Can't Miss It: Monday
OH THE HORROR: Every Monday in January is a different silent movie, complete with Dennis James on The Paramount's mighty Wurlitzer organ. This time around, Trader Joe's Silent Movie Mondays features scary silent classics from the '20s, kicking off with tonight's showing of Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
7:00 p.m. // Paramount Theatre // 911 Pine St. // $12
EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK: Considering everything in the region is currently going kablooey, it's a good time to take a crash course in the Middle East, care of travel writer Melissa Rossi. She'll be reading and signing from her latest book in the What Every American Should Know series, What Every American Should Know About the Middle East.
7:30 p.m. // Town Hall, downstairs // 1119 8th Ave. // $5
THE FIRST RULE OF CENTRAL CINEMA IS...: If you've already seen Brad Pitt in Benjamin Button, revisit one of his other two pairings with director David Fincher tonight at Central Cinema's showing of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. Ask real nice, and they just might pause the film during one of Brad's many shirtless scenes.
9:45 p.m. // Central Cinema // 1411 21 Ave. // $5 at the door, $6.12 in advance
