While a book entitled The Four Man Plan: A Romantic Science may sound like something you would find in the—shudder—dating/self-help section, it’s actually a hilarious read. What began as a one-woman show about author/actress Cindy Lu’s dating plights turned into a mathematical formula on how to find her (and your) “three and a half man” (not a perfect four, because no one is perfect), and it delights in book form as well. Too timid to buy a dating advice book? Just stumble upon University Bookstore tonight to hear Lu detail the plan herself. Involving the dating of multiple men at once in order to fill up a dating “mantris graph” and following rules about what “level” of man they are to you, it sounds like a gimmick as bad as The South Beach Diet [don’t knock it—ed.]. But Lu’s humor, candid advice and genuine desire to help her fellow single gals make it seem at least kind of fun.

Wed., Sept. 12, 7 p.m.