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As with Valentine's Day, the Seattlest in-box gets flooded with emails announcing St. Patrick's Day restaurant promotions.

FOR THE WEALTHY BOOKWORMS: Chilean exiled author Isabel Allende is the keynote speaker at a benefit lunch over on the Eastside today, at the Maydenbauer Center. She wrote "The House of The Spirits," an epic generations-spanning magic realism novel about Estaban and Alba and (maybe) Pablo Neruda, among other dozens of acclaimed literary manifestations of genius. If you have the minimum $150 donation to get you a seat at the benefit, this is where you need to be at lunch-time.

HIPHOP EXTRAVAGANZA: My, oh my, Seattle hiphop fans are in luck this weekend: the Blue Scholars are doing a stripped-down version of last year's The Program, with three nights at Neumos. This time, Common Market will join them every night; Truckasaurus and very special guests are playing on Saturday, Macklemore and Dyme Def will play on Monday night. Saturday's already sold out, but the second two nights are equally as awesome. Don't miss it. Really.

"Irish Elvis" by ReeBeckiSupergirl

We're exactly one-quarter Irish, which we think means we need to spend at least 25% of today in bright green clothes, sipping Guinness and eating potatoes and hash. Luckily, there's no shortage of events going on in and around town to satisfy part-Irish like us.