Sylas Wright

1 month ago | tahoequarterly.com | Sylas Wright

Architect Will Bruder stands inside the newest desert gallery at the Nevada Museum of Art A Bold New Canvas Posted at 03:12h in Arts, Best of Tahoe 2025 Sixty middle school children shuffle through a white concrete museum gallery flanked by paintings of Indigenous life, woven baskets and beaded bottles—some old, some new. Indigenous art, depicting a life separate from today’s urban culture, connects them to a larger, more magnificent world than they had previously imagined. On the floor...

1 month ago | tahoequarterly.com | Sylas Wright

Founded in 2014 with a brewery and taproom in Incline Village, and expanded with a pair of buzzy full-service pubs in Incline and Truckee, award-winning Alibi Ale Works is barreling headlong into its next decade of bringing hoppiness to North Tahoe and beyond. We chatted with co-founder and CEO Kevin Drake about alibis of all sorts. How did you and co-founder Rich Romo come up with the concept for Alibi Ale Works?

1 month ago | tahoequarterly.com | Sylas Wright

Bike Park is Life Posted at 03:45h in Best of Tahoe 2025, Outdoors Before the advent of modern bike parks, if kids weren’t racing BMX on a proper track, they were building janky jumps out of plywood and foot stools in driveways, sidewalks and cul-de-sacs across America.

1 month ago | tahoequarterly.com | Sylas Wright

Settlers in horse-drawn wagons once crossed the Sierra Nevada in search of a better tomorrow, lured by the glow of gold on the horizon. The mineral may not be magnetic, but it still managed to exert a pull on the rest of the country and world, famously bringing hundreds of thousands of eager treasure-seekers to California starting in 1849. While some pioneers journeyed through Panama and arrived in San Francisco, many chose to travel overland, trekking over what is now Echo Summit.

1 month ago | tahoequarterly.com | Sylas Wright

The early days at Heavenly Valley, photo courtesy Vail Resorts 25 of the Best Things to Happen to Tahoe Posted at 03:55h in Best of Tahoe 2025, Features With the magazine’s “Best of Tahoe” theme in mind, this cherry-pick through Tahoe’s history was compiled with input from several longtime local residents and community leaders, with items listed in roughly chronological order. Do some of the selections have “shadows?” Undoubtedly. While historic events are often captured in monochrome photos,...