Can't Miss It: Wednesday

NICK LICATA'S AFTERNOON DELIGHT: The City Council's Nick Licata wants to save the P-I this afternoon. KOMO puts it bluntly [UPDATE: and wrongly, says Licata's office--Licata wants simply to discuss newspapers formed as an L3C (low-profit, limited liability corporation).]: "Licata's plan: convince the city to intervene by putting up its own money to keep in print the oldest newspaper in town." He's convened a Superfriends panel--Roger Simpson and Douglas Underwood, Professors of Communication from the University of Washington; attorney Anne Bremner, Co-Chair of the Committee for a Two Newspaper Town; Beth Hester, programming manager for Seattle Channel; Liz Brown of the PacNW Newspaper Guild; David Brewster, publisher of Crosscut; and Jennifer Towery, President of the Peoria Newspaper’s Guild--to help him. Unfortunately he's made one huge mistake--most people are at work at 2 p.m. If you're near a TV, tune in to Seattle Channel 21, or you can watch the live webcast.

2 p.m. // City Hall // FREE

CHAMBER FOLK MUSIC: We told you to go see Shawn Colvin at the Triple Door yesterday; she's playing again tonight, but tonight, see, you'll be at the Tractor Tavern to hear Portland's Loch Lomond. Seattlest Kim says they're "the kind [of band] that will move you and make you question what you thought you knew about chamber folk music," and that they're joined by "Seattle's own equally fabulous Carrie Biell and Husbands, Love Your Wives." Plus since you'll be in Ballard it gives you an excuse to drop in at La Carta de Oaxaca.

8 p.m. // Tractor Tavern // $10

PLEASE SILENCE YOUR CELLPHONES: We read and enjoyed social scientist Dalton Conley's book The Pecking Order, which teased out the effects of birth order as human capital. Now he's written Elsewhere, U.S.A., and since the Paul Krugman talk is sold out, you might as well walk around the corner for Conley: "So I decided to try to swing for the fences, so to speak, and put into words what I--as a sociologist and victim of the elsewhere ethic--saw happening around me. The economic red shift (anxiety caused by rising inequality at the top), the price culture (the spread of markets into every nook and cranny of daily life), convestment (investment + consumption), weisure (work + leisure), the portable workshop (what I am writing this on), intravidualism (an ethic of fragmented selves replacing the modern ethic of individualism), and, of course, the Elsewhere Society (the interpenetration of spheres of life that were once bounded from each other)."

7:30 p.m. // Town Hall // $5