Can't Miss It: Thursday
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DARK: Samuel Ligon, writer and editor of the Spokane lit mag Willow Springs, comes to town tonight to discuss his new collection of short stories. In Drift and Swerve, Ligon runs his characters through the gamut of contemporary American personal hells: drugs, abuse, sexual longing, spiritual emptiness. As is often the case, it's the book's black humor and the author's cutting prose that keep it from being a cruel slog-fest of a read. Ligon appears with Sam A.J. Rathburn and Amy Schrader, two recent Willow Springs contributors, who will also read from their work.
7:30 p.m. // Elliott Bay Book Co. // 100 S. Main St. // free!
CHEERY: This month, the Seattle Art Museum is playing host to a weekly retrospective of the films of Carole Lombard. During the 1930s, Lombard was one of the top female film comics in the U.S. She was the beloved fool and hopeless romantic who dominated Hollywood's escapist films during the height of the Depression. Tonight, it's Hands Across the Table, a screwball comedy from 1935 starring Fred MacMurray opposite Lombard, with a plot that turns over whether you should marry for money or love.
7:30 p.m. // SAM // 1300 First Ave. // $7, cash only at the door
CATCHY: Lady Drama is a Seattle indie rock band with some real ambitions. Aside from the lead-singer's tendency to drift into David Byrne-redux territory, the band has plenty of potential, slipping U2-style hooks into a lo-fi rocker, droning along like Pavement only to kick in with a trad/reggae riff. The band is having a CD release party for their new record Aftermath tonight at the High Dive, with Pillow Army (also releasing an EP) and Sam Russell and the Harborrats.
9 p.m. // High Dive in Fremont // 513 N. 36th Ave. // $9, 21+
