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READING: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue tonight to talk about her book, Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters. 7 p.m. Admission is $23.95, which includes the book and 2 tickets to the book talk. Call co-sponsor Politics & Prose at 202-364-1919 to see if any tickets remain.

MUSIC: Hip-hop poet Bomani Armah will perform tracks from his new album, Radio Friendly, at Busboys and Poets‘ U Street location. $10, 9 p.m.

MUSIC: NYC rockers Ours perform with God or Julie at the Rock and Roll Hotel. Doors are at 8, show starts at 8:30. $15.

MOVIE: The AFI Silver Theater is hosting a free screening of Akira Kurosawa’s The Quiet Duel tonight at 7 p.m. The film tells the story of a young doctor who contracts syphilis from a patient during wartime surgery, and is being offered for free thanks to the National Institutes of Health Office of Science Education’s public program, Science in the Cinema. Following the screening, learn everything you ever wanted to know about the history of syphilis during a panel discussion with Robert Martensen, M.D., Ph.D., and David Cantor, Ph.D., both from Office of NIH History. Sounds like date night to us!

SPORTS: Plenty of cheap tickets still available to watch the Nats take on the Phillies at 7:10 p.m. tonight. Best bet: go down to the ticket booth right after work and snap up one of the $5 seats.