Wednesday, October 18
>>>EMP, 6pm. First The Police's Andy Summers gets interviewed by EMP Senior Curator, Jasen Emmons. Then he signs his book, One Train Later: A Memoir. You need tickets to stand in the "Don't Stand So Close To Me" book-signing line, available with purchase of the book from University Book Store. Andy will sign one piece of memorabilia per copy of his book. Did we mention he has a book out? $5 at the door, free for Museum members.

>>>UW Kane Hall 130, 7:00pm. Mario Livio talks about his book, The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry. "Come and learn about symmetry and group theory, and their applications to things ranging from the way we perceive the world around us to the way we select our mates." Stop! Stop! You had us at "group theory." We imagine this is free but they don't really say.

Thursday, October 19
>>>Paramount Theatre, 8:00pm. Folksy, down-home Garrison Keillor makes Seattle Scandiwhovians melt. Just melt. Tickets are $22.50-$72.50.

>>>Varsity Theater, 7:00pm. Film Rap: it's confessional memoirist Augusten Burroughs and Warren Etheredge, before a special screening of Running with Scissors. Get your free pass at the concierge desk at U-District University Book Store.

Friday, October 20
>>>University Book Store, 7:00pm. Snooty New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik reads from Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York about his move to NYC with his family, just in time for 9/11. What a drag after Paris. Free, or as Adam would say, Gratuit.

Saturday, October 21
>>>Town Hall, 7:00pm. Seattle Arts and Lectures brings you children's book creator Eric Carle. You may remember him from such books as The Very Hungry Caterpillar or 10 Little Rubber Ducks . They're doing a show on his art at the Tacoma Art Museum. (Tacoma is where they have light rail.) Tickets are $18/$9 students under 25. Visit www.lectures.org or call 206-621-2230.

>>>Museum of the Mysteries, 7:00-9:00pm. Auburn Paranormal Reseach Team Ghost Busters Hunters talk about Thornewood Castle, used in Stephen King's Rose Red. A fictional story, we feel we should add. You bet it's free.

Sunday, October 22
>>>Frye Art Museum, 2:00pm. As a riff on the Henry Darger show, film critic Robert Horton discusses outsider auteurs Oscar Micheaux and Spencer Williams (African-American filmmakers of the 1920s“40s), Ed Wood and John Cassavetes. Free because the Frye is free, as free as free can be!

Monday, October 23
>>>University Book Store 7:00pm. Little-known Hollywood sell-out (we know, it's a catch-22!) Harvey Pekar joins The Best American Comics series editor Anne Elizabeth Moore, and Jesse Reklaw and David Lasky to discuss who got left out of the book and is probably really pissed about it but will just, you know, draw a mean comic later and move on. Free but you're obviously a comic book geek. And that's gonna cost ya.

>>>Town Hall, 7:30pm. Former Tokyo bureau chief Michael Zielenziger instructs you on how to score with all the available Japanese women, now that one million young Japanese men (“hikikomori”) have given up on life and won't leave their apartments. Also something about his book Shutting Out the Sun, on the depression Japan's national consciousness is stuck in. $5 at the door with proof of ennui.

Tuesday, October 24
>>>UW Kane Hall, Room 120, 7:30pm. Shutterbug Annie Leibovitz talks with Sharon Delano about her book A Photographer's Life: 1990 - 2005.  SOLD OUT: Tickets are $5 each; one ticket free with purchase of A Photographer's Life from University Book Store.

>>>Town Hall, 7:30pm. Ever since Ed Viesturs was a little boy, he wanted to climb the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks -- without the crutch of bottled oxygen. He finished in 2005, only a few brain lesions the worse for wear. He'll be reading haltingly from his book: No Shortcuts To the Top. Just $5 at the door, but if anyone dies you have to pack them out.