Best bathrooms, best music, best food...

The Seal of Awesomeness returns this month with a very personal hunt: best bathrooms.

I needed a lot of help with this one; I'm no great judge of men's bathrooms. It's All About Bathroom Awesomeness Research Team member Jeff Bowen provided the guy's perspective. What we realized: we have very different values when it comes to restrooms. He was impressed by a lot of stalls. I was horrified by broken tampon machines. He cared less about decor. I wanted a bathroom where I could hang out.

Like the one pictured above at Third Street Stuff: it's probably the most colorful we encountered. Fight boring bathroom tile with paint!

Check out the other bathrooms we loved.

Otherwise, it's all about...

Reads: The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning will celebrate 15 years of writing workshops and community education from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday. Check it out at 251 W. Second St.

Stage: Kentucky Ballet Theatre presents Dracula at the Lexington Opera House, 401 W. Short St. Shows are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

• Hamlet! Actors Guild of Lexington continues its run this weekend at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.
• And for not-exactly-Hamlet, there's Kate Clinton! The comedian will be at UK's Singletary Center for the Arts at 7 p.m Saturday. Doors open at 5 p.m., silent auction at 5:30 p.m.

Music: Will Hoge is playing at The Dame Friday night, and he's all great and folky-poppy-soulful, but I'm so, so excited that he's playing with one of my favorite Detroit bands, The Hard Lessons. They're fantastic: they've got a look and sensibility from pop radio of the past, but a sound that's more gritty club of today.  ::sigh:: I just love them.

Food: Linda Blackford reviewed Le Bistro, but the news everybody seems to be talking about this week is the return of Furlongs. It's back at the cursed spots at 735 E. Main St. with its menu of Cajun and American fare.

• For the not-so-rocking crowd, the Lexington Philharmonic's second concert of the season starts at 8 p.m. Friday. They'll play Tchaikovsky's Suite From Sleeping Beauty, Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite and Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez with guitar soloist Pablo Villegas. The big draw, though, is guest conductor Kayoko Dan. She's the first candidate for the Lexington Philharmonic conductor position being vacated by George Zack after 30 years. Tonight is her night to impress.

Movies: New this week, we have Dan in Real Life, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Darjeeling Limited, Lars and the Real Girl and Saw IV.