Seattle, day by day

Seattle's tracked calendar runs on libraries as much as on clubs: 298 listings across 63 venues, with music at 89 and community events at 37. The Seattle Public Library is effectively a venue network: the Central Library leads the whole table with 17 listings, the Broadview Branch holds 12 and the Lake City Branch 10. The music rooms are the city's beloved midsize set: the Tractor Tavern in Ballard with 14, The Showbox and the Neptune Theatre with 10 each.

That mix (talks, classes and neighbourhood programmes in the branches; gigs in Ballard, downtown and the U District) is the real shape of a Seattle week, and the page is built to hold both at once. The Near row crosses water and a border: Victoria is 120 km, Abbotsford 161. The weekend digest leads, the month view carries the library system's long tail, and everything re-issues as the branches and rooms publish.