, swells and Joe Palookas.


The Jazz Age returns to Lake Tahoe Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 13-14, for the Tahoe Heritage Foundation's Great Gatsby Festival.

Now in its 26th year, the free event celebrates the free-wheeling days of the 1920s when families like the Baldwins, Popes and the Hellers spent their summers vacations at elegant and rustic lakeside resorts.

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Washoe return to “Da ow aga.”



Miwok Dancers of the Central Valley

It is summertime around Lake Tahoe, and as they have for thousands of years, the Washoe American Indians have returned to the sacred land they call “Da ow aga.”

Their ancestors came from lower elevations of the Sierra Nevada's mountains and Great Basin valleys to hunt deer, bighorn sheep and gather medicinal herbs. Before the big snows arrived, they would harvest acorns and pine nuts.

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Insider Tips to Tahoe



Lake view from Pine Lodge. 
Photo: LJ Bottjer

Summer is here and the sirens of Lake Tahoe are calling.


Their chorus of activities can be almost overwhelming. From kayaking to biking, hiking, horseback riding and stand-up paddling, days in Tahoe are spent outdoors. Add in the nightlife from gambling at casinos, to going to outdoor events, to sipping wine with locals and fellow tourists, and it appears that a ton of luggage is going to be required to fit in all the different outfits needed.

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Tahoe Maritime Museum Annex

Hidden Tahoe treasures will be revealed Saturday, July 2, without a single utterance of the words “open sesame.”

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A Puerto Rican Pied Piper

Trust Toccata to add sparkle to this star spangled weekend from Incline Village to South Shore.


First, the audience helps kick off the sixth annual 21-concert 2011 Big Blue Summer MusicFest by singing the National Anthem along with members of Toccata's orchestra and chorale under the direction of Maestro James Rawie.

Second, a Puerto Rican Pied Piper returns to the Lake Tahoe Basin to gather music lovers for the Baroque to Broadway concert series, beginning Saturday, July 2.

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Interview with Diana Krall

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The honeyed heat of Diana Krall's voice adds to the intimacy of romance, fuses generations of jazz lovers and Saturday, June 18, will melt the lingering snowpack.

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Sacrifical Lambs

Trio Brio Photo

Spring, are you out there?


In this year when winter seems to be never-ending, Toccata's musical director James Rawie has a solution: “We are offering David Brock, Pat Crane and Darrell Moore as sacrificial lambs to the snow gods.”

Collectively known as Trio Brio, the vibrancy of their “Chamber Music Charmers” is sure to shake loose the long overdue springtime heat

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Westward Ho!

Rick Newborn (l) and George Alger (r)
Photo copyright: LJ Bottjer

History moves slowly with the Highway 50 Wagon Train Association.


Annually, with a mission to recreate the trek taken by thousands of treasure seekers to the gold fields of California, it lumbers out from Lake Tahoe.

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Mother Nature, Earth Day and Lake Tahoe.

Photo courtesy of South Yuba River Citizens League Wild & Scenic Film Festival

Living, visiting or working in Lake Tahoe's splendor makes the observance of Earth Day almost an obvious activity.


For more than a decade of Earth Day's 41-year history the Tahoe-Truckee Earth Day Foundation has combined spring's renewal with recycling and repurposing education and added a massive amount of merriment to create the region's largest eco-event. More than 6,000 attended the 2010 event geared for the entire family.

“It pulls together the community on how to tune in with our town as we celebrate that we live in this incredible place,” said the event's chairwoman, Emily Williams.

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St Matthew and his Baroque Passion



Photo courtesy of Joy Stolz

 When Johann Sebastian Bach composed “St. Matthew Passion,” he created a musical tapestry.


Threads of betrayal and compassion are woven with sorrow, acceptance and everlasting love. The Baroque masterpiece of the early 18th century heralded in the beginning of the Easter weekend when it debuted in Leipzig, Germany.


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Twain's hatred of Tahoe

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Mark Twain hated Lake Tahoe.


Not the physical body of water or its surroundings which he wrote could “restore an Egyptian mummy to his pristine vigor.”

It was, instead, the word “Tahoe” that stuck in the craw of the humorist whose legendary writing career found firm roots in Nevada and California.

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The Female Side of Mark Twain

Becky Thatcher and Tom Sawyer

“There is nothing comparable to the endurance of a woman. In military life she would tire out an army of men, either in camp or on the march.”


— Mark Twain in his autobiography

To celebrate the American master writer's great appreciation of, and inspiration by, the female sex, Mark Twain impersonator McAvoy Layne offers “The Women in Mark Twain's Life” at Incline Village on Friday, March 25. The event will be held at the Mark Twain Cultural Center.

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Tahoe Tutus and More

Michelle Cahill by Quentin Barter

Tutus and pointe shoes are not the sole costume for ballet.

The Tahoe Youth Ballet's graceful moves are made, in part, by dancers clad in sweaters and Converse sneakers.

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Lake Tahoe's Concours d' Elegance

The lake to some was created solely to showcase the Concours d'Elegance.

Waters of iridescent blues provide the perfect backdrop for the reddish and blonde tones of burnished mahogany and other specialty woods found on these prized wooden boats.

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Rustic furniture maker

When Jacob Morrison’s eyes scan the vistas and horizons of the Lake Tahoe Basin they see a different view than most.
From a fallen pine he envisions a coat rack with twisted limbs or a chair’s cross rails emerging from a pile of reclaimed cedar trees.

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