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FRIDAY

MOVIE: The National Portrait Gallery is showing free Western movies by John Ford this weekend. Tonight’s movie is Fort Apache, starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Shirley Temple, at 7 p.m. For more of our movie highlights, make sure to consult this week’s Popcorn & Candy column.

MUSIC: Former Three Star artist Wayna is performing with Tabi Bonney at Zanzibar. $TBA, 8 p.m.

Fans of New Jersey’s The Wrens have been taunted and teased throughout the years with well documented stretches of inactivity. The band’s been promising new material for some time and are in town to warm up for its 20th anniversary shows in Hoboken later this year. Poor But Sexy start off the festivities. $15, 9 p.m.

Japan’s raucous, insane geniuses, Melt Banana, are at the Rock and Roll Hotel, with The Deserts of Maine, Sugar Dunes and Abiku. $15, 9 p.m.

CLASSICAL: The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt will give a free concert with soprano Lorna Anderson and tenor Jamie MacDougall at the Library of Congress. 8 p.m.

FOOD & DRINK: Did you miss out on the Beaujolais Nouveau parties earlier this week? Well the Alliance Francaise is hosting their own Beaujolais Nouveau Wine & Cheese Party tonight, plus even more cheese: Jerry “The Piano Man” Roman will start the evening by leading some singalongs of standard French hits. Later, DJ Hervé will spin electronic mixes of house music and French covers. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., $25 for members, $35 for non-members.