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MUSIC
Lez Zepplin

Lez Zepplin is quite possibly the best cover band name we've ever heard. And the idea of four babes blowin' out our ear drums with some of the most legendary classic rock known to man is definitely an idea we can get behind. Since 2004, this gender-bending New York City-based Led Zep cover band has been burning up clubs in the U.S. and Europe, and tonight's stop in Minneapolis is sure to be equally as wild. Heralded as "the most powerful all-female band in rock history" by Spin Magazine, there's no doubt these ladies bring the noise -- and there's nothing we like more than hot chicks rockin' out on a Monday night.

8:30 p.m., Fine Line Music Cafe, 318 1st Avenue N., Downtown Minneapolis, $15 adv, $17 door, 18+

BENEFIT EVENT
Howard Zinn: Voice of a People's History

Tonight's benefit for the Nonviolent Peace Force is a doozy! Social activist and historian Howard Zinn leads this evening of spirited performance with the much talked about "Voice of a People's History," the live companion to his book, A People's History of the United States. A rousing recollection, the performance will feature social luminaries Winona LaDuke, Lou Bellamy, Dipankar Mukherjee,  Isabell Monk O'Connor, and Tou Ger Xiong recreating some of the most inspired passages, speeches, and ideas to come out of American History. Also featured will be music and poetry by Jearlyn Steele, Prudence Johnson, and Bill Holm.

7 p.m., O'Shaugnessy Auditorium, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, $21-$125

Extra: Can't make it on Monday? Howard Zinn also makes an additional appearance at Macalester College on Tuesday with his lecture "The Holy Wars" examining the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II.

LECTURE
Thinking Out Loud: Sina Najafi

Leave it up to the purveyors of creative cool over at The Minneapolis College of Art and Design to bring you the musings of Cabinet Magazine editor-in-chief, Sina Najafi. Tonight's lecture by Najafi will give you insight into the respected art and culture magazine, which has won numerous awards for its imaginative approach to arts coverage. The talk will also touch on his career as a curator, scholar, editor, educator, and general creative dynamo. Najafi has taught at The Cooper Union, Yale University, and Rhode Island School of Design, and has degrees in comparative literature from Princeton University, Columbia University, and New York University -- so chances are he knows his stuff!

6:30 p.m., MCAD, Auditorium 150, 2501 Stevens Avenue, Minneapolis, Free