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Friday-Saturday at 9 p.m. Warehouse Theater, 1021 Seventh St. NW. $6. 202-783-3933.

5. 3-on-3 Charity Basketball Tournament

[sports] If you can control your urge to dunk, register a team of three to five players by Wednesday to compete in six or seven 10-minute games during the round-robin tourney. If, however, your basketball skills are best left to sideline coaching and ruminating, show your support for the teams and the cause: The Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund has awarded about $2.5 million to D.C. public school students since it was founded in 1996. Bonus: There's entertainment, food and celebrity sightings.

Saturday, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m. On Pennsylvania Avenue NW, from Third to Sixth streets. Free to watch, $80 per team. 202-289-6459.

-- Akeya Dickson

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[Concerts]

ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI-- Today at 7:30 p.m. The indie-pop collective -- which hails from Australia, not Finland -- creates playful, twee tunes with an eye-popping variety of instruments. With Santogold and Black Moth Super Rainbow. 9:30 club, 815 V St. NW. $16. 202-265-0930.

ELECTRELANE-- Today at 8 p.m. The English act's sophisticated rock mixes Krautrock aesthetic, intricate composition, hypnotic rhythms and a melodic flair. With Tender Forever and the Shondes. Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. $13. 202-667-7960.

MORNINGBELL-- Today at 9 p.m. It takes a special kind of band to turn nostalgia for the choose-your-own-

adventure books of the '80s into a skip-around-tracks concept album, but this Florida psychedelic-rock band has done just that. How might that translate onstage? Who knows? But the band's Web site boasts a $100 light show. Galaxy Hut, 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. $5. 703-525-8646.

EXIT CLOV-- Monday at 8:30 p.m. The local dream-pop favorites seem most at home on Iota's intimate stage. Iota Club & Cafe, 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. $10. 703-522-8340.

AVISHAI COHEN-- Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. The Israeli bass guitarist combines Middle Eastern and Israeli music with electric and acoustic jazz. Inter-American Development Bank, Cultural Center, 1300 New York Ave. NW. Free. 202-623-3558.