Can't Miss It: Monday
SILENT SCREEN: Trader Joe's Silent Movie Mondays at the Paramount is back and focusing on the speechless girls of black-and-white. Words fail you when discussing Cecil B. DeMille's The Godless Girl anyway--Judith and Bob are young atheists who naturally end up in a reform school run by sadists. This is an ur-Girls Gone Wild visual text and will count for credit if you are a student of this kind of counter-history. The important thing is, Judith and Bob learn that those fires of hell are real and they burn, thus making Christianity something more than an academic choice.
7 p.m. // the Paramount, 911 Pine Street // Tickets: $12
BIG JAZZ BAND: If you need a little more oomph than a jazz trio or quartet, throw on some hepcat wear and head down to Tula's for Lonnie Mardis and the SCCC Jazz Orchestra. Thumbnail review from Hal Rose: "This sizzling 17-piece big band under the direction of Lonnie Mardis features some of the hottest players in the NW. They deliver contemporary jazz arrangements with energy and conviction." If big jazz gives you a big appetite, Tula's can take care of that, too.
7 p.m. // Tula's, 2214 Second Avenue // Cover: $7
MONEY ON YOUR MIND: New York Times columnist and Cornell economic professor Robert H. Frank is a behavioral economist and author of The Economic Naturalist and its follow-up Economic Naturalist's Guide to Washington: Common Sense Principles for Troubled Times. The Library Journal swoons over his latest: "“Frank’s writing sparkles, and the topics, which include health care and the subprime-mortgage crisis, are timely.” Oooh...sparkly.
