Photo by Kevin H.

MUSIC: Local collective Spelling for Bees is back at The Velvet Lounge tonight. $5, 7:30 p.m.

Or for an earlier performance, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium stage tonight hosts drummer François Ladrezo, a Guadeloupean musician and activist. Ladrezo’s sound has mixed influences, most notably in Gwoka Music. Free, 6 p.m.

MOVIE: Friends of Southeast Library are hosting a new free monthly film series featuring movies about Washington. Tonight’s selection is Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; the series continues on the first Tuesday of every month, which is always free at 6:30 p.m. at the Southeast Library.

Or check out another night of drinks and movies at the Black Cat: $5 wine coolers accompany a double feature of rebellious chick flicks: The Legend of Billie Jean and Little Darlings. Free, 8:30 p.m.

READING: Politics and Prose finally has author events on the calendar again after a holiday-induced lull. Tonight they host the Malcolm Gladwell-equse Dan Pink, author of Drive, which examines motivation as the product of the drives to direct our lives. Free, 7 p.m.