Lit events this week are a little heavy on the food focus, but it’s impossible for me to ignore any listing that involves pies, oysters, or food trucks. I’m just saying. The non-edible options are enthralling as well, so enjoy this week’s spread! more ›

Poets in particular seem to struggle with a bipolar mind, as discussed in Touched with Fire. But perhaps that visibility is just because they're poets, and inclined to make terrific material out of any experience. The new poetry anthology from Eastern Washington University, Living in Storms, shows no let-up to the harsh weather:

Schramm has collected more than a hundred poems by some four-score contemporary poets whose lives have been affected in various ways by bipolar disorder.... more ›

SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES: Art Spiegelman's 1992 Holocaust tale Maus (based on a true story) won the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to a comic book. Its success paved the way for the graphic novels thriving today and led to Spiegelman's ten years on the staff of the New Yorker. In the Shadow of No Towers (2004) gathers his recent broadsheets of disenchantment with the war on terror. more ›

SPORTS: Garfield vs. Franklin basketball is the best sports rivalry in the city. Only happens twice a year. There's bands, guys trying desperately to impress their friends in the stands, and usually a cheerleader battle or two. This is as close to Duke-UNC as we have in this state. NOTE: Bring a sweater, the gym will be COLD. more ›

Seattlest has taken our fair share of potshots at Wallingford. And it's true: we hate Wallingford NIMBYs, the Friends of Gasworks Park are most assuredly not our friends, and any effort to become suburbia-in-the-city earns our scorn. more ›