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Could it be any more obvious? We love Nick Hornby.

Chona Kasinger shows Almost Famous, a selection of her dynamic concert photography at the West Seattle Cupcake Royale. We've shown her photographs on Seattlest in the past -- her bright, active images of artists on-stage and off remind us why we started going to shows in the first place. Her show runs through October, with an opening party tonight is part of the West Seattle 2nd Thursday Art Walk.

What is it with these British girls and the soul music? Perhaps it's the coal-dusted air of industrializing Britain that gives their voices those deliciously bluesy twangs. Whatever the case, Scout Niblett is a vocally talented indie-pop chanteuse from Portland by-way-of-England who's playing the Tractor tonight.

QUEER AS...: Northwest Film Forum and Three Dollar Bill Cinema have gotten together for a new series running all April on Thursdays at the Forum: God Save the Queens, a four-week retrospective on British queer cinema. Tonight, it's , a 1964 biker movie about gay romance amongst working class Brits. Originally commissioned as a novel about a "Romeo and Romeo in the South London suburbs," the story was substantially tamed down for filming, but still violated the Hollywood Production Code (it was one of the earliest films to be screened in the U.S. despite that fact).

POP ROCK LOVE: Oakland-based rockers The Audrye Sessions bring their yearning vocals and lush guitar licks to Neumo's tonight. Touring in support of their debut album, the band manages a nice mix of luscious post-punk inspired riffs rich in reverb and fuzz, opposite the lead singer's Tom Petty-meets-emo vox. With The Lonely H and In the Empty City.

MY AVATAR: We're very fond of the internet and of books, and knowing you, you're fond of those things too. The Richard Hugo House's Literary Series comes to a close with an event tonight called My Avatar, featuring writers who explore identity, technology, and this beautiful wired world in which we live. The Maldives are playing, too, in case you missed them last weekend.

OLD SCHOOL: Cass Dalglish, a poet and professor at Augsburg College, isn't content with just .

PRET-A-PORTER: The Art Institute of Seattle's fashion and design students take over the Showbox SoDo tonight for "Peace, Love, Fashion," their eleventh annual psychedelic-themed fashion show/student portfolio exhibition. There are two chances to see it, at 5 and 7 p.m. High school students can get into the earlier show for free with their student IDs.

LIKE CHILD SOLDIERS: Everyone knows about the genocidal atrocities committed in Rwanda and Darfur, but folks seem to have forgotten about the ongoing (twenty-plus years now) war in northern Uganda. Peter Eichstaedt, Africa editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, comes to Elliott Bay tonight to talk about the conflict, child soldiers, and the repeated efforts by the Ugandan people to stop the violence or at least survive it. It's all there in his new book, First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army. Spoiler alert: There will not be a happy ending.

MOPE ROCK: Sad as it is to say, The Beautiful Confusion are the reason you should head out to the High Dive for The Beautiful Confusion's CD release party tonight. Unless of course you're into breathy vocal-ed, country-infused folk rock. Which we're not. But the headliner, Little Pieces, we do dig: it's lo-fi, choppy indie rock that doesn't take itself seriously (or possible so seriously you just don't believe it). With Black Nite Crash and Iris I.

TIMELY LESSON: With Valentine's Day just around the corner, it's only fitting that Inara George and Greg Kurstin are bringing their sexy, breathy version of jazz-influenced indie pop to Chop Suey tonight. An hour and a half of George's luscious vocals making sweet love to your ears will prove an invaluable lesson come Saturday. The Bird and the Bee take the stage tonight after a set by Obi Best.

The French call it Le Temps des Cerises, the Time of Cherries, the brief, shining moment when all's right with the world. For some, that's April, when the cherry trees are in their pink-blossom splendor. For the rest of us, it's mid-June to mid-August, when the fruit is ripe: cherry season.