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MUSIC: Get “Up Close and Personal” with Daryl Hall and John Oates tonight at the 9:30 Club. Tickets are $55, doors 7 p.m.

Or check out DJ Stylus at Tabaq’s weekly “Refuge” night, where you can expect to hear some of the underground’s most cutting edge hip-hop music. Free, 9 p.m.

THEATER: Tonight and tomorrow, the DCJCC is hosting pay-what-you-can preview performances of the Neil Simon classic Lost in Yonkers . The play starts at 7:30, and pay-what-you-can tickets can only be obtained at the box office, which opens an hour before the performance.

FILM & LECTURE: At the National Air and Space Museum, you’re in for a wild ride tonight with a free screening of Over Africa! Low and Slow with the Kenya Wildlife Service, followed by a lecture with the film’s stars, U.S. Aerobatic Champion Patty Wagstaff and former CNN science reporter Miles O’Brien. The short film captures O’Brien’s experience as he sits in the cockpit of a small single-engine airplane with Wagstaff while the Kenya Wildlife Service teach him a lesson in what it’s like to be an airborne game warden. The 30-minute film starts at 7:30 p.m. followed by the lecture directly after. Both are free, but reserve your seat ahead of time.

READING: Current U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan will be at the Library of Congress tonight to launch a community college-based poetry writing contest called “Poetry for the Mind’s Joy.” Ryan will read some of her own work at the kick-off event, which also marks the start of the literary season at the LoC. 7 p.m. in the Coolidge Auditorium. Free.