MUSIC: The hot ticket tonight is Extra Golden from Nairobi, DC. Hear the intercontinental goodness at Comet Ping Pong for $12. Doors at 9 p.m.

MUSIC: If Extra Golden feels a little too good for a rainy day like this one, the laptop hijinks of The Show Is the Rainbow will satisfy a craving for something darker, cynical, and a little bit sexy. With Beep Beep (of Saddle Creek) and Achtung Panda at the Velvet Lounge. Show’s at 9 p.m., $8.

READING: Thomas Glave will appear at Busboys & Poets (14th & V Streets NW) to read from The Torturer’s Wife, a collection of short stories that examine “the horrors of dictatorships, war, anti-gay violence, the weight of traumatized memory, secret fetishes, erotic longing, desire and intimacy.” So that’s more rainy day yet.

ART: Drop by Hamiltonian Gallery at 7 p.m. to see art lawyer John D. Mason speak to the unique concerns of intellectual property within the visual arts. Tell him Richard Prince sent you.

INTERNET: Listen to Mayor Adrian Fenty dodge legitimate questions from the press from the comfort of your own home! Click here, gets good at 3:25.

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