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MUSIC: D.C.’s own Title Tracks are at the Black Cat‘s Backstage tonight, opening for Brooklyn’s Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears. The Black Hollies, out of New Jersey, also play. $10, 8:30 p.m.

MOVIE: The Smithsonian Anacostia Museum is screening Midnight Ramble, a documentary that tells the story of Oscar Micheaux, one of the rare independent black filmmakers who was active prior to the 1940s. 7 p.m., free.

ART: Among tonight’s FotoweekDC events, we recommend the opening at the WPA curated by award-winning photojournalist Jim Hubbard (6 p.m.), a lecture by Sam Abell about his 30-year career for National Geographic and as an artist and teacher at the U.S. Navy Memorial (6:30 p.m.), and projections for NightGallery at Crystal City (5:30 to 10:30 p.m.) and Rosslyn (6 to 11 p.m.).

READING: Writer and former sex worker David Henry Sterry will be at the 5th and K Busboys and Poets tonight to share his and his wife’s experience of running a weekly writers’ workshop for sex workers. Sterry, author of Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex, will be joined by other contributors to the anthology, including young women participating in the first ever National Summit of Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth. Free, 6:30 p.m.