DISCUSSION: Noam Chomsky will be taking questions on US foreign policy tonight, following a screening of Harold Pinter's 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. Get your questions ready, smartypants. You can watch the video of Pinter's speech here, too.

6pm // Columbia University, Miller Theater [Broadway @ 116th St] // $5

THEATER: Isabella Rossellini with be playing Lotte Lenya in a one-night only performance at the New-York Historical Society called Kurt and Lenya: Two Great Artists in Their Own Words. "From 1924 to 1950, letters flowed between the brilliant émigrés, Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya." Scott Alan Evans directs a cast of singers in excerpts from their intimate writings, along with songs from Weill's Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark, One Touch of Venus, Love Life, and Lost in the Stars. - John Del Signore

7pm // New York Historical Society [170 Central Park West] // Call 212-873-3400, Ext. 305 for tickets, which cost $30-$45

READING: Dave Eggers wife, and author herself - Vendela Vida, will be reading from her latest book "Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name" tonight. With a combo of "high-camp comedy and lyrical seriousness", it's getting compared to films like "The Royal Tenenbaums" and "Little Miss Sunshine".

7pm // Barnes and Noble [675 Sixth Ave] // Free

MUSIC: If you missed Cat Power at MoMA a few days ago, you can still catch her at Hiro tonight. As of this moment, tickets are STILL ON SALE, and we suggest you pick one up and go. She puts on an amazing show, and Hiro Ballroom is a nice atmosphere to hear this sort of music in (even if it is in the dreaded Meatpacking District).

7pm // Hiro Ballroom [363 West 16th St] // $25