How to mission creek: LV's Melissa Zimdars shares her plan of attack

Little Village television columnist Melissa Zimdars offers her plan of attack for Mission Creek week. Follow her updates online throughout the week on Little Village.

Tuesday

Prairie Lights

6 p.m. — Ander Monson, poet and author of Letter to a Future Lover: Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, Inscriptions, and Other Ephemera Found in Libraries (Graywolf Press, 2015)

Gabe’s

8 p.m. — Brendan Hanks (formerly known as Ex-Action Model)
9 p.m. — Ambient group, Ancient Ocean
10 p.m. — Ben Frost

The Mill

11 p.m. — The folky, fuzzy weirdness of Damon McMahon, aka Amen Dunes

Wednesday

Devotay

6 p.m. — Tapas and drinks

The Englert

7 p.m. — Local, award-winning playwright and comedian Megan Gogerty
8 p.m. — Hilarious and LGBTQ-minded comedian Cameron Esposito

Gabe’s

10 p.m. — Electronic psychedelic group, Silver Apples

Thursday

The Mill

6 p.m. — Jeff Chang, hip-hop and cultural critic and author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop (Picador, 2005) and Who We Be: The Colorization of America (Macmillan, 2014)

Blue Moose Tap House

9 p.m. — Maxilla Blue, a hip-hop trio from Des Moines
10 p.m. — Iowa City’s AWTHNTKTS
11 p.m. — Midwest-by-way-of-the-west-coast rapper, Freddie Gibbs

The Mill

12 a.m. — White Mystery, Chicago’s red-headed, brother-sister, rock and roll duo

Friday

Prairie Lights

3 p.m. — Publishing Through the Digital Age (free), a panel of editors from Pitchfork, L.A. Review of Books and Harper’s

Blue Moose Tap House

6:30 p.m. — Iowa City’s The Olympics
7:30 p.m. — Alex Cameron (of the Sydney-based electronic group Seekae
8:30 p.m. — Foxygen, a pop, rock, garage, psychedelic and even gospel music duo from California