annual event

Take advantage of the spring sunshine and seize the day. Virginia City roars with the sound of their annual Grand Prix. Beer and brats aren’t usually associated with ballet, but the Sierra Nevada Ballet makes the annual event at the Brewery Arts Center a great time for all. The Earth Spirit Faire wraps up its weekend of wellness at the Community Center. Head to Reno for a Cinco De Mayo Celebration at the Grand Sierra that features musicians, cuisine, and carnival rides.

SUNDAY:

The Earth Spirit Faire has returned to the Nevada state capital, featuring several craft vendors and practitioners in the healing arts, massage, and intuitive readings inside the Carson City Community Center gymnasium Saturday and Sunday.

Hold on to your hat, the weekend is here. If it’s a cowboy hat, head over to Genoa for their annual Cowboy Festival. Plenty of free things to see, hear, and experience await. The annual Spring Earth Spirit Faire lets you celebrate Mother Earth with workshops, holistic practitioners, great vendors, and a raffle. It benefits the Heart to Heart School and Advocates to End Domestic Violence so it’s always worth checking out. You’ll have to keep reading for all of your choices, the spring thaw brings out the best this valley has to offer.

SATURDAY:

Sierra Nevada Ballet will perform Brew, Brats, and Ballet this Sunday, April 30, 4 p.m. at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City. Tickets can be purchased breweryarts.org.

Whether it's snowboarders, skiers, cyclists, runners or swimmers, Olympic and elite athletes utilize Lake Tahoe to push their training regimens to the limit with challenging and breathtaking terrain.

Mark Twain Elementary School will host its community wide My School Color Run this Saturday, April 22, 10 a.m. at Mills Park in Carson City.

Participants are encouraged to sign in early beginning at 9 a.m. The two mile event, a fundraiser for the school, is designed as all ages walk, jog or run and is for all fitness abilities.

During the event, participants pass through designated color zones as part of an enhanced spring time bounty of full on colorful experiences. This is the second annual event.

Nine years ago, the Kiwanis Club of Carson City, established in 1959, were approached by the Jaycee’s of Carson City. For 30 years they had sponsored and provided the annual Easter Egg Hunt, primarily at Governor’s Field on Easter Sunday.

Rosa Munguia and her children Kimberly, 9, and Lorenzo Lopez, 5, talk with Carson City Librarian Aubrey White during an Early Childhood Expo on Saturday at the Boys and Girls Club of Western Nevada. The Carson City Early Childhood Advisory Council holds the annual event to provide information to families about early childhood resources in Carson City.

For the second consecutive year, Pets of the Homeless has been the beneficiary of a local, grass-roots fundraising event sponsored by Chef Jose "Don Pepe" Noriega-Paz and hosted by the Downtown Coin Club on Telegraph Street in Carson City.

With just a few hours of 2016 remaining on the West Coast, arguably the world's largest New Year's Eve bash in New York City's Times Square culminated at 9 p.m. Pacific Standard Time with the real time midnight ball drop watched by guests at the Carson Plaza Hotel Events Center Saturday night in Carson City.

Share the love this holiday season by making a food or supply contribution at a food drive on Friday, Dec. 23 to help support the Carson City Meals on Wheels program.

Rural Nevada is the recipient of more than $500,000 in grants from the Nevada Commission on Tourism (NCOT) to aid in the marketing efforts of local tourism organizations, announced Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison.

CARSON CITY, Nev. – Christmas came early for children across Northern Nevada, thanks to the generosity of Sparks-based plumbing and industrial distributor, Western Nevada Supply.

Organizers of the annual Holiday Crawl estimate they made about $10,000 for the Holiday with a Hero shopping spree that benefits children in need in the community.

Carson Now was told this Saturday morning that rain or shine the drive through Nativity was going to happen. Carson Now was encouraged to let people know that rain or shine the event was going to happen. This was obviously not the case. Organizers were forced to cancel the event for Saturday due to road conditions after being contacted by Carson City officials. Carson Now regrets this error on behalf of organizers.
**
Rain or shine, Carson City's annual Drive Through Living Nativity will be held this weekend. The annual event will be Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 10-11, 6:30-8 p.m. Enter at Division and King Streets, west of Carson Street.

At the end of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Ebenezer Scrooge surprises the humble Cratchit family with a prize turkey for Christmas dinner. Although that story is fiction, the Northern Nevada Dream Center's (NNDC) annual Dream Christmas dinner event in Carson City is not.

This annual event is to help the RSVP,Nevada Rural Counties Retired and Senior Volunteer Program with their mission to help frail, homebound, and low-income seniors remain independent by providing high quality programs which allow them to stay in their own homes with dignity.

Xing Bridges looks forward to entertaining you for this special event at Mills Park , 1111 East Williams Street, Carson City
There will be carnival Rides, games, food, crafts and of course... MUSIC !

We look forward to seeing you there!

Recognized as one of a handful of the most haunted towns in the U.S., Virginia City rattles the chains, cages, ballroom floor and railroad tracks for the rest of the month as part of its “Hauntober” celebration, offering up ghostly adventures culminating Oct. 31, Nevada Day and Halloween.

The sight of a pair of outhouses barreling down the street with thousands cheering them on in an all-out, old school potty race would probably be considered an odd form of entertainment almost anywhere, but not in Virginia City.

This annual fall tradition on the Comstock, the World Championship Outhouse Races, takes place the first weekend of October and pits teams of three costumed outhouse racers against each other, sprinting down the town’s historic main street, C Street, toward the toilet paper finish line.

Registration is open for the 27th Nevada Day Classic to Benefit Guide Dogs for the Blind that will be held Saturday, October 29.

Since 1989, the Nevada Day Classic has been an annual event presented by the Tahoe Mountain Milers. This 8k run and 2 mile run/walk brings together hundreds of runners and walkers of all shapes, and sizes who hit the streets of the historic West Side of Carson City with Guide Dog Puppies-in-Training who serve as course marshals to cheer them on!

This week's It's Your City with host Cortney Bloomer features Eric Sell, sponsorship director for Edible Pedal. The sixth annual event will be held on Sunday, Sept. 18 with bicycle rides and food tasting that runs between Carson City and Reno.

Curry Street, from Third to Spear, was jammed with vendor tents and thousands of walking palates eager to get a taste of downtown Carson City.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hosts its eighth annual clothing drive to lend a hand to families in the Carson City, Minden, Gardnerville, and Dayton, Nevada communities to obtain clothes for school.
The event is open to the public on Saturday, August 13, from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel located at 411 N. Saliman Road, Carson City.

The inaugural Carson City Off-Road racing series, part of the Epic Rides mountain biking circuit, was more than successful.

It was epic.

Todd Sadow, co-founder and president of Epic Rides, said the race around the Nevada state capital exceeded expectations.

Downtown is the place to be Saturday with over twelve hours jam packed full of fun. The Third and Curry Farmers Market begins at 8:30 a.m. From there head north on Curry to the Spring Vintage Faire at Due Sorella. Stick around for the Downtown Business Association Wine Walk at 1 p.m. The Rotary Club brings you the Capital City Brewfest at 3 p.m. Family friendly fun hits the outdoor stage at the Brewery Arts Center: Mumbo Gumbo will have you dancing in the street.

Performing the best of Cole Porter to Stevie Wonder, the Reno Jazz Orchestra’s 17-piece jazz band will present “Music of the Masters” - a live performance of blues, swing, and soul with award winning vocalists Jamie Davis and Clairdee on Friday, September 2 at the Robert Z Hawkins Amphitheatre in Reno, NV, and Saturday, September 3rd, at Sand Harbor State Park on the edge of Lake Tahoe’s north shore.

Tickets for Music of the Masters can be purchased on line at RenoJazzOrchestra.org. These family-friendly two-hour concerts start at 7:30 p.m.

With this year's "Paint Your World Purple" theme, hundreds gathered at Mills Park in Carson City on Saturday for Relay for Life to benefit the American Cancer Society.

University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s 4-H presents Capital City Farm Days this Thursday and Friday at Fuji Park in Carson City,

Thirty presenters, including representatives from the Nevada Department of Agriculture, the Bureau of Land Management, the Nevada State Museum, and other local and state agriculture and natural resources organizations, will teach preschool and elementary-age youth about Nevada agriculture, where food and fiber come from, and environmental issues related to agriculture.

This week's It's Your City with host Cortney Bloomer features Laura Main of Wired Wednesday Digital Artists. The two discuss the upcoming 2016 City Wide Short Film Competition, an annual event for budding Carson City area filmmakers.

The 2016 City Wide Short Film competition kicks off on Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at noon. Up-and-coming filmmakers are urged to enter and make a movie in over the course of one week. See the video below.

A mountain of star-filled concerts, blockbuster festivals, heart-pounding athletic competitions, fireworks, and tee-to-green celebrity golf action are on-tap this summer at Tahoe South.

Tahoe South Favorites