Photo by caroline.angelo
ART: The new Long View Gallery opens ADS vs. AIDS, a show centered on original pieces of underground HIV/AIDS awareness ad campaigns collected from over the last 25 years. Opening reception is 6 to 8 p.m.
MOVIE: The Washington Psychotronic Film Society is screening For Your Height Only, an ’80s-era Pilippino James Bond spoof featuring a dwarf as Weng Weng, the heroic secret agent 00. Tonight at The Warehouse, 8 p.m., $2 suggested donation.
READING: In the mood to be lectured about your diet by a scrappy young novelist? As luck would have it, Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, is in town to discuss his new book, Eating Animals. Foer, a vegetarian and “sometimes vegan,” has set out to examine the “stories we tell ourselves about what we eat, considering notions of comfort, tradition, and culture.” $10, or two free entries with the purchase of his book at the door. Sixth and I Historic Synagogue, 7 p.m.
MUSIC: Alec Ounsworth, the man behind the hiccups in Clap Your Hand Say Yeah, plays two sets tonight at DC9. The first with Philadelphia supergroup Flashy Python, made up of members of Dr. Dog, Man Man and The Walkmen and the second as his namesake, supporting a recently released solo album Mo Beauty. $12, 9 p.m.
There are also still tickets to be had for the Pixies’s second night at DAR, this time with Danish band Mew, who we interviewed today. 8 p.m., $53.50.