The coming days are going to be all about Iceland. The Taste of Iceland festival lasts all weekend, with free music and literature events and special Icelandic dining opportunities at the Dahlia Lounge. What's Icelandic cuisine like? Fishy.

Tomorrow, the Coterie Room plays host to the popping up of the Depressed Cake Shop, which bakes gray, forlorn-looking cakes to raise awareness about depression. If you can't endure moody pastries, direct yourself instead toward the special wine tasting and tour happening at the Almquist Family Vintners, one of Seattle's urban wineries.

At Saturday's benefit for Northwest Harvest, you can eat while helping others do the same. And then swing by the Central Co-Op on Madison, where a host of special cheeses will be making themselves available to you during the Cascadia Cheese Festival.

There are also Oktoberfests: here's one and here's another, and if you'd rather be stoned than drunk, try this.