Can't Miss It: Tuesday

GIVE GRANDMA ZAPP SOME LOVE: The Hugo House will be hosting Grandma ZAPP's Rolling Thunderheart Mountain Variety Show (and Bake Sale) tonight as a fundraiser to support and sustain the House's Zine Archive and Publishing Project. The variety show and reading will feature plenty of local favorites such as comic illustrators Greg Stump and Megan Kelso, graphic novelist Jim Woodring, and more. Not to mention there will be plenty of baked good treats, artwork, books, and other great swag for sale that will go to benefit ZAPP and the featured artists. Cookies for a good cause, all in the name of local zines and literature.

7:00 p.m. // Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave. // Tickets: $10

TIME FOR A ROAD TRIP: The SIFF standout film Bass Ackwards, written and directed by Seattle's Linas Phillips, will be showing tonight at the Northwest Film Forum. As Phillips' first fictional film, Bass Ackwards follows pooper-scooper and llama feeder Linas, as he travels across the country in a strange looking 1976 VW bus. Expect plenty of dive bar goodness, the strange and the stranger, back roads, and chintzy motel rooms as Linas travels from state to state on his journey of self discovery.

7, 9:00 p.m. // Northwest Film Forum // Tickets: $6-9

GET OUT YOUR FLANNELS: Tom Hansen takes us back down memory lane with his debut non-fiction book American Junkie, about his chaotic life during Seattle's infamous Grunge Era. The memoir details Hansen's days in a land of failed punk bands, heroin, junkies, and ultimately leads us to where most junkies sadly end up--in a hospital bed--and where Hansen was faced with some serious self discovering. If The Corner hasn't already taught you a couple things or two about what NOT to do in life, this book just might.

7:00 p.m. // Third Place Books Ravenna, 6504 20th Ave. N.E. // FREE