This week, our arts critics have chosen the best events in every discipline—from a fresh hop fest to a Chvrches concert to a Norwegian film screening that includes hot pumpkin soup—for you. And, if 29 isn't enough for you, check out our complete Things To Do calendar, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

TUESDAY
FILM: SHRIEK: A Women of Horror Film & Discussion Series
Rosemary's Baby will be the topic of discussion during the second installment of this series, curated by Evan J. Peterson.

FILM: Soup and Cinema: Elling
This fall, the Nordic Heritage Museum will serve hot soup, fresh bread, coffee, and cookies while a screening of a Scandinavian film. October's event will feature pumpkin soup and the film that won the Best Nordic Film and Best Script at the Stockholm International Festival in 2001.

ART: Tad Hirsch
In this exhibition, Contentious Products, artist Tad Hirsch, who's an assistant professor of interaction design at UW, offers two major new works, A Well-Regulated Militia and Report Report (Seattle City Bang Bang). (Through Saturday)

THEATER: Waterfall
Waterfall is one of those musicals the 5th Ave expects to send to Broadway. (Through Sunday)

READINGS: Patrick Ness
Popular YA author Patrick Ness discusses and signs The Rest of Us Just Live Here.

MUSIC: Ornette Coleman Tribute
Jazz troupes Action Figure and Focus on Sanity pay tribute to free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman, as part of Earshot Jazz Festival.

WEDNESDAY
ART: Circle of Friends (from Brooklyn to Tacoma)
Artist Jeremy Mangan curated this group show featuring artists he met while living in Brooklyn in the early 2000s, and it will be on view at Tacoma's Fulcrum Gallery for the last day today.

READINGS: Beacon Bards Poetry Reading Series: Jay Nebel & Michelle Peñaloza
Spiders and sadness, followed by an open mic!

FESTIVALS: #41for2015 Fest
Nadamucho.com’s five-day extravaganza #41for2015 Fest serves as a possible harbinger of which local musical acts will be playing bigger festivals next year… and the year after. (Through Sunday)

POLITICS: Seattle CityClub's General Election Debate
The election is approaching! Prepare yourself with this free debate featuring Tim Burgess and Jonathan A. Grant (Position 8) and Bill Bradburd and M. Lorena González (Position 9).

MUSIC: CHVRCHES
Chvrches sound like the ending credits to a bittersweet indie-teen movie. This is music for growing up, and for feeling feelings while you dance.

FILM: Cat People/The Curse of the Cat People
Scarecrow screens this film about an American man who marries a Serbian woman, who, it seems, may sometimes transform into a cat. They'll follow it up with the sequel, which has a completely different story and no visible cat people.

THURSDAY
READINGS & TALKS: Ben Bernanke with Gary Locke
They give a talk titled "How U.S. Economic Stability Was Restored."

READINGS & TALKS: The Nation Live
The country's oldest weekly magazine celebrates its 150-year anniversary. Guest speakers include Katrina vanden Heuvel, Naomi Klein, and Sherman Alexie.

COMEDY: Dana Gould
This publication does not take lightly the prospect of recommending a trip to Kirkland, and yet, that's the only way you're going to get to see Dana Gould, one of the greatest living stand-up comics, live and in person. Go see him do live stand-up so you can know what it's like to be in the presence of actual, uncomfortable greatness.

THEATER: Listening Glass
One of the more psychologically thrilling things out there this Halloween season is a play called Listening Glass, the latest production from Seattle Immersive Theatre, in which the audience assumes the role of a group touring a police station, and you get to watch an interrogation. (Through Sun)

DANCE: SHORE in Dᶻidᶻelaľic̆/Dkhw'Duw'Absh (Seattle)
Native Alaskan contemporary artist Emily Johnson brings a multi-day dance performance to Seattle that incorporates movement, story, volunteerism, and feasting. (Through Saturday)

DANCE: Pacific Northwest Ballet: Becoming Something, Within Without
This showcase, part of The Frye's Genius exhibition and choreographed by Ezra Thompson, aims to demonstrate the process of creating a new dance.

CABARET: Cafe Nordo Presents Sauced
Sauced is Cafe Nordo's "depression-era, film-noir style cocktail show" about the inhabitants in a secret gin-joint in Pioneer Square in 1937. (Through Sun)

FILM: NT Live: Hamlet
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in Shakespeare's classic tragedy, which will be broadcast live from London in select theaters.

FOOD: Beers Made by Walking
Beers Made By Walking invites brewers and cider makers to go on nature hikes and make beer inspired by plants on the trail, and you can taste the results of that at this Naked City tapping event.

FOOD: Fresh Hop Fest
At The Pine Box's Fresh Hop Fest, you can sample over 40 fresh hop beers, including ones from local breweries Elysian, Holy Mountain, and Silver City.

FOOD: Guest Chef Night with Philip Mihalski
FareStart is a fantastic organization that empowers disadvantaged and homeless men and women by training them for work in the restaurant industry. This week FareStart welcomes Chef Philip Mihalski of Nell's Restaurant.

FOOD: Seattle's Best Damn Happy Hour
On the third Thursday of the month, the “Best Damn Happy Hour” (their title) has live DJs, mini golf, board games, giant Jenga (TIMBERRRRR!), and deals on cocktails and food at the many places inside the Armory.

FESTIVALS: NW Loopfest
NW Loopfest is a "celebration of loop-based artists," with musicians like Son Fish, the Electric Noodle, Cindy Sawprano, Troll Foot Frass, and others taking a two-day residency at the Rendezvous. (Through Friday)

QUEER: Sylvia O’Stayformore’s Night with Jaqueline
Local drag heroine Sylvia O'Stayformore is strutting out on stage "with" her good friend Jacqueline Susann, the late novelist responsible for Valley of the Dolls, as part as the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.