Can't Miss It: Tuesday

TRASH TALKING: Not totally through with film after SIFF? Tonight, trash cinema provocateur John Waters appears at Seattle Arts & Lectures. From groundbreaking indie work like Pink Flamingos to cult classics like Hairspray to contemporary satire like Pecker and Cecil B. Demented, Waters has been pushing the boundaries of the cinema for about 40 years, and has moved from the indie fringes to the mainstream with popular stage musicals of his classic films.

7:30 p.m. // Benaroya Hall // $20 and up @ the box office

ZEITGEIST: We've always felt that William Gibson's prose was bland and uninspired, but that doesn't mean that he's not a giant of ideas. Gibson's cyberpunk fiction has been predicting and interpreting our culture for decades, since his epochal 1984 novel Neuromancer. His newest work, Spook Country, would seem a departure (it's a spy novel), unless you're aware of such lit-crit concepts as "agency panic" and "paranoia narrative." (Damn you Fredric Jameson!) Otherwise, you can make do with the fact it's a good book.

7 p.m. // University Bookstore (U-District) // free

HAUTE CINÉMA: Northwest Film Forum's fashion-icon series has proved prescient, with their week-long run of Yves Saint Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris preceding its subject's death by mere hours. (In YSL's honor, they're reprising the film this weekend.) All of which should make Karl Lagerfeld feel a bit nervous, since this week it's his turn with Lagerfeld Confidential. Also playing is another doc on fashion icons, Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton.

"Lagerfeld Confidential" @ 7 & 9 p.m.; "Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton" @ 7:30 & 9 p.m. // NWFF // $8.50

HOT DAWG: The Moondoggies are a Seattle band on the rise, recently signed to Sub Pop's Hardly Art label, back in town from rocking Sasquatch last weekend, and revving up the amps at Neumo's tonight, with The Red Sea Sharks and PWRFL Power.

8 p.m. // Neumo's // $8 door // 21+