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SPORTS: Garfield vs. Franklin basketball is the best sports rivalry in the city. Only happens twice a year. There's bands, guys trying desperately to impress their friends in the stands, and usually a cheerleader battle or two. This is as close to Duke-UNC as we have in this state. NOTE: Bring a sweater, the gym will be COLD.

7pm // Old Lincoln High School (Garfield's being renovated), 4400 Interlake Ave N, Wallingford // Tickets are $6, available only at the door.

POETRY: Robert Wrigley writes very beautiful poems like this one about a guy putting his dog down. He lives by a river in Idaho and draws inspiration from this natural setting and wins just assloads of poetry prizes. Tonight, he's reading from his latest collection at Open Books.

7:30pm // Open Books, 2414 N. 45th St. (kitty-corner from Dick's), Wallingford // Free!

MUSIC: Cornish music events never disappoint. You aren't expecting much, just a few new and unexpected musical ideas, and you always get them. They're doing "Scores of Sound" all week, a four-day festival of student performances. Tonight's 8pm event looks good: The Saint Helens String Quartet plays student compositions.

8pm // PONCHO Concert Hall at Cornish's Capitol Hill Campus, 710 E. Roy // Free!

BOOKS: Elizabeth Kolbert, the prodigious New Yorker contributer on all things climate, brings her nightmare-inducing tales of our imminent destruction here tonight. We're certain fear isn't her end-game, but the net result is undeniable: shit's going bad people, and someone's got to start paying attention.

7:30pm // Benaroya Hall // Tickets are $15-$60