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APRIL  2010
Volume 6,
Number 13,
Issue 70


In This Issue
April Upcoming Events
April Dinner Specials
April Rememberables
Final Thought
APRIL
UPCOMING
EVENTS


THE LANDING'S 6th BIRTHDAY PARTY
Thursday, April 1st
Our Birthday-Thursday, the 1st (No Fooling) 
We will officially celebrate The Landing's 6th Birthday from 6 to 8 p.m. in The Pub with cake and best wishes for one and all. Entertainment will be provided by Peter Hoare and all others who join us in a rousing chorus of Happy Birthday.
 
(And in the spirit of the day, we will also award $100 to every person who can recall His Lordship's unofficial title when asked by His Lordship.)

Acoustic Tavern
April 11th & 25th
The Acoustical Tavern Returns - Saturday, the 11th and 25th
On alternate Saturdays, The Pub becomes The Acoustical Tavern - the North Shore's first choice place to see and hear the best new talent in the area. (If you think you're the best new talent, contact Chris Shea or Chris Langathianos at The Landing.)



EASTER SUNDAY

BIG Easter Sunday - Sunday, April 4th
We're open early - for brunch from 11 a.m. through 2 p.m. with the full dinner menu available from 1 p.m.  There will be a Celtic Music session with Michael O'Leary plus Bob and Jen Strom in The Lee Room from 5 to 8. And at 8 p.m. The Faithful will gather in The Pub for the Red Sox season opener against the (evil) Yankees. There will be free hot dogs for us and for them, March rain water - the weed-producing kind.



LANDING IDOL SERIES

The Landing Idol Series Finale - Friday, the 2nd
Who would have guessed: Add some neighbors and friends and a pretty good idea can become a really good time. 
 
It's not Karioke and it's not lip-synching - just something somewhere somehow in between - but it's fun. For eight weeks the qualifiers qualify. Then, they compete for $100, applause, accolades and to have their name - or an alias - engraved on the obscenely large, multi-use Landing Trophy. (Reminds us of the glory days of Milly Vanilli. )
Quick Links
April showers...
finally.

April showers bring May flowers and better mating possibilities for those bears and tennis players who haven't had a clean-up since prehibernation.  

 
Like most months, April will begin bright with possibilities on Day One, even though the day and month continue to be scoffed by those who favor the resolution-laden first of January as the primo first of the month.  
 
Yet, without April Fools Day, we would not have had the BBC's reporting of the bumper spaghetti crop in Switzerland in 1957, Taco Bell buying the Liberty Bell in 1996, BK introducing the left-handed Whopper in 1998 nor George Plimpton's  reporting  in Sports Illustrated that the '85 Mets had signed Sidd Finch - the 168 mph fast-baller who learned how to pitch as a youngster in a Tibetan monastery. 
 
And of course, we wouldn't have had NPR's reporting in 1992 that the Republicans wanted to rerun Richard Nixon (with the campaign slogan: I didn't do anything wrong and I won't do it again). 
 
But, why dwell over the preposterous past if we can dwell at The Landing at Seven Central and multi-time celebrate a fittingly fun month with some suitably fine food and spirits. So, dwell and redwell we will...
April Dinner Specials
Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays:
Second entree at half-price in the dining room.

All You Can Eat Fish Fry for $14 on Fridays and Prime Rib Special for $16 on Saturdays in the dining room.
Congrats
To our good-sport sponsors for making it happen and to our neighbors and friends for taking advantage of a good thing, i.e. The Grand Finale of The Landing's Ski and Winter Sports Night series.  
 
The evening featured fun, foolishness (in March?) and 18 prize winners who gleefully informed the attendant hopeful that regifting just wasn't going to happen.
 
Dick Oliver won a classic beach cruiser bicycle, courtesy of Seaside Cycle. (And yes, Dick completed the obligatory Pub victory lap without incident.)
 
Caroline Cruz won the Parrot Head weekend at Sunday River, courtesy of Boyne Mountain Resorts. (Shot-gun,  tag-along applicants were  plentiful... as always .)
 
Andrew Clark won a fine pair of Volkl skis and Wild John Waitt won a semi-double-daffy-inverted-helicopter-three-twist-fandango suitable snowboard, both courtesy of East Coast Alpine. (Summer- time, Wild John  sciatic rework was not included.) e dining room.
Lunch
We're here - Open For Lunch - every day You asked and we answered by opening for lunch every day. Now, we ask: Lunch? (Answer in person, any day, from 12 noon.)
Brain Candy Benefit Concert
Friday, April 16th

Thankful Tuesday Concert Benefit - Friday, the 16th
The waay-gifted Henry Allen will be the featured classic crooner for the Brain Candy Project benefit concert on Friday, the 16th in the Lee Room. There will be a three course dinner at 6 p.m. and the Allen concert at 8 p.m. all for $35, which includes dinner, the concert, taxes, tip and a ten dollar donation to the Brain Candy Project. Call for reservations.

Other April Rememberables

Celtic Music Sessions with Michael O'Leary with Bob and Jen Strom in The Lee Room from 5 to 8 on Sundays, the 4th and 18th.

Janice & Will will host Open Mic Night on Sundays, the 11th and 25th - young performers from  6 to 7 p.m. Young-at-heart thereafter. 

As always, Wednesday is Trivia Night.  And  starting on the 29th, The Landing's own Thursday Night Golf and Bike Night returns for the season.

Final thought (ponderable)

If your birthday falls on the fateful date, dare you accept and open gifts or is it better to lie about your true birth date as you would if you had been born on December 25th... or July 12th?
 
Take care, be well and stop by.
 
Chris Shea with Steve Ryan

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