August Tintero Reading
Stages Repertory Theatre
7 p.m. Monday, free
The collaboration between Stages Repertory Theatre and Tintero Projects, an offshoot of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, is bringing not only the Latino/a Theatre New Playwright’s Festival: Sin Muros to Houston, they’re also launching a new monthly reading series, kicking off Monday with writer, editor and staple on the Houston poetry scene Deniz “dee!colonize” Lopez. Tintero Projects will host an hour-long open mike, reading and Q&A at Stages every second Monday of the month, with future guests Reyes Ramirez, Marlon MarleytheArtist Havikoro, Edyka Chilomé and Luis Galindo already scheduled.

Exposed book signing
Murder by the Book
6:30 p.m. Tuesday, free
A couple of weeks ago The Washington Post pointed out that – in their words – “Lisa Scottoline has written a gripping thriller about, essentially, health insurance.” In Exposed, Scottoline’s DiNunzio and Rosato return, with DiNunzio taking on a wrongful termination case for an old friend, Simon. Simon’s been fired, he believes because his company is tired of paying the premiums for his four-year-old daughter Rachel, who is in need of a bone marrow transplant. From there, conflict emerges between the two lawyers (Rosato’s got a conflict of interest pressuring her away from Simon’s case) and then Simon’s former boss is murdered, setting up “a demolition-derby doozy of an ending that will leave you shaken.”

Movies at Miller - Singin' in the Rain
Miller Outdoor Theater
8:30 p.m. Tuesday, free
“Come rain, come shine, come snow, come sleet, the show must go on,” exclaims Donald O'Connor’s Cosmo Brown right before he launches into “Make 'Em Laugh,” probably the second most famous sequence in the Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen-directed classic Singin’ in the Rain. The first, of course, is Kelly’s performance of the title song, two performances that contribute to making the 1952 film, set against the film industry’s transition from silent movies to talkies, arguably the greatest movie musical of all time. But, at the very least, Roger Ebert once wrote, “There is no movie musical more fun than Singin' in the Rain, and few that remain as fresh over the years.”

Books & Bylines: KKK and Race in Texas
4747 Southwest Freeway
7 p.m. Wednesday, free
Former AP reporter and current Houston Chronicle business columnist Chris Tomlinson made waves three years ago when he released Tomlinson Hill, a critical look at his own family’s slave-holding past through the histories of two families – one white (his) and one black (the descendants of those slaves, including NFL player LaDainian Tomlinson). Now Tomlinson is joining Patricia Bernstein, author of Ten Dollars to Hate, a look at the continuing legacy of the Ku Klux Klan on society, and activist Larry Payne to discuss race and race-related violence in this, the last of a series of events co-sponsored by Houston Public Libraries and the Chronicle.

The Ghoul
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Mason
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, $5.41
British noir lives in Gareth Tunley’s film, The Ghoul, which blurs the line between real and fake, fantasy and reality, when a cop investigating a double murder, played by Tom Meeten, goes undercover as a mental health patient to follow up on his only lead. But as he gets closer to the suspect’s therapist, he begins to doubt his own identity – is he actually a cop undercover, or do we have a Shutter Island situation on our hands? Empire says that though The Ghoul is “[p]owerful, disturbing and intense viewing, this isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea — but Tom Meeten is a likely breakout British character star and Gareth Tunley is an ambitious, obviously talented filmmaker.”