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TALK: Busboys and Poets’ 5th and K location (1025 5th Street NW) will host a discussion titled Syria! Crisis and Response tonight. The featured speakers (see complete list on their website) are engaged in a range of diplomatic and humanitarian roles in the Syrian crisis. 6 p.m. Free.

FILM: If you’re looking for something to take your mind off of impending war, AFI Silver Spring (8633 Colesville Road) is screening Suburbia, a 30th anniversary edition no less. Curators for the great-films-of-the-80s series, of which this is a part, have summed up this cinematic gem pretty well:
“The definitive punxploitation film of the 1980s. Fleeing poverty, prejudice, and broken homes, a bunch of disenfranchised punks take up residence in a condemned bungalow in the LA suburbs, forming their own de facto family called ‘The Rejected.'” 9:30 p.m. $12.

MUSIC: And for some sweet tunes, check out the Music Maker Relief Foundation benefit at the Hamilton (600 14th Street NW), which will feature Carolina Chocolate Drops and Ironing Board Sam. Door at 6:30 p.m., show at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $27.50-$104.