Downtown Carson City

Enjoy the wonders of pouring as professional artist Dana Childs (aka d’Lauren) teaches you how to create modern-abstract fluid effects with acrylic pouring onto stretched canvas. In this class, we will learn pouring techniques combined with artistic knife and brush work with color and design in mind.

“Anyone can do this!” says Childs, who has been painting professionally for over two decades and playing with Acrylic pouring is one of her new fascinations.

Good morning Carson City. Today is Wednesday, March 6, 2019. If you're headed outside, wear rain gear and bring an umbrella. We're looking at showers throughout the day as a winter weather system moves into the area. If you're headed into the Sierra, carry snow chains and expect road delays. Here's what's happening today.

When the Carson City Downtown Business Association (DBA) says the monthly Wine Walk is held rain, snow or shine, it isn't kidding around.

Carson City's downtown business and historic districts were bustling Saturday with Wine Walk participants enjoying sights and sips, despite cool, wet weather that failed to dampen their spirits.

This weekend calls for a celebration, because the first Saturday of March is upon us and that means the Carson City Downtown Business Association Wine Walk come rain, snow, wind or shine. And get this: Today's Wine Walk is the last one before Spring.

Not only is Friday the first day of March in this 2019 calendar year but it is also the end of the work week. And for this we say welcome to a month that brings us the Downtown Carson City Wine Walk, which is this Saturday, NCAA basketball playoffs, St. Patrick's Day celebrations and the first day of spring. While we look forward to these future events, there's plenty of activities lined up for today. Read on and find out more.

Squeeze In’s new Carson City location officially opened for business Thursday, with net proceeds from their opening day going to the Children’s Museum of Northern Nevada.

Well, it's that day again, halfway through the work week. Happy Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 to you Carson City. For those keeping score, we have 21 days left until the first day of spring. Be prepared for rain "down here" and heavy snow "up there."

SALSA Wednesdays located at Yaple's Ballroom Dance Studio, 315 N. Carson St. Carson City. Classes are 6 pm Intermediate Level Class, 7 pm Beginning Level Class. Just $10 a class​.

Then after your dance lesson, just for us food and drink specials offered across the street at Battle Born Social! The dance floor is open, music will be playing and you can continue dancing and practicing your dance moves! The Salsa Social will cost NOTHING, only but your support to the restaurant and bar.

Help us build us downtown Carson City with more fun activities that the whole family can join!!

Hello Carson City as we welcome in Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, the end of the work week, a short one for many because of the President's Day holiday. Activities abound Friday and into the weekend, including the second day of the three-day, 6th Carson City International Film Weekend festival.

The Adams 308 N. Curry Building in Carson City will be 90 percent-plus occupied as of next week, with the anticipated opening of Squeeze In. Parking downtown will become more of a premium. To assist as we can with parking issues for everyone, we are making the following adjustments for the added parking needs downtown.

Live music at Bella Fiore Wines, 224 S. Curry Street in downtown Carson City, featuring Blu' Jazz from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16.

A 42 year-old Dayton man was arrested early Friday morning at 1:37 a.m. in the 2200 block of E. William Street for a pair of felony offenses, a Carson City Sheriff's deputy reported, including methamphetamine trafficking and drug possession for sales.

Friends and acquaintances of Tony Pastini described him as a generous member of the community, a long-time supporter of local youth programs. He was a friendly face to his neighbors.

Visitors to the Nevada State Museum and the Children's Museum of Northern Nevada got a cultural treat Saturday as the two organizations teamed up again to help ring in the Chinese New Year, celebrated worldwide Feb. 5-19, 2019.

The weekend is here and your Saturday around Carson City is chockfull of activities.

Despite snow on the ground, a Chinese New Year celebration will take place in downtown Carson City between the Nevada State Museum and the Children's Museum of Northern Nevada.

The ninth annual Carson High School Safe Grad Safe and Sober Run/Walk occurs at the CHS track.

And the 20th annual Feast of Chocolate, a scholarship fundraiser for the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Capital Branch, is being held at the Plaza Hotel Event Center.

Good morning, Carson City! You are half way to the weekend on this Hump Day. More snow may be in our future, but sunshine is in the forecast today.

It will be cold with a high of only 33 degrees, so watch for those persistent icy spots on the roadways.

A Gardnerville man killed while piloting his plane in Southern California Sunday has been identified as Antonio "Tony" Pastini, owner of Kim Lee's Sushi and Teriyaki in downtown Carson City.

The crash in a Yorba Linda, CA, neighborhood killed Pastini and four residents of a home that the aircraft had crashed into.

Go here to read the rest of the story.

A Ballroom Dance Social will be held March 1 from 6-9 p.m. at Yaple's Ballroom Dance Studio, 315 N. Carson Street in downtown Carson City.

Cost is $10 for the whole evening!

6 p.m.: FREE Dance Lesson on the Waltz Box and dance frame

6:30 p.m.: Dance lesson on Waltz and Foxtrot Basics

7:30-9 p.m.: Social Dancing, your DJ for the evening will be Tiffany

Music will range from Ballroom, Latin, Swing, Country, Night Club and more! Requests are welcome!

A Country Waltz Dance Workshop will be held Friday, Feb. 22 from 6-8 p.m. at Yaple's Ballroom Dance Studio, 315 N. Carson Street in downtown Carson City.

Level: Beginning

Learn the waltz and how to progress your dance steps around the room with Country waltz. If you'r learning to dance or want to get your partner to learn (who is very nervous and says that they can't dance), then Waltz is SO perfect!

It is an even count and it is as simple as this: Walk out your dance steps! Don't overthink your moves and just have fun with you partner. Please join us!

A Cha Cha Group Class will be held Friday, Feb. 8 from 6-8 p.m. at Yaple's Ballroom Dance Studio, Carson City's ONLY Ballroom Dance School!

Level: Beginning to Intermediate

If you're new, great! We will get you started! If you have danced Cha Cha, great! We will review your basics and then show you some new moves that will improve your style.

In this class we are going to learn some playful moves! All moves will be danced back and forth in a slot so that you can keep this dance compact and take it on any dance floor.

Carson City artist Cynthia Brenneman’s fascination with art started at a young age and has never wavered, even as she served her country in the U.S. Navy.

Happy Groundhog Day, Carson City! While the prognosticating Punxsutawney Phil looks for his shadow in western Pennsylvania, our region is bracing for more Winter weather due to arrive this weekend.

Phil might speak for his neck of the woods, where he bats about .390, but I would keep an eye on our critters here to determine how much more Winter we have left.

Hello Carson City and welcome to Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. We're looking forward to an eventful weekend ahead as a winter storm is building and is expected to bring snow to the Sierra and rain and snow showers to the valley floor. And then there's Sunday's Super Bowl and all the fixings that come with that. Enjoy your day today. The weekend is right around the corner.

Hello Carson City. Today is the middle of the work week, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019. Time to start thinking about those weekend plans, especially if they involve travel as weather changes are ahead and snow is expected in the Sierra by Saturday. As for today, enjoy the sunshine. The weather service says expect partly sunny skies and a high of 55.

Good morning Carson City and welcome to Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. We hope your work week started off on the right foot even though the weather outside has been unpredictable, with sunshine one day and clouds the next. Today we're looking at a slight chance of rain showers, around 20 percent after 11 a.m., and otherwise mostly cloudy skies and a high of 54.

Hello Carson City and welcome to Monday, Jan. 28, 2019. Even though we're in the center of winter doesn't mean we can't enjoy the spring-like weather while lasts. Today will bring partly sunny skies with a high around 53. There's a slight chance of rain Tuesday and Wednesday with highs in the 50s. Another winter storm is lurking out toward the end of the week so stay tuned.

Could we be in the dog days of January? Sunday is shaping up to be absolutely gorgeous and unseasonably warm for this time of year with a forecast high of 61 degrees and mostly sunny skies.

Even though we are still in the middle of Winter, that doesn't mean we shouldn't enjoy beautiful, Spring-like weather while lasts.

This weekend is shaping up to resemble a false Spring, with unseasonably warm temperatures forecast by Sunday. Saturday should see sunny skies and a high temperature near 50 degrees.

Just right for a little horsing around.

Wow, Carson City! Is it Friday already?! Indeed, we have reached the end of another work week.

Go for a swim during lunch or after work at the newly reopened Carson Aquatic Center before catching some live entertainment this evening at Living the Good Life Nightclub-Bistro-Lounge, Bella Vita Bistro and A to Zen, featuring its weekly Open Mic Night.

What can we do to attract and retain the best and brightest to remain in Carson City?

That is the subject of the Wednesday, Feb. 6 discussion titled "Brain Drain" at the next "Ideas on Tap," a monthly series of interactive conversations held at the Union Eatery and Taphouse, 302 N. Carson Street in downtown Carson City.