For the last two and a half years, Kyle MacDonald has been
conducting a massive experiment in the relative value of objects
and experiences. On July 12, 2005, he went on Craigslist and offered to
trade a red paper clip. Almost a year later, he ended up with
a house at 503 Main Street in Kipling, Saskatchewan. He’s in
Seattle to sign his book and tell his story, which includes a Ski-Doo,
a ceramic doorknob, a man who traded a role in a movie for a snow
globe, and an afternoon with Alice Cooper. (Form/Space
Atelier, 2407 First Ave, 208-9843. 7 pm, free.)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...