Photo of Cee-Lo Green of Gnarls Barkley by Kyle Gustafson

MUSIC: Gnarls Barkley, Hercules & Love Affair is sold out, but try Craig. At the 9:30 Club. 7 p.m.

READING: Thomas Frank, author of the best-seller What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, talks about The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule at Politics and Prose. 7 p.m.

MUSIC: It’s Black Cat bartender Chad America’s Birthday Rock Bash, a free show by Suns of Guns, John Barrett’s Bass Drum of Death, and The City Goats. 9 p.m.

MOVIE: Weather this hot makes us want to do things we loved when we were kids: eating ice cream cones, swimming all day long until our skin turns pruney, and seeing movies we’ve seen over and over just because we feel like it. Tonight the AFI Silver offers up E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, just for such purposes. Phone home at 7 p.m.