>> The Washington D.C. Human Trafficking Meetup which tonight hosts freelance photographer Kay Chernush in the Langston Room at Busboys and Poets. Chernush will present photos she took while on assignment for the U.S. State Department in India, Thailand, Italy and Hong Kong in 2005 for their annual Trafficking in Persons Report which “serves as the primary diplomatic tool through which the U.S. Government encourages other countries to help fight forced labor, sexual exploitation, and modern-day slavery,” and will also participate an open discussion on the contemporary state of trafficking and the movements and organizations which are fighting to bring an end to its practice. The event represents the Meetup’s first quarterly awareness program aimed at attracting new members while also informing the general public of this ongoing global issue. Monday, 8 to 10 p.m.
>> Last month District literati were introduced to F.W. Thomas, the attorney, minor novelist and U.S. government employee who used his close friendship with Edgar Allan Poe to try to make himself seem more important. City Paper contributor Adam Mazmanian has dedicated his new monthly literary variety show, the F.W. Thomas Performances, to the enterprising spirit of every D.C. lawyer or bureaucrat who spends half of her working day working on a screenplay or taking a 3-hour lunch. Tonight’s installment at the Warehouse Theater brings out Fox News Correspondent James S. Rosen, exploring the the secret files of the Planet of the Apes, Louis Bayard, author of the forthcoming novel, The Pale Blue Eye, A. Clarke Bedford, presenting excerpts from “William Tecumseh Sherman & The Venus of Willendorf: The Suburban Years”, Frederic Frommer, discussing the history of Negro League baseball in D.C., and T.M. Lowery, creator of The Skeleton Kids. Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the main theater, $3 gets you in the door. (Sommer Mathis)
