This Week

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WanderluS t SquaW valley

The annual festival brings together the world’s leading yoga teachers, musical acts and DJs, renowned speakers, top chefs and winemakers to the Truckee-Tahoe region from Thursday, July 17, through Sunday, July 20. Yoga instructors include Seane Corn, Eoin Finn, Shiva Rea, Rod Stryker, Elena Brower, among others. Musical acts include Big Gigantic, The Polyphonic Spree, Nanko and Medicine for the People, RJD2, DJ Krush, MC Yogi and the Mark Sexton Band. Tickets range from $105 for a one-day pass to $525 for a four-day pass. The festival takes place at Squaw Valley USA, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley. Visit http://squaw.wanderlustfestival.com. —Kelley Lang

Steampunk tavern Stroll/Steampunk e xpo

Dress up as a Victorian-era, neo-futuristic, sci-fi character and go from tavern to tavern tasting libations, playing parlor games and enjoying some old-timey entertainment during this steampunk-themed pub crawl. The crawl begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 19, at the 1864 Tavern, 290 California Ave. Tickets are $10 and include a commemorative mug and map to six taverns. The crawl is also the official after party to the 3rd Annual Biggest Little Steampunk Expo taking place earlier in the day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Wilbur D. May Museum at Rancho San Rafael Park, 1595 N. Sierra St. The expo will include a Steamy Tech Custom Coasters Workshop, a contra dance workshop, a costume workshop and steampunk persona building workshop. The expo workshops range in fees from $25 and below. There will also be multiple vendors selling steampunk apparel, jewelry and accessories and local food truck vendors. For info on the pub crawl, visit http://www.steampunkstroll.com. For info on the expo, visit https:// www.highdesertsteam.org.

Where iS the Gold?

Brewery Arts Center presents this Wild West melodrama and murder mystery dinner set aboard a vintage Virginia and Truckee Railroad steam engine train on Friday, July 18, and Aug. 15. Where is the Gold? reno BaSque FeStival The 47th annual festival will feature traditional competitions and games, Basque dancing and music and food and activities for children from 10 am. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 19, at Wingfield Park, First Street and Arlington Avenue in downtown Reno. After a short break, Amuma Says No from Boise, Idaho, will present a program of Basque music and dancing starting at 6 p.m. Admission is free. Call 762-3577 or visit www.renobasqueclub.org. combines Comstock legend and lore with a whodunit mystery. The audience will be invited to help the cast of characters solve the mystery of who stole the gold and who is responsible for the death of Mr. Big. The steam engine will depart at 6 p.m. and head into the Carson River canyon for a 45-minute murder mystery train ride as the play unfolds on each of the cars. Passengers in each car will be witness to Mr. Big’s demise. Mr. Big will meet his doom three times, once in each passenger car. Passengers from each train car will cast a vote on who they think the murderer is. Upon return to the Eastgate train depot around 7 p.m., passengers will be treated to a western barbecue. The case of the missing gold and the murder of Mr. Big will be solved in the final summation of the play later in the evening. The murder mystery trains depart from the V&T Eastgate Depot, 4650 Eastgate Siding, in Carson City. Tickets are $75 per person. Call (877) 724-5007 or visit www.vtrailway.com.