After more than 40 years under the same owners, the venerable Louis’ Basque Corner restaurant in Reno has changed hands. The landmark restaurant had been run by Louis and Lorraine Erreguible since it opened in 1967. Unlike other Basque restaurants, which hired younger cooks, Louis Erreguible continued to oversee the kitchen over the years. Originally from Mauleon, Zuberoa, Louis was [...]

A website dedicated to digital language learning has unveiled a series of interactive games to help people learn the Basque language known as Euskera. Developed by Digital Dialects, the program features text and audio games that teach phrases in Euskera, as well as the names for numbers, animals and colors. There are also games designed to help users build and [...]

The $5,000 grand prize would go to the last ticketholder. But there were two numbers left in the ticket drum.

Noriega Hotel, a Basque cultural landmark in the West, has received the prestigious James Beard Foundation’s American Classics Award, which is bestowed annually upon a select group of restaurants. “The America’s Classics award is given to restaurants with timeless appeal [and] beloved for quality food that reflects the character of their community,” the foundation said in a statement announcing this [...]

Two San Francisco restaurant owners are planning to open Txoko, where chefs will specialize in Basque-style pintxos. The new restaurant is named in honor of popular Basque gastronomical societies, where people gather to drink wine, socialize and cook sumptuous dishes. Txoko will be located in North Beach at 504 Broadway near Columbus, an area where a cluster of former Basque [...]

Speakers, students and aficionados of the Basque language can now download a free android app with a dictionary that translates words in Euskera and Spanish The app has a memory to store all the translated words so internet traffic is reduced and translated words can be accessed with minimal connection problems, according to developer Arima Pinturi. You can download the [...]

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 [...]