I imagine Christopher will be posting the official Stranger Suggestion for tonight soon enough, but in the meantime, here are a couple of notable runners-up, the first of which gets hyped mightily by Stranger news intern Sarah Mirk:

“Marjane Satrapi, the author of Persepolis, the most phenomenal graphic novel published in the last couple years, is stopping by Seattle and those who don’t see her will be kicking themselves years from now when they finally drop their fluffy fiction and pick up her comics. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi’s upbringing in Iran at the time of the Iranian revolution. Her simple black and white drawings follow her journey through bombings, veils and rock-n-roll rebellion.” (Town Hall at 8th and Seneca, 7:30 pm, no tickets required.)

On the trashier end of the entertainment spectrum, tonight also brings the TV show Dateline NBC, featuring an exclusive, one-year-later interview with the Northwest’s most notorious not-so-newlyweds Mary Kay Letourneau and Villi Fualaau.
“[T]heir first network primetime television interview since their May 2005 wedding!” crows the show’s website, which also features a most creepy teaser clip, in which Mary Kay explains Villi’s “forceful” pursuit of her hot, elementary-school-teacher lovin’. “He was quite the man,” purrs Letourneau.

Mary Kay and Villi: still icky after all these years. (And fans of the ick should tune into NBC at 8:00pm.)