MUSIC: Portland and Washington, D.C. based quartet of allstar musicians, Wild Flag, including Carrie Brownstein (most recently of Portlandia fame) and fellow former Sleater-Kinney bandmate Janet Weiss, headline the Fillmore tonight, along with guests EMA. (8 p.m., The Fillmore, 1805 Geary Boulevard)

SCIENCE: The monthly Nerd Nite is still going strong with installment #23: Insect eating, desirous cannabis, and sexual selection. (7:30 p.m., Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell Street)

FILM: Castro Theatre presents a Michelangelo Antonioni double feature screening of Red Desert, his "spellbinding first color film is a provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age," and Zabriskie Pointe, an "impressionistic examination of hippie rebellion against the Establishment," filmed in the U.S. (7 p.m., Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street)