On the List: April 14-20

One last-minute event for Tuesday:  Male Bonding's album ain't out on Sub Pop till next month, but you can still catch the loud London trio tonight with the super-catchy smart rock of The Soft Pack (nee The Muslims) @ Chop Suey

Wednesday

• Seattle Weekly's Voracious Tasting and Food Awards @ the Paramount and Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jogger, and AM @ the Croc are sold out.  Instead, try the new-wavey post-punk meets horn section of Sweden's Love is All @ High Dive
• Physicist and Caltech Professor David Goodstein talks about the scientific misbehavior in his book On Fact and Fraud @ Town Hall
• Bring books to swap during happy hour till 7 p.m. or show up at 10 p.m. to watch Top Chef Masters @ the Bottleneck

Thursday

• Get orchestral with Florence + the Machine @ Showbox or neo-jazz-band with the Zubatto Syndicate @ the Crocodile
• Jesse Sykes and Phil Wandscher are raising money for a sick dog named Ruby by playing a benefit @ Triple Door
• It's Tax Day, but that also means you can pick up a free taco @ Taco Del Mar
• Featuring Akufen, Stephen Beaupre, and Nordic Soul, Montreal's electronic music festival MUTEK teams up with Seattle's Decibel @ Nectar
• How about Megafaun @ the Tractor?
• Neuroscientist Gary Small is the co-author of iBrain and talks about how the internet stimulates our brains @ Town Hall

Friday

• Ching Chong Chinaman, from SIS Productions, appears @ Richard Hugo House
• Science journalist Rebecca Skloot takes on the controversial history of bioethics and blacks in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks @ Town Hall
• The dynamic duo of Werner Herzog and David Lynch is here to stay, as My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done has been held over for another week (through April 22) @ Northwest Film Forum
• Ken Griffey Jr. bobblehead night so, be among the 30,000 to get your retro Griffey. Plus Felix Hernandez is supposed to pitch, so the M's might actually win @ Safeco Field

Saturday

• Friends of the Seattle Public Library hold their spring book sale (also Sunday) @ Warren Magnuson Park
• It's Record Store Day all day, so go patronize your favorite participating independent store.  As part of the festivities, Minus the Bear is playing a free all-ages in-store featuring songs from their upcoming album OMNI at 2 p.m. @ Sonic Boom Capitol Hill
• Small planeter Anna Lappé talks about her book Diet for a Hot Planet and your unsustainable dinner in the new Capitol Hill digs @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• Where will you be? John Prine is @ the Paramount and The Posies are @ the Crocodile
• Noise for the Needy kicks off their annual week o' benefits (through April 23) with two shows (buy tix separately or as one cover) @ Mars Bar and @ Woodshed Studios
• Local theatre troupe The Heroes has their own one-night-only twist on 14/48, with The Vacuum Project, an evening of short plays about vacuum cleaners
• The NBA playoffs begin, with the Franchise Formerly Known as Seattle (i.e., the "Zombie Sonics") back in the postseason for the first time in five years. Watch @ TNT, ABC, or ESPN

Sunday

• It's a big female singer-songwriter Sunday, as Norah Jones sultries up @ the Paramount, while Ali Marcus and Catie Curtis play @ the Tractor
• Velocity Dance Center jumps on the Mad Men bandwagon with MadDance, their annual auction/fundraising bash
• The Third Annual Poverty forum explores Seattle's poverty rate (higher than the Washington average) @ Town Hall
• Now that Conan O'Brien has the late night talk show thing all figured out, he can do two live sets tonight and Monday with Reggie Watts @ McCaw Hall

Monday

• Life of Pi's Yann Martel reappears with the allegorical Beatrice and Virgil @ Seattle Public Central Library
• For Seattle Arts & Lectures, New Yorker editor David Remnick reads from his new book The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (what, too soon?) @ Town Hall

Tuesday

• Sorry y'all: Yeasayer is all sold out @ Neumo's
• Bill McKibben talks about his book Eaarth [sic]: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet @ Town Hall