Can't Miss It: Thursday

MEET ME IN THE CHAMBER: We don't need to sell the symphony fans on chamber music, but maybe you rock and rollers could use a little primer. Catch six chamber ensembles at Town Hall tonight, and get your chamber music in 15-minute doses. It's like tapas, but with violins.

8 p.m. // Town Hall // Free

LOCAL AUTHOR BLOWOUT: TNT sports writer Dave Boling has written a novel. Go Dave! Guernica is set during the Spanish Civil War, and sounds like quite an epic tale of family drama and the struggles therein. It's gotten a nice little write-up in Publishers Weekly—no small feat. He'll be at Elliott Bay Books tonight to read from the darn thing...the novel, not the Publishers Weekly review.

7:30 p.m. // Elliott Bay Books // Free

B TO THE O TO THE O TO THE K: Seattle's first hip-hop photography book, Emerald City Hip Hop by Alexis Wolfe, will be celebrated tonight at Chop Suey. In honor of the book's release, Parker Brothers, D Black, Vitamin D & Maineack, Draze, DJ DV-One, and others will be performing. Be there.

8 p.m. doors // Chop Suey // Free

Violinist at Viking Days, by HonuPhoto from the Seattlest Flickr Pool