Friday Contra Dance at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave. N.

Roots & Country Songwriters, hosted by Joy Mills and featuring Tom Parker, Mike McDermott and Strange Jerome, at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Couth Buzzard Books, 8310 Greenwood Ave. N. On Saturday it’s What’s the Word Cabaret, with Michael Schein, Carolyn Wright, William Higareda (MC Varda), Theo Dzielak and Ronin Jazz, at 7:30 p.m. And on Sunday, it’s Northern Tunes Session with Rhythm Rollers at 6 p.m.

“Bach at Leipzig” continues in its second week at Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St.

Karaoke with Katybelle at 8 p.m. Friday at Tim’s Tavern, 602 N. 105th St.; on Sunday it’s Happy Hour Bingo at 4 p.m. and Live Jazz at 8 p.m.

Woodland Park Zoo is holding a contest to name its new pair of Asian small-clawed otters. The contest starts today and runs through June 15. Two contest winners will each get a $100 Umpqua Bank savings account, a ZooParent adoption, and a visit from an Umpqua Bank ice cream truck for 100 friends.

Photo by Ryan Hawk, Woodland Park Zoo.

Qualified entries for the 7-year-old male and 3-year-old female must be in the Malay language as a tribute to the otters’ native southern and southeastern Asia range. Winning names will be chosen by a panel of zoo judges. Pick up a ballot at any Seattle-area Umpqua Bank, clip out a ballot from select issues of The Seattle Times, or submit your otter names online.

Metro Transit is on holiday schedule for Memorial Day, and its providing a special shuttle to Folklife Festival from the Northgate Transit Center.

And just so you know, Phinney Market Pub & Eatery has started serving a full breakfast every weekday, to try to fill the gap from the closing our Male’s Phinney Ridge Café. A new pastry chef will cook up scones, biscuits, coffee cake, breads, and sticky buns.

The City of Seattle’s Recycling and Disposal stations will be open during their regular business hours as well, from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The North Station is at 1350 N. 34th St. in Fremont/Wallingford.

The idea is to dance five straight hours, starting at 6 p.m. (Registration starts at 5:30 p.m.) Fundraising minimum is $50 (down from last year’s $150).

The event is hosted by radio personality Luke Burbank. DJs are Potatoes O’Brien and Larry Rose of KEXP. Celebrity judges include “Stranger” staff writers Christopher Frizzelle, Jen Graves, Cienna Madrid, Sub Pop staff, and (and others to be announced later).

Last year’s event raised $31,000. Their goal this year is $32,000.

Register online to form your dance team.

Participating businesses will be marked with rainbow balloons, and they’ll have printed maps of participating venues.

“Our neighborhood has so many members of the LGBT community now that are raising great families. We wanted to make sure that Seattle’s Pride Celebration included a celebration of those families and had family friendly ways for supporters to participate as well,” Jamie Clausen of Phinney Estate Law and the Rainbow Hop’s co-chair, said in a press release.

Here’s the list of scheduled events and venues:

• Cupcake Decorating: Ampersand Pantry, 424 N. 85th St. — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Readings from The Genesis Publication: 826 Seattle, 8414 Greenwood Ave. N. — 1-3 p.m.
• Crepe Paper Crafts: Greenwood Library, 8016 Greenwood Ave. N. — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Balloon Animals: Illuminations Learning Studio, 78th & Greenwood Avenue North — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Community Art Project: Avanti & Greenwood Elementary School PTA, 7601 Greenwood Ave. N. — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Reading with Steph: Santoro’s Books, 7405 Greenwood Ave. N. — 12 p.m.
• Wedding Fun: Terra Bella Flowers & A Heavenly Moment, 7321 Greenwood Ave. N. — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Rainbow Lollipops: Metropolis & Sunburst Homes, 7321 Greenwood Ave. N. — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Flower Planting: Greenwood Hardware, 7201 Greenwood Ave. N. — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Rainbow Frozen Treats: Umpqua Bank, 7120 Greenwood Ave. N. — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Paper Doll Crafts: 99 Monkeys, 7104 Greenwood Ave. N. — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Chalk Drawing & Piano Playing: A-1 Piano, 7020 Greenwood Ave. N. — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Rainbow Flags: Starbucks, 316 N. 67th St. — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Garden Party: PNA, 6532 Phinney Ave. N. — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Lion Pride Party: Woodland Park Zoo, West Entrance of Zoo — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Rainbow Bubbles: St. John’s Lutheran, 5515 Phinney Ave. N. — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• El Chupacabra, Ridge Pizza, and Park Public House will offer food and drink specials during the event.

If you’d like to volunteer to help out on the day of the Rainbow Hop, contact the Phinney Neighborhood Association at biz@phinneycenter.org or 206-783-2244.

Children ages 5-6 can take part in a Jedi Engineering camp.

Young Jedi will explore worlds far, far away and engineering principles right in front of them. Defeat the Empire by designing and refining X-Wings, R2-units, and settlements on far-flung edges of the galaxy. Imagination and engineering combine to create motorized and architectural projects such as energy catapults, shield generators and defense turrets.

Girls ages 7-10 can have their own camp called Engineering FUNdamentals for Girls.

Taught by women engineers and scientists, this course will provide a supportive environment for girls to apply real-world concepts in physics, engineering, and architecture through engineer-designed projects such as arch bridges, motorized cars, skyscrapers and amusement parks! Design and build as never before, and explore your craziest ideas in an interactive environment. Curriculum created for LEGO lovers and newbies alike!

Both camps are June 24-28. Jedi camp runs from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; the girls-only camp is from 1:30-4:30 p.m. Tuition for the week is $170.

Earlier: Tux the cat disappeared from his Phinney Ridge home in January. His owners desperately searched for him, to no avail. Finally, two weeks ago, a PhinneyWood reader contacted us, saying she’d found Tux and was trying to contact his owners, but the phone number was disconnected. We were able to provide the owners’ email address.

Today, Noel tells us she finally reached Tux’s owners, only to find they’ve moved out of the country. And since Noel already has five cats of her own, she’s hoping someone would like to adopt Tux.

Tux is the sweetest cat in the world. He’s just a huge, happy, self-sufficient kitty who wants a meal twice a day and some pets if you can spare them.

The previous owner says he’s around 7 years old and up on all of his shots, perfectly healthy and so loving. Even though he’s quite large (He’s kinda built more like a pit bull then a cat) he’ll almost knock you over with kitty head-bump hugs.

I think the ideal home for Tux would be one where he can be an indoor/outdoor cat. He gets along fine with other cats, loves to be outside, asks for food twice a day and gives big hugs. He’s infinitely entertaining in how he high-steps around the garden, rolling around on the sidewalk to scratch his back and standing with one paw tucked under his chest while he asks for pets.

If you’re interested in adopting Tux, please email Noel.

All three meal sites in our neighborhood will serve meals Monday-Friday, from June 27 through Aug. 24.

• Sandel Playground: 9053 1st Ave. NW.
• Greenwood Park: 602 N. 87th St.
• Bitter Lake Community Center: 13035 Linden Ave. N.
  

You can see a map of all meal sites in the region here.

This theme program with music inspired by the passing of time, includes songs by many different composers and from many different eras.

Songs about the time of day include Dawn by Eric Barnum, Abendlied by Josef Rheinberger, Esti Dal by Zoltan Kodaly, Die Nacht by Heinrich von Herzogenberg, and The Long Day Closes by Arthur Sullivan. Songs about the seasons and the time of year include The Fall by Jonathan Miller, After the Winter by Giselle Wyers, The Year’s at the Spring by Eric Barnum, O Süsser Mai (O Sweet May) by Johannes Brahms, and As Imperceptibly as Grief, composed by Tim Snyder on a poem by Emily Dickinson. Songs reflecting on the times of our lives are Jenny Kiss’d Me by Eric Barnum, I Have Had Singing by Steven Sametz, By and By spiritual arranged by Carol Barnett, Love in Grief by F.Melius Christiansen, Quick! We Have but a Second by Charles V. Stanford and Ain’t Got Time to Die spiritual by Hall Johnson.

Tickets are $22 general, $17 senior citizens, $12 students, $12 active singers; children ages 6-12 admitted free with accompanying adult. Tickets are available online, by calling 206-523-1196, or at the door.

Also on the agenda is a presentation on the proposed development at 1st Avenue NW and NW 85th Street. The developers will share their general plans and get the community’s feedback on what they’d like to see on that site.

Megan posted on our Facebook page that someone spray painted their trash cans and dumped four large bags of garbage at their home on 84th Street on Friday night.

JE says someone stole mini-cypress trees in blue ceramic pots off her porch behind Fred Meyer sometime late Thursday or early Friday morning (photo below).

Janice tells us two houses were burglarized on North 57th Street and Palatine Avenue North Thursday night. She says the burglars appeared to be targeting tools.

Melanie says she witnessed a car break-in in the upper parking lot of the Safeway on North 87th Street and Greenwood Avenue North about a week ago.

I heard the window smash, saw a guy pull a black backpack out of the car. He turned and stared at me before getting into a white car and driving away. Possibly white male, could be 20s or 30s, hard to tell at that distance.

Diana says her house on 80th Street was burglarized last week. The thief broke through a small basement window.

Laptops, jewelry, tv, other small items, are gone. Suspects left with two red and one blue suitcase. Would love to recover red wallet with kid’s pictures more than anything.

And Renee warns of a possible soliciting scam.

I feel like I almost got scammed by a solicitor…working with a shady company called Ultimate Unity, INC. They have many complaints online and he had the usual scheme. He was working on his “job skills” he told me that he wasn’t asking for money or a donation and reassured me 3 times that this was not about taking money from me. All I had to do was rate him on his professionalism and appearance, pick out a book or magazine to send to a charity of my choice, and then he’d get points! He then started filling out a receipt for the amount that I owed for the book I had picked out to send to a charity, I picked Children’s Hospital. I told him that I had asked him if there was a donation involved and he had lied to me so I didn’t trust this and wasn’t about to give him money. He got defensive.

So then the next day as I was walking home from Green Lake and I happened to run into him on the corner of NW 70th St and 2nd Ave NW, I asked him if it was a scam and he of course said it wasn’t. I called the police after researching the company online a little, but since it had been 20 minutes since I had seen him on the street corner, they said they probably wouldn’t be able to find him and to call 911 immediately if I have a solicitor do this again.

As the bus pulled away from the stop, the cyclist tried to pass the bus on the left. The bus hit the man, who flew off his bike. The Coans say the man was able to get up and pull his bike off the road himself. He appeared to have an injured hand. He was wearing a helmet.

An officer on patrol in North Seattle was struck by a hit and run drunk driver early this morning on 3rd Avenue Northwest.

At approximately 3:12 a.m. a uniformed patrol officer in a fully-marked Seattle Police car was driving northbound in the 6700 block of 3rd Avenue NW when the suspect driver suddenly cut across 3rd Avenue NW traveling westbound and collided with the police car. The female suspect/driver then fled the scene. The suspect was located soon afterward at 15th Avenue NW and NW Market Street and taken into custody.

The suspect was processed for suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.

Neither the officer nor the suspect were injured in the incident.

A 20-year-old felon in possession of a firearm is in jail following a shooting in North Seattle early this morning.

At approximately 1:15 a.m. officers responded to a call of shots fired at North 85th Street and Fremont Avenue North. A responding officer was flagged down at North 86th Street and Fremont Avenue North by a man claiming his friend was shot. The 25-year-old male victim then approached the officer with a gunshot wound to his left wrist. The victim was not forthcoming about the details of what had occurred leading up to the shooting. Several independent witnesses gave officers suspect descriptions as well as a description of the vehicle the suspects fled the scene in, a white Toyota Camry.

Fire department medics responded and transported the victim to Harborview Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.

A patrol officer located and stopped the suspect vehicle at 3rd Avenue NW and NW 77th Street. A witness was transported to the scene of the stop and positively identified one of the occupants of the Toyota as the person seen running from the shooting scene carrying a gun. Five subjects were detained and transported to the North Precinct for questioning by Gang Unit detectives.

The primary suspect, a 20-year-old male, was booked into the King County Jail for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm (Violation of the Uniform Firearms Act).

The other four subjects were interviewed and released pending further investigation. The vehicle was impounded and taken to the evidence garage for further analysis.

Gang Unit detectives continue to actively investigate.

Printed maps are also now available at the PNA, Greenwood Senior Center (525 N. 85th St.) and Greenwood Library (8016 Greenwood Ave. N.)

Photo courtesy Emerald City Trolley.

Emerald City Trolley will operate three distinct lines from today through Sept. 29. Each line starts at the Experience Music Project. The lines include a waterfront tour, an express route to the Museum of Flight south of downtown, and the North Line to Fremont, Phinney and Ballard. That line includes The Ballard Locks, Woodland Park Zoo, Fremont, The Fremont Troll, South Lake Union, Kenmore Air and MOHAI.

Customers can purchase a two- or three-day pass, good for access on all three lines. Two-day passes costs $45 and a three-day pass costs $60. Additional days are $15 each. Family passes for two adults and up to three children (12 and under) are $110.

Tickets for the narrated tours can be purchased on the trolley at any stop, at the retail location at the intersection of 2nd and Pike in downtown Seattle, online, or by calling toll free 855-313-3456.

Friday Contra Dance at the Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave. N., at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Taproot Theatre opens its month-long run of “Bach at Leipzig,” at 204 N. 85th St., this weekend.

Casey Neill performs at Empty Sea Studios, 6300 Phinney Ave. N., at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $18 in advance, $22 at the door.

Karaoke with Katybelle at Tim’s Tavern, 602 N. 105th St., at 8 p.m. Friday.

PlaySpace at Emmanuel, 510 N. 49th St. (use Kapka entrance) is open from 8:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Saturday is the big Garage Sale Day in Greenwood and Phinney Ridge. More than 100 garage and yard sales throughout the neighborhood, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., plus a flea market and tool sale in the Phinney Neighborhood Association’s parking lot, 6532 Phinney Ave. N.

Seattle Folklore Society presents Magpie in concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the PNA, in the Brick Building. Cost is $16, $14 SFS/PNA members and seniors; kids half price. Reserve seats online, or call 206-528-8523.

Couth Buzzard Books co-owner Theo Dzielak celebrates the release of “Stardust Gem — Ruby Lhianna Smith Tribute CD,” in honor of his daughter, Ruby, who died of cancer last year, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, at 8310 Greenwood Ave. N.

Open Jazz Jam with Kenny Mandell and Don Berman at 2 p.m. Sunday at Couth Buzzard Books.

Food Truck Roundup to benefit the University District Food Bank is from 3-7 p.m. Sunday at the PNA. Ages 21 and over only (distillery trucks will be on site too.) Tickets are $25 (eight food and four drink tickets) and available online.

Happy Hour Bingo at 4 p.m. Sunday at Tim’s Tavern, 602 N. 105th St.

Over in Ballard tonight is the annual Syttende Mai (May 17th) Parade, starting at 6 p.m. It starts at 24th Avenue NW and NW 62nd Street, heads south to Market, east to 22nd Avenue NW, then south on 22nd to Ballard Avenue NW. Lots of streets will be closed in that area, and parking will be a nightmare, so plan accordingly.

And over in Queen Anne, the Quick Styx girls lacrosse jamboree is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Queen Anne Bowl.

The big annual Garage Sale Day in Greenwood and Phinney Ridge is this Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. More than 100 yards sales have registered. Plus there’s a flea market and tool sale at the Phinney Neighborhood Association, 6532 Phinney Ave. N. An online map will be available after 3 p.m. Friday. Printed maps will be available at the Phinney Center, Greenwood Senior Center (525 N. 85th St.) and the Greenwood Library (8016 Greenwood Ave. N.) after 3 pm Friday.

School of Rock will celebrate its move from Lake City to Greenwood with its Grand Opening Celebration on Saturday, June 29.

Greenwood resident Naomi Bishop (a.k.a. “The Gastro Gnome”) has launched a new app that highlights 45 unusual and exceptional restaurants in the Northwest, from Salem, Oregon up to Whistler, B.C. The idea is to let people know where to eat besides McDonald’s when they’re on the road. “Unique Eats of the Northwest” costs $1.99 in the iPhone App Store (Android version coming soon).

Sonny Newman, owner of Sonny Newman’s Dance Hall on North 85th Street was recently profiled in The Seattle Times. The dance hall will close at the end of May when Sonny retires, because the building was recently sold.

Seattle Knife Sharpening and Supply is moving into the space formerly occupied by Cowboys & Angels hair salon, at 7421 Greenwood Ave. N.

UW Professor Woody Sullivan, who lives in Phinney Ridge, was the focus of a Seattle Times article yesterday on his unique garage ceiling sundial.

Tickets are already on sale for the 2nd Annual Northwest Tequila Fest at the Phinney Neighborhood Association, 6532 Phinney Ave. N., on Aug. 24. The 21-and-over event features Tequila and Mezcal tastings, beer garden and live music. Admission starts at $40, with VIP packages featuring early entry, exclusive tastings, and more. Northwest Tequila Fest benefits The Benevolent Guild.

Registration is open for the Ballard Youth Soccer Club for the fall season for players ages 5-18.

Youth teams typically practice once or twice per week, with a game on the weekend. Practices are coached by a parent/volunteer, plus teams have a weekly academy style individual skills session with a professional trainer. Practices generally start in late August, with fall league play beginning in September and running through November.

The city recently installed new speed bumps on Third Avenue Northwest in front of Viewlands Elementary School. (Thanks to Stewart for the photo.)

The Hunger Intervention Program is hosting a screening of “A Place at the Table,” a film of personal stories of hunger’s far-reaching effects, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. tonight (Thursday) at Lake City Presbyterian Church, 3841 NE 123rd St. Suggested donation is $10. HIP provides nutritious food packages to eligible children at Viewlands Elementary School, so they have enough food to eat at home on the weekends.

Komen Puget Sound has awarded $1.6 million total to 11 local organizations to help fight breast cancer, including $247,200 to Phinney Ridge’s Cancer Lifeline, 6522 Fremont Ave. N., which provides assistance and support for low-income patients while they are in treatment for breast cancer.

Seattle Eater has a story on the new Teachers Lounge bar coming to Greenwood sometime next month.

Don’t forget that Metro Transit will stop selling ticket books at the end of June; in favor of prepaid ORCA cards and cash. (Metro will still provide tickets to human services programs.) ORCA cards can be used on all transit systems in the Puget Sound region. Tickets do not expire and will still be accepted.

Learning Express Library – Practice tests in English and Spanish free online from www.spl.org

Learning Express Library has interactive test prep guides for GED, SAT, ASVAB, citizenship, and lots more. We can help!
From www.spl.org, click on “Articles and Databases,” scroll to “Jobs & Education,” click on “Learning Express Library,” start learning! Requires library cards and pin number.

Language Learning from Seattle Public Library

Learn a language quickly or in depth with help from www.spl.org. Online resources cover over 100 languages. Try Mango Languages, Transparent Languages Online, or Livemocha; even kids can learn a language with Muzzy Online.

Week of May 12th:
Need reading ideas? You can find your next favorite book through NoveList, an extensive database of fiction and non-fiction for all ages that you can access with your Seattle Public Library card. Search by favorite author or book, explore new genres, and find book group discussion guides through this amazing (and addictive) readers’ resource!

Week of May 19th:
The Seattle Public Library offers Story Times for kids and their families in 4 world languages – Mandarin, Spanish, Somali and Vietnamese – at 12 libraries throughout Seattle! You do not need to know the language to attend. Pick up a Story Time brochure at any Library or find the schedule online, and join us for fun multicultural stories and songs.

Week of May 26th:
The Seattle Public Library has not one, but two blogs! Check out Shelf Talk for fascinating and fun posts on books, music, movies & more. Includes weekly columns like Crime Thursdays and Science Fiction Fridays. Push to Talk is our teen blog, written by librarians and Seattle teens. Check out Push to Talk for local teen news and reading ideas!

There may be low levels of contaminants such as lead present due to past uses at the site. Any contamination that may be present is contained to the site and will be removed by City Light.

Standard precautions will be taken to contain the materials and dust, and prevent them from spreading. Clean soil will then be placed and covered with mulch.

The work is planned to occur during May 20 through June 14. The project will require up to 10 to 15 working days during that period. The hours of work will be 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Monday – Friday.

Trees and hedges on the property will need to be removed as part of the work because the root balls may contain contaminated soils or they would otherwise block access to removal of contaminated soils.

During working days, access to the alley between N. 79th Street and N. 80th Street via Aurora Ave. N. will be closed. There may be some other disruptions to local traffic, parking and sidewalks adjacent to the site; however we will do our best to keep these to a minimum.

For more information, please contact Tom Meyer, Senior Environmental Analyst at (206) 386-9168 or tom.meyer@seattle.gov.

The Bushwick Book Club event features 12 musical performances inspired by author Michael Pollan’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “The Botany of Desire.”

The event begins at 9 p.m. Cost is $10.

The 14-year-old Gill also will perform her music at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park on Saturday at 1 p.m.

There are no signs that the current trends of low inventory, rising prices, short sales times and multiple offers will be abating anytime soon.

For NW Seattle (including Ballard, Fremont, Green Lake, Phinney Ridge and Wallingford) there continues to be only about a one-month supply of single-family home inventory. This tight inventory can be attributed to continued low interest rates, robust Puget Sound area hiring and a generally improved economy, including significant gains in the stock market. Whether the market will become more “balanced” (defined as a three- to six-month supply of homes) will hinge on many more listings hitting the market over the coming months.

Of NW Seattle homes closed in April, the average sale price was almost 103 percent of the most recent list price. This indicates continued multiple offer situations.

Prospective buyers also should think in terms of at least a minimum of three- to five-year+ home ownership horizon and preferably maintain the option to hold onto their home through future downturns in the market. Home seller costs (excise tax, title/escrow fees, sale commissions) of approximately 9 percent of the sales price should also be factored into any decision to purchase.

More stats on other Seattle neighborhoods can be found here.

John Madrid is a Managing Broker with John L. Scott Real Estate – University Village and is a 2005-2012 Seattle Magazine “Five Star” Agent. His clients include both home buyers and sellers. He can be reached at 206-498-1880, john@live206.com or www.live206.com.

Statistics are deemed reliable but are not guaranteed. All information should be verified to the users own satisfaction.

Imagine, Leipzig, 1722. Germany’s most renowned music director is dead at the keyboard. As the country’s greatest organists descend to vie for the job, melodies of rivalry, trickery and blackmail compose a fugue of plots and counterplots. Rooted in history but reveling in flights of fiction, Bach at Leipzig is deliciously scored with wild and witty revelations.

Taproot Theatre is at 204 N. 85th St.

That means North 80th Street will be closed completely to eastbound traffic 24 hours a day from Tuesdays through Saturdays. Drivers will be detoured to North 85th Street.

This project is scheduled to be completed on Friday, May 24, weather permitting.

Artist Tommy Vision showed off his fun art inside Avanti Art & Design at the corner of North 76th Street and Greenwood Avenue North.

Clarissa Callesen’s “Odd Birds” filled the front window of Tasty.

Musicians performed at several venues, including outside Santoro’s Books and Varnish Salon…

And inside the former Antika space, which was turned into an art gallery for the night. The band is The Fabulous Juncos.

Flamenco dancers performed inside the American Dance Institute at 80th & Greenwood.

The PhinneyWood ArtWalk continues today from 12-5 p.m. Check out the website for a list of all participating venues and artists, and a map. You can also pick up a map at ArtWalk venues.

Turabi sells fine rugs and tapestries, does rug restorations, appraisals and cleaning.

The humongous annual PhinneyWood ArtWalk is from 6-9 p.m. Friday and again from 12-5 Saturday, at 84 art galleries and other businesses all throughout the neighborhood. Take a stroll down Phinney/Greenwood avenues and nearby, and you’ll see 150 artists’ work in all mediums, hear live music, and likely see some street performers and some kids’ activities as well. Many restaurants will have ArtWalk specials.

You can check out a map here. And a list of participating venues and artists here.

Please note: The streets will not be closed for this event, but the sidewalks will be very full of people. Please be extra careful if you’re driving through the area and let Artwalkers cross the street safely.

Also on tap this weekend:

Open Mic at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, 225 N. 70th St.

Friday Contra Dance at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave. N., in the Brick Building.

Martha Gallagher performs a Pacific NW Folklore Society Coffeehouse Concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Couth Buzzard Books – Espresso Buono Café, 8310 Greenwood Ave. N.; Fluer Jack, Jessica Lynne & Julia Massey in Concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Karaoke with Katybelle at 8 p.m. Friday at Tim’s Tavern, 602 N. 105th St.

Seattle School Board Member Sherry Carr will hold a District II Community Meeting from 8:30-10 a.m. Saturday at Bethany Community Church, 8023 Green Lake Dr.

Woodland Park Zoo celebrates Mother’s Day with “Mom & Me” on Saturday, featuring keeper talks about maternal care by various animals, live entertainment in the North Meadow, a rock climbing wall, bounce house, and dancing and puppet shows in Zoomazium.

Moms get in for half-price on Saturday. “Mom & Me” is included in zoo admission.

A 3-week-old male porcupette named Gavin will make his debut in time for “Mom & Me.” Gavin is the first porcupette born at the zoo.

Photo credit: Ryan Hawk, Woodland Park Zoo

Jonathan Byrd and Chris Kokesh perform a Seattle Folklore Society concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the PNA, 6532 Phinney Ave. N., in the Brick Building.

The Brazillionaires perform at 8 p.m. Saturday at Empty Sea Studios, 6300 Phinney Ave. N.

Happy Hour Bingo at 4 p.m. Sunday at Tim’s Tavern, 602 N. 105th St. At 8 p.m. it’s Live Jazz Sundays.

Northwest Clarinet Choir and All City Clarinets Concert at 4 p.m. Sunday at Woodland Park United Methodist Church, 302 N. 78th St.

And in honor of Mother’s Day, Couth Buzzard Books co-owner Theo Dzielak and Kate Smith celebrate the life of their daughter, Ruby Smith, who died of cancer last year, with “88 Cakes Mother’s Day Cake Celebration.”

Kate is going to do something she’s been wanting to do ever since 2008, when Bocadalupa, an arts organization in Bristol, UK, first mounted their community art project, 88 Cakes. Women from the community made cakes of all kinds as an artistic expression of mothering and put them on display: edible or not, naughty or nice, big or small, for sale or for mom’s tummy-it was an amazing exhibit! We invite you to be a part of this innovative community arts project by making that cake of “mom.” Kate’s will be 3-layered, honoring her own mother of 12 children, all the mothers who have lost a child, and the top for she and Ruby. If the cake doesn’t happen, don’t let that stop you from coming by to gaze, buy a cake for that special mom, or enjoy a piece when we cut a few at the end. Drop off begins at 11:30am on Mother’s Day. Cakes will be on display at the store from 12-5pm. Call Kate with questions: 206-713-1524.

Bow ties and big hats were everywhere.

Amelia Serafin (dressed as a jockey) and her mother, Laurie (wearing a gorgeous hat with a long peacock feather that required a decent amount of clearance from passersby), sold raffle tickets for the Case ‘O Cash ($1,000).

The Case ‘O Cash was won by Jack Herndon (dressed as a horse), who immediately donated it back to the PNA. (Below is Jack and Bill Fenimore, the PNA’s Director of Facilities.)

Once again, the Defenders of Greenwood donated dinner for four at Station 21, which sparked a frenzy of bidding.

Photo courtesy of Herkimer Coffee.