>> The Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance isn’t anywhere nearly as embarrassing as Riverdance and its ilk — think real jigs without the terrible music and costumes. Accompanied tonight on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage by traditional Irish musicians Billy McCominskey, Zan McLeon and Jim Eagan. Free, 6 p.m. >> Three Stars alums The Beanstalk Library are playing the Black Cat’s backstage, with John Wayne Hero. 9 p.m., $8. >> It’s a little…

>> Didn’t get a chance to attend one of the Eastern Market benefit happy hours last week? The E Street Austin Grill will donate 33 percent of its food sales after 5 p.m. tonight to the Capitol Hill Community Foundation’s “Eastern Market—Keep It Going” fund. 750 E Street, NW in The Lansburgh. >> !!! (chk, chk, chk) stop by the 9:30 Club in support of their new album Myth Takes. With Canada’s Holy Fuck. $18….

Clear your calendar because the gallery season opens with a bang this weekend. Ditch work early tomorrow, meet your cohorts for a quick drink (what, you don’t pre-game for gallery receptions?) and head to the closest art house at six sharp. Beer and wine abound at these showpiece sacella, so bring a date (or find one there!) and up your culture quotient a few notches. If you’ve never been to a gallery before, well, why…

Many years ago, the Kansas City Star’s community “Preview” section included a calendar item on the events of a forthcoming “National Clown Week.” The layout editor was looking for a nice image to anchor the text, and, looking through file photos found a wonderful shot of a clown that they thought was the perfect image. The calendar ran with that image, and no one thought anything of it until some astute readers took a closer…