Can't Miss It: Monday

JASON FALKNER KNOWS WHAT'S UP: or at least, we're assuming, given he's been in the business since joining The Three O’Clock as a singer and songwriter at the age of 20 in 1988. He's been in multiple bands, created his own solo material, and has two albums of lullaby versions of Beatles songs. His current tour is to support his 2009 album All Quiet on the Noise Floor. With The 88, Lincoln Barr & Patrick Porter of Red Jacket Mine.

7:30 p.m. // Triple Door // $12

FIIIIIIIIIIIVE GOLD RINGS: (get it? Like the Christmas carol?). The Ballard Underground brings us a Joanna Laurens dramatic play about the desert, Christmas, and of course family. Directed by Nathaniel Porter, the play's website has the word vasectomy. Just so you know.

8:00 p.m. // Ballard Underground // $10-20

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER IS A NERD HUNK: the author of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has made many a hipster happy. His new Eating Animals (read our interview here) may will probably fuel the fire for the veggie heads. He doesn't eat animals. This is a book about that. No comment.

7:30 p.m. // TownHall // $5