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There's plenty of music set for this weekend in Carson City, including jazz lineups in celebration of Jazz! Carson City 2011. Music in the Market continues today, Saturday, through 1 p.m. at the Third and Curry Street Farmer's Market. Meanwhile, Saturday night at plan:b microlounge inside of Sassafras will feature award-winning jazz musician Joe Berry. While on Sunday it is Jazz Picnic in the Park.

Genoans saddled up this week with the third Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival.Town board members approved a contract with the Carson Valley Arts Council to put on the event April 26-29, 2012. The arts...

A yard sale today and Sunday will benefit a Carson City 5-year-old battling brain cancer for the second time. Organizer Kathy Johnson said they've received enough to donations to fill the Eagle's L...

A free street party kicks off the annual Silver Dollar Car Classic from 7-11 p.m. tonight at Arlington Square, across Carson Street from the Carson Nugget.The classic comes back to Carson City on F...

A fundraiser is set for Saturday to benefit a Carson City family who lost their home to fire. Organizer Roy Good said members of the Sierra Boys of Summer, the baseball team upon which Hayden Hu...

For his Eagle Scout project, Grant Brewer, 17, will be hosting a food drive, Ending Empty Bellies, at the Retail Drive Walmart on Aug. 27. Food collected will benefit Food for Thought, FISH and the...

Annual Art at Greenhouse Art Show & SaleSupport our local arts community while strolling through the Greenhouse Garden Center. Along with the running fountains, waterfall and pond, enjoy the presen...

The Gold Hill Hotel is on an entertainment roll this month with the Gold Hill Theater Troupe production of "The Hanging of Gladys McGraw" plus two musical performances this weekend of "Those Wer...

That classic summertime, campfire dessert, a gooey mix of melted chocolate, toasty marshmallow and crunchy graham crackers. This is one of the things I most look forward to each camping trip. Yo...

This column addresses topics related to the health of our community.Did you know that all dogs over 4 months of age living in Carson City are required to have a valid dog license and to wear it on ...

The St. Peter's Episcopal Church caregivers support group is using the two meetings in the month of August to identify and update information about the local and state services serving patient and ...

"Crazy, Stupid, Love," a romantic comedy currently showing at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City, is a romantic comedy built on the well-trod idea of love, fall out of love, fall in love and live happily ever after, a la such as "The Phlaelpia Story" of times gone by. The cast, chiefly Steve "Cyrano-nosed" Carrell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, is excellent, pros to a turn.

According to a 2009 study by Consumer Reports, 66 percent of the nation's hearing aids may be set incorrectly. That same study also stated that 73 percent of patients were "highly satisfied" with t...

This column addresses topics related to the health of our community.As fall approaches, it's time to start thinking about cooler weather and the start of school. While students at Fremont Elementar...

Curk Cave of Dayton has come up with an unusual book of adventures, "Air Intrigue, the Adventure Begins" (Mira Digital Publishing, no cover price, 244 pages plus an addendum).As a freelance pilot f...

A tribute to Rosemary Clooney and an ice cream social with live music will kick off a month-jazz extravaganza for the 8th annual Jazz! Carson City Music Festival.

Linda Merrell will perform a jazz tribute to Rosemary Clooney on Sunday, July 31, from 2:30-3:30 p.m. at Sierra Place Senior Living, 1111 W. College Parkway in Carson City.

The sci-fi-western-thriller "Cowboys & Aliens," currently showing at the Fandango Galaxy multiplex in Carson City, finally achieves what most studios have long sought, a film with five writers, much of whose script is simply explosions.

Experience art and nature in a completely new way during the Trails and Vistas "Reflections and Rhythms" art hike on Sept. 17 or Sept. 18 at Spooner Lake in the Lake Tahoe-Nevada State Park. Ticket...

Soroptimist International of the Comstock will host the second annual Train Ride event on Tuesday, with proceeds benefiting the lives of local women and children.The evening begins at 5:30 p.m. at ...

Liz Patterson said she spent nine months writing a book, and then eight years thinking about publishing it. Finally, Patterson can hold in her hands what she'd dreamt about since being a little ...

As the capital city warms up for its annual Jazz!! Carson City monthlong celebration in August, the Carson Mall has jumped on the bandwagon with a lineup of music of its own, both inside and out...

Operation Cookie JarI received an email it started with, "I met a very nice young man, very neat, clean and polite. His hair was cut very short. Yes, he was one of The Few, The Proud, The United St...

Mile High Jazz Band Association presents the 8th annual Jazz!! Carson City beginning Sunday and continuing throughout August. This month-long celebration showcases music and special events at a ...

At the Carson City Fandango Galaxy cineplex, I was a bit confused watching the new movie. Once I got the idea of the plot --- guy, girl agree to sex with no emotional strings attached, I thought I had been caught in a time warp. I'd seen this movie, only it was titled "No Strings Attached" and starred Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher.

"Captain America," subtitled "the First Avenger," currently showing at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City, is the fourth in the series of related comic book heroes brought to the screen.

And while it does live up to its pulp ancestry with lots of action and fantasy, it reportedly is a 124-minute promotional effort for a film to come, "The Avengers," all four heroes joining to save the world or do other good deeds.

Over this past week I had a great opportunity to try out a new restaurant and have a mini-wine tasting with friends. It was a food-filled weekend. Monday my mom and I were invited to a special p...

This column addresses topics related to the health of our community.We've been enjoying relatively pleasant weather compared to the rest of the United States, but that doesn't mean that our furry f...

Various faiths are coming together to have a picnic in Nevada’s capital Carson City at the end of the month.
Christians of various denominations, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Baha’is, and others, besides sharing food, music, games, prayers, a “Peace Cake”, etc., will also try to find similarities between their diverse traditions at second annual “Heal the World Interfaith Picnic of Nevada” on July 31, said Adina Richman Karst, vent coordinator.

Blackbane, a nine-member Lassen High School alumni rock band who began the group's first incarnation nearly 30 years ago, will play together again this weekend at Black Tangerine in Reno, after reconnecting on Facebook.

"None of this would have happened if it weren't for Facebook," said Joe Moody, drummer and one of three members of the original band, Rocksalt. "I stayed in touch, playing over the years with a couple of the guys, but there were other members who had fallen off the face of the earth."

By the Carson City Convention and Visitors Bureau
Aberrations await and spirits linger during a two-hour walking tour July 23, Aug. 20 and Sept. 24 through the historic district of Carson City.
History and storytelling are the orders of the day on this tour through Victorian-style homes and neighborhoods, where reality and legend come together, leaving ghost walkers to wonder what is truth and what is fiction.