About Tonight

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MUSIC: Venerable UK/French synth-pop ensemble Stereolab are at the 9:30 Club, and tickets are still available for $25. 7:30 p.m. doors, with Atlanta's Atlas Sound and local electronica outfit Chessie.

READING: Foreign policy geeks won't want to miss Dexter Filkins, award-winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times, who will be at Politics and Prose to talk about his latest book, The Forever War, which chronicles his work in Afghanistan and Iraq since 1998. 7 p.m.

MUSIC: Saccharine Denver popsters Dressy Bessy are at the Black Cat, with Baltimore's Squaaks and Richmond's Hot Lava. Backstage, $10, 9 p.m.

MUSIC: Avant-garde sound artist Bernhard Gal will take part in the Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music at Silver Spring's Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. 7 p.m., joined by Pauwel De Buck, The Circuitry Dance Patrol, and Jeff Carey. Only $6.

MOVIE: You've heard all about Cubans traveling to Florida from Cuba on crude boats and inner tubes, hoping to make it to America. But did you know that half a million Dominicans have made similar attempts through the shark-infested waters of the Mona Passage to reach Puerto Rico? Dominican director Jorge Lendeborg chronicles the harrowing stories of those who survived the journey, and those who haven't, in 60 Miles East. At the AFI Silver Theater, 9 p.m.