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TALK: Christian Siriano, the youngest designer to ever win Project Runway, will be at the Corcoran tonight at 7 p.m. to discuss his book, Fierce Style: How to Be Your Most Fabulous Self. $15.

MUSIC: San Francisco buzz band of the moment Girls are at the Black Cat tonight, along with Real Estate (from D.C.’s own Underwater Peoples record label) 8 p.m., $12.

Odds are good that a member of your favorite local band is also a part of the Spelling for Bees collective, who will squeeze together onto the tiny Velvet Lounge stage tonight. 7:30 p.m., 18+, $5.

READING: New Yorker technology and global health writer Michael Specter is at Politics and Prose tonight to read from and sign copies of his new book, Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives. 7 p.m.

CLASSICAL: The Zemlinsky Quartet will give a free concert tonight at the Library of Congress, in a program that includes Zemlinsky’s first string quartet. 8 p.m.