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MOVIE/MUSIC:The 9:30 Club is hosting its own Lebowski Fest event tonight, with a screening the film itself plus a live performance from the Black Diamond Heavies. $20, doors 6 p.m. The Fest continues Tuesday night with a bowling party at Strike Bethesda.

READING: Radical environmental activist Mike Roselle and journalist Josh Mahan will appear tonight at the 14th Street Busboys and Poets. Their book, Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action, is a collection of Roselle’s tales in the field, including how he “succeeded in stopping a lumber project by spiking trees, struggled with death threats and the car bombing of fellow activist Judi Bari, endured countless days in jail, infiltrated the Nevada Test Site to delay nuclear bomb detonation, helped put a gas mask on Mount Rushmore’s George Washington, and aided actor Woody Harrelson in draping a banner up on the Golden Gate Bridge.” Sponsored by Fall for the Book. Free, 6:30 p.m.

THEATER: Head to the GALA Hispanic Theatre tonight for a free performance of Dying for Respect, a compilation of student writing about street violence from the Young Playwrights’ Theater. Reception 6:15 p.m., performance 7 p.m.

MUSIC: The women of Atlanta’s The Coathangers are at the Black Cat‘s backstage tonight, who will no doubt be bringing the catchy garage rock to the house. Thee Lexington Arrows and Foul Swoops also play. $10, 8:30 p.m.

PERFORMANCE: The National Theatre kicks off its annual fall season of Monday Night at the National, which features free performances every Monday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Helen Hayes Gallery. Tonight’s performance features the Marine String Quartet.