Can't Miss It: Monday

WHAT THE...?: Apparently you shouldn't go to Seattle School's Strikethough #7 Jennifer Zwick's performance of Teddy Roosevelt: The Musical. It's at the Rendezvous Jewelbox Theatre.

8 p.m. // 2322 Second Ave. // no cover; no admittance

MUSIC?: It's like everyone's hungover from the Capitol Hill Block Party; there's just nothing going on. Down at the Paramount, you can catch one-hit-wonder Matisyahu reprising his hip-hop/reggae religious rock. You can wander around the audience taking in the unholy union of youth group kids and potheads. At least Common Market's opening. And up at Chop Suey, uninspired British garage rock trio The Subways stagger into minute sixteen. Yum!

TREE-HUGGER: The Al Gore-Inconvenient Truth phenom has yet to actually spur the real, global change that could save the environment (and our asses), but it has made a tidy market for "green" authors. Rick Bass, who's been plugging away for a couple decades, has published more than 20 books of fiction and non-fiction. And tonight he's back, plugging his new book Why I Came West: A Memoir, which tells the story of Bass's love of the Yaak Valley in Montana, where he moved in 1987.

7:30 p.m. // Elliott Bay Books, 101 S. Main St. // free!

STATUTORY: Roman Polanski rocked the world in the 1960s and '70s with groundbreaking films like Knife in the Water (better than Antonioni's L'Avventura) and Chinatown (where would Who Framed Roger Rabbit? be without it?). But that all got tangled up in a sex scandal in 1977, when Polanski doped up a 13-year-old model with champagne and Quaaludes at Jack Nicholson's house and had his way with her. While the rape charges have never been in dispute, what has is the strange series of events that led the prosecutor and judge to back out of a plea-bargain agreement supported by the victim's family. Polanski fled the U.S. and has worked in Europe ever since. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired explores the complex circumstances surrounding the criminal trial, and its interviews with the prosecutor have opened the door for Polanski to finally overcome the criminal charges against him. It plays at SIFF Cinema through Thursday.

8 p.m. // 3rd & Mercer, under McCaw Hall // $10 G.A.