Rev Your Engines - The Racer Expo takes place at Bandimere Speedway on March 4. It’s your opportunity to meet the staff and gather schedules and information for the upcoming racing season. http://bandimere.com
Appreciate Art - Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery features Boulder artist Mardi Driftmier’s exquisite pastel paintings through March 24, 2009. The Gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays, at 1421 Pearl Street. www.boulderartsandcrafts.com
Get Revenge - Lisa Lutz, author of the “The Spellman Files” and “Curse of the Spellmans,” will read from and sign her latest novel, “Revenge of the Spellmans,” at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 19, at the Tattered Cover in Highlands Ranch. If you like your private-investigator novels more hambone than Hammett, Lutz is right up your alley. www.tatteredcover.com
6 Reasons we love Janet Evanovich
Deborah Feingold for St. Martin's Press
- She writes the Stephanie Plum series, featuring a big-haired bounty hunter from Jersey and her assorted kooky sidekicks
- She has an appreciation for donuts, Tastykakes, and all things sweet
- She’s a diehard Nascar fan
- She’s addicted to Cheez Doodles
- She makes being from Jersey sound like fun - almost.
- Her novel “Plum Lucky” features a tiny guy in green, a bag of gold, and Stephanie’s pistol-totin’, casino-bound grandmother. The paperback was released in January, giving us a fun and affordable read for St. Patrick’s Day
5 Irish Toasts
When we drink, we get drunk.
When we get drunk, we fall asleep.
When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven.
So, let’s all get drunk, and go to heaven!
Here’s to a long life and a merry one.
A quick death and an easy one.
A pretty girl and an honest one.
A drink for you—and another one!
An Irishman is never drunk as long as
he can hold onto one blade of grass and not
fall off the face of the earth.
May the devil make a ladder of your backbone
while he is picking apples in the garden of Hell.
May you live to be a hundred years,
with one extra year to repent!