>> After bitching about extreme lack of tickets to Friday’s sold out Arcade Fire show, our friends at Washingtonian Magazine alerted us to their ticket giveaway. Only one seat is up for grabs, you didn’t want to bring your girlfriend anyway, right? Contest ends Thursday at noon. >> Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora Internet radio, hosts a meet up tonight at Be Bar. Open to listeners and non-listeners alike, guests can chat about the…

FRIDAY: >> The Sixpoints Music Festival, which highlights good local music played at good local venues, continues this weekend. Make sure to check out the schedule here and support your local music scene. >> Ross Douthat, blogger extraordinaire and reporter at The Atlantic Monthly, managed to pull a pretty nifty trick: he attended Harvard, reaped the rewards of the degree, and then got a hefty advance to write “Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the…

Red and white illuminated balloons will dot the streets of downtown D.C. this evening during D.C.’s Light The Night Walk to support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The casual 2+ mile walk through downtown steps off from Freedom Plaza at 7:30 p.m. with onsite registration opening at 6 p.m at the Woodrow Wilson Plaza at the Ronald Reagan Building. Walkers carry illuminated balloons to celebrate and commemorate lives touched by cancer. The D.C.-area events are…