Stalk of the Town

In between obsessively checking their progress in various NCAA tournament pools, here's how Seattlest types will spend their weekends.

David S. will be watching college basketball. And planning this year's family camping trip.

Editor Dan will spend all weekend working on his Enemies List, but he may take a break at dusk on Saturday to drive down to Green Lake and run over rabbits with his car.

Matt Silvie may or may not make it to the Heartfelt Plush Show at Plastic Passion Toys in Greenwood Friday night, and he will not be able to make it to the Seattle Idiotarod Saturday at noon, but he will definitely attend the Kinski and Oneida show at Neumo's Saturday night and so should you.

Audrey is out of town for the weekend, at a class where they teach you that putting two spaces at the end of sentences went out of style with the 8-track player and super-wide ties, and that there is no such punctuation as "---".

Jeremy will be attending the weekend-long Godard festival at the Northwest Film Forum. By Sunday, he hopes to have abolished all ideas of narrative storytelling.

It's closing night of the Green-hearted film Mama Earth at Central Cinema on St. Paddy's Day, so Michael vB will be there, swilling beer and trying to avoid the oh-so-tempting pot de creme. Barring unforeseen circumstances, Saturday night is his last chance to be seduced by Pat Graney's "beautifully disturbing" Vivian Girls, 8pm at the Broadway Performance Hall. He's waiting for Godard's Band of Outsiders this Sunday because he's a slave to tastemaker Annie Wagner's persuasive prose.

Saturday's going to be a busy day for Donte, who plans on watching the Idiotarod in the morning before indulging his shoe fetish at the Goods Adicolor release party and enjoying a friend's birthday cake (no, that is not a euphemism).

Margaret will be enjoying the talents of the Black Box Opera ensemble this evening, and tying to avoid all forms of green beer. Satuday she's being inducted into the Ladies Musical Club with a luncheon. She's not sure what sort of hazing is involved, if any, but she hopes it doesn't involve shrimp salad. Sunday is an open book.

Don will be twitching amongst the offspring of orangutans and hippies as the Hammond organ-based improvisational jazz of the Waterbabies clouds his mind at Tost in Fremont on Saturday night.

Seth's watching the split doubleheader of UW NCAA tournament action on Saturday--the women at 9am, the boys at 2:30pm. Sunday he's seeing a matinee of the new production at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Mr. Big Nose.

James is kicking off a low-key weekend with a nap, then getting a haircut, running errands (hello, SPL North East Branch!), and watching the Freaks & Geeks DVDs he got for his birthday. He's also gonna try to work in V for Vendetta. Sunday, his wife's making the Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake ("an old-style, mile-high chocolate layer cake with a tender, airy, open crumb and a soft, billowy frosting") from the March issue of Cook's Illustrated.

Jack will be drinking gluttonous amounts of beer tonight, and annoying his friends with, "I'm the leprechaun…" because he still thinks Wayne's World is funny. Saturday, Jack and his lovely wife will be attending Not Straight Forward, a documentary film by Jenny Ting, about the Seattle lesbian dating scene (@ Girl4Girl, 7pm; $6 film only / $15 film + entry into Girl4Girl). Sunday, he will head out on a very manly hike to an undetermined river/waterfall/cougar den (do cougars have dens?).

Ronald will see if the leprechaun suit still fits for his annual foray into the world of green beverages. Two years ago, he asked "why green beer"? One year ago, he found an answer, of sorts, in the green olives of Whisky Bar's martinis. This year, he will head for the Blarney Stone in the No-Man's land between Belltown and downtown for guidance. Past noon Saturday, no telling, no telling.