(MUSIC) Division of Laura Lee's new CD, Black City, tempers the urgent rush and explosive attitude of a good, aggressive punk anthem with the need to explore slower, deeper burns, backed by heavy atmospherics. The good word places the Swedish band's live shows above even this brilliant record, which should make this a memorable performance, and one I can't recommend highly enough. (Chop Suey, 1325 E Madison, 324-8000, $10 adv/$12 dos). JENNIFER MAERZ

FRIDAY OCTOBER 18
Olympia Film Festival

(THE BEST FEST) Every year around this time, I write the same old article about how the Olympia Film Festival is better than any of the other fests in this town. But this year, I really, really mean it, and I have proof: As part of Olyfest's tribute to Timothy Carey (need I say more?), they're showing Carey's The World's Greatest Sinner (1962), a rare and amazing film written, directed, produced, financed by, and, naturally, starring Carey as an ordinary Joe who becomes a rock 'n' roll prophet named God. I don't throw the word genius around lightly; YOU MUST SEE THIS FILM. Would The Gong Show Movie sweeten the pot? Well, it's playing, too. (Capitol Theater, 206 E Fifth Ave, Olympia, 8 pm and 10:30 pm, $7/$5 members. Go to www.olyfilm.org for complete festival schedule.) SEAN NELSON

SATURDAY OCTOBER 19
Jurassic 5

(MUSIC) Jurassic 5's new CD, Power in Numbers, is a modern hiphop masterpiece. There's not one weak track, and the raps are tight and clear. Indeed, this L.A.-based crew has done nothing less than extend the borders of hiphop. (Showbox, 1426 First Ave, 628-3151, all ages, 6 pm, $22.) CHARLES MUDEDE

Dennis Miller

(HA HA HA) While I hope to God I never see Dennis Miller in another movie as long as I live, I do love his caustic rants, hissy fits, and the fact that he's self-confident enough to slay himself with his own jokes, cackling away with no regard for modesty. He's smart as a whip with the hilarious social references, and his political humor is dead on--funny and angry at the same time. (Paramount Theatre, 911 Pine St, 682-1414, 8 pm, $29.50-$47.50.) KATHLEEN WILSON

SUNDAY OCTOBER 20
Burning Cage

(THEATER) Fresh off a smash run at the Seattle Fringe Fest, Burning Cage returns for a small handful of command performances at Capitol Hill Artists' Co-operative. Written and performed by Nicole DuFresne and Mary Jane Gibson, Burning Cage explores the actual, secret LSD experiments performed in the '60s on women confined to mental hospitals. Stranger writer Tamara Paris called the show "funny, harrowing, and balls-out brave--an unusual and thrilling theatrical experience." (Woman Alone Theatre at Capitol Hill Artists' Co-operative, 1621 12th Ave, 617-3416, $10-$12. Thurs-Sun at 8 pm.) DAVID SCHMADER

MONDAY OCTOBER 21
A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album

(BOOK) The brilliance of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme has always dumbfounded me. This is why the new handsome book, A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album, is so fucking important. The writer, Ashley Kahn, actually breaks the intense spell of the recording and manages to say many things about it: how it was made, when it was made, who was involved, and why it dumbfounds me so. It is a book about God. (Available at Bailey/Coy Books, 414 Broadway E, 323-8842.) CHARLES MUDEDE

TUESDAY OCTOBER 22
An American Werewolf in London

(FILM) John Landis' innovative, hilarious 1981 werewolf masterpiece receives a screening where it belongs: smack on the big screen, in full, blazing glory. Starring David Naughton and Griffin Dunne, An American Werewolf in London is Landis' best film (despite its rather abrupt, fairly lame ending), and it showcases just how much talent the young director had before he hacked off Vic Morrow's head with a helicopter rotor blade during the shooting of Twilight Zone: The Movie. (Grand Illusion, NE 50th and University Way, 523-3935, 9 pm, $7.) BRADLEY STEINBACHER

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23
Straight

(FILM) Regular readers of this paper have undoubtedly heard all about our own David Schmader's brilliant one-man show Straight. Well, now Schmader has given his play the treatment du cinema, which is to say he's had Straight filmed, and tonight you can watch him perform his hysterical play about gay-to-straight conversion up on the big screen. (Harvard Exit, 9:30 pm, $8, call 325-6500 for tickets.) BRADLEY STEINBACHER