Can't Miss It: Wednesday

TO MARKET: Robbin Block leads the Seattle SCORE "Marketing 101" half-day workshop this afternoon. If you're starting a business or looking for a better, legal way to pry open wallets, the workshop covers product planning, pricing, and promotions, in addition to pointers on how to do market research and create a business plan. One thing entrepreneurs need most is to learn marketing basics--too many are counting on Oprah really, really liking their product.

12-4 p.m. // 2401 4th Ave, Ste 450 // Tickets: $45

SINGING HEAD: We've been hearing a lot of Talking Heads at parties, restaurants, and bars, which provokes the discussion of how good they are and yet they're not "everyday" music, are they? That said, it's not every day that David Byrne shows up at Benaroya Hall singing songs from Everything That Happens Will Happen Today--with some Brian Eno-era Heads music (think Remain in Light) thrown in to keep everyone happy. While Byrne is an inventive, serious, playful musician, it's his vocals that always get us, that instantly recognizable, nasal bray with its tinge of hysteria--he's the troubadour of that uneasiness that leads to dancing feet.

7:30 p.m. // Benaroya Hall // Tickets: $45 (plus TM fees)

HOW TO QUIT: We'll tell you upfront, this UW psychology lecture on addiction is full--but there's a wait list if you show up in person, and since the lecture is free to begin with, people don't always show up who RSVP. Plus, addicts are notoriously unreliable. Docs Alan Marlatt (UW) and Judson Brewer (Yale University) are discussing treatment and relapse prevention techniques. Brewer is covering the neurobiology of addiction, the role of stress in relapse, and how mindfulness training helps ferret out addictive behaviors. Marlatt is going into study results on relapse prevention that combines mindfulness meditation with cognitive-behavioral coping skills.

7-9 p.m. // UW Kane Hall, Room 120 // FREE but only wait-list availability (wait-listing begins at 6:15 p.m.)