MUSIC: British trio, The Wombats, who SPIN declares to be "Echo & The Bunnymen for the internet age," play the Great American tonight in support of their sophomore album, This Modern Glitch. Also featuring guests The Static Jacks and The Neighbourhood. (8 p.m., Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell Street)

FILM: The San Francisco premiere of Gerhard Richter Painting, which is Corinna Belz's follow-up to her 2007 short Gerhard Richter’s Window, documents the creative process of one of the world’s greatest living painters, German artist Gerhard Richter, juxtaposed with intimate conversations (with his critics, his collaborators, and his American gallerist Marian Goodman) and rare archive material. (7 and 9 p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street)

CONVERSATION: Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof and his protégé Casey Parks will speak in conversation with Adam Hochschild as part of The Manovill Conversations. Kristof and Parks will talk about their recent reporting trip to Central Africa, a trip which Parks had won in a nationwide contest for the "most capable journalism student in America." (7 p.m., Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street)