-- Cinewhores Present Midnight Cowboy (1970): Although tame by today's smut-filled standards -- oh, you heard right! -- Midnight Cowboy has the distinction of being the only X-rated film to have ever snagged the Best Picture at the Academy Awards. The film -- about the friendship between Joe, a rookie New York City hustler, and Ratso, a terminally-ill New Yorker -- is prefaced by a reading by queer author Kirk Read. (Oh, and Sylvia Miles is simply fucking awesome in Midnight Cowboy.) Doors open at 6:30 p.m. at ATA; $5-$20 (all donations go to benefiting the St. James Infirmary.)

-- Punk Rock Sideshow: Hell Caminos, Shootin' Lucy: The SF Bay Guardian done put a little asterisk-of-recommenadation by these guys in their music listings, so...we're recommending them. Even though we haven't a clue as to who in the hell they are! (Although we do know and love the weekly "Punk Rock Sideshow") The Hell Caminos, it seems, are of the "psychobilly, rockabilly, and punk" influence. And Shootin' Lucy? Are of the rock, psychobilly, and prunk persuasion as well. Ta-da. Music starts at 9:30 p.m. at Hemlock Tavern; $5.

-- Ward Churchill: Churchill gives a lecture entitled, "COINTELPRO Lives: Reflections on Government Repression Then & Now," which, according to one Hiya Swanhuyser, "focuses on covert government surveillance," going on to say that "COINTELPRO, an infamously invasive and politically motivated government surveillance project of the mid-20th century, may be officially over, but you know what happens to those who refuse to learn from history." Eeps! Churchill speaketh tonight, along with former Black Panther Richard Brown, at 7 p.m. at New College; $5-$10.