MUSIC: The excellent genre-bending rock outfit Dirty Projectors performs with Vancouver trio No Kids at 9 p.m. at the Black Cat‘s backstage. $10.

READING: Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson will be at Busboys and Poets on U Street to sign and discuss his new book, April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death and How It Changed America. 6 p.m.

SPORTS: Seats are still available for tonight’s second regular season home game at Nationals Park. The Nats face the Florida Marlins at 7:10 p.m. Tickets run $10 to $58. Buy them here.

MUSIC: Atmospheric pop rockers Ambulance LTD are at the Rock and Roll Hotel, with Bear Hands (seen recently at the same venue opening for Jukebox the Ghost) and Wild Light. Doors at 8 p.m., $12 in advance, $14 at the door.

HAPPY HOUR: Today is the 75th anniversary of the end of the prohibition of beer. Unfortunately the Capitol City Brewing company downtown doesn’t have any specials planned, but if you make your way out to the Rock Bottom Brewery in Arlington, they’ll have $2.50 pints and $.25 wings in honor of the occasion, until 9 p.m.

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