Can't Miss It: Thursday

SECRETS: Are you into The Secret, the self-help phenomenon that swept the world last year? If so, tonight's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you: At seven Puget Sound movie theaters, at 8 p.m. Pacific, you can watch a live conversation, moderated by Leeza Gibbons, entitled Beyond the Secret. Tickets are available online here or at the theater box-offices. The only Seattle theater participating is the Pacific Place 11, but there are other theaters for people in Olympia, Kent, Auburn, Fed Way, Lynnwood, Auburn, and Redmond. If you're out there, check this link to find the theater nearest you.

8 p.m. // Pacific Place 11, 600 Pine St. // $18

The Fading Collective, tonight at Neumos, 8 p.m.

8 p.m. // 925 E. Pike St. // $8, 21+

MOSSBACK: Knute Burger, one of the pre-New Times editors of Seattle Weekly and author of the "Mossback" column, was perhaps most famous for stumping what he called "lesser Seattle." A fiery opponent of Greg Nickels, the Stranger, and seemingly everyone else in Seattle who favored high-density development and mass transit, Berger steadfastly argued for preserving neighborhoods as the best insurance of quality-of-life. That's a gross over-simplification of his point, of course, which is where his new book, Pugetopolis, comes in. He'll be reading from it and answering questions down at Elliott Bay Books tonight.

7:30 p.m. // 101 S. Main St. // free!

SUMMER OF LOVE: NW Film Forum is in the midst of their 69-series films, iconic movies of 1969, which turns out to really be a great moment in film-making history. Tonight you've got one of our favorites, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, at 8:30. It's the last night it's showing, too, so get down there if you want to see it. Also, there's Easy Rider and Luis Bunuel's The Milky Way.

8:30 // 1515 12th Ave. // $9 GA