>> L’Angelus, a Cajun and country-pop band that includes a mom and her four kids, will offer sweet-voiced female vocals and acoustic instrumentation that’s likely to get folks dancing from 8 to 11 at Los Arrieros, 7926 Georgia Ave., in Silver Spring, Md. $15

>> With Homo Politicus, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank decided to approach politics in Washington from the anthropologist’s perspective. He’ll be at Politics and Prose tonight to share his findings and sign copies. 7 p.m.

>> Jean-Luc Godard’s Masculin, Féminin is another documentary-style portrait of youth and sex in 1960s Paris, but with a script by Guy de Maupassant, it’s also one of his most poignant. 9:20 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theater.

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