Urko Menaia, a folk singer from Donostia-San Sebastian, is currently touring the United States, playing concerts in four Basque communities in the next two weeks. Menaia will play in Gardnerville, Nev., Littleton, Colo., New York City and Newport, R.I. He made a stop in Vancouver, Canada, playing for the Basque club there on August 6. He will be playing this [...]

The historic JT Basque Bar & Dining Room in Gardnerville became a Hollywood film set this week when Emile Hirsch and Dakota Fanning showed up to shoot their latest feature film. The two actors and crew members were filming scenes for “The Motel Life,” based on a novel about two working-class brothers who flee a Reno motel after a fatal [...]

Basque history and culture in the Eastern Sierra Nevada will be featured during the 2010 Basque High Country Heritage Celebration that will held this weekend near Gardnerville, Nevada. The two-day event, on June 26 and 27, will include two guided hikes, a lecture by University of Nevada Reno Professor Joxe Mallea and traditional Basque food prepared by JT Basque Bar [...]

By Joxe Mallea Stephanie Braña has an unusual hobby–if we can call it that–which is chopping logs. No doubt she inherited the inclination from her aita (dad) Juan Braña, a well-known aizkolari (woodchopper), who delights audiences at Basque festivals throughout the American West by axing logs as if they were made of butter.

A wood chopping competition, an afternoon barbecue and a NABO-sponsored celebration of Basque music will be among the events in the spotlight this weekend at the Gardnerville Basque Picnic. The day-long festival will be held this Saturday. Typically, the event attracts hundreds of people each year.