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MUSIC: Brooklyn’s Sean Bones hits DC9 tonight, in support of his new album, Rings. Fellow Brooklynites The Dig open. $10, 9 p.m.
MOVIE: The Washington Psychotronic Film Society screens Rudy Ray Moore’s 1975 blacksploitation classic Dolemite tonight at The Warehouse. $2 suggested donation, 8 p.m.
Or head to the Landmark E Street Cinemas for the DC Film Society‘s “Winter Trailer Night,” when they’ll screen all the hottest trailers for films that set to be released this holiday season. 7 p.m., tickets are $8.
DANCE: Every Tuesday, the Josephine Butler Parks Center (located across 15th Street from Malcolm X Park) hosts jazz performers and dance lessons, and newbies are welcome tonight for the Jam Cellar New Blood Night, when first-timers get in for free. Lessons start at 9 p.m.
NIGHTTIME SKY: Look up at the sky tonight to see if you can catch a glimpse of the debris from comet Tempel-Tuttle, or head to the the Public Observatory at the National Air and Space Museum, where it will be open for its first night hours starting at 5:30 p.m. (they’ll also have extra scopes out on the patio); in addition, at 8 p.m., astronaut John Grunsfeld, an astropysicist who was on the final mission to service the Hubble Telescope last May, will speak in the IMAX theater about the significance of the telescope’s work. The primary theater is sold out, but you can still get free tickets for overflow seating. Free.