Photo by Sexy FitsumFOOD & DRINK: Learn how to cook Clams Casino, mussels, twice-baked lobster tail, and Oysters Rockefeller at the Fully Loaded Shellfish cooking class tonight at Zola Wine & Kitchen (505 9th Street NW). 6:30 p.m., $80 per person.
WRITING: Rock & Roll Hotel (1353 H Street NE) presents its monthly Washington Writers’ Salon tonight as a way to bring like-minded creative types together to socialize. There will be no work-shopping or writing exercises, but there will be half-priced burgers and $3 drinks. 6-8 p.m., free admission.
BOOKS: Author Michael Kellogg pits big name philosophers (Kant, Nietzsche, Aristotle, Plato, Heidegger) head-to-head to reexamine ideas of knowledge, God, and virtue in his book, Three Questions We Never Stop Asking. Come hear him talk at Politics and Prose (5015 Connecticut Avenue NW), 7 p.m., free.
MUSIC: The Capstan Shafts, the “musical project of American lo-fi artist Dean Wells,” hits the stage at DC9 (1940 9th Street NW) tonight with Ravenous. $8. 9:00 p.m.
