Can't Miss It: Weekend Edition

Hollywood Knowledge: Tonight the Northwest Screenwriters Guild hosts a talk with special guest actor/screenwriter Walter Dalton. Dalton has written for TV (Laverne and Shirley, Barney Miller, Benson) and appeared on it (Rhoda, Mork and Mindy, Northern Exposure, and Millennium). He'll discuss a Hollywood career's ins and outs, then hang around for a Q&A session. Saturday he'll lead a workshop on pitching.

Friday 7-9pm, Saturday 10am-2pm // NWSG, Clear Channel Bldg, 351 Elliott Ave W // $15 general, $8 members of partner orgs, free for NWSG members

Indie Music: Saturday night the Mountain Goats are at Neumos. The new album is Heretic Pride (Pitchfork: 8.0); we still can't get enough of "This Year" (above) from The Sunset Tree. Rhapsody tells us similar bands are Bright Eyes and Two Gallants, or perhaps you might like this description: "a youthful Bruce Springsteen backed by The Waterboys."

Dance: Sunday, Spectrum Dance Theatre presents "The Theater of Needless Talents" at their Madrona studio. Based on the experiences of Jewish artists during the Holocaust, the work combines dance, theatrical vignettes, and cabaret with the music of Erwin Schulhoff, a Czech composer and performer who died of tuberculosis at a concentration camp. Spectrum does some of the most intense, visceral, and idea-driven dance in Seattle (and elsewhere, for that matter), and Schulhoff's music is mind-blowing.

5:30pm // Spectrum Dance Theater, 800 Lake Washington Blvd // Tickets $18

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