Entertainment

"The Sitter," billed as a black comedy and currently flickering at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City, is mercifully only 81 minutes long, but that's long enough to spell disaster to any discriminating movie goer.

It stars comic actor Jonah Hill as college failure Noah forced into baby sitting three of the most repellent child actors in living memory. He is also pursuing a blonde who is suggesting intimacy that night.

The Carson City Board of Supervisors is seeking applications from persons interested in serving on the Redevelopment Authority Citizens Committee. There are six (6) openings in the following categories, two (2) in each category:

• “Business Operator” or “Property Owner” from Redevelopment Area 1
• “Business Operator” or “Property Owner” from Redevelopment Area 2

Nowhere is the passion and dedication of women motorcyclists more apparent than at an AMA International Women & Motorcycling Conference. The popular event returns July 26-29, this time in Carson City — one of the West's premier motorcycling destinations.

Lake Tahoe South is New Year’s celebration central with Snow Globe, a three-day outdoor music festival with over 40 world-class musicians on three main stages, firework shows, combined with a myriad of outdoor recreation, entertainment and nightlife, providing action-packed holiday season for kids of all ages.

The Pink Floyd tribute band returns to the Brewery Art Center’s Performance Hall December 3rd at 7:30 pm. The always popular show includes astonishing laser lights and special effects. The band recreates the ultimate concert extravaganza that made Pink Floyd famous. They don’t just pay tribute to Pink Floyd, they become Pink Floyd.

Buffet & Broadway brought together about 125 people Saturday at the Carson Nugget for a night of good food and entertainment by the Brewery Arts Center's BAC to Broadway Kids.But the event was mor...

Buffet & Broadway brought together about 125 people Saturday at the Carson Nugget for a night of good food and entertainment by the Brewery Arts Center's BAC to Broadway Kids.But the event was mor...

Stephanie Arrigotti has been directing and producing shows for the Western Nevada Musical Theater Company at WAC for several years and every year she brings greater casts and more entertaining shows to the Community Center in Carson City. Friday night she opened "The Phantom of the Opera" to an enthusiastic audience with possibly the biggest first-night numbers in the theater group's history.

And the audience got what it came for — a beautifully staged and directed show with a cast of very talented actors.

The Carson Valley Inn is serving a Free Spaghetti Lunch for all Veterans and Active Military – plus one guest – on Veteran's Day, Friday, November 11. The event will be held in the Valley Ballroom from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The enchanting appeal of The Polar Express™ has spread to Carson City and has families planning ahead for the holiday season. After merely three weeks, 3,000, or 40 percent of Virginia & Truckee Railroad’s Polar Express™ tickets have been sold, with 4,500 tickets remaining.

The Virginia & Truckee Railroad is one of a handful of officially licensed Polar Express Train Ride events nationwide this holiday season, Nov. 25 - Dec. 18.

About the same time that Nevada became a state on Oct. 31, 1864, American carnivals were coming into their own as the newest and most exciting entertainment around using horse-powered "ups and down...

Damien (Adam Land) and Isolde (Courtney Tait), costumed characters inthe Carson City GhostWalk, had a story to tell Saturday."Our story lines correlate," Isolde said in an Irish brogue. "I came ...

by Guy Rocha, former Nevada State Archivist
Why all the fuss about Nevada's birthday on October 31? The battle lines were drawn between "traditionalists", and the "grinches" who would steal Nevada Day by calling for the last Friday of October to be the state's official holiday. The parade and other festivities would follow on Saturday; thus making for a three-day weekend for some Nevadans as well as state and local government employees. With the passage of AB396 by the 1997 legislature, Nevada voters, on November 3, 1998 advised the 1999 legislature they wanted to celebrate Nevada Day on the last Friday in October beginning in 2000. The legislature, after much heated debate, complied.

Grace Christian Academy's Fall Fundraiser Concert,
Entertainment by Lucky Diamonds and the Gents of Jive at
Brewery Arts Center in Carson City. We will have dessert and raffle items
at the event. Tickets are $20.00 available at www.breweryarts.org. Any questions contact GCA @ 782-7811.

The film "Real Steel" now playing at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City is an action film starring Hugh Jackman as a down-and-out boxer past his prime as robots took over the boxing world.

In this case it's an attempt by films to muscle into the video game profits. Not that the movie is bad, that is, if the sight of giant robots flaying away at each other doesn't turn you off. It's actually technology not gone amok but just crass.

To our friends in the crafts business;

After the success of last year’s fairs, we are again scheduling an indoor holiday craft fair in the Carson Nugget Casino, in downtown Carson City, in the 2nd floor banquet rooms on November 19 & 20 with early on Saturday morning via the casino loading dock. Sell times will be 12 noon till 7pm Saturday; 12 noon till 5 pm Sunday.

Tahoe Arts Project kicks off their 25th season with the a cappella quintet, The Standards. The human voice, that’s how it all started for five brothers who shared a passion for music. Singing together at an early age, they began the makings of this one of a kind vocal group, forging a relationship beyond brotherhood and taking harmony to perfection.

Traditionally, a library card had one purpose: to check out books. Today's card holds the key to countless sources of information, entertainment, reading methodology and education. Last year, the l...

LAKE TAHOE — If another La Nina visits the Sierra this winter – all-time records were approached in 2010-11 with more than 700 inches of snow – Tahoe South ski resorts are ready to roll on another epic season.

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Carson City’s Old West meets the North Pole this holiday season as the Polar Express™ train will take weekend railway runs across the frosty Northern Nevada landscape Thanksgiving through Dec. 23, according to the Carson City Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona will be speaking in Carson City on September 24th, at 12:00 noon in the Weaver hanger of Carson City's Airport. Sponsored by the Nevada Republican Assembly, Carson City Republican Central Committee and the Carson City Republican Women's Club.

With back-to-school buying stagnant but an uptick in sales expected this holiday season, the Retail Association of Nevada (RAN) is forecasting a mixed outlook for the state’s retailers.

Before summer segues to fall, Tahoe South will celebrate a Labor Day last call: an amped-up holiday weekend of non-stop activities on and off the water including a food and wine festival, sternwheeler race, outdoor and showroom concerts and a fireworks extravaganza.

LABOR DAY WEEKEND

The first of 3 Saturday morning walks to support Mark Amodei's campaign for Congressional District 2 U.S. House seat will be held Saturday 13, 2011. The walkers will start off from the Carson City Republican Headquarters located at 1931 California St., (across from Lowe's shopping center) on the corner of California and Fairview, at 9:00am.

The walkers will be treated to a BBQ of chicken and ribs after the walk in Fuji Park, with entertainment by country western great Larry Gatlin showing his support of candidate Mark Amodei.

"The Rise of the Planet of the Apes,' now playing at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City, may well be the best of the summer popcorn fare. It is not an extension of the "Apes" series of the 1970s and '80s but the beginning of a new franchise of films. And its primate hand is there for all of us.

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...

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...

Libations: Silent Auction, Raffle, Dancing, Barbeque
Entertainment: CW & Mr. Spoons plus Doc on Bass and Jake Houston
Tickets: $40.00 per person
Contact: a Kiwanian or Bill Knight 882-3075

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.

"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.