Can't Miss It: Wednesday

FISH-SICLE FRENZY: It's hawt. And the zoo's Humboldt penguins need a cool treat, so they're getting 5-gallon “fishsicles,” a block of ice with small fish, such as herring and smelt. We're told the penguins are from what's known as a "desert" but apparently it doesn't get that hot there. So iced-up fish bits it is. Swing by at 3:30 this afternoon to catch the fish-sicle action.

3:30 p.m. // Woodland Park Zoo, West Entrance at North 55th Street & Phinney Avenue North // Admission: $16.50 adult, $11 child

TWEETING OURSELVES TO DEATH: It’s as if we live in two Americas, says Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges. Well, we're told that's what he says. One is a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and separate fact from fiction. The other is made up of simpletons who think the universe is telling them secrets. That's the bigger group, interestingly. Hedges, author of Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, investigated professional wrestling, porn, and and Ivy League graduation ceremonies to "chronicle the terrifying spiral of a dying culture." Sounds fun, huh? Also, kids are playing on your lawn.

7:30 p.m. // Town Hall, Eighth & Seneca // $5

FIERY FLAMENCO: At least one of our readers is a guitar fan, so we're making a big deal of guitar virtuoso Ottmar Liebert and his band Luna Negra showing up at the Triple Door. Liebert has just released his new album Spanish Sun (with Jon Gagan on bass and Stephen Duros on electric guitar). Here's a review of Liebert's previous Scent of Light album. And here's his diary.

7, 9:30 p.m. // the Triple Door, 216 Union Street // Tickets: $27