Monday, May 21, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.
The bestselling Seattle author of The Devil in the White City brings another past world alive—this time, the ominous realm of Nazi Berlin. With its focus on William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered history professor who becomes America’s first ambassador to Nazi Germany, and Dodd’s flirtatious and free-spirited 24-year-old daughter Martha, Erik Larson’s new book In the Garden of Beasts examines the people, politics, and social life of Berlin during Hitler’s first full year as chancellor
Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 6:00 – 7:00pm
Pub, enter on 8th Avenue. $5. Double feature! Ticket also gains admission to the Augusten Burroughs event at 7:30 pm.
Paul Ingrassia explores how cars— from the Model T to the Prius—have propelled and reflected the American experience. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Engines of Change offers an epic cultural history through 15 automobiles, as well as the personalities and tales behind them, ultimately showing how the car has expressed the particularly American tension between the lure of freedom and the obligations of utility.
PSSO: Spring Concert
Saturday, May 19, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on 8th Avenue. $4-$10.
Under the baton of Alan Shen, this extraordinary all-volunteer orchestra performs an ambitious program including Mozart’s Don Giovanni Overture; selections for guest vocalists Larissa Humphrey, soprano, and Frances Hoffman, soprano; Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks; and Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture.