Zipcar is doing a December membership drive, and offering $75 in driving credit to existing members who (successfully) refer their friends. In honor of the season, you have the choice of keeping the credit for yourself, splitting it 50/50 with your new-member friend, or giving them all of it. We are not power users of the car-by-the-hour service, but there are times when it is the perfect thing. more ›

For a MacArthur-proclaimed genius, Linda Bierds is fairly low profile. She lives on Bainbridge Island, teaches in the English department at the University of Washington, and has had tons of poems published in mainstream literary magazines such as The Atlantic and The New Yorker, the holy grail of "someone who's not an MFA student has read my poetry" achievement. Tomorrow night she's at the UW Bookstore (7:00 p.m., free), reading from her new book, Flight. more ›