Unlike rock gods, athletic heroes, or Warren Beatty, quiz hosts don't get groupies. (Not that we'd do anything with groupies, thoughts of our wife prompt us to add.) But pub trivia playres? Look out! A probing report from Diane Mapes in the PI opened our eyes to the hot and heavy entanglements going on under our noses whenever we host. "Where do you meet guys in Seattle?" she's asked. Her answer: pub trivia. Granted, I......

Monday CALL 911! CALL 911!: Political and economic commentator and White House strategist during the Nixon administration, Kevin Phillips talks about his book, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century. Phillips traces the set of related causes that caused the downfall of historical world powers. That same combination of ills he says -- global over-reach, militant religion, resource problems, and ballooning debt -- is......

Wednesday, November 29 >>>Third Place Books, 7:00pm. Another weighty tome, Unreleased Beatles by Richie Unterberger, to add to your Beatles-only reference section. It details the shitload of stuff that was recorded but, you know, forgotten about what with being so high at the time, plus the whole headtrip with Yoko. Free with OCD collecting disorder. >>>University Bookstore, 7:00pm. Elizabeth George backtracks: in her last Inspector Lynley mystery, the Inspector's wife was killed. In What......