Can't Miss It: Thursday

ADORABLE: The Fourth of July is a great excuse for you to eat, so why should it be any different for the adorable little critters down at Woodland Park Zoo? Today and tomorrow are the "Red, White and Zoo" days at Woodland Park, when all the animals get to have a picnic lunch with watermelon, corn on the cob, and popsicles. And be adorable! The fun's actually started already today (see here for the schedule of which animals get fed when), but if you hurry, you can make the noon otter feeding, which would really make your day, because otters rock.

10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. // Woodland Park Zoo // N. 55th St. & Phinney Ave N. // $16.50 adults/$11 3-12/under 3 free!

MISERY LOVES ARTSY COMPANY: Eric Thompson, Aubrey Birdwell, and Stefan Moore are Seattle-based artists who apparently believe that happiness is illusory but misery is as eternal as death and taxes. Or so we gather from the notes about their group show opening at OHGE Ltd. tonight. The show is inspired by notions of how we create a safe space in our homes, in a uniquely American way, an illusion of stasis in a transient world.

6-9 p.m. // OHGE Ltd. // 831 Airport Way S. // free!

LEAVE YOUR LIVERS AT HOME: Tonight, America's top editorial cartoonists are besieging Town Hall with racial stereotype-burdened caricatures of America's leadership and taking pot-shots in thought bubble-form at the inanities of daily life. We can already smell the stench of cheap bourbon wafting our way from First Hill. The event is one of the few public parts of the 2009 Association of American Editorial Cartoonists Convention down at the Washington Athletic Club. The discussion will cover such notables as David Horsey, Mike Peters, Jack Ohman, Ted Rall, Matt Bors, and Mark Fiore (some of whom will likely be there). There's also an auction of originals, for the collectors out there who'd maybe love to own an original of Condi Rice about to eat a big old piece of watermelon.

8-9:30 p.m. // Town Hall // 1119 Eighth Ave. // $25/$15 members, at the door