12:00 PM – Kat Richardson: Vanished
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Number four in the Greywalker urban fantasy series, starring Seattle investigator Harper Blaine.
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1:00 PM – Edward Channon: Ballad of a Bagpiper
Barnes & Noble University Village
The author will read, sign, and play the bagpipes. There will also be traditional Scottish Highland dancing. Yes, you read that correctly.
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4:00 PM – Poets West Open Mic
SPL Greenlake Branch
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6:00 PM – Comics Savants: A Survey of Seattle Alternative Cartoonists
Fantagraphics Books
Reception for new exhibit featuring Peter Bagge, Jim Blanchard, Charles Burns, Ellen Forney, Roberta Gregory, Ted Jouflas, Megan Kelso, David Lasky, Jason T. Miles, Patrick Moriarity, Eric Reynolds, Jim Woodring, and Eroyn Franklin.
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7:30 PM – Seattle Opera: Aspects of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung
Elliott Bay Book Co.
I admit that I am not a huge Wagner fan, but the Ring is more than just overblown German opera: it’s mythology, history, literature, music, theatre, and sociology. Even politics, unfortunately.
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