MONDAY: Peter Behrens will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his latest book, The Law of Dreams. Maybe Behrens can analyze our reoccurring dream where we keep getting lost while driving down some featureless freeway. Wait … His book is about a young man roaming the Irish countryside in 1847? Good thing we read that before we asked about the part where we’re naked. 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY: The one and only Dave Eggers will…

TUESDAY Tonight: a major opportunity for baseball buffs. Join Lawrence D. Hogan, author of the new National Geographic book Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball, for a lecture with Hall of Famer Monte Irvin and current Negro League Baseball Players Association President Stanley Glenn. At the Grosvenor Auditorium of the National Geographic Society, 1600 M Street, NW. For tickets and pricing, head here. For literary snooty-pants types, two highfalutin…

District music fans – looks like someone has a case of the mundays! Nothing will cheer you up like a few rounds on the local music scene, and we’ve got your back. Monday >> Who says DCist doesn’t cover hip-hop? Be sure to check out the rhymes of Cool Cee Brown (pictured) and his CD release party tonight at DC9. Joining him will be Jamila, Heron Gibran, Asheru, and W. Ellington Felton, and DJ 2…

>> Don’t forget to catch part of the US ASEAN Film, Video & Photography Festival before it ends on Saturday. The festival features fifteen nominated and selected films by talented independent filmmakers from Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. The accompanying photography exhibitions showcase works that capture the beauty of Southeast Asia. Films are shown in the National Geographic Society’s Gilbert H. Grosvenor Auditorium. You can buy tickets here. >> Another photography exhibit of interest opens…