>> The woman NPR crowned the “Queen of the Acoustic Guitar,” Kaki King, takes the 9:30’s stage tonight opening for the John Butler Trio. When DCist saw her play last year at Jammin Java, we were floored by “the wild, jazzy, and melodic ‘voice’ of her guitar.” $20 will get you in the door for a great double bill.
>> The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay author Michael Chabon will be at the 6th & I Historic Synagogue to promote his new book The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, which imagines an alternate history in which European Jews are resettled in Alaska after World War II. If you go, see if you can get him to confirm any casting decisions for the long-delayed Kavalier and Clay film adaptation. 7 p.m., $12.
>> It’s your last chance to catch The Lady Vanishes, the best of Alfred Hitchcock’s early, British films, at the AFI Silver theater. Pretty much THE template for a dozen other thrillers set on trains that came in the decades after. Part of the 50 Years of Janus Films series, 7 p.m.
>> There are two kinds of people out there: Those who loved Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, and those who wanted to tear their hair out after reading it. If you’re the former, head down to the Freer Gallery of Art’s Meyer Auditorium to hear him read from his new book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, at 7 p.m. If you’re the latter, I’d personally like to buy you a beer.
Amanda Mattos contributed. Photo by the horrible symbolism
