31 THINGS TO DO IN March

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1 SEEK REDEMPTION for the prefix "Euro" at the Eurochocolate festival in Rome, featuring thousands of chocolates from more than 120 top makers.

2 EAT GREEN EGGS AND HAM. Today is Dr. Seuss's 100th birthday.

3 LAUGH AND SKI at the U S. Comedy Arts Festival, in Aspen, Colorado.

4 PONDER ILLICIT ROMANCE. The Houston Grand Opera premieres Jake Heggie's The End of the Affair, based on Graham Greene's Gre novel.

5 TURN UP THE HEAT at the 2004 South Beach Wine & Food Festival, sponsored by Food & Wine magazine. Eat with renowned chefs Alain Ducasse, Bobby Flay, and Emeril Lagasse, among others.

6 WATCH THEM GO. The Iditarod, the famous dogsled race through Alaska, begins today in Anchorage.

7 EXACT REVENGE. Now Who's Boss?, a new show on TLC, forces big-time execs (Jonathan Tisch of Loews Hotels, Dan Brestle of Estee Lauder) to work as grunts in their own corporations.

8 HIT THE DECO at the Legion of Honor of San Francisco. "Art Deco 1910-1939," an overview of the decadent and distinctive design movement, opens.

GO GONZO. Wayne Ewing's documentary Breakfast with 9 Hunter, out on DVD this month, offers a cinema verite look inside the wild life of Hunter S. Thompson.

10 gorgeous MARVEL Japanese AT HIS postcards CREATIVE from EMPIRE. Leonard Three A. Lauder's hundred fifty collection go on exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

11 DUST OFF THE PHRASE "I don't know art, but I know what like." The Whitney Museum of American Art's "2004 Biennial Exhibition" opens today.

12 STAND ON POINTE. The Houston Ballet presents "Tales of Texas," a three-part ballet choreographed by Stanton Welch to the music of Aaron Copland, Patsy Cline, and Matthew Pierce.

13 START A COLLECTION. The Armory Show, the world's biggest exhibition of contemporary artwork, featuring 188 international galleries, takes place in New York.

14 GET INSIDE AN ARTIST S HEAD at sculptor Mark Mennin's "Head Games" exhibition at N.Y.C.'s Miller/Geisler Gallery.

15 ADMIRE Annie Leibovitz's "Rewarding Lives" exhibition at L.A.'s Pacific Design Center. Tiger Woods, Ella Fitzgerald, and Rob Reiner are among the featured achievers.

16 MAKE SNAP JUDGMENTS. "Photographers of Genius," at the Getty in Los Angeles, features works by Eugene Atget, BrassaY, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, and Man Ray.

17 PINCH SOMEONE who's not wearing green. Happy Saint Patrick's Day.

18 ROCK ON at SXSW (South by Southwest). The massive music festival in Austin is in full swing for another three days.

19 BRACE FOR A BOMB. Jersey Girl, that other movie starring Ben and J.Lo (directed by Kevin Smith), comes out today.

20 BOOK A SPA APPOINTMENT A-S.A.P. It's the first day of spring and it's time to exfoliate.

21 HERALD THE NEW SEASON. View more than 275,000 trees in bloom at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, Georgia.

22 STRIKE A POSE at Old Spitalfields Market's Alternative Fashion Week—edgy London's answer to the fashion industry's spate of shows—featuring up-and-coming designers.

23 BE A TRENDSETTER. Hollywould shoes has opened its Palm Beach store. Check out the latest collection, "Pretty in Pink."

24 SQUELCH THE URGE to holler "Stella!" at passersby at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival.

25 GET IN LINE. Coach hosts the opening of "Alexander Liberman: No Regrets," a collection of artwork by the late, revered Conde Nast editorial director, at N.Y.C.'s Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art.

26 FONDLY RECALL growing up in L.A. and listening to KROQ. Mayor of the Sunset Strip, the new documentary about L.A. radio icon Rodney Bingenheimer ("Rodney on the ROQ"), opens this month.

27 GET GROOVY when the Fred Hersch Trio + 2 performs at N.Y.C.'s Village Vanguard.

28 SEIZE THE DAY. San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater teams with Chicago's Steppenwolf players to put on William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life at S.F.'s Geary Theater.

29 CHALK IT UP TO GOOD GENES. Model-actress-whatever Elle Macpherson celebrates her 41st birthday today.

30 GO SHUCK YOURSELF. The annual Oyster Olympics, featuring good eating and plenty of "oystertainment," begins today in Seattle, the oyster capital of the world.

31 WITNESS THE BRILLIANT, the bizarre-and the patently absurd. "The International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques and Products" in Geneva is under way.