Sixth & I Historic Synagogue will host a talk about the book The Metropolitan Revolution, while Politics and Prose will try to figure out What Do Women Want?

MONDAY Murder, urban intrigue, and the promiscuous pen of Edgar Allan Poe are the ingredients of Daniel Stashower’s treatise on the evolution of the detective story, The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allen Poe, and the Invention of Murder. Chapters, 445 11th Street, NW., 1pm. TUESDAY Head on over to the Baird Auditorium at the National Museum of Natural History to hear Andrea Mitchell discuss Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and…

Last week we had the pleasure of seeing Senator John Kerry and President Bush go man on man, in the first presidential debate. In fact, Zap2It said that the debate scored nearly 63 million viewers, and that’s not counting the eight of you that watched it on PBS. Now, normally, we would cast a sideways glance at the vice presidential candidate debate, but the buzz is that this is one will actually be worth watching….