Can't Miss It: Tuesday

PSYCHEDELIC CULT CLASSIC: Bob Dylan-esque Rodriguez is finally coming to Seattle, and KEXP is surely happy. We say this because anytime we've turned it on lately, he seems to be there, soulfully singing all the songs we love, which makes us happy as well. In the past couple years with Light in the Attic's re-releases of albums such as Cold Fact and Coming From Reality, he has gained a wide array of new fans, which makes it hard to believe that up until the late '90s he was just hanging out in Detroit doing menial labor, with no idea that his music career would ever make a comeback. (He found out only after Cold Fact had gone multi-platinum across the world in South Africa.)

5:30 p.m. doors, 7:30 p.m. show // The Triple Door, 216 Union Street // Tickets: $20/$23, 21+

HUNGRY FOR ANSWERS?: After popping up during SIFF, Food, Inc. is playing at the Egyptian, and we hope that many check it out, especially those who may need that little bit of extra schooling on where our food comes from. Including interviews with well-knowns such as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and America's foodie sweetheart Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma), "Food, Inc. reveals surprising--and often shocking truths--about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation, and where we are going from here."

(4:45), 7:00, 9:30 p.m. // The Egyptian, 801 E Pine St. // Tickets: $7- 9.50

SEXY PLANTS: Speaking of the botany of desire, Margot Berwin will be reading tonight from her debut novel, Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire. The novel has been described as a combination of Eat, Pray, Love meets The Orchid Thief, and it has already being optioned into a movie, thanks to Julia Roberts (and Columbia Pictures) who will be producing and starring in it. Georgia O'Keefe sure would be proud.

7:30 p.m. // Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 South Main Street // FREE