Can't Miss It: Thursday

Knowledge: Seattle University is having a Globalization & Justice conference and you're invited. Today's keynote speaker is the very famous, very sharp...Anil Gupta, ladies and gentlemen! Put your hands together for his talk, "G2G – Grassroots to Global: the Knowledge Rights of Creative Communities." Gupta founded the Honey Bee Network, which is good because if the real ones don't bounce back, we may need to turn to them for pollen collection.

5:30pm // Pigott Auditorium, Seattle U // FREE

Latin Music: The Prince-approved Grupo Fantasma bring their funk, mambo, merengue, and cumbia combinations to Chop Suey. We were just listening to the 11-member strong Austin band on the MySpace and we want to be at this show right now. "This freight train of a Latin band could easily hold its own in a sweaty bandbox in the Bronx…they'll knock you down with the grooves," says the Village Voice. That's a New York opinion, which is worth three times anything from the West coast, even when it comes to Latin music.

Jazz Music: At Egan's Ballard Jam House, the Andrew Boscardin Quintet gives Cornish music students a reason to keep going to classes: if they graduate in a hurry, there might still be a jazz audience left out there. The P-I is a fan of Cornish saxophonist Clark Gibson and pianist Mack Grout. They'll be playing jazz musics composed by Boscardin aka "Bosco," whom (full disclosure) we know, have heard play some fine jazz guitar, and who now owes us a beer.

9pm // Egan's Ballard Jam House, 1707 NW Market Street // $10 cover

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