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MUSIC: Up and comers White Rabbits are at the Rock and Roll Hotel, with fellow Brooklynites The Subjects opening. Doors at 8 p.m. $12/14.

HAPPY HOUR: Vegetate and The Root are hosting a Vegan Soul Happy Hour tonight, featuring samplings from Chef Bryant Terry, author of Vegan Soul Kitchen. 6 to 8 p.m. $15 gets you in the door for the tasting, with partial proceeds of book and drink sales going to the Capital Area Food Bank.

MOVIE: The Washington Psychotronic Film Society screening tonight looks promising: 1964’s Evil Brain from Outer Space, by Japanese director Koreyoshi Akasaka. “Superhero Starman must rescue Earth from the menace of the evil brain while battling armies of monsters the brain sends against him.” Mmmhmm. 8 p.m., $2 suggested donation, at the Warehouse.

READING: Foreign policy and national security wonks will want to head to Politics and Prose tonight for a reading by Nicholas Schmidle, who spent a couple years reporting in Pakistan as a New America Foundation fellow before writing his new book, To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan. 7 p.m.