There's a lot going on tonight, including the "3rd ranked Slam poet IN THE WORLD, y’all" at the Poetry Slam.

Town Hall is hosting a seminar called Sustainable Path: Climate Change and Water. According to this guy, even Jesus cares about climate change. A commenter on his blog feels differently, though:

Now a day global warming controversy is very hype. NASA sciencetists completely work on global warming research. According the sciencetists after 30 year earth is completely effected by global warming.

At Elliott Bay Book Company, Cara Black returns with the ninth in her Parisian mystery series, Murder in the Latin Quarter. This is a Soho Crime mystery. If you like international fiction and mysteries, you should check out the Soho Crime series—they're literary mysteries set all around the world and, more importantly, not written by some doofus in America with a travel guide and Wikipedia.

Susan Jane Gilman reads from Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven at Third Place Books. This is her memoir about backpacking through China. (I think it's fair to assume that Gilman is not the woman on the cover of this book.)

And at the Burke Museum, George Johnson reads from The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments. The book came out last year, and reportedly Johnson gave an excellent reading when he came through town last time. It's about how science and art are not mutually exclusive. This is the reading of the night.

The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here.

(Gold Star Commenter for this one is leek, who says "Wow. Can that be a nominee for worst book cover to go with worst book website from the other day?")