Recommended tonight — Seattle’s Nerd Nite* at Lucid Jazz Lounge from 6:30pm with Semih Tareen and the viruses, and the mind-reading Ross Maddox. $5 cover. Talks start at 7:30pm.

* I too object when ignorance-celebrating pols say ‘nerd’ when they should mean ‘expert’ (starting at 4.20-ish), but the self-labelled Nerd Nite rules.