Two hip happenings, one on the page and one on the stage, highlight the calendar’s offerings this weekend on Bainbridge Island.

The sound comes from influences as diverse as Black Flag, Hunter S. Thompson, Motörhead, ZZ Top, The Coasters and Bruce Springsteen.

The name comes from Walt Whitman — “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”

The band comes from Denver.

Colorado-based rock trio The Yawpers are slated to play their first Bainbridge Island concert at the Treehouse Café at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18. Tickets, $15 each, are on sale now via www.treehousebainbridge.com (21-and-older only).

The Yawpers — Jesse Parmet, Alex Koshak and frontman Nate Cook — traffic in multi-styled raucous rock-and-roll, a heady blend of Americana, punk and blues sometimes called “cow-punk.”

They tour extensively and have played shows with Delta Spirit, The Reverend Horton Heat, The Black Angels, Wanda Jackson, Supersuckers and The Blasters, among others.

Their work has been praised by the likes of Nerdist, Consequence of Sound, the A.V. Club and even Rolling Stone, who said of their song “Burdens” that, “the guys bang out a Springsteen-worthy tribute to escaping the city limits of one’s hometown.”

Cook recently chatted with the Review about the upcoming Lynwood show, the story behind “Boy in a Well,” and why even old school-style rockers should spend less time looking backward – read the interview here.

Bainbridge Island author Jennifer Mann will visit Eagle Harbor book Company to read and discuss her new book, “Josie’s Lost Tooth!” at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20.

She’ll be joined by Bremerton author Toni Yuly, bringing along her great preschool books.

Josie is the monkey bars champion, the first one to read a whole book by herself, and the second-fastest runner in her class. But she’s the worst at losing teeth — the only kid in her class who still has all her baby teeth!

One night, Josie finally feels a tooth wiggle, just a little, and she can’t wait to show her best friend, Richard. But nothing makes the tooth fall out — not hanging upside down, chomping on an apple, or even pulling on the tooth with a string — until Josie trips and goes splat and the tooth is lost for good. Now what can she leave under her pillow for the tooth fairy?

Mann was an architect before turning to writing children’s books. “Two Speckled Eggs” was the first book that she wrote and illustrated.

Visit www.eagleharborbooks.com to learn more.

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