Can't Miss It: Thursday

BACK TO THE MOON!: Andrew Chaikin, author of “A Man on the Moon,” recounts his conversations with Aldrin, Armstrong and other Apollo astronauts and discusses the recent LCROSS moon mission. It’s been forty years since One Giant Leap and instead of lunar suburbs and sweet dune buggies, we’re intentionally crashing rockets into the moon’s surface. Sounds like something we’d do.

7:30 p.m. // Pacific Science Center // $5: Free for members and students with I.D.

DECONSTRUCTING SEATTLE: Roc DeMent Gallery presents local artist Mateo Zapata Zachai’s discombobulated but verrrry familiar photography. Reminiscent of Lichtenstein and Chuck Close, it’s a wonder that no one beat Zacahi to this seemingly simple yet sharp method. The work reveals its layers the longer we stare. Running through January 3.

6:00 p.m. // Roc DeMent Gallery 306 S. Washington St., #104 // Free

TWISTED ALASKA: Four characters dance memory on a minimal stage, choreographed to music only slightly more accompanying than the set. Experimental, experiential, they’re expressing a story, but the audience will hardly feel it’s being told for them. With Alaska, theater artist Diana Szeinblum has created and wonderfully mixed four unique, intensely recollecting players.

8:00 p.m. // On the Boards // $24