Have you always dreamed of watching someone dressed like Benjamin
Franklin climb 5,000 stairs?
Today’s your lucky day. This afternoon
in the University of Washington’s Red Square, historical presenter G.
Robin Smith dons his Franklin garb and hauls himself up 5,000 stairs,
to raise awareness and funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma
Society
. (UW’s Red Square, between Odegaard Library and Kane
Hall, www.gobengo.info.
2โ€“4 pm, free
.)

David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest...