Tonight 3-25: Live Wire! Radio at The Mission Theater

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Live Wire! Radio (Mission Theater, @7:30pm, $20/General Admission, $30/Reserved): Live Wire! is an independently produced radio variety show recorded in front of a live audience at the Mission Theater and broadcast on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). Guests on the March 25th show include:

• Floater, a local band with a new release entitled “Stone by Stone”
• Memoirist/Author Kevin Sampsell (A Common Pornography)
• Actor/Comedian Timmy Williams from the sketch comedy group The Whitest Kids U’Know
• Author Robin Romm (The Mercy Papers)
• 6′3″ journalist/author Arianne Cohen (The Tall Book)
• Plus, original sketch comedy from Faces For Radio Theater, music from Ralph Huntley and the Mutton Chops, host Courtenay Hameister — and more!!

Other Book Events Today:

Opening Reception: 52 Selects (Ampersand, @6:00pm): Featuring the work of ten world-renowned photojournalists, our April show suggests that in some cases photography as journalism does indeed deserve a place on gallery walls & that the rigorous ethical & technical standards of working photojournalists are something to be celebrated. The show also coincides with the launch of 52 Selects, a weekly offering of fine photography prints curated by veteran photojournalist & former gallery owner, Ken Hawkins. Acting as guest curator for this exhibition, Mr. Hawkins has selected photographs by Alan Berner, Rich-Joseph Facun, Greg Foster, Bill Frakes, Joey Ivaneso, Leah Nash, Scott Robinson, Ben Rusnak, Scott Strazzante & Bill Weeks.

Visiting Writers Series: Alice Fulton (Reed College, Psychology 105, @6:30pm): Alice Fulton’s fiction collection, The Nightingales of Troy: Connected Stories, was published by W.W. Norton in 2008. Her most recent book of poems is Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems. She is currently the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English at Cornell University. Alice Fulton will also lead a colloquium, “Losing Your Voice and Finding the Poem,” at noon, Wednesday, March 24, in GCC–D. For more information, visit the Visiting Writers website.

Open Mic at the Library (Lake Oswego Library, @6:30pm): The 2010 Open Mic season has begun—and what a great beginning! January featured performances by a classical guitarist, storyteller, and poets. Please join us for an evening of local talent! Sign up begins at 6:30 P.M. and performances begin at 7:00 P.M. This free program is presented with the generous support of the Friends of the Library.

Friends of Mystery Bloody Thursday (Terwilliger Plaza, @7:00pm): Join us for readings by Portland author Phil Margolin and Seattle author Robert Dugoni, who will discuss legal thrillers. In addition, the 2009 Spotted Owl Award will be presented to Phil Margolin for Executive Privilege. The event will begin with a reception at 7:00 pm, followed by the program at 7:30 pm. The meeting is free and open to the public.

Open Mic Poetry featuring Danika Dinsmore (Cover to Cover Books-Vancouver, @7:00pm): Danika Dinsmore blogs about her multi-disciplined writing life as The Accidental Novelist. Her accidental novel, Brigitta of the White Forest, will be released in March 2010. She and her husband, music maven Ken Ashdown, live in Vancouver, BC. Danika will have the following books for sale: Traffic ($5), her red book ($10), Every Day Angels and Other Near Death Experiences ($10), and between sleeps ($12). Her CD, All Over the Road, will also be available for $10.

Kim Harrison (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Rachel Morgan has fought vampires, werewolves, demons, and other supernatural dangers as both witch and bounty hunter — and lived to tell the tale. But she’s never faced off against her own kind — until Black Magic Sanction (Eos), the latest from New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison.

Malena Watrous (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): If You Follow Me (Harper Perennial) is at once a fish-out-of-water tale, a dark comedy of manners, and a strange kind of love story. Alive with vibrant and unforgettable characters, it guides readers over cultural bridges even as it celebrates the awkward, unlikely triumph of the human spirit.

Jo Nesbo (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In The Devil’s Star (Harper), the latest from Jo Nesbo, detective Harry Hole is assigned to investigate a series of bizarre murders — and partnered with Tom Waaler, a colleague he neither likes nor trusts. Determined to find the killer and expose the crooked Waaler, Harry discovers the two investigations melding in unexpected ways.

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You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County, and the rest of this weeks Portland book events here.

Image credit Live Wire! Radio.