- Pixar co-founder Edwin E. Catmull (pictured at right) - now president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, and an alum of Granite High School and the University of Utah - will deliver the U.'s School of Computing's annual Organick Lecture, this one titled "The Creative Process and Risk: Ten Films Later and We Are Still Trying to Figure It Out," at 6:30 at the Warnock Engineering Building, 72 S. Central Campus Drive (on the U. of Utah campus), Salt Lake City. Free.

- Dresden Dolls frontwoman Amanda Palmer (pictured at left) performs at 7 at the Avalon Theatre, 3601 S. State St., South Salt Lake. Tickets are $22, at SmithsTix.

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