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FILM: See a Japanese film the Freer+ Sackler Gallery is calling a “must-see for connoisseurs of good trashy fun.” As part of the Freer + Sackler’s Asia Trash! Series, Versus is playing tonight at 7 p.m. for $4 at the Meyer Auditorium (1050 Independence Avenue SW). NB: Versus is not The Notebook. Ryuhei Kitamura’s gorefest features Yakuza gangsters, zombies, and an escaped convict who happens to be shackled to a severed hand.

FOOD: Check to see if your favorite local bakery is taking part in National Cheesecake Day and grab what could be a discounted piece of cheesecake for you to eat while you ease through the latter end of your week. If your local bakery doesn’t come through, The Cheesecake Factory above the Friendship Heights Metro (5345 Connecticut Ave NW) is by offering half-priced slices.

MUSIC: Tonight is your last night to rock out at Fort Reno for the year. Always free from 7:15-9:30 p.m. between Nebraska and Chesapeake Avenue; tonight’s finale includes John Davis’s Title Tracks, Casper Bangs and Grendel Babies.

READING: Patrick Radden Keefe, author of The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, will speak tonight at Politics and Prose at 7 p.m. Hear the riveting true-crime story of a notorious smuggler, or snakehead, Sister Ping, an elderly woman who ran a multi-million-dollar illegal operation until a ship carrying around 300 people ran aground off Queens in 1993.

MUSIC: DC9’s lineup tonight comes highly recommended from our music staff. DCist Unbuckled vets XYZ Affair play with fellow locals Poor but Sexy and Prabir and the Substitutes at 9 p.m. $10.