Party at Cairo: Tonight, the multidisciplinary hive of indie arts and crafts is having a thing, with art by nine artists, a performance by the Awesome Witch of Rad and a slideshow by a guy named Doug Newman. Thanks, Doug!

Valerie Plame: Wait... who was that again? Many hundred of thousands of news cycles ago, Plame was the CIA operative that got outed in 2003. Now, believe it or not, she's become a spy novelist and is reading at Town Hall tonight.

Free Jazz in the Key of Noir: Or I guess free jazz is never in the key of anything? The Wally Shoup Quartet hits Vito's tonight.

Cognac Tasting: Taste it tonight.

Thrash Revivalists Power Trip: Plan to pummel you unpolitely at El Corazon, in support of Eyehategod.

All Hallow's Eve's Eve's Eve: Celebrate at the Lo-Fi with the pitch-black experimental doom of Caligula Cartel and Witches Titties.

Bob Moses' Erotic-City House Tunes: Are all yours at Barboza.