1. The North Delridge Neighborhood Council is holding its monthly meeting tonight. According to Mike Dady, the contact person for the group, the council is going to create some new subcommittees tonight oriented around transit, public safety, and land use—in response to a growing level of community interest. "More people are starting to see the council as the best way to address the city issues, of getting on the radar screen with the city," said Dady.

The North Delridge Neighborhood Council was formed in December of 2005, and is one of several smaller neighborhood committee's within West Seattle (which itself is split by the city into two neighborhood districts—the Delridge district and the Southwest District).

Tonight at the Delridge Library (5423 Delridge Way SW) at 6:30 pm.

2. Highfalutin ARCADE (an architecture and design journal in the Northwest) is publishing its latest issue—ARCADE 28.2 Water 2.0: Aquatic Dysfunctions. The issue, with feature editor Jason McLennan, is all about using the basic elements of alchemy- earth, water, air and fire as starting points to create something new and valuable.

The ARCADE crew is celebrating tonight with music by DJ Kirby Winfield and a silent auction for pre-holiday shopping.

Tonight presented by ARCADE Journal, 5:30pm - 7:30pm at The OddFellows Building. Silent Auction suggestion is $10.

3. Gourmet geeks will be gathering tonight for the Fourth Annual Cookbook Social in Seattle. More than twenty local chefs and cookbook authors—like Kathy Casey, Langdon Cook, Thierry Rautureau, and Tom Douglas—will be present with signed books and food samples. Guests will include Nicole Aloni, Fran Bigelow, Greg Atkinson, and Amster-Burton.

Tonight the Fourth Annual Cookbook Social, 4pm - 7pm at the Palace Ballroom. Tickets are $22


4. I hadn't heard of Stephen Elliott until his newest book, The Adderall Diaries , showed up on the table while I was working at Bailey/Coy, but I was immediately interested--part memoir, part true crime story (about a women supposedly murdered by her computer-programmer ex-husband), it looked like Dave Eggers meets Truman Capote meets Hunter S. Thompson. It wasn't very long either, but I never got around to reading it.

Anyway, Elliott's in town tonight for a reading, and not just to read, but also to teach a class in memoir writing (Elliott's written a couple, including one about S&M and one about the 2004 presidential election).



The price of the ticket includes a copy of The Adderall Diaries.

Tonight at 826 Seattle (8414 Greenwood Ave N) at 7 pm. Tickets are $25.

5. The final McGinn town hall is tonight, at Rainier Beach High School. Our reports on Monday and Tuesday's town halls are here and here , respectively.

Tonight at Rainier Beach High School, at 7 pm.