Where there's smoke...

Following a three-day intensive performance workshop at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Lina Koutrakos (above) and Rick Jensen will smolder together onstage. Koutrakos sings modern blues that make you swear you’ve been transported to a simpler musical time, and The Advocate once wrote that Jensen's music "could make seltzer taste like champagne." 8 p.m. $20; $17 Boston Association of Cabaret Artists members. Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St., Cambridge. 617-547-6789. ccae.org

Docent tour at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Explore "A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings From the Chu-sing Li Collection, 1950-2000" during this lunchtime docent tour at Harvard University's Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The exhibit includes 51 works - many of them new to the United States - that showcase the evolution of paintings in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and abroad. 12:15-12:45 p.m. Free with admission. $9; $7, seniors; $6, students. Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge. 617-495-9400. artmuseums.harvard.edu

"Elvis" at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. Help put your memories of a chaotic holiday season to bed with Steve Connolly's "Spirit of the King" show, an annual birthday tribute to the king of rock 'n' roll. Connolly's mini-Vegas revue is backed by a seven-piece band and the Vegas Singers. With more than 3,000 performances as Elvis, Connolly's as comfortable curled up with a guitar for a quiet version of "Blue Moon of Kentucky" as he is in full hunka-hunka-burning-love-style production numbers. And according to Connolly, Bill Clinton gave the show a presidential two thumbs up after Connolly performed for Clinton's stepfather. Now I ask you: How could you possibly pass on a performer involved in a what-happens-in-Vegas-stays-in-Vegas-moment involving the city of sin, Elvis, and Bill Clinton? 8 p.m. $45-$55. Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College, 219 Tremont St., Boston. 800-233-3123. spiritoftheking.com

BU hockey hosts the University of Vermont. If you haven't quite gotten around to doing anything about your Jan. 1 resolution to hit the gym regularly, live a vicariously fit life by cheering on Jack Parker's Boston University Terriers as they take the ice against Vermont at BU's Agganis Arena. 7 p.m. $18-$26. Agganis Arena, 925 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. 617-931-2000. ticketmaster.com

Discussion and signing at the Harvard Coop. Michael Shermer discusses his book, "Mind of the Market; Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales From Evolutionary Economics." Forget budgets and economic policy. Shermer's book takes a look at how evolution has shaped modern economics; apparently we make irrational business decisions - hanging onto losing stocks, snapping up gizmos we don't need, and blind brand loyalty - because we're wired that way. The book has no end of conversation starters, from capitalism as modern Darwinism to neuroeconomics that show that - biochemically, at least - a human brain is shockingly similar during smooth business deals and sex. How's that for water cooler chat? 7 p.m. Free. Harvard Coop, Third Floor, 1400 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. 617-499-2000. thecoop.com

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