Friday

* Benjy Ferree, Meredith Bragg & The Terminals, and Greenland at the Black Cat. $10 at 9PM. [Black Cat]

* The Jeté Society's Dance Party at the Italian Embassy. [The Washington Ballet]

* Vanessa Redgrave, Peter O'Toole and Leslie Phillips in the subtly titled Venus at Landmark Bethesda. Don't miss this tale of old men filled with erotic longing. 7:20 & 9:35PM. [Landmark]

Saturday

* Revival & David Karsten Daniels at the Warehouse Next Door. $6 at 9:30PM. [WND]

* Richard Clarke (former National Security Council) has written a "techno-terror thriller" set in 2012 about a "Transhumanist movement that grows designer children." He reads from Breakpoint at Politics & Prose. Free at 6PM. [P&P]

* Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs DJs at the Rock & Roll Hotel. Free before 10PM and $10 after. [R&R Hotel]

Sunday

* Director Katharina Otto-Bernstein introduces Absolute Wilson at the National Gallery. Free at 5PM. [National Gallery]

* The Queers at the Rock & Roll Hotel. $12 at 8PM [R&R Hotel]

* The WP's Marc Fisher "describes the rock 'n' roll revolution as narrated by fast-talking DJs who played the hit songs that became the sound track for the postwar era." Don't worry if you miss this one, there are endless opportunities to catch Post writers narrating themselves to themselves. Free at 1PM. [P&P]