Wednesday, September 27
>>>Town Hall, 7:30pm. Science and medical writer Thomas Hager tells you all about the drug that you won't hear about on House, M.D.: "The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered disease, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics." But does it make you feel like hugging strangers? $5 at the door.

>>>Bella Cosa Foods, 4:00-6:00pm: Federico Bibi lets you taste two organic olive oils from Trampetti. Yum! Though he might have to slap you if you call them "EVOO." Free.

>>>Seattle First Baptist Church, 7:00pm. You didn't know there was a Seattle Spiritual Synthesis Series, didja? Anthony Robinson, previously senior pastor at Plymouth Congregational Church and currently a regular columnist for the P-I, elaborates on Common Grace: How to Be a Person and Other Spiritual Matters, his book deprecating killing other people, among other no-nos. Free. 'Cause God's like that.

Thursday, September 28
>>>Third Place Books, 7:00pm. Brian Morton talks about/reads from Breakable You. It's about "love, friendship, literary treachery, and what each of us owes to the past." Literary treachery! That's the best kind! Free, but if you owe something to the past, that's extra.

>>>Elliott Bay, 8:00pm. It's the return of the author of The Return of the Player. We know, you only saw the movie The Player. That's why movie guy Warren Etheredge is gonna be there, too. Free.

>>>Town Hall, 7:30pm. Foolproof presents Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning investigative journalist who noticed that whole prisoner abuse thing at Abu Ghraib. Hersh claims the U.S.’s military plans for Iran call for a nuclear strike, so you might want to see him before he vanishes mysteriously. Tickets are $28.

Friday, September 29
>>>Pacific Science Center Eames Imax Theatre, 7:30pm. There hasn't been a throw-down this hot since the Buju Banton Blow-Up of 2006. Theoretical physicist Lee Smolin testifies that physics, thanks to that rotten ole string theory, is in deep, non-provable shiznit. String theorists say they knew he'd say that. It will get NASTY! $5 at the door.

>>>Elliott Bay, 7:30pm. UW anthropology professor Sasha Su-Ling Welland -- we gotta pause a sec. Anthropology excites us. She's talking about her book, A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters, a biographical work about Amy Ling Chen, her grandmother, and Amy's sister, Ling Shuhua, who had an affair with Virginia Woolf's nephew. Again with the sexy! Only the first thousand miles are free.

Saturday, September 30
>>>Seattle Art Museum, 2:00-3:30pm. Cultural anthropologist and filmmaker Sabine Jell-Bahlsen -- is it hot in here? -- presents a screening of footage from her travels and a slide lecture. Learn about the role of the queen mother, the female side of the masquerades from Nigeria and the art of Papua New Guinea. We have to admit, those are all gaps in our knowledge base. Free with museum admission; RSVP req'd: 206-654-3121.

>>>Town Hall, 11:00am & 2:00pm. Ah, a Bungalow Fair (10:00am-5:00pm)! 50 craftspeople-strong, the show and sale centers on early 20th-century architecture and design from architects and interior designers. Lectures are “The Arts and Crafts of C.R. Ashbee with Megan Thomas, Victoria & Albert Museum,” (11:00am) and “Old Colony Style: Colonial Revival and Arts and Crafts Homes” (2:00pm). We're drooling. Fair tickets are $10. Lecture tickets are $10.

>>>Third Place Books , 6:30pm. Words, words, words -- you're so sick of words! Sometimes you just want to see pictures. In that case: Ferdinand Protzman presents his book Work : The World in Photographs. "People in great cities and tiny villages, from 19th-century China to 21st-century New York" in photos from National Geographic archives. Free.

>>>Elliott Bay, 7:30pm. South African poet Ingrid de Kok reads from Seasonal Fires: New and Selected Poems, her fourth book, the first to be published in North America. Topics include South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Hearings, the AIDS pandemic -- and her love of Bellagio, Umbria. Those last two almost seem like made-up words. Maybe we're getting punchy. It's poetry. It's free.

Sunday, October 1
>>>Elliott Bay, 2:00pm. More poets are upon us! Ukraine-born Ilya Kaminsky reads from his first full-length collection, Dancing in Odessa. That's like a snap-together poetry collection title, isn't it? [Gerund] in [Place Name]. But we're not making fun! Ukrainians are a testy bunch! Free, like all Ukraine!

>>>Town Hall, 11:00am. The Bungalow Fair Day II (10:00am-4:00pm)! Early 20th-century architecture and design from architects and interior designers. Today's talk is: “The Perfect Fit: Proper Furniture for the Proper House” (11:00am). Fair tickets are $10. Lecture tickets are $10.

Monday, October 2
>>>Third Place Books, 7:00pm. For the book Homeground, Barry Lopez, with Debra Gwartney, assembled 850 outdated terms tied to particular places: ”kiss tank, desire path, envelope field, point bar." Enh, it's Monday night. Might as well go. Free.

>>>Elliott Bay, 7:30pm. Seattle art critic and curator Matthew Kangas talks about his book, Craft and Concept: The Rematerialization of the Art Object. All we're going to say is that "Rematerialization" is what happens on Star Trek. You start just throwing concepts around, people are gonna get confused, leave disappointed. Free with proof of macrame ownership.

Tuesday, October 3
>>>UW Alumni Association Global Lecture Series, 7:00-8:30pm. It's a panel discussion on access to health care, Fairness and Factions in Health. "Faculty examine how issues of access, culture, trade, finance and regulation affect health care to world citizens." We're imagining it'll be just like House, M.D., just without the House part. Free with RSVP.

>>>Third Place Books , 7:00pm. We just heard Isaiah Wilner yakking about this book of his on the NPR. Briton Hadden and Henry Luce co-founded Time Magazine; Wilner claims that after Hadden’s death (at 31?), Luce rewrote the Time story in a Lucier light. Free.

>>>Town Hall, 7:30pm. Meet Cindy Sheehan, Peace Mom. All she's saying is give --oops, that's our word limit for this week. $5 at the door.