Get Out

BASKETBALL: Ex-Garfield High and UW star Will Conroy suits up for a regular season NBA game for the first time tonight as his new team Memphis hosts Dallas.

5pm // Our basement or anywhere else with the NBA package

HIP-HOP: Lupe Fiasco hits town along with a number of other hip-hop performers.

7-11pm // HUB Ballroom at the UW // $18 general public, $14 UW students

BOOKS: Calvin Trillin reads from About Alice, his fond, funny, and romantic memoir about his late wife.

7pm // University Bookstore // free

THEATER: Bret Fetzer directs the world premiere of Victrola employee Kelleen Conway Blanchard's Small Town. We haven't seen it, but it's got a one-eyed heroine and a character with a partly-plastic head. Can you resist?

7:30pm // Capitol Hill Arts Center // $10

MUSIC: "String-bender extraordinaire" Tony Furtado celebrates the release of his CD Thirteen.

9pm // Tractor Tavern // $17