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FRIDAY:

SHOPPING: Don’t forget to stop by the Warehouse Theater tonight for its big “Free for All” giveaway of tons of old furniture, building materials and stage props. 5 p.m., enter through The Passenger.

DJ: If you aren’t headed down to Miami for the Winter Music Conference next week, you can get a taste of what it might be like tonight. Chicago native Ron Trent is a legendary DJ and producer who’ll be spinning at the Warehouse Loft (411 New York Avenue NE) with Chris Burns. $10, 10 p.m.

MUSIC: Atlanta’s Black Lips, known for their excellent “flower punk” music, their destructive onstage antics, and their bar brawls with other bands, are back at the Black Cat tonight. With Nebraska’s Box Elders and (relatively) locals The Vermillions. 9 p.m., $15.

Masters of seemingly disparate disciplines come together tonight at the Music Center at Strathmore, as Latin jazz master Paquito D’Rivera, the inventive Turtle Island String Quartet, and the Luna Negra Dance Theater team up for a program titled Danzón. Tickets to the 8 p.m. show are $27 to $67.

MOVIE: To go along with their recently-opened “In the Realm of the Buddha” exhibit, the Freer Gallery will also be showing a number of Buddhist-themed films in the coming weeks, starting with Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint, a Tibetan film about one of the most well-known of Tibetan Buddhist yogis, Milarepa. The film was directed by Neten Chokling, himself a Buddhist lama, and an actor in one of the best known Tibetan films, 1999’s The Cup. Free, 7 p.m.