About Tonight

BENEFIT: The victims of the Mt. Pleasant fire will benefit from a show put on by local bands Kitty Hawk, Sugarcane Crawl, Fever, Wild Fictions, U.S. Royalty, The Coats and Ra Ra Rasputin at La Casa, 3166 Mt. Pleasant Street NW. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the first band will go on at 8 p.m. Check out our preview.

MOVIE: If you've never seen the original Cape Fear, starring Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck, you owe it to yourself to head up to Silver Spring and catch Mitchum's far-more-frightening-than-DeNiro turn as ex-con Max Cady on the big screen. At the AFI Silver Theatre, 9:30 p.m., part of the Robert Mitchum retrospective.

DANCE: Tonight's free 6 p.m. performance on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage is courtesy the groundbreaking ClancyWorks Dance Company, performing Noise, Taking Steps to Climbing Mountains, and the premiere of a new work. 6 p.m.

MUSIC: Alison Carney has been making the rounds on the local soul circuit for a while, but now is starting to get more of a stage to showcase her own talents. As a part of the Rhythm & Soul series at Bohemian Caverns, she’ll be performing two shows with AB. $15, 8 and 10 p.m.

JAZZ: Saxophonist Charlie Young, a lecturer at Howard, tours and performs regularly with both the Duke Ellington Jazz Orchestra and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Tonight, he leads his own group at Blues Alley. Tickets to the 8 and 10 p.m. sets are $18 + $12.50 minimum/surcharge.

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