On Saturday, trek on down the boulevard

One of the things that my friend and former colleague Tom Bowers used to enjoy more than anything else – except for, maybe, fronting his former band, The Triumphant Returns – was a pub crawl.

What’s going to happen on Saturday along a stretch of Spokane’s Northwest Boulevard isn’t that kind of event. Still, if Tom were here, instead of living with his fiancée in Portland, he’d likely enjoy it.

The event is being called A Day Down the Boulevard, and it involves six different businesses that, according to a PR person named Erin Arai, are teaming up to offer “a day of promos, freebies, classes, a cooking demo and more.”

Example: a 10 a.m. cooking demonstration at the Downriver Grill. On the menu: sausage puttanesca

Besides The Downriver Grill, the participating businesses include, west to east, Little Garden Café, Polka Dot Pottery, Judy’s Enchanted Garden, Hartwell’s and Uniquely Chic.

To find out more about the event in general, click here . To get specific addresses of the businesses listed above, click here .

It actually sounds like fun. And if I weren’t going to be already in Cali, Colombia, I might check it out.

As would Tom – though likely with a drink in his hand.