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CASTING CALL: Local director Garrett Bennett is looking for extras to cast in his independent film The Spy & the Sparrow.
3-8pm // First Church of Christ Scientist [1519 E. Denny Way] // $Whatever minuscule remnants remain of your dreams of an acting career
BOOKS: Don't wear sweatpants to this event. Erotica writer Jennifer Munro reads from her award-winning work, as does the winner of Hugo House's erotica writing competition. Keep your fingers crossed for our own submission, "Not tonight, I want to watch last month's Oregon State game on DVR."
Reading: 7pm / Party: 8:30pm // Richard Hugo House [1634 11th Ave.] // $5
BASKETBALL: #2 O'Dea visits #3 Rainier Beach in the semifinals of the Metro tournament. "There's comedy, there's high comedy, and then there's a Rainier Beach basketball game," we wrote last year.
7pm // Rainier Beach High School [8815 Seward Park Ave S] // $7
BOOKS: Novelist Pete Dexter hates computers: "Paris Trout, I lost that whole long middle section, one hundred ten pages. It was replaced by one line of bright yellow smiley faces at the end of it. I had to rewrite it all." He reads from a collection of his newspaper writing tonight.
7:30pm // Elliott Bay Books // Free
MUSIC: Joshua Radin will perform his Damien Rice-lite for all the girls at the Triple Door tonight.
8pm // The Triple Door // $15
HISTORY: When we think of steel mills we think of Cleveland or Pittsburgh, but there was a big one in West Seattle which was, in fact, called "Seattle's Little Pittsburgh." SSCC history professor Judy Bentley talked to former residents of this neighborhood and will talk about this blue-collar slice of Seattle's past tonight.
7pm // National Archives Building [6125 Sand Point Way NE] // Free
GOVERNMENT: At the UW campus, ex-Seattle top cop Norm Stamper and current KC Councilman Larry Gossett "discuss" the War on Drugs, which they both publicly oppose. After the meetup, all participants will walk down to the Ave and buy gyros for the teenage heroin addicts who live there. Kidding, kidding, they will walk down to the Red Square underground garage, get in their Volvos, turn on Air America, and nod along with Al Franken as they drive back to Madrona.
6pm // The HUB // $2 for general public, free for students.
MEET-UPS: "Ignite Seattle is a geek event that combines on-site geekery, sharing, and innovation (and drinking)." There's an egg drop contest (build something that protects an egg from breaking when you drop it) and a bunch of people give very short talks about the cool stuff they are working on, including a guy from Google who we guarantee will run out of business cards by the end of the night.
6:30pm (egg drop), 8:30pm (talks) // Capitol Hill Arts Center [1621 12th Ave] // Free
MEET-UPS: The Ignite Seattle thing we just mentioned? Well, Seattle Podcasting Network is having a meet-up to podcast that meet-up. SYNERGY!
6pm (to set up their equipment, presumably) // Capitol Hill Arts Center [1621 12th Ave] // Free
