Wonkette

* CQ Senior Editor, Observer columnist and husband to someone-or-other Chris Lehmann plays guitar in a band called The Charm Offensive. They play The Red & The Black tonight at 9:30PM. [The Charm Offensive]
* American Prospect editor Paul Starr “offers a robust view of the promise of liberalism to tackle some of the social and political problems of our nation” in Freedom’s Power. P&P, free at 7PM. [P&P]
* Tonight is the first of five panel discussions about intelligence and terror. Tonight’s panel is called “The Continuing Necessity for Intelligence: The Eternal Verities.” Former Acting CIA director John McLaughlin and fomer director of the CIA’s Counter Terrorism Center Robert Grenier discuss how the world has changed. At Meridian House, 6:30 PM. $200 for five nights. [Smithsonian]