Can't Miss It: Monday
LUNCH AND POLITICAL POEMS: Nation humorist Calvin Trillin does a special midday Monday event at Elliott Bay, reading from his collection of poems about the 2008 election cycle Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme. The event is free and open to the public, but if you want to go one step further and make a lunch of it, call up the cafe (206-682-6664) to pre-order from your choice of box lunch: roast beef sandwich, albacore tuna sandwich, or egg salad sandwich, all of which are served with chips and a cookie.
12:00 p.m. // Elliott Bay Book Company // 101 S Main St // free, or lunch for $10
JUST SHOOT HIM ALREADY: Last week we were watching the beautiful people in La Piscine, featuring Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, and a very young Jane Birkin. Now SIFF closes out its French Crime Wave series with a week of Shoot the Piano Player. It's a new 35mm print of Truffant's second film, so all the better to take in French singer Charles Aznavour as a washed-up dive bar pianist, whose criminal and musical pasts are revealed in flashbacks by the waitress who loves him. The film runs nightly through Thursday.
7:30 p.m. // SIFF Cinema // 321 Mercer St. // $10
JESUS HEARTS MATH: Get all sciencey with astrophysicist Mario Livio, who tackles the profound with his latest book, Is God a Mathematician? Livio uses some high-falutin' mathematics to explain both the physical world and human behavior, while also delving into the debate as to whether math is a creation of the human mind or a natural phenomenon merely awaiting human discovery. Whoa, dude, that just, like, blew our mind.
7:30 p.m. // Town Hall // 1119 8th Ave. // $5
