MONDAY: Atlantic Monthly correspondent Robert D. Kaplan will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his latest book, Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts. According to Kaplan, journalists are too quick to report on the negative aspects of the military. Commence with bickering over the Iraq war … now. 7 p.m. TUESDAY: Blogger Diane Vadino will be at Olsson’s in Dupont Circle to read from her first novel, Smart Girls Like Me. 7 p.m. She’ll also…

>> The Rock and Roll Hotel welcomes the country’s first deaf hip-hop group, locals Helix Boyz. Prince Darius and Sho Roc bring an energetic following from nearby Gallaudet University and fun beats that, as you might imagine, you can feel thumping in your body through the speakers. Doors at 8 p.m., $10. >> Daniel Levitin will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his latest book This is Your Brain on Music in conversation…

MONDAY: Elliott Lewis will be at Busboys and Poets to discuss and sign copies of his book Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America. 6:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY: Daniel Levitin will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his latest book This is Your Brain on Music with Jeffrey Brown, senior correspondent from NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. The book examines the always-fun subject of neuroscience and how certain music is composed to get stuck in your head….

Major networks across the board will sacrifice a crucial night of the November sweeps period in the name of civic duty. Election Night coverage starts at 8 p.m. on most broadcast networks and presumably continues on through the wee hours of the morning. Here’s your handy-dandy guide to Election Night viewing. ABC News: Peter Jennings anchors Vote 2004 with the help of George Stephanopoulos and Terry Moran. Former Salon.com writer Jake Tapper will have regular…

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….

You won’t be able to escape it, so don’t even try. The first of the three Presidental debates airs tonight at 9pm on just about every network. While we bet that NBC is none too pleased about having to shuffle its Thursday night cash cow line up, they too will postpone an another helicoper-falls-out-of-the-sky episode of ER, to bring you Kerry vs. Bush. Or Bush vs. Kerry. Whichever you prefer, really. Of course, the debate…