Bill Scanga
(ART) You might remember Scanga's tiny little installation of mice looking at paintings in Almost Warm and Fuzzy at the Tacoma Art Museum a few years back. Now he's showing a sculptural series that's like a natural history museum display gone awry, with a system of taxonomy that would drive a scientist bonkers. Scanga's work is also featured in Gene(sis), opening April 5 at the Henry--see review, page 30. (Elliott Brown Gallery, 215 Westlake Ave N, 340-8000, opening reception 5-8 pm. Through April 27.) EMILY HALL
Princess Superstar
(MUSIC) Ms. Superstar, a.k.a. the female Eminem, a.k.a. the white Lil' Kim, a.k.a. the black Shirley Temple, is coming back to town to rock us with her sleazy/cheesy rude-girl rhymes about masturbation, male hos, and dirty babysitting misadventures. Her Crocodile show back in January was damn hilarious, though most of the audience stood around, arms folded. C'mon people--this time, let's give it up for hiphop's queen of crude. (I-Spy, 1921 Fifth Ave, 374-9492, $10.) KELLY O
The Habit Anthology
(SKETCH COMEDY) At their best, the boys of the Habit do more than toss off gags--they create little worlds in which vending machines engage in one-upmanship, woodland creatures litigate, rappers explain insurance to corporate drones, and Easter peeps lead short, tragic lives. Their attention to detail puts them miles beyond the flat crap you'll find on Saturday Night Live or Mad TV. Go. You won't regret it. (Thurs-Sat April 4-6, The Bathhouse Theatre, 7312 W Green Lake Dr N, 325-6500; Thurs-Fri at 8 pm, Sat at 11 pm, $10. Through April 20.) BRET FETZER
New Pornographers
(MUSIC) Just forget about the "Canadian-ness" of New Pornographers for a sec and focus on the fact that it boasts three fine singers in Neko Case, Dan Bejer, and one Carl Newman, formerly of Zumpano and Superconductor and forever a pop genius. Add Limblifter drummer Kurt Dahle to the mix and you've got the combination that made the band's debut, Mass Romantic, one of the most addictive, Brian Wilson-influenced albums EVER. (Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave, 441-5611, $12.) KATHLEEN WILSON
Revolution OS
(FILM) Revolution OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against Microsoft and created Linux and the Open Source movement. Through interviews with the key figures of the grassroots movements of hackers, entrepreneurs, and neo-communists, the documentary paints a fascinating portrait of resistance and subversion. Even for those of us who are technological idiots (but try to pass it off as pomo Luddite disaffection), director J. T. S. Moore, a former screenwriter at Walt Disney studios, makes the subject exciting and understandable. (Thurs-Sun April 4-7, Little Theater, 608 19th Ave E, 675-2055, 7 & 9 pm, $7.) NATE LIPPENS
Michael Hardt
(READING) After Seattle's WTO riots, many thinkers, journalists, and policy makers wondered why so many were unhappy about globalization and the prosperity it was evidently generating (for the rich). They decided Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's book Empire, which came out five months after the riots, had the answers to these questions, and the book became a bestseller. Hardt, who is a refreshing Marxist, will speak as part of UW's excellent "Human Agency in a Globalizing World" lecture series. (Savery Hall room 239, UW campus, 7 pm, free; for more information call 634-3400.) CHARLES MUDEDE
Phil Ochs Tribute
(MUSIC) Phil Ochs mined an urgent political vein of protest with a fervent and direct idealism that seems almost naïve to contemporary ears. The dark underside of his drive was his alcoholism and depression. His attempts to reach a larger, working-class audience with his message resulted in the glitz minstrelsy of his appearances onstage in a gold lamé suit, à la Elvis Presley. A diverse group of the Northwest's most deeply felt musicians--including including Amy Denio, Ron Bailey, Danny O'Keefe, and Jim Page--will breathe new shapes into Ochs' songs, reminding us of the depressing gold lamé era, but also evoking a human hopefulness that lives on. Tonight's concert benefits Musicares. (Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave NW, 789-3599, 8 pm, $10.) NATE LIPPENS
Y Tu Mamá Tambien
(FILM) Director Alfonso Cuarón has crafted a road pic/coming-of-age film that follows two horndog teenage boys, played by Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, across Mexico. They are lonely and bored while their girlfriends are away vacationing in Europe, so when they meet Luisa (Meribel Verdú), they promise to take her to a nonexistent beach called Heaven's Mouth. She agrees to go with them in an attempt to get back at her philandering husband, and for even darker reasons (that I won't give away). Along the way the carnality of the threesome and the emotional intimacy that develops gives the simple narrative deeper meaning. (See Movie Times.) NATE LIPPENS
