About Tonight

FILM: The AFI is screening Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen). Fans of Lost should take note: The plot takes place on a remote island, where one Max von Sydow reveals to his pregnant wife nightmarish stories about past (and possibly imagined) interactions with the baron and his family who live, naturally, on the other side of the island. Get scurred in Silver Spring. 7 p.m.

MUSIC: Anousheh Khalili won a Grammy with Deep Dish, but the Richmond-based vocalist's solo work is more acoustic and emotional. She's playing at the Black Cat's backstage with The Feverfew and Sleep Station. Doors at 9 p.m., $8.

HAPPY HOUR: A friend insists that Slash looks fat in those new Guitar Hero commercials. That's crazy, right? He's just kind of ripped these days. According to popular legend (i.e., a different friend) Slash et al. would work out like athletes after recording sessions when the band made Appetite for Destruction. No one who writes riffage as you'll find on "Sweet Child" winds up fat — he ascends directly to heaven like Enoch and becomes an angel with a name like Metatron. Light a cigarette, let it dangle, and raise your guitar neck to the heavens tonight at Rhino Bar's Guitar Hero happy hour — where $3.00 bottles (Heineken, Heineken Light, and Dos Xs), $5.00 drinks (Three Olives Cherry and Grape Bombs), and other drinks that aren't the straight whiskey that Slash would have us order in his image may be purchased on special all night.

SPORTS: Tonight's game against the Carolina Hurricanes marks a significant milestone for the Caps: For the first time since their Stanley Cup finals appearance in 1998, cheap hockey tickets might not be easy to come by at the Verizon Center. With a win tonight the Caps are tied for first place in the Southeast Division, for whatever that's worth. (A lot, says On Frozen Blog.)

READING: David Rothkopf will be at Politics and Prose to discuss Superclass, his expose on the secret class of people living among us who — through genetic mutations — can manipulate objects with their mind. April fools! The book is actually about rich people. Rothkopf will be at Politics and Prose to not talk about superheroes. 7 p.m.

NEIGHBORHOODS: Ward 4 will hold an emergency crime meeting tonight after two recent fatal shootings in the neighborhood. Metropolitan Police Department, 4th District Headquarters, 6001 Georgia Avenue, NW in the community room on the first floor, 7 p.m.

Photo by furcafe. Kriston Capps contributed to tonight's picks.

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