Time to celebrate the fall with food and drink: You can sample creations by regional chefs paired with area wines at the Downtown Truckee Wine, Walk & Shop.
The event will be from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday. Participating restaurants include favorites such as Moody's Bistro & Lounge, the Pacific Crest Grill at the Bar of America, FiftyFifty, Burger Me!, and the Dragonfly, along with newcomers Trokay Café, Church Street Deli, Diego's Beyond Bueno, Best Pies, Wagon Train, Zia Lina and the Ritz Carlton Lake Tahoe's Manzanita.
New galleries have opened their doors recently – Tahoe Blu, Dressed, Bolam Gallery and Art Obsessions, among them. Nearly 40 wineries will be pouring.
In a pre-event Friday evening, a Stomp Out Hunger Grape Stomp will occur at the Truckee River Winery Tasting Room with music beginning at 4 p.m. and stomping at 5 p.m. In a fundraiser for Sierra Senior Services, four-member teams will pay $150 to participate. Spectators pay $15, and that includes wine tastings and appetizers (530-550-7600 or sierraseniors.org).
Tickets for the walk itself are $30 in advance and $40 on Saturday, plus a $3 service charge for online sales. Each ticket includes wine tastings, five food tickets, a commemorative glass, program/passport, and goodie bag. Passports can be stamped at each location, making holders eligible for a raffle that offers a variety of gift certificates (530-550-2252 or TruckeeWineWalk.com).
Around the Silver Circle
Poker: All that activity at the Atlantis today is the final action of the World Poker Tour's regional competition. At the event's opening, the hotel's David Farahi told a tale of two gamblers who once entered such a competition, "one with money and no experience and one with experience and no money; the one with experience left with money and the one with money left with experience" (3800 S. Virginia St., Reno).
Cowboys: The 42nd Annual National Reined Cow Horse Association Snaffle Bit Futurity will be all week at the Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center, 1350 N. Wells Ave. Easily the most prominent such event in the country, and probably the world, the competition takes place in three categories:
• Herd work. The horse cuts a cow from the herd and controls it with little assistance from the rider.
• Rein work. The horse is judged on precise maneuvering in circles, sliding stops, spins, and rollbacks.
• Cow work. Control the movements of a cow down the fence and in the center of the arena.
The winner gets a whopping $100,000.
There is also a Best of the West Trade Show with Western-themed vendors. There's even a chance to buy a horse.
Get tickets at the box office or Ticketmaster under NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity. A seven-day pass goes for $96.50.
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer: Rock, blues, pop, bluegrass, gospel, even surf – name it and the mighty Leon Russell has played it, collaborating with an entire spectrum of musicians, from Eric Clapton to Barbra Streisand, Jan and Dean to the Rolling Stones. He brings his own four-piece group to John Ascuaga's Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave., in Sparks this Saturday (9 p.m.; $35; 800-648-1177 or janugget.com).
Concerts galore: Chris Isaak plays Harrah's Tahoe on Saturday (7:30 p.m.; 15 Highway 50, in Stateline; $69; 800-427-7247 or SouthShoreRoom.com). Jim Breuer arrives at the Silver Legacy for an 18-up show Friday (8 p.m.; 407 N. Virginia St.; $25.50, $35.50; 800-687-8733 or silverlegacy.com). Two top DJs join forces at the Grand Sierra Friday, Claw of Hulk and Lank (8 p.m.; 2500 E. Second St.; $20, $25 at the door; Ticketmaster). Mike Posner and the Brain Trust arrive at the Grand Sierra next Sunday (7:30 p.m.; $19.99 advance, $22 Sunday; Ticketmaster).
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