The Teen Tix Teeny Awards and Fundraising Dinner Is Saturday: You've heard us praising Teen Tix—a nonprofit that partners with nearly every other culture nonprofit in the city to provide $5 tickets to teenagers—for approximately five years, since we realized that while some arts types mope about the graying and dying of its audiences, Teen Tix is actually doing something about it. Instead of telling teenagers what to see, it opens the doors to the city's cultural feast and lets them order for themselves—and, as a corollary, allows them to sit in big rooms with other groups of people, thinking about ideas and images in a setting that is not a school and not a church. This Saturday is the second annual Teeny Awards: A teen-driven awards ceremony and fundraising dinner at the EMP hosted by Lindy West and featuring speakers Carlo Scandiuzzi of ACT and Virginia Anderson, former executive director of Seattle Center. Buy tickets (or just donate) here.

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Fly Moon Royalty Is Going on Tour: Megan Seling is in love with their new track, and the rest of the country will soon be falling in love with Fly Moon Royalty, too. The duo tweeted out their sweet new tour poster today. Pass it on to your friends who don't live in Seattle; they'll thank you for it later.

Scarecrow Needs Your Money: Less than one day before Scarecrow Video's Kickstarter concludes. They've already beaten their goal, but you should still contribute. Once the Kickstarter is through, Seattle will be home to the world's largest non-profit video store, which is at the very least a nifty experiment and at the most an exciting new model for a video library system. If you're on the fence about donating, Zack Carlson's video for The Scarecrow Project is a passionate explanation of why the Kickstarter is so important. It's hyperbolic, sure, but it's not without its charms:

Short Run Needs Your Money: Speaking of fundraisers, the wonderful Short Run small press and comics festival is trying to raise $1500 to ensure that this year's festival remains free to the public. It may not be the end of the world for you or I if Short Run had to charge a few bucks at the door for admission, but this festival is very popular with teenagers, many of whom only have a limited amount of money to spend on books at the show. Let's not force them to spend their zine-buying cash on a door fee, okay? Donate for the kids!

FU, Too: Local comics publisher Fantagraphics Books has announced their new micro-publishing imprint, Fantagraphics Underground Press. FU Press will publish books that may not aspire to as huge an audience as, say the Hernandez Brothers, but that still deserve to be seen. Print runs will be in the hundreds, not the thousands. This is a nice call-back to Fantagraphics' early days, and a forward-thinking move for a publisher; not every goddamned book needs to be a four-quadrant hit, and it's nice to see Fantagraphics being intelligent about reaching a smaller market.

Proof That Performance Art Does Matter: A Columbia student's performance has blossomed into a full-fledged protest.

Hate U2? Good news! Apple has bowed to pressure and is allowing you to delete that fucking U2 album from your iTunes account using "a simple three-step process."

Fire Up Your Popcorn-Delivery Elbow: You can find the full trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 after the jump. It certainly looks like they're widening the scope of the film series in this outing. Many readers thought Mockingjay was a mess; this might be a rare case of a movie being better than the book it's adapted from.