So Malcolm Gladwell shows up at Town Hall and asks the audience which talk they'd like: a long, in-depth talk with minimal Q&A; a medium-sized, generic talk with lengthier Q&A; or all Q&A. The event is sold out with people who have all paid $5 to hear Gladwell speak, but only three or four people raise their hands for the first option. Everyone else votes for the chance to hear themselves speak once Gladwell gets through with whatever he plans to go on about. more ›

WHO IS INVERSE'S INVERSE? California hiphop duo Inverse are named thus because, to a potentially undiscerning eye, the two rappers' backgrounds don't have very much in common with each other. Sometimes opposites make the best hiphop, though, each side bringing its own wealth of experience and musical influences. According to their Myspace, Inverse raps about "happiness, pain and everything in between." With locals Cancer Rising, Akrish, Notion, and Know Choice opening up for them, this is going to be an easy-going, sunny hiphop show that will do right by you this weekend. more ›

Sorry to burst any bubbles, but if you don't have tickets to Michael Pollan's appearance at Benaroya tonight, as part of Seattle Arts & Lectures, you're out of luck: it sold out weeks ago. The author of apparently has no shortage of admirers. more ›