National Pickle Day: Like all made-up holidays, NPD generally passes unobserved. This year, pay your respects at the market.

The Whisky Extravaganza: This event should not be entered into lightly. There's a dress code, and in all likelihood, the mood will be unrelentingly WASPish. So bring your business cards and try to stay hydrated.

Wild for Wine: All decent, sensible people enjoy drinking too much wine sometimes. Unlike whiskey, wine ushers you into drunkenness at a civilized pace while still remaining briskly effective at intoxicating when called upon. Beer is mostly water and air and should be ignored the pinnacle of human beverage-making, and should be gloriously celebrated. [Editor's note: Fixed that for you.]

Battle of the Breweries: If you insist on drinking beer, you can do much worse than this event.

Bubbles and Bivalves: Champagne and oysters.

Dine Around Seattle: The prix-fixe dinners and lunches continue through the 30th.