PSYCHEDELIC CULT CLASSIC: Bob Dylan-esque Rodriguez is finally coming to Seattle, and KEXP is surely happy. We say this because anytime we've turned it on lately, he seems to be there, soulfully singing all the songs we love, which makes us happy as well. In the past couple years with Light in the Attic's re-releases of albums such as Cold Fact and Coming From Reality, he has gained a wide array of new fans, which makes it hard to believe that up until the late '90s he was just hanging out in Detroit doing menial labor, with no idea that his music career would ever make a comeback. (He found out only after Cold Fact had gone multi-platinum across the world in South Africa.) 5:30 p.m. doors, 7:30 p.m. show // The Triple Door, 216 Union Street // Tickets: $20/$23, 21+ more ›

We almost classified this as breaking news: prostitution does not, after all, usually follow what City Attorney Tom Carr calls the Pretty Woman model. In all the 21st-century mish-mash of interactive culture, infotainment and news media increasingly focused on Hollywood's mind-games, we're grateful for the reminder; lately, when we drive around South Lake Union in the evenings, we squint at every prostitute on the sidewalk, hoping we'll run into Julia Roberts. That would make a really great morning news item, unlike the boring but true report that now real prostitutes and their johns are going to have to pay for their own group therapy because real life is even messier than TV. more ›