Not long after her amazing appearance on This American Life, Lindy West, a local writer and former film editor of this paper, found herself in the middle of a bidding war for a book. Hachette Books won that war by making, rumor has it, a very handsome offer for US rights. Publishers Weekly reports that the book, which is slated for fall 2016, will be a memoir titled Shrill. We can certainly expect that it will be filled with the humor, flair, and humanism that has made West one of the brightest lights of our times.

The rapper who played an important role in establishing the local hiphop scene that made Macklemore nationally (and later internationally) visible, Geo Quibuyen of the Blue Scholars, tonight is hosting a pop-up restaurant at Inay’s Asian Pacific Cuisine on Beacon Hill, my favorite neighborhood in the city. (Yes, we know what went down yesterday.) The event is called Food & Sh*t, has been around for 18 months, and for the first time will offer an "all-vegan Filipino themed menu titled SARIWA (Tagalog: 'Fresh')." If you want to book a spot for this experience, go here.

Lastly...

One of the best docs you will see at this year's Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa, will be screened tomorrow, March 17. Albie Sachs, a South African Jew and lawyer who, during the final years of the Apartheid regime, paid for his strong vision of a free and just society with an arm and an eye, is the kind of human that gives one hope in our type of animal, which tends to be horrible and destructive. Directed by Abby Ginzberg, the documentary is a sober and elegant portrait of an extraordinary African.