Can't Miss It: Tuesday
'CAUSE HATE IS JUST UGLY: The California Supreme Court announced last Friday that they would be handing down their decision today on the constitutionality of the infamous Prop 8. The court upheld the same-sex marriage ban, but allowed the existing 18,000 unions to stand. Since the news is mixed, it's fitting that there's a rally and/or protest taking place at Westlake Center Park tonight. Get out and show your support either way.
5:30 p.m. // Westlake Center Park, 400 Pine Street // Tickets: FREE
JUDD HIRSCH!: We remember the days of watching Judd Hirsch on Taxi in the early '80s as the always lovable and sensible Alex Rieger, and now he is starring in ACT's play, Below the Belt, with returning ACT favorites John Procaccino and R. Hamilton Wright. Written by Richard Dresser, Below the Belt is said to be a cross of The Office and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, with a darkly humorous portrayal of three men working in an anonymous factory pumping out anonymous products, who are trying to keep some sort of self-worth and dignity, while being a part of the corporate "damn the man" cogs in society. This farce on globalized corporate culture originally debuted off-Broadway in 1996, and we are excited to welcome it to Seattle.
7:30 p.m. // ACT, Allen Theatre, 700 Union Street // Tickets: $37.50
LOVE AND OBSTACLES: Aleksandar Hemon will be reading from his latest short-story collection Love and Obstacles tonight at Elliott Bay (it's also named their book of the week!). Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project, The Questions of Bruno: Stories, and Nowhere Man, is originally from Sarajevo, Bosnia, and his stories revolve around what it is like to live surrounded by war, as an immigrant, and the meaning of being home, or homesick. Though Hemon learned English as an adult, you would never realize it since his voice is so strong and certain. Some of the stories from Love and Obstacles have been published already in the New Yorker, while the rest are being seen for the first time in this collection.
7:30 p.m. // Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 South Main Street // Tickets: FREE
