Can't Miss It: Monday

HOME ALONE: Poor little Korean kids. In So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain, two sisters (Jin, 6, and Bin, 4) must take care of each other after their mother leaves them to search for their estranged father. Parents of the Year all up in this piece! In this semi-autobiographical tale (whuuuuuuut?), things move slowly and tenderly while the children are left to their own devices and struggle to adapt to the new status quo. Treeless Mountain plays twice a night at the NWFF through Thursday.

7 p.m., 9 p.m. // Northwest Film Forum // 1515 12th Ave. // $9

RHYTHM AND/OR BLUES: Twenty-six-year-old singer-songwriter Ryan Shaw wants to introduce the Golden Age of R&B (1960-1972) to a new generation. On the Decatur, Georgia-based artist's debut album, Shaw uses his powerful and expressive voice on songs simultaneously classic and new. Live, he's able to reproduce his retro-modern sound with just a small rhythm section and two male backing vocalists. Ryan Shaw brings his charismatic self to Dimitriou's Jazz Alley for one night only.

6 p.m. doors, 7:30 p.m. show // Jazz Alley // 2033 6th Ave. // $20.50

SOOOOO HUNGRY: Even in these shaky economic times, the gap between the world's rich and poor is ever-widening, with millions living in inexorably destitute conditions, the likes of which we cannot even imagine. Food for thought: 25,000 people a day and nearly 6 million children a year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases. Veteran Wall Street Journal reporters Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman examine the causes of such famine in their new book Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, and of course, like Denise Richards, the situation is complicated. They'll be speaking about the myriad economic, political, and social forces that perpetuate the starvation of millions at Town Hall tonight.

7:30 p.m. // Town Hall // 1119 8th Ave. // $5