Second-to-last West Seattle Art Walk before Christmas – tonight, 6-9 pm, all around the peninsula. More than 40 venues are participating again this month – they’re all listed on the official Art Walk map, and many of the artists/events are highlighted on the official Art Walk website. Among them: Tonight’s the night that West Seattle-based, nationally renowned food writer Kim O’Donnel signs her new book The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook at Click! Design That Fits (WSB sponsor) in The Junction (here’s our September story about Kim’s book) … Also in The Junction, it’s opening night for Northwest Anvil 2, an ironwork exhibit at Twilight Artist Collective … Wallflower Custom Framing and Shooting Gallery (WSB sponsor – with a coupon on the WSB Coupons page) is presenting Sara Tro‘s exhibit, “strange, beautiful things” … Hotwire Online Coffeehouse presents “outsider”-style art by Kim McCarthy … Not only can you buy many participating artists’ work if you plan to do “early” holiday shopping, there are at least two special shopping events – Bird on a Wire Espresso in Westwood has a “Bazarre” and the Senior Center of West Seattle is the site of a shopping bazaar sponsored by West Seattle Family Zone … On the north side of the route, Alki Arts is participating (with live jazz tonight!) as is ActivSpace (more info here) … Leonardo Lanzolla is this month’s artist at new WSB sponsor C & P Coffee … Again, here’s the map – 6-9 pm’s the time. (P.S. We also have word from the new Tuscan Tea Room that they’ll be open late for Art Walk-ers – their menus are now online, too.)

ADDED 3:19 PM: Mural Apartments (WSB sponsor) shares news of 2 unique displays they’ll have tonight: Photojournalist Tony Blazejack is showing “Skies Over Mural,” a series of photographs he took from the roof of Mural last month, and Leah Warshawski, executive producer of a documentary-in-the-works on Rwanda, will show photos and footage from 3 years of production there, as well as selling prints that will raise money to complete her work.