Wildfires, overdevelopment, and easy access to garbage have brought Tahoe's bears into increasingly close contact with their human neighbors. One local described a bear as "a five-hundred-pound police battering ram."
U.S. JOURNAL
Lake Tahoe, "the jewel of the Sierra Nevada," is an unusually clear, deep alpine lake that is twelve miles wide and twenty-two miles long. It straddles two states: California on the west shore, which is damper and greener, and Nevada on the east, which gives way, almost immediately, to high desert. "A kind of heaven," John Muir called Tahoe, in 1878, after raving about the diameter of its snowflakes and "lusty exercise on snow-shoes." Tahoe is about a third of the size of Yosemite National Park, yet attracts three times the number of annual visitors. During the pandemic, several thousand people, including a lot of Bay Area tech types, fully relocated to the lake, joining seventy thousand or so locals. Tahoe couldn't handle it. The traffic, the noise, the illegal parking-the trash. Last year's Fourth of July crowds left an unprecedented four tons of garbage on the beaches alone. Fodor's named Lake Tahoe one of the world's "natural attractions that could use a break in order to heal and rejuvenate," and suggested that outsiders avoid visiting for a while. The other day in Tahoe, I learned a new word: "touron," a combination of "tourist" and "moron."
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BADDIE ISSUES
\"Wicked\" and \"Gladiator II.\"
LET'S MAKE A DEAL
\"Death Becomes Her\" and \"Burnout Paradise.\"
ANTI HEROES
\"The Franchise,\" on HBO.
FELLOW-TRAVELLERS
The surprisingly sunny origins of the Frankfurt School.
NOW YOU SEE ME
John Singer Sargent's strange, slippery portraits of an art dealer's family.
PARIS FRIEND - SHUANG XUETAO
Xiaoguo had a terror of thirst, so he kept a glass of water on the table beside his hospital bed. As soon as it was empty, he asked me to refill it. I wanted to warn him that this was unhealthy - guzzling water all night long puts pressure on the kidneys, and pissing that much couldn't be good for his injury. He was tall, though, so I decided his insides could probably cope.
WILD SIDE
Is Lake Tahoe's bear boom getting out of hand?
GETTING A GRIP
Robots learn to use their hands.
WITHHOLDING SEX FROM MY WIFE
In the wake of [the] election, progressive women, who are outraged over Donald Trump's victory at the ballot box, have taken to social media with public, vengeful vows of chastity. - The Free Press.
DEADLINE EXTENSION
Old age, reborn.