Can't Miss It: Tuesday

NOON JAZZ: Cornish's music department is putting on a noon concert featuring the Jazz Composers Ensemble with Jovino Santos Neto, the Brazilian pianist, flutist, and composer. We don't have a lot of information on this, but come on, it's free. Grab something at Joe Bar and head on over.

DHARMA MEDITATION: Are you a continuing dharma student? Don't be fronting your sense of refuge: this meditation on the Heart Sutra is for practicing Buddhists, not looky-loos. The Heart Sutra--perhaps the most well-known and widely studied of all Buddhist sutras--captures the key insight of Buddhism: the emptiness of all phenomena, the nature of reality. Word to the OM. Email to register yourself.

7-9pm // BodhiHeart Sangha, 500 Broadway E // Donations accepted

READING: Is there anything more likely to generate a memoir than growing up with a mentally ill parent? (Yes, statistically, just growing up. But forget that.) In Swallow the Ocean, Minnesota writing teacher Laura Flynn talks about what it was like to spend three years with her schizophrenic mother, growing up in San Francisco in the late '70s. "Her mom was seeing signs of the devil everywhere...she had stopped cleaning house."

7:30pm // Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St // FREE

MUSIC: Steve Earle. Moore Theatre. It's that simple. His new album is Washington Square Serenade. We've hung out in Washington Square, with the models on smoke breaks gushing their new headshots. Earle's version is much cooler. It contains what he calls a "Fuck you, Lou Dobbs" song called "City of Immigrants," and marks a comeback for the self-described "redneck recovering addict."

8pm // Moore Theatre, 1932 2nd Ave // Tickets: $30-$35

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