MUSIC: Anyone sufficiently impressed by Pogues openers The Urban Voodoo Machine (or anyone sufficiently angry that they missed those two shows at the 9:30 Club) can catch the dark liquor-soaked sea shanties and gypsy ballads at their encore performance at Red and the Black. 9 p.m. $10. With Lady Ane Angel.

MOVIE: The D.C. Environmental Film Festival kicks off today with the world premiere of Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives: The Environmental Footprint of War, an hour-long documentary by Alice & Lincoln Day which has a title that leaves little need for further explanation as to its topic. 7 p.m. at the Carnegie Institution on P Street.

MUSIC: Jill Scott begins a series of four concerts this week at D.A.R. Constitution Hall (tonight, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday), with D.C.’s own Raheem DeVaughn opening. Tickets are sold out but Craigslist has some options. 8 p.m.

CLASSICAL: Superstar Chinese pianist Lang Lang is at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. The repertoire list includes Schubert, Bartók, Debussy, and Chopin, which Lang Lang will surely play with technical panache (and, the wags would add, nothing else). 8 p.m. A few tickets ($75 to $40) remain.

READING: Former U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland will appear at Politics and Prose to discuss his new book, A Billion Lives, which looks at his journeys to areas plagued by
war, famine and natural disasters and his prescription for ending global suffering. 7 p.m.

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