Can't Miss It: Wednesday

HOT NGONI NIGHT: All the way from Mali, ladies and gentlemen, Issa Bagayogo, the international dancefloor sensation! He's touring for his new album Mali Koura, which offers blues, world beat, reggae, funk...a lot of stuff. The mixture of West African music with house music dance tends to knock people over when they hear it. Stylus magazine called his previous album a contender for world music album of the year.

8 p.m. // the Crocodile, 2200 2nd Avenue // Tickets: $15

HOT HAVANA NIGHT: Not only is the movie hot-summer-centric Do the Right Thing, but Havana does it up right: "We turn the parking lot outside of the World's Greatest Bar into the finest outdoor movie theater ever, projecting the movie onto our giant white wall. We set up 100 lounge chairs--complete with a beer cozy in the armrest--in theater formation. Seattle City Light comes by to shut down the streetlights so that the lot is dark. We persuade the Liquor Board to let us drink booze under the stars--as in OUTSIDE. We roll out white leather furniture, cocktail tables, a tiki bar, tiki torches, palm trees and a carpet of blue astroturf." And that's not including the pizza from Via Tribunali.

Sunset // Havana, 1010 East Pike Street // Admission: $5 (or stop by the Saint for a pre-movie cocktail)

HOT BENGALI NIGHT: It's a festival of Bengali poetry! Carolyne Wright discusses the anthology she put together of translated poems by Bengali women, Majestic Nights: Love Poems of Bengali Women, and UW professor Robert McNamara talks about his translation of Cat Under the Stairs, by Sahitya Akademi Award-winning Kolkata poet and writer, Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay. As you know, Bengal is famous for its mangrove forests, tigers, and monsoons.

7 p.m. // University Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE // FREE