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MUSIC: Tickets are still available to see AC Newman (a.k.a. Carl Newman, of the New Pornographers) at the Black Cat. His new album, Get Guilty, offers much the same kind of complexly layered, shimmery indie pop that he writes for the Pornographers. The Broken West open. $15, 8 p.m.

MUSIC: You can also still get tickets for tonight’s 3rd straight 9:30 Club show from the Pogues. Extend your Paddy’s Day revelry for an extra night for $55 a pop. Lucero’s Ben Nichols opens. Doors at 7 p.m., the Pogues go on at 9:30.

FOOD & DRINK: If you still haven’t checked out one of the Corcoran’s month-long traveling martini competitions, the Artini event tonight is at Tabard Inn. Starting at 7 p.m., get 20 percent off the featured “artistic martini,” or artini, of the evening.

LECTURE: Love Gershwin musicals? The Smithsonian Resident Associate Program is hosting a lecture, including film clips, titled “A Salute to Ira and George Gershwin.” $40, 6:45 p.m at the Freer Gallery’s Meyer Auditorium.

MUSIC: D.C.-based ’90s post-hardcore band Frodus have reformed in order to travel down to Austin this week for SXSW and promote the re-release of their 1998 album, Conglomerate International. Tonight, they’ll be playing a warm-up show upstairs at Murky Coffee in Clarendon. Due to the small space, the RSVP list on Facebook is already filled, but you can try to get in anyway if you arrive on time (9 p.m.), or you can hang out in the downstairs cofffeeshop, which will be open late for the show, and listen through the stairwell. $5 suggested donation.