On the List: June 16-22

The Aerialistas. Photo by John Cornicello.

Wednesday

• UW professor Peter Ward talks about how high the water will get as the ice caps melt (his new book puts 300 feet of the Space Needle underwater) @ Town Hall
• FREE: Cammie McGovern reads from her new mystery/thriller Neighborhood Watch @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• Canadian indie-rockers Stars play a second night @ the Triple Door

Thursday

• Opening night of Automatic Performance Ensemble's FOWL: an adaptation of The Birds by Artistophanes @ Open Circle/Freehold
• Your last chance to see Linas Phillips' Bass Ackwards @ NW Film Forum
• Tamara the Trapeze Lady's Broadway Follies benefits the YWCA's Women's Health Outreach program @ Julia's on Broadway
• The Nature Conservancy's Jen Molnar and Jon Hoekstra talk about the uses of their Atlas of Global Conservation @ Town Hall
• Cage the Elephant and the 22-20s bring the noise to a sold-out crowd @ Showbox
• Gerard Schwarz kicks off his Mendelssohn (Lobgesang) and Wagner (excerpts from Parsifal) program (also Fri/Sat) @ Benaroya Hall

Katy Hagelin's "from Phantastes".

Friday

• FREE: the awesomely talented Colson Whitehead reads from his memoir Sag Harbor @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• Closing weekend of Liquid Morality @ Annex Theatre
• Katy Hagelin Dance Project's adaptation of Phantastes opens for weekend only @ the Everett PUD Auditorium
• Save our Butts II, a burlesque fundraiser for Open Circle Theatre @ Open Circle/Freehold
• Quickies Vol. 11, Live Girls! Theatre's annual women's short-play festival opens @ the Ethnic Cultural Center
• Glittorus!, a fundraiser for the Lambert House, opens for two nights @ the Rendezvous Jewelbox
• The Seattle Pianist Collective, featuring Michael Owcharuk and others @ the Good Shepherd Center

Saturday

• "Cupcakes to Madrid," a fundraiser for the Aerialistas @ Hales Palladium
• HERE/NOW, an awesome, surprise collaboration between dancers and musicians @ Open Flight Studio
• FREE: Sasquatch Press's book about the Sounders' first year is out and it's a [soccer pun]! Meet the authors @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• One night only! Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra performs Ellington's Far East Suite @ Benaroya Hall
• Check out Jose Gonzalez's other band Junip @ the Vera Project
• If you've seen DIG!, please oh please do not intentionally rile up The Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Neumo's
• Eat a hot dog with some Capitol Hill cops @ the annual Picnic at the Precinct

Sunday

• Did someone say Pudding Pop? The original and still champeen Bill Cosby does two shows for all the dads on Father's Day @ Benaroya Hall
• It's the Mendelssohn and Haydn bicentennial and Onyx Chamber Players--violinist James Garlick, cellist Meg Brennand, and pianist David White, with Mel Butler and Laurel Wells, violas; and Steve Schermer, double bass--perform two Haydn trios and a Mendelssohn trio and quartet @ Town Hall
• FREE: local activists (and authors) Cecile Andrews and John de Graaf contributed to State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures, which is not about people who dress up like Optimus Prime @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• Before their show at El Corazon on the 24th, Halifax invites their fans to play Capture the Flag (potential team captains should email halifaxrock@me.com) at 1 p.m. @ Cal Anderson

Colson Whitehead. Photo by Erin Patrice O'Brien.

Monday

• Journalist Nicholas Carr, a voice crying out in the wilderness for less-wired living, will talk about his book The Shallows, which sez that too much online maek us dum 'n' stuff @ Town Hall
• FREE: Fortune's David Kirkpatrick, the official Facebook biographer, ah...really, a book? Now FB wants to waste my offline time, too? @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• If you missed it at SIFF, Laura Poitras' documentary on Osama Bin Laden's bodyguard and taxi driver, The Oath, plays through Thursday @ NWFF
• Funky, feisty, leggy lady Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings show ya how it's done, with British neo-soul-r&b-blues quartet The Heavy @ Showbox SoDo

Tuesday

• Oh, oh, oh! Polemicist and très bon vivant Christopher Hitchens is interviewed by Too Beautiful To Live's Luke Burbank @ Town Hall
• FREE: Kate Walbert reads from her slow-burning, much respected novel A Short History of Women @ Elliott Bay Book Co.
• FREE: Humorist and book publicist Sloane "I was told there'd be cake" Crosley unveils her newest, How Did You Get This Number? @ the Sorrento Hotel
• Catch The Big Four, with Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax performing in Bulgaria, on the big screen for one nights only @ Pacific Place and @ Southcenter
• PBS' Ray Suarez talks global public health (yes, there's much to discuss) @ UW's Kane Hall