TUESDAY, DEC. 4 2012  >>>

1. Today, Red Robin is awarding every person with the first name of Jim a free Sweet Jim Beam Bacon Swiss Burger. That includes you too Jimbo! It's a dine-in only promotion for those 18 and older. Burgers are served a la carte; fries, drink and tip are not included. And, Jimmy, no one is going to sing to you.

2. The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation's Foundation of Art Award has been recognized as one the most notable art awards in the South Sound region. To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Award, the Foundation is hosting a culminating exhibit featuring 40 talented artists that have been nominated for this Award, including winner Oliver Doriss, at the B2 Fine Art Gallery in Tacoma, which opens today at 11 a.m.

3. The Grand Cinema screens The House I Live In at 2:15 and 6:55 p.m. as part of its Tuesday Film Series. The film looks at the heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels of America's War on Drugs. From the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge, offering a definitive portrait and revealing its profound human rights implications.

4. CANCELED: Robert Michael Pyle has laryngitis. "It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, " wrote Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species. In the Tangled Bank, Northwest naturalist Robert Michael Pyle explores Charles Darwin's contention that the elements of such a bank, and by extension all the living world, are endlessly interesting and ever evolving. Hear Pyle's discoveries at 7 p.m. inside Orca Books in Olympia.

5. Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg is a ficto-documentary of, yup Winnipeg filmed in Maddin's signature Vigo-esque Super 8 black-and-white, bizarre re-enactments-cum-exorcisms. Check it out at 8 p.m. inside Northern in downtown Olympia.

LINK: Tuesday, Dec. 4 arts and entertainment events in the greater Tacoma and Olympia area