To Do; Killer's Kiss or Typical Girls
Friday
The Album Leaf at the Rock and Roll Hotel, with Relay and The Lymbyc System. $12 at 9PM. If you have an Album Leaf tattoo, you get in free. [ Rock and Roll Hotel ]
Luxembourg'sBye Bye Blackbirdat AFI. "Charlie Chaplin's grandson James Thiérrée stars as a man who runs away to the circus in this ravishing, highly stylized tribute to the films of the 1930s. After falling for the luminous high-wire artist Izabella Miko, he decides to create a performance for the two of them in order to become her only partner. But tragedy finds him again." 5PM. [ AFI ]
Shooter Jennings at the 9: 30 Club. With Deadstring Brothers. $15 at 11PM. [ 9: 30 Club ]
Saturday
1955 Stanley Kubrick filmKiller's Kissincludes a "surreal climactic fight in a mannequin-filled warehouse." Trust us, it's great. National Gallery, Free at 4: 30PM. [ National Gallery ]
PostSecret creator Frank Warren talks about his second book,My Secret, at Politics & Prose at 3PM. [ P&P ]
Sunday
The Slits at the Black Cat. Sure, it's probably Ari Up and whoever she found on the way to the Black Cat, but we'll still be there. $12 at 8PM. [ Black Cat ]
The Black Keys at the 9: 30 Club (Monday, too). $20 at 9PM. [ 9: 30 Club ]
Electronic voting discussion at Politics & Prose with Aviel Rubin (Brave New Ballot) and Roy G. Saltman (The History and Politics of Voting Technology). 5PM. [ P&P ]