Shouting Match
“The Daily Beast: The Year in Politics”
Tina Brown’s news aggregator celebrates its first birthday with punditry from the likes of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and James Carville.

Books
Victor LaValle
LaValle’s new novel, Big Machine, follows a homeless African-American man who is mysteriously summoned to what turns out to be a cult.

Clubs
Felabration!
Voodoo Funk and Giant Step team up to honor Afrobeat provocateur supreme Fela Anikulapo Kuti, who would have turned 71 tomorrow.

Comedy
I Eat Pandas: We Classy
Two improvising singers and one pianist promise to do in 20 minutes “what it takes Andrew Lloyd Webber years to do: crap out a musical from start to finish.”

Music
Charles McPherson
Help the saxist celebrate his 70th birthday at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Club.

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Christopher Buckley is a writer who resists the label of “humorist,” but is, all the same, funny as hell. The well-spoken and self-deprecating Reaganaut scion has written many books (including Little Green Men and Supreme Courtship), and made waves in the 2008 election when he publicly supported then-Senator Obama and incurred the wrath of rabid right-wing “kooks” everywhere. Last night he was a bit (and just a bit) more somber than usual when he sat down with Tina Brown of The Daily Beast to talk about his latest book, Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir of dealing with the recent passing of his famous parents.

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