>> We’ve checked out Page France a couple of times and are sure you’ll have a good time if you head down to the Red and the Black tonight. They’re playing with Austin’s excellent Peel for a 9 p.m. show, only $8.
>> The action at SILVERDOCS continues, and if you’ve been having trouble getting advance tickets to evening screenings and aren’t willing to wait in the stand-by lines, consider taking advantage of the free, outdoor screening of Jonathan Demme’s 1984 minimalist concert documentary of the Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense, at 9 p.m. in Silver Spring Plaza. Keep an eye peeled for Demme himself lurking about someplace, as he’ll have just been honored at the festival’s Guggenheim Symposium for his contribution to the craft of documentary film. Looks like there won’t be any rain, but you might want a sweater. Or a really big suit.
>> Super-DJ and trance/house producer Paul Van Dyk is at 9:30 Club, check out our full preview just below this post. $35 in advance, $40 at the door. 9 p.m.
>> Cassandra Wilson, one of the finest jazz vocalists performing today, is at The Birchmere tonight. 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $49.50 and available through Ticketmaster.
>> Ralph Nader is at Busboys and Poets tonight, which is like what, going to church for him? He’ll read from and sign copied of his new book, The Seventeen Traditions, which sounds eerily like a self-help title and in fact apparently has Nader looking back to the earliest days of his life, to his serene and enriching childhood in bucolic Winsted, Connecticut. 7 p.m.
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