tuesday agenda : chocolate & zucchini, lavender diamond, robin williams?
- Clotilde Dusoulier began chronicling her food-related passions through Chocolate and Zucchini, a weblog she started in 2003. Now those thoughts, recipes, musings, cookbook acquisitions, restaurant experiences, gleaned from life in Monmartre have been collected into a cookbook of the same title. Tonight, her book tour stops in Seattle. 7p, free[universitybookstore]
- At last week’s Miranda July “musico-literary extravaganza”, Becky Stark solo folk songs and between song banter were endearing additions to the main event. She performs tonight as Lavender Diamond, with opening support from the Watson Twins. 7:30p, $15 [tripledoor]
- Do people in Seattle just love to support charities, or do they really like Robin Williams enough to sell-out two consecutive nights of comedic fundraising? It remains a great mystery to me since a few minutes on late night talk shows is often more than I can handle. Take comfort in knowing that all of those $45 advance tickets will support the West Seattle Food Bank and the Seattle Animal Shelter while possibly making a lot of people laugh. Update, as noted below: a third show has been added for Thursday, this time to support Challenged Athletes. [showbox]
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While I greatly enjoyed her between-song banter with the audience, I wasn’t much impressed by Stark’s breathy, Sarah Vowell-inspired falsetto folk-chick singing. Hope she’s better with a back up band.