Can't Miss It: Monday
BOOKS: Mary Roach enjoys "bird-watching--though the hours don't agree with me--backpacking, thrift stores, overseas supermarkets, Scrabble, mangoes, and that late-night Animal Planet show about horrific animals such as the parasitic worm that attaches itself to fishes' eyeballs but makes up for it by leading the fish around." In her book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, she discusses how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so elusive and what scientists have planned to make you hornier than a bonobo.
FILM: Over at the Northwest Film Forum, Divorce--Italian Style, the first foreign-language film to win an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (it was also nominated for Best Actor and Best Director), stars Marcello Mastroianni. It's no War of the Roses, but what is? The idea is that it was hard to get a divorce in Italy, so people used to get creative about breaking up.
7 p.m. // NW Film Forum, 1515 12th Avenue // Tickets: $8.50
ART: "Crossing the Water: A Path to the Afro-Cuban Spirit World" is the name of the exhibit at Photographic Center Northwest. By local photographers and authors Claire Garoutte and Anneke Wambaugh, the show wraps up Tuesday, so if you're gonna go, you better get to going. This photo features a chicken on a man's head. (It's not the guy who used to hang out on Market Street in SF, though. You know, the one with the chicken.)
noon-9:30 p.m. // Photographic Center Northwest, 900 12th Avenue // FREE
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