March 2013 Concerts in Tahoe: The Expendables, Umphrey's McGee, Emancipator, moe
Feb 27-Mar 3 Rondell Sheridan / Todd Sawyer @ Improv at Harvey's
March 01-03 Snow Fest feat. Space Cowboys / UNIMOOG & Fireworks display @ Squaw Valley
March 03 Tahoe Bridal Show @ Montbleu
All hail The Yeti / Infecto Skeletons / Kryptic Memories @ Whisky Dick's
McCoy Tyler Band @ Northstar
March 05-06 moe. w/ Orgone afterparty w. Twiddle (the 5th) or The Congress (the 6th) @ Crystal Bay Club
March 05 DJ Figital @ Northstar
Equinox / Beat Karma / Phil Harmonic @ Whisky Dick's
March 6-10 Scott Kennedy / Carlie & Doni
March 06 The Expendables feat. Tomorrow's Bad Seeds @ Montbleu
Johnny 5 (Ritual SF) /TYMK (Mindful Massive)/ AUX / J Mouth @ The Grid in King's beach
Tone Cookin @ McP's
March 07 Battle of the bands feat: The Nickel Slots, Altered Ego, Island of Black and White
& Dr. Luna @ Harvey's Hard Rock Cafe
Sean Peabody / Tony D'Andrea @ Cryatal Bay Club
March 08-09 4 Way Street @ McP's
March 08 8th annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival @ Montbleu
The Congress / Dad's LPs @ Himmel Haus
Austin Quattlebaum, The Rugs, Molly Taylor @ Whisky Dick's
Polyrythmics or Archnemesis feat. DeeJay Theory @ Crystal Bay Club
March 09 Free Guided Snowshoe Hike @ Van Sickle Bi-State Park 10AM
Jose Feliciano @ Harrah's
Black Rock City All Stars / Community Project / Zeb Early / Weapon @ American legion
The Rugs, Miss Molly Taylor, Austin Quattlebaum @ Divided Sky
Polecat @ Village at Squaw Valley
Acronycal @ Bar of America in Truckee
Dirtybird Invasion featuring Justin & Christian Martin, Worthy plus Flook @ Lakeside at Night
Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers w/ Easy Leaves afterparty w/ Polacat @ Crystal Bay Club
March 10 Sapient / Evil Ebenezer / Jonzen / Smear Tactics / Minions of the Moon @ Whisky Dick's
March 12 Gurbtron / Zombass / S1nth3syS @ Whisky Dick's
Bass Science w/ Roksmyth @ Crystal Bay Club
March 13-17 Mark Pita @ Improv at Harvey's
March 13 Micah J / Rad Habbit / Shane Suffriti @ The Grid in King's Beach
March 14 Battle of the Bands: The Melodramatics, Screaming Meg, Some Fear None & Street Urchinz @ Hard Rock Cafe
Greensky Bluegrass w/ Ryan Montbleau @ Crystal Bay Club
March 15 MMA at the Lake feat. Ryan McCarthy, Cory Carlson, Rio Model, Josh Teeter @ Montbleu
Party with MMA fighters @ PEEK Tahoe at Harrah's
Tahoe-Douglas Rotary St. Patrick's Day Celebration @ harrah's
ZuhG @ Himmel Haus
Ron's Garage band @ McP's
The Nigel Hall Band feat. Lettuce / jellybread @ Crystal Bay Club
March 16 PANTyRAID, Marty Party, and Glitch Mob @ Montbleu
Project Aspect, Amine Edge, PRSN, Ireyes, TYMK, @ RAW bar
Volagio feat. Abatis and Molly taylor @ Whisky Dick's
DJ SDF @ Northstar
Conspirator ft. Aron Manger and Marc Brownstein of Disco Biscuits, NVO afterparty w/ Comma and Live Robot
@ Crystal Bay CLub
March 17 ST PATRICK'S DAY
Umphrey's McGee w/ Bright Light Social Hour @ Montbleu
Northstar / Jackson and Jesus @ McP's St. Patrick's party
Natalie Gelman @ Big Springs Day Lodge
March 17-24 2013 Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships @ Squaw Valley
March 19 Love and Light / Jpod the beat chef / The Pilor / Irieyes @ Whisky Dick's
Andrew the Pirate w/ IJV @ Crystal Bay Club
March 20-24 Ben Gleib / Karen Morgan @ Improv at Harvey's
March 20 Animal Coalition of Tahoe's Bowling Benefit @ Tahoe Bowl
Reno Sound Collective Takeover Round 1: Wombat Combat, Heidalicious, & UVR @ The Grid in King's Beach
March 21 Battle of the Bands finale @ Hard Rock Cafe
March 22 Sage Francis, B. Dolan, Logic One, Golden Gloves @ Blu Nightclub in Montbleu
Tahoe Business Expo @ Harrah's convention center
Trunk Monkey @ McP's
Hans Erbach @ West Shore Cafe
Midnite / Arden Park Roots @ Crystal Bay Club
March 23 Rob Schneider @ Montbleu
Abbacadabra @ Harrah's
Rail Jam feat. Anti-Social / Dirt Starship / Screaming Meg / Occupi @ Classic Cue
EMANCIPATOR, LITTLE PEOPLE, ODEZSZA @ Tahoe Biltmore
Sage Francis appearance @ Mad About Music
Afrolicious / B. Bravo & Philharmonic @ Crystal Bay Club
March 24 PDP / Aghori / Short Fuse @ Whisky Dicks
March 26 Unlimited Gravity w/ Irieyes (Mindfull Massive) @ Crystal Bay Club
March 27-31 Shayla Rivera / Rick D'Elia @ Improv at Harvey's
Sprint Freestyle tour @ Heavenly
March 28 Groove Session @ Himmel Haus
March 29 The Rising Sun / Molly Taylor @ Whisky Dick's
Silent Disco @ Montbleu
Good Gravy @ Himmel Haus
Steve Kimock Band ft. Bernie Worrell, Wally Ingram & Andy Hess / Cherry Royale @ Crystal Bay CLub
March 30 Simple Creation / Weapon / Dyemusica @ Whisky Dick's
Jelly Bread / 4 Piece Puzzle @ Himmel Haus
Bomba Estereo afterparty w/ Pleasuremaker and Haylestorm @ Crystal Bay Club
March 31 Gypsyhawk / Mothership / Space Vacation @ Whisky Dick's
Donovan Frankenreiter w/ RayLand Baxter @ Crystal Bay Club
Abridged list, full list and playlist at:
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)