TUESDAY, SEPT. 27, 2011 >>>

1. This fall, Tacoma's favorite Victorian-style glass conservatory offers a botanical montage of madness, paralysis and death. The exhibit Wicked Plants: An Exhibit of the Deliciously Dark Side of the Plant Kingdom features deadly flora that would please a homicidal 19th-century botanist. The W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory exhibit is inspired by Amy Stewart's bestseller Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities, a much-needed compendium of plants that rack up body counts. Go see it from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., if you dare.

2. Drop by The Art Stop inside LeRoy jewelers and check out Ken Stevens' signature celadon glaze works from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

3. The final 6th Avenue Farmers Market will feature musician Billy Farmer & Friends from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m.

4. It's just the way that I live, yo
Like a pirate out to get his booty, yo
But yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
I'm gonna pimp like a pirate till my days are done.
We suspect author Rudy Martin, one of the founding faculty members of The Evergreen State College, has better stories of the sea than ours in his collection of short fiction, Seaside Stories. Martin will prove it at 6 p.m. when he shares them at Orca Books in Olympia.

5. The Hy-lu-Hee-Hee bar in Gig Harbor hosts a 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Trivia Night featuring three rounds with $25 price gift cards each, and a cumulative cash prize of $50 for the puzzle page. If no one wins it, next week would be $100, and so on.

LINK: More arts and entertainment events in the South Sound

LINK: Happy hours!