Adrienne barbeau, Monday at Bridgeport Village Borders.

Notes from the margin

Glimmer Train welcomes online submissions for its Fall Short Story Award for New Writers. Please submit online before Sept. 30. Writing guidelines are at the site: glimmertrain.org.

Portland Books to Prisoners, an all-volunteer group that collects books to help raise literacy rates among the imprisoned, needs a new meeting space. If you know of a space at least 20 by 20 feet that's located between North Lombard Street, 82nd Avenue, Northwest 23rd Avenue and Southeast Powell Boulevard and can be used by a nonprofit two nights a week, please emailpdxbookstoprisoners@riseup.net.

Have you seen the Treasures of the John Wilson Special Collections exhibit at the Central Library? The one in the Collins Gallery at 801 SW 10th Ave.? It's ending soon, as is your chance to see a copy of Audubon's Birds of America from 1827. Scoot!

THURSDAY AUG. 17

LiveWire!

OPB's live radio variety show features sketch comedy duo Hoskins and Breen, Portland Center Stage artistic director Chris Coleman, and a bunch of random stuff that conjures adjectives like "funky," "circus-riffic" and "trippy." With music by MarchFourth Marching Band, Heroes and Villains, and Ralph Huntley and the Mutton Chops. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 233-1994. 7 pm. $10 advance at the Aladdin box office or Ticketmaster, $12 at the door. See also Music listings, page 49.

NW Edge Event

Local multimedia maven Chiasmus Press presents its third fiction anthology, Northwest Edge III: The End of Reality, which features a DVD in all of its genre-bending sweetness. Powell's City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

MONDAY AUG. 21

Adrienne Barbeau

The former star of myriad B-movies, including The Fog and Swamp Thing, reads from There Are Worse Things I Could Do, her memoir of "the acting life" that includes the requisite fling with Burt Reynolds. Are there worse things you could "do" than Burt Reynolds? If you're talking post-facelift, then no, actually, there aren't. But how many other Tony-nominated actresses will be in Tigard on Monday? Enough said. Bridgeport Village Borders, 7227 SW Bridgeport Road, Tigard, 968-7576. 7 pm. Free.

TUESDAY AUG. 22

Broken Word Poetry

Poetry will be read by entities other than Floyd Landis' drug-free urine sample, George W. Bush's future Nobel Peace Prize, and Tori Spelling's popular mall kiosk selling The Passion of the Christ-embroidered yarmulkes. Alberta Street Pub, 1036 NE Alberta St., 284-7665. 7:30 pm. Free. 21+.