Stalk of the Town

What's Seattlest doing this weekend? What isn't Seattlest doing this weekend?

Disconsolate about Rainier Beach losing in the state tournament last night, Seth doesn't know if he can even face the world. If he does, it will be to see star Husky gymnast Kelly McDonald in her final college meet. Sunday he thanks God for being seemingly invisible to the opposite sex, because he has no girlfriend to drag him to an Oscar party.

Matt Silvie will spend Saturday slaving away for the man, then spending that hard earned cash at the NWFF. Sunday will involve alternately laughing at Jon Stewart and/or the fashion derision from the gay guys and straight girls at the nearest Oscar party.

Last night, Michael van Baker went to see the the Cornish College Dance B.F.A. Concerts and he's surprised to recommend the experience on artistic merits (and not just because Jamie Karlovich is hot like nuclear-furnace-hot. Zing). It's free and runs through this Saturday. However, on Saturday afternoon he's going to hear some first-class chamber music over at the Frye Art Museum. This is also free, if you're seeing the pattern. Sunday, it's the Jon and Oscar show.

Seattlest Don will be at Costco buying cans and cans of evaporated milk--everything tastes better once it has been evaporated. The end-times, in Don's view, are here.

David will make a rare trip to the Eastside where he will sit on the banks on Lake Washington to do what he does best, drink and watch college basketball on TV. Sunday morning will find him at the Market
for breakfast and some spirited cheese purchasing at DeLaurenti. That night he will watch the Oscars with a bunch of girls and laugh at everything Jon Stewart says.

Jack will be heading out past North Bend to the Taylor River Trail to seek out Otter Falls, where he will likely be disappointed with the lack of actual otters, but will at least get some nice pictures of his dog. Jack will also be begging his wife to see The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada with him, and to smuggle outside M&M's in her purse.

Margaret is going to have a quiet Friday night so as to prepare for yet another audition on Saturday morning. Seriously, somebody better admit her for something so she can stop this. After the audition she'll be making homemade blackberry ice cream and some sort of appetizer involving proscuitto for a fancy dinner with her parents. On Sunday all she has planned is watching the Oscars
and a possible bender.

Audrey's definitely got to catch Oscar-nominated documentary Darwin's Nightmare before it ends its run at the Northwest Film Forum. On Saturday she will celebrate her boyfriend's birthday with a lot of meat in her mouth. Oscars? Oh yes. Though there will assuredly be great weeping and gnashing of teeth if Crash wins Best Picture, she will end her Sunday at the Trespassers William show.

James will be reveling in Hollywood's annual orgy of mutual Oscarbation , the 78th annual Academy Awards, although he's only seen two of the Best Picture nominees, the fewest
since he was about 12. [ed note: James went blind in late June.]

Donte is going to balance out his high- and low-brow entertainment options, stopping by the Asian Art Museum for First Saturday, before making a quick trip down to PDX for DJ Assault. Perhaps this will be the trip where he finally stops at that weird-looking bakery about an hour outside Portland along I-5.

Gina finally has boast-worthy weekend plans which include forsaking her previous two favorite men (Ben & Jerry) for her two new favorite men (Jake & Heath). She'll be spending the better part of Saturday attending--legitimately attending, not just sneaking into or lurking near--the Independent Spirit Awards in a tent in sunny Santa Monica and doing her best to avoid getting served with A-list restraining orders. Consider yourself warned, Gyllenhaal.