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MUSIC: Adorable indie rock en Español songstress Julieta Venegas plays a free show at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage at 6 p.m. Here’s hoping she plays that sweet “Casa Abandonada” track from the 2002 KCRW Sounds Eclectic Too compilation.

READING: George “Mr. D.C.” Pelecanos, along with contributors Rhozier “Roach” Brown and James Grady, will gather at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss the latest volume of D.C. Noir, D.C. Noir 2: The Classics — a collection of stories from Ed Jones to Langston Hughes. 6 p.m.

MUSIC: 1990s alterna-rock icon Juliana Hatfield is at Iota in Clarendon, with locals Spoils of NW opening up. $15, 8:30 p.m.

MUSIC: Locals Brandon Butler and the Moderate are at the Black Cat, $8, 9 p.m.

MUSIC: Former Soul Coughing frontman Mike Doughty does his solo thing at the Birchmere tonight, with The Question Jar Show warming up the crowd. 7:30 p.m, $22.50.