EAR CANDY—Every month, your besties at the Merc and Mississippi Studios bring you the best live local music for no money whatsoever. Because we wuv you! Tonight: the mind-zonking psych of Máscaras, the brain-pleasing songwriting of the Domestics, and the smile-making fuzz pop of the Century. Don’t miss it! NED LANNAMANN
Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, 9 pm, FREE
BOOKS—To celebrate the latest from literary journal Windfall, Broadway Books hosts a reading tonight featuring local writers of note, which CANNOT BE DONE without Ursula K. Le Guin, author of 21 (!) novels, creator of richly textured universes, and Portland resident. Don’t forget your copy of The Left Hand of Darkness! MEGAN BURBANK
w/Paulann Petersen, Carlos Reyes, & more; Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 7 pm, FREE