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The Brewery Arts Center continues an unforgettable season of free music under the stars in Carson City. With 8 concerts to go all summer, grab your family, friends and neighbors and get ready to head on down to Carson City and Brewery Arts Center for Levitt AMP Carson City presented by The Change Companies.

The Brewery Arts Center continues its unforgettable season of free music under the stars in Carson City. With 9 concerts left this summer, grab your family, friends and neighbors and get ready to head on down to Carson City and Brewery Arts Center’s newest community treasure.

Sorry – It’s such a common word. It’s intention and meaning vary from person to person. It could be nothing more than pre-conditioned response or a heartfelt, sincere understanding of wrongdoing. Regardless of what goes wrong, even in business and customer relationships, the first inclination is to say sorry. However, what is sorry without something to back it up?

Yesterday, I woke up at 5 a.m. to start my radio show, Drive Time: Your Motivational Drive in the Morning, airing 6 to 8 a.m. every Monday on KNVC 95.1 FM Carson City Community Radio. Having a morning show seemed like a pipe dream a year ago.

Ever messed up? That should be a rhetorical question. Because, the truth is, we all have. We have all fallen short. Sometimes the mistakes are small. Other times they are big. At the time of a mistake, we reach a crossroads. Do we hide in shame and continue to make the mistake worse?

A new scholarship through the Western Nevada College Foundation honors the memory of Michael Albert Dugan. The Mike Dugan Memorial Scholarship will be awarded annually to a Fallon, Churchill County or rural student to be used toward materials for online or Fallon campus classes.

According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.” Beauty and art can both be found at Carson City's Pioneer High School.

VIRGINIA CITY, Nev. — Noted musician Dave Helwig will be performing at Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City on Saturday, May 26, at 6 p.m. Helwig has a storied background which began at only 16-years-old when he managed to win a talent contest. It ended up being a springboard for the talented singer, songwriter and musician.

Hello Carson City! It’s been a bit since I’ve written a column. May has been a whirlwind, which started with a pre-graduation meditation retreat with Mindful USC. I was honored to be one of two alumni present on a silent meditation retreat with 30 people. The remaining 28 were USC professors and employees. After the retreat, I worked in Los Angeles for two days before participating in commencement activities.

Muscle Powered: Citizens for a Walkable and Bikeable Carson City announced the “No Zombie Texting” award winners May 16 at The Brewery Arts Center, showcasing winning videos so the public could see the creative endeavors of young video artists from the community.

CARSON CITY — Members of the State Apprenticeship Council approved Tuesday the first cybersecurity program in the state. Several occupations across multiple in-demand sectors such as information technology and advanced manufacturing were also approved, including the first occupation in hospitality with MGM Resorts International.

Nick Meyer, operations director for The Union Carson City, presented Courtney Warner, executive director for the Carson City Senior Center, with a check for $400. The Union provided beverage service for last month’s Carson’s Got Talent fundraiser benefiting Meals on Wheels Carson City.

CARSON CITY — Hannah Golik, a graduating senior at Carson High School, has been named one of 630 semifinalists in the 2018 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. The semifinalists were selected from nearly 5,300 candidates expected to graduate from U.S. high schools in the year 2018.

Carson High School graduate and Reno-based filmmaker Tyler Bourns is announcing the launch of a new feature film called “Desert Shadows.”

His award-winning company, Bourns Productions, Inc., has been producing commercials, tourism, corporate, web series, and music videos in the Northern Nevada region for nearly ten years.

To residents and visitors of Winnemucca, the name Martin means food and family.

The historic Martin Hotel, constructed in 1878, has stood as a pillar of both for more than a century.

Tickets are on sale for the 10th annual Concert Under The Stars, A Benefit for The Greenhouse Project as they welcome Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Jefferson Starship, with special guest Midnight North, Grateful Dead and company’s proteges, Wednesday, July 11 at Brewery Arts Center, Carson City.

Western Nevada College’s much anticipated True Grit art exhibit in the Bristlecone Gallery has the Carson City community engaged and excited. As part of the exhibit that will open Thursday, artists from around the state have been creating works from a canceled deck of playing cards from local casinos.

The Western Nevada FC Coyotes entered this weekend knowing they had two league matches on back-to-back days. WNFC headed on the road Saturday to play JASA RWC where they earned one point with a 4-4 draw.

A new local band is set to debut in Carson City with musical sound that has been 40 years in the making.

Stonewood, an acoustical vocal harmony band assembled locally in Carson City, takes the A to Zen stage on Saturday, May 5 for a break-out concert.

Tanja Musselman, a native Nevadan, has been taking photographs since she was about 10, excelling during her time at Carson City High School. During the past few years, she has come back to her favored roots and photographs anything that pleases her eye. Every photo is pleasing both visually and spiritually.

Join us this Thursday, May 3, from 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. for an artist reception for Tanja. She will be on hand for a meet and greet, and light refreshments will be served. Her work will be on special display for the month of May.

The countdown to an unforgettable season of free concerts under the stars in Carson City is underway with Thursday's announcement of the 2018 Levitt AMP Carson City Music Series lineup of artists who will perform at the Brewery Arts Center’s Minnesota Street Stage each Saturday through summer.

It seems, this week, so many I know have lost something. Whether it’s a job, health, a relationship, or an expectation, loss is real. It’s emotionally hard. In some cases, it’s a crisis. Loss of a client can hurt or kill a business if a contingency plan isn’t in place. Losing a job or a partner can be life altering. So, how can you recover faster?

The Senior Center recently hosted ‘Carson’s Got Talent,’ so they know the caliber of performers hidden in our midst. Auditions for their annual show, Senior Follies, continue this evening and are open to all ages. CCAI’s art exhibit in the Community Development Building on E. Proctor features work from several high school artists. Join them in celebrating this young talent at a reception tonight. The day should be gorgeous; a hike with Muscle Powered is the perfect way to embrace the spring.

This past Saturday night, the Western Nevada FC Coyotes climbed to the top of the Wild West Conference and into the national top 20 rankings with the 4-1 home victory over Napa Sporting SC.

Mile High Jazz Band Association and Carson City present the 15th Annual Jazz and Beyond Music and Art Festival. It features 17 days of Music, Art, and Film at multiple venues in Carson City, from Aug. 3-19.

In 1973, Joseph Beuys said, “Every man is an artist.”

Beuys explained that only art is capable of building an effective social system, and “This most modern art discipline — Social Sculpture/Social Architecture — will only reach fruition when every living person becomes a creator, a sculptor, or architect of the social organism.”

Kyra Gonzales, 11, of Carson City, claimed the top prize of $500 cash at Carson’s Got Talent, the regional talent competition benefiting Meals on Wheels Carson City, last Saturday evening.

The projects are piling high like the snow on the summit of the Sierra Mountains. You are suffocated. You can’t breathe. The air is thin. There’s too much to do and no time to do it. You’ve hit overwhelm and you shut down. You Netflix and chill or find some way to forget about it, just making the matter worse. The pile gets bigger the more time you don’t tend to it, which just makes the overwhelm worse.

Carson’s Got Talent, a talent show featuring performers from Reno, Lake Tahoe, Carson City, Douglas County, Dayton and Yerington, lifted the audience Saturday while raising money for the Carson City Meals On Wheels program.

Carson’s Got Talent, a talent show featuring performers from Reno, Lake Tahoe, Carson City, Douglas County, Dayton and Yerington, hits the stage at the Bob Boldrick Theater in Carson City Saturday, April 14 at 6:30 p.m.