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DOCUMENTARY: Learn to shoot a film fest worthy documentary from your cell phone in this three part class. *Must be able to attend all three classes. Washington Post (1150 15th Street NW ) 6:30 – 8 p.m. Free

DATES: DCist Theater Editor Riley Croghan told you what it was like to go on a Date Lab date, and now Christina Breda Antoniades, Date Lab’s matchmaker-in-chief, will tell you what goes into the making of the column. Date Lab Live! will also feature a live “Dating Game.” Newseum-Walter and Leonore Annenberg Theater (555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW) 7 p.m. $25

FASHION: Simon Doonan, the Creative Ambassador at Large for Barneys New York, shares tales from the “kooky, cut-throat—but always fabulous—fashion world.” Sixth & I (600 I Street NW) 7 p.m. $16

Later this week…

TUESDAY: Tape quarters to your shoes and learn to tap dance in this Knowledge Commons D.C. class. Saint George’s Episcopal Church (160 U Street NW) 7-9 p.m. Free

WEDNESDAY: Emily Landau, author of Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans, will guide you through the history of Mardi Gras (and a tasting of King Cake). National Museum of African Art (950 Independence Avenue SW) 6:45-8:45 p.m. $30-42

THURSDAY: Three Day Rule, the L.A.-based matchmaking company that is now operating in D.C., is hosting a launch party, and they are in need of more male attendees. The girl tickets are sold out. The guy tickets are not…Mission Dupont (1606 20th Street NW) 6-10 p.m. Free