Arts and Entertainment

Support the Reno Chamber Orchestra at Reno’s original Derby Day on Saturday, May 2nd at 12 p.m. inside the Peppermill’s Tuscany Ballroom. Dress up in fashionable attire and enjoy a live stream of the Kentucky Derby Race over a luncheon and traditional mint juleps. The event features a hat contest with prizes, a live auction and wine raffle. Tickets are $70 and tables of 8 or 10 are also available. Reservations required.

Peppermill Tuscany Ballroom: 2707 S Virginia St Reno, NV 89502

For more information call 775-348-9413 or email info@renochamberorchestra.org

March 7 and 8, Emblem Club #507 presents MURDER AT THE MARDI GRAS. This will be on Saturday, March 7, 5 p.m. social Hour, 6, p.m. with the dinner play to follow. The event is at the Elks Lodge, 515 North Nevada Street.

The Saturday March 7 Menu features a Delicious Jambalaya

The Sunday March 8, MATINEE begins at 2 p.m. with a social hour and dinner at 3 p.m. with the play to follow. Menu: Delicious Jambalaya
Tickets: $15.00 at the Lodge or call 775-882-3751.

Country music legend Merle Haggard will launch the TJ's Corral Outdoor concert series May 1 at Minden's Carson Valley Inn, according to an announcement Wednesday on its website.

Ticket information will be made available soon. CVI urges fans to connect to its blog for updates.

Grammy-Award winning singer-song writer Boz Scaggs will bring his timeless and soulful stylings of R&B, jazz, and guitar rock to Lake Tahoe’s MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa over the Memorial Day weekend with a one-night-only show Saturday, May 23.

The second in the Carson City Chamber’s Meet the Artist series will take place this Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Artisan Showcase located at 1900 S. Carson Street between 2-4 pm.

Featured artist will be Linda Ritter, owner of Pinyon Pottery, who will be using her portable potter’s wheel to demonstrate how she turns a lump of clay into a functional art piece. She will reveal how she came to love working with clay over the past year, embarking on her second career after retiring from government after 30 years of service.

The Brewery Arts Center in Carson City is holding a special free screening of the indie-movie “Lack of Cockery,” written and directed by Josh Mitchell, this Friday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. in the BAC Performance Hall.

Such beautiful weather this week. True to Nevada luck, the chill returns in time for the weekend. Keep your fingers crossed that the storm front brings some precipitation our way. One place it’s seasonally appropriate is the Nevada Artist Association Gallery at the Brewery Arts Center. They will be hosting an artists’ reception for their new Winter Art Show Saturday evening.

The Jug Stompers performing Saturday at Brewery Arts Center are Mark Kuniya, Natalie Nielson, and Krista Jenkins. They have been raising a ruckus in the Reno-Tahoe area for almost ten years with an intoxicating blend of primitive blues, ragtime, and country and western music of the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Carson City native Michelle Lassaline is featured in a special SENarts event at the Nevada Legislature from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24. Lassaline invites the public to meet and interact with some of her fanciful characters, including the Highland Cow, Pashmina Goat, Mountain Bluebird, and Wild Burro. Her presentation is part of “The Work of Artists,” a series of programs scheduled throughout the legislative session. Admission is free.

The Children's Museum of Northern Nevada presents Asian New Year Celebration this Saturday, Feb. 21, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Gun Hay Fat Choy Welcome to the year of the Sheep Arts and Crafts, Dragon Head Masks, Chinese Lanterns and More Tsuru No Kai Taiko Drums at 11:30 am. Free with admission/membership. More info: 884-2226.
The Museum is located at 813 N Carson St, Carson City.

Rich and Robin McGregor are proud to announce the Grand Opening of the new location of their school and studio , Carson City Pottery. Please join them on Friday, Feb. 27, from 4 to 8 p.m. at The Crossroads Shopping Plaza in North Carson City on East Winnie Lane.

"After spending 5 years renting space from the Children’s Museum of Northern Nevada, we felt it was time to make a move which would make us more accessible to the community. Most people didn’t even know we were there!”

The words of great poets come to life on stage across the state as more than 3,100 high school-aged students compete to represent their county at the 10th Annual Nevada Poetry Out Loud State Finals at the Siena Hotel in Reno on March 14, 2015 from noon to 3 p.m.

Leah Brewster, 6, was among more than 30 children who decorated Mardi Gras masks at a craft event at the Carson City Library in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. For more information about ongoing youth activities at the Carson City Library, call 887-2244 ext. 1006.

The nation’s biggest selling rock band will celebrate Independence Day one day earlier at Lake Tahoe.
Aerosmith will return July 3 to the Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys, Director of Entertainment John Packer told Tahoe Onstage this morning.

Rounding out the three-day weekend, happy President's Day. Here's what's going on in and around Carson City today, Feb. 16, 2015:

• Animal Protection Day at the Legislature
• ’Pine Spirit’ by basket maker Sande Rowan at the LXS Gallery in the Legislature Building
• Opening Day of the Winter Art Show at the Nevada Artists Association Gallery in the Brewery Arts Center (10am-4pm)

Voice artist and Improv actor Mike Wiencek is featured in this week's Carson City artist spotlight. Wiencek co-hosts Improv workshops in the Black Box Theater of the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City on the second and third Thursdays of each month and Improv Night with performances on the first Friday nights of every month.

Five big nights of music have already been announced for the Harveys Outdoor Concert series at Lake Tahoe this summer and tickets are already selling. More concerts will be announced in the coming weeks.

The popular South Lake Tahoe spot will host Train as they tour the US on their Picasso at the Wheel Summer Tour. Train will be joined by The Fray and Matt Nathanson on Tuesday, July 21.

Where to start? This weekend is chock-full of options. The local 4-H club is hosting their annual Fabric and Rummage Sale at Fuji Park. The Annual Feast of Chocolate, hosted by AAUW, is Saturday afternoon at the Plaza Event Center. The Vagina Monologues and One Billion Rising are both raising awareness this V-Day weekend for women’s issues.

Molly Seals' attempt to be the next American Idol ended Wednesday, but not her love of singing.
The 22-year-old Carson City cosmetologist was cut from the "American Idol" competition on Wednesday's program, during the group singing auditions, but she already has several singing performances scheduled.

At the MHJ Black Box Theater at the Brewery Arts Center.

Mixed Company will perform all of their fun dance cover music on February 20, 2015 at 7pm.

Come and dance to your favorite tunes - Rock 'n Roll, Country, Old and New!!!

Johnny, Dave, Keith, Perry and Jim will ROCK your World!!!!

Foodies & High Tea Bistro will have food/drinks sales available and you can order right from your table with texting to your wait person!

The Carson City Symphony invites the public to a concert celebrating the seasons on Sunday, March 1, 2015, at 4 p.m. at the Carson City Community Center.
This exciting program features eight seasons: "The Four Seasons" by Antonio Vivaldi and "The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires" by Astor Piazzolla. Both are directed by David Bugli and feature guest violin soloist Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio and narrator Rita Geil. STRAZZ youth strings will join the orchestra in Vivaldi's Autumn and Winter.

Celtic harpist Anne Roos of South Lake Tahoe was part of the Grammy winning album, Winds of Samsara. The album won the Grammy in the best New Age category Sunday in Los Angeles.

Roos played on the track, Eyes of Wonder, which was recorded in Reno at Tanglewood Studios. The studio's President and Founder Michael Eardley engineered the track.

The Brewery Arts Center, Carson TV and Wired Wednesday Digital Arts Club announce a new film competition, the first "St. Paddy's Film Crawl: A Short Filmmaking Competition" with screening and judging March 14. Registration deadline has been extended to midnight, Wednesday, March 4.

Films cannot be less than 1 minute or more than 10 minutes in length. They must utilize one fact about St. Patrick's Day and can be Documentary or Mockumentary in nature.

Looks like our rain and snow dances finally did the trick, but don’t let the weather scare you away from downtown this weekend. The Downtown Business Association’s Wine Walk, Artsy Fartsy’s Annual Jewelry Sale, Just Brew It’s Annual Thirsty Boy Home Brew Competition, and Family Fun Day at the Nevada State Museum are all hoping to lure you out of your home. Leave your ice skates at home though, the Arlington Square ice rink has closed for the season.

The perfect reason to peruse the downtown shops and find a Valentine's gift for your special someone arrives Feb. 7. The Carson City Downtown Wine Walk is always held, rain or shine, the first Saturday of the month from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The next installment of the Mike Thomas Lecture Series is 'Tesla: Eccentric Genius' at the Plaza Hotel, Friday, Feb. 13 at 7pm. Doors will open at 6:30pm, the lecture will cost $5 and light appetizers will be served.

The life of Nicola Tesla is the story of one of the greatest minds in history. He was a troubled man, fighting his own demons, while expanding the limits of science with ideas far beyond his time.

Presented by the Sierra Nevada Alliance, South Tahoe Earth Day Committee and Patagonia South Lake Tahoe, the 10th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival South Lake Tahoe combines award-winning environmental and adventure films with the energy of local activism. Featured films will include exciting outdoor adventures, environmental battles and inspirational stories of people making a difference. The Film Festival will take place on Thursday, March 26, 2015 at the MontBleu Showroom.

High Sierra Swing Dance Club presents its monthly dance party Feb. 28 at the Brewery Arts Center’s Grand Ballroom, 449 W. King St., Carson City. At 6:30 p.m. Dani Canziani will teach an intermediate west coast swing lesson. Social dance is 7:30-10 p.m. Partners are not required. Lesson $7 for HSSDC and any swing dance club members or $10 for nonmembers; dance $7 for members of swing clubs and $10 for nonmembers. Join the club that night, and the dance is free. This is the month that Michelle Kinkaid's Fun Train dancers from the bay area join us.

The Carson City Chamber of Commerce held an open house Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015 to unveil its new Artisan Showcase. The works of talented artists from within the region are now showcased along with metal artisan Robbie St Clair who created a special sculpture for the event.

The chamber recently finished an overhaul of its building including adding the Artisan Showcase where local art and jewelry are sold. It commissioned St Clair to recreate the Carson City freeway eagle to a size suitable for displaying in homes or on desks.

“Family Fun Saturdays” returns to the Nevada State Museum in Carson City with “Fun with Rock Art and Coyote Stories” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7. Guests will be challenged to look at images of Nevada rock art and ask how it fits into understanding American Indian culture and archaeology, what it is, where it came from and how it can be protected.