FRIDAY:
>> We caught Echo and the Bunnymen in Lancaster, PA back in May, the night before HFStival, and it was one of the best shows we’ve seen all year. It’s too bad singer Ian MacCulloch’s voice didn’t hold up the next day at M&T Bank Stadium. But we’re willing to let the band off the hook for that, provided they play a great show tonight at the Black Cat. Recent European setlists have mixed their old hits with the new material off of their comeback album, Siberia, so we should be in for a treat. At Black Cat, with Innaway. 9:30 p.m., Sold out. -Kyle Gustafson

>> Thursday’s sudden cold snap has us wondering what sort of winter we’re in store for. Luckily, NBC4 meteorologist Chuck Bell and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center founder Antonio Busalacchi are here to answer your questions. Is It Going to Snow: The Science of Predicting Washington’s Weather and Global Climate, a lecture on climate change patterns is at the Marian Koshland Science Museum at 6:30 p.m. Free.

SATURDAY:

>> We’d be remiss if we didn’t urge you to join our friends over at Bluestate at Black Cat for an evening of watching this DCist DC-area bloggers get down and get funky to the point of physical collapse. It’s not nice to make fun of people who fall down drunk while dancing. But it sure is fun.

>> Local poet Monica Hand has a tendency for flowery turns of phrase, but she also speaks the truth more often than not. Check out this excerpt from her poem “Four Dead in Prince George’s Shootings”:

The police have no suspects

I am afraid to put away the things
So I let her go

Three-winged butterfly wrapped in school paper
Caught in an unforgiving wind
Worm like body still full of baby fat

Dead of gunshot wounds to the upper body

After Prince George’s County tied the record murder rate from 1991 of 154 deaths yesterday, we’d sure like to hear from someone who knows how to talk about it. Hand will read poems at Warehouse Theater at 6 p.m. along with fellow local writers Dylan Scholinski, Michelle Sewell and Jaime Gran. Free.

SUNDAY:

>> There are only a handful of important social issues DCist feels it necessary to take a firm stand on, and teaching our city’s children how to rock out at a very early age is one of them. Groovy commercial-free educational channel Noggin is bringing their version of Ozzfest, Jamarama Live!, to the 9:30 Club at noon. The touring act, which boasts the best concert tagline ever (“If you’re old enough to walk, you’re old enough to rock!”), features the Laurie Berkner Band (sort of a Jill Sobule meets Sheryl Crow, but without all the sex talk), the Ohmies, and Milkshake. It’s been sold out for a while, and there is a growing list of desperate parents on craigslist.org willing to pay top dollar. We predict at least one scalping-related brawl. But as long as it involves a 2-year-old smashing a guitar on stage, we say let the kids have their fun.

>> Easily one of the greatest films ever made, a chance to see Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal on the big screen at Bethesda Row Cinema is worth getting up early for. A visual cornucopia of existentialist metaphor, the plot, if one was forced to sum it up in brief, revolves around a knight who literally challenges Death to a game of chess (pictured). If you’ve never seen it, do yourself a favor and get thee to Bethesda. Love is the blackest of all plagues. 10 a.m.