About Tonight

Photo by Tony DeFilippo

ART: Fotoweek DC festival opened last Friday and continues all week. Tonight we recommend a discussion on digital storytelling hosted by National Geographic and NPR (6:30 p.m.) and an opening reception at Carriage House, featuring work by some of the best fashion photographers in the city (at 7 p.m.) You can also stop by Local 16 every night this week after 5 p.m. to mingle with photographers and festival organizers, enjoy drink specials and watch photo projections.

READING: James Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, will read from and sign copies of his book tonight at the the 14th Street Busboys and Poets. 6:30 p.m.

MOVIE: The Goethe Institut is screening Jana and Jan, Helmut Dziuba's 1992 film about a man who gets sent to a reformatory as he tries to escape to West Germany, only to meet his future wife there just as 1990 begins. Part of the Wende Flicks: Last Films from East Germany series, 6:30 p.m., $6.

MUSIC: Nice little local line-up at Black Cat Backstage tonight: Mobius Strip sound a bit like the love child of They Might Be Giants and Sleater-Kinney, while Petworth returns from a months-long hiatus with a new bassist and the promise of a fuller sound. 9 p.m., $8.