Can't Miss It: Monday

LIKE CHILD SOLDIERS: Everyone knows about the genocidal atrocities committed in Rwanda and Darfur, but folks seem to have forgotten about the ongoing (twenty-plus years now) war in northern Uganda. Peter Eichstaedt, Africa editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, comes to Elliott Bay tonight to talk about the conflict, child soldiers, and the repeated efforts by the Ugandan people to stop the violence or at least survive it. It's all there in his new book, First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army. Spoiler alert: There will not be a happy ending.

7:30 p.m. // Elliott Bay Book Company // 101 S Main St // free

NICE AND EASY: Five Easy Pieces continues its run (through Thursday) at SIFF Cinema. In Bob Rafaelson's 1970 film, Jack Nicholson plays a blue collar sociopath (Joe the Oil Rigger?) who returns to his bourgeois musical family's home in the San Juans after his father has a couple strokes. If nothing else, go and see the film for a couple grade-A Jack tantrums, including the classic scene above. We guarantee you'll have "Stand By Your Man" in your head for days.

7:30 p.m. // SIFF Cinema // 321 Mercer St. // $10

DUHK DUHK GOOSE: Or wash that low self-esteem Tammy Wynette tune out of your skull with Manitoba-based folk/country-leaning band The Duhks, who bring their twang and sass to the Triple Door tonight. The Canadian quintet are touring in support of their fourth album, Fast Paced World, so expect big brassy female vocals and a fiddle or banjo or two. Dan Reed opens.

7:30 p.m. // Triple Door // 216 Union St // $18