Can't Miss It: Wednesday

THE CHILDREN ARE OUR RALLY: Friends of Children’s Hospital, your friendly neighborhood Fearey Group-promoted advocacy group for Seattle Children's Hospital is taking it the steps of City Hall. The rally is to show support for Children's after Laurelhurst Community Club protested Children's proposed expansion and won the city hearing. Few moments in life offer the moral high ground of this rally, and it should be a great way to meet hot nurses and doctors.

noon-1:30 p.m. // City Hall's west side steps, 600 4th Avenue // FREE

INTERNATIONAL POP OVERTHROW: David Bash's International Pop Overthrow tour is eleven years old this year, and in Seattle it's taking over the Mars Bar from August 19-23. Six half-hour acts culminate with a performance from Sugarcane Mutiny, but you also get to hear The Day I Fell Down, The Camellias, Happy Stars, One Silver Astronaut, Stoned Poets, and Sorry. We think you should go if for no other reason than to justify all that link formatting we just did.

8-11 p.m. // Mars Bar, 609 Eastlake Avenue East // $8

CIRCLING PIONEER SQUARE: Northwest author Joy Keniston-Longrie has written a history of Seattle's Pioneer Square (aka Jijilaetch, the Little Crossing Over Place, in Duwamish-speak; Skid Road; and the Tenderloin). That makes the Elliott Bay Book Company a fitting place to hear Pioneer Square's story. Word is that former Seattle mayor Wes Uhlman, who contributed the book's foreword, will be there and will speak, as well.

7:30 p.m. // Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 South Main Street // FREE