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COMEDY: Comedian Jim Gaffigan gets funny about his family in his new book Dad is Fat. Learn all about it when Gaffigan sits down with NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue (600 I Street NW) this Tuesday. 7 p.m. $30 (includes a copy of the book).

BOOKS: Get academic about your potty mouth with Melissa Mohr, who will be discussing her book, Holy Shit: A Brief History of Swearing, at Politics & Prose (5015 Connecticut Avenue NW). 7 p.m. Free.

HEIGHTS: The third of four public meetings to dicuss D.C. height restrictions takes place tonight at the National Capital Planning Commission (401 Ninth Street NW Suite 500). 6:30-8 p.m. Free.

MUSIC: Best Coast plays the 9:30 Club (815 V Street NW) tonight with Guards and Lovely Bad Things. 7 p.m. $20.

BASEBALL: The Nationals take on the New York Mets at Nationals Park this evening. 7:05 p.m.