MARK THOMAS DEMING: TONIGHT AT HELL'S KITCHEN >>>

Agent Orange is old, and so are you. Yeah you. You listened to them on a boombox, right? A real boombox, about the size of a microwave. A boombox in the parking lot of the bank where you went to skate on real skateboards, boards with trucks no wider than your fist. That boombox was toast long before you left for college, that skateboard obsolete, but not the old-school, so-cal surf-punk of Agent Orange. No way. Now, you’ve probably got kids, maybe even grown kids, but you still like to sneak a smoke or a toke out in the garage, don’t you? And you shred to Agent Orange on the way to get baskets at Ikea, don’t you? And you’ll be at Hell’s Kitchen on Saturday night, terrorizing the pit with those 30 or so “bonus pounds” you’ve picked up along the way, won’t you? Won’t you? Damn right!

[Hell’s Kitchen, with Dreadful Children, the Assasinators, YIA, Psycho 78, 9 p.m., $10-$12, 3829 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.759.6003]

JAKE DE PAUL: OBAMA SUSHI >>>

You’ve seen the Obama sushi already, right? Well, if not, enjoy.

MATT DRISCOLL: A FEW PHOTOS FROM THE JAVA JIVE ACTION >>>

Last night at Bob's Java Jive, Jared Mees and the Grown Children, along with the Fun Police, Brotherhood of the Black Squirrel and John Walker and the Hitchhikers took the stage as part of the monthly LAVA show.

Here are a few snapshots of the action in case you missed out.
 

MICHAEL SWAN: TASTING AT 99 BOTTLES >>>

Of course there's definitely 90 minutes to Dick's.

MICHAEL SWAN: FIVE-POINT INWARD-FACING CRUSH STRATEGY >>>

Public Image Ltd./Killing Joke/NIN/Pigface drummer and owner of Invisible Records Martin Atkins give his, well, energetic seminar on how to tour, make money and basically survive in the music business.

LINK: Live music and DJs tonight

JAKE DE PAUL: RAVENOUS READERS BOOK CLUB >>>

If “Ravenous Readers” means famished folks flipping through forms to you, you better get yourself to King's Books. At King's Books, they will tell you that “Ravenous Readers” is actually a community book group focused on reading books about food and sustainability, sponsored by Grow Local Tacoma. Meeting the first Thursday of the month at King's, this hungry group will dig into issues such as growing food locally, the impact of commercial agriculture, and growing communities through selected reads such as the first book on the menu: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. In Kingsolver's first work of narrative nonfiction, she passionately records a year lived in complete harmony with the seasons and their products and the trials and tribulations that her family endured in order to consume only what they and their farming neighbors produced. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is this year's Tacoma Reads Together selection.

Future books will be Cod by Mark Kurlansky (April 2),  Plenty by Alisa Smith & J.B. MacKinnon (May 7), and In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (June 4).  

So if you just had fantasies about finishing your Confessions of the Shopaholic while packing you face with pasta at Ravenous, then this isn’t the club for you. In fact, you should stay far, far away from this club. But for those of you who desire to make a difference in the way we live and eat, check out this book club.

[King's Books, Thursday, March 5, 7 p.m., no cover, 218 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma, 253.272.8801]