MUSIC—While Thee Oh Sees were barely gone long enough for us to miss them, any opportunity to see the legendary live show of the now-LA-based John Dwyer & Co. is cause for celebration. Tonight there’s two chances—including an all-ages early show—to catch their madcap, third-eye, psychedelic garage rock. Get ready to bomp! NED LANNAMANN
w/Jack Name; Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside, 5 pm (all ages) & 9 pm (21 & up), $15
BOOKS—Pulitzer-winning writer Richard Ford jauntily named his latest, Let Me Be Frank with You, after his protagonist (Frank), leading to speculation that the famously cranky prose stylist’s gone soft. Find out for yourself at tonight’s reading, which pairs well with old man slippers, a snifter of whiskey, and telling those neighbor kids to pipe down! (And stark prose. And ennui.) MEGAN BURBANK
Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 7:30 pm, FREE