Our music critics have already chosen the 37 best music shows this week, but now it’s our arts and culture critics’ turn to recommend the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from a live podcast taping of Yo, Is This Racist? to Cider Summit Seattle, and from a night of stand-up with Marc Maron to the closing of SAM’s Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement. See them all below, and find even more events (including recurring events we recommend) on our complete Things To Do calendar.
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WEDNESDAY
FOOD & DRINK
Brew A Fair! Dinner + Discussion
If you exist within the Venn diagram intersection of beer geeks and history buffs, you’ll love this dinner and discussion, in which the deep-dish-pizza purveyors at Windy City Pie will join forces with the Olympia Tumwater Foundation and the Chicago Brewseum to explain the role beer played in the world fairs of Chicago, Seattle, and Portland, and how beer shaped the cities as we know them today. Not only will you get to ogle artifacts from world fairs past, you’ll also be among “the first people west of the Mississippi” to try a “historically minded” collaboration brew from the Brewseum—and, of course, gobble lots of Windy City’s thick, Chicago-style slices with molten cheese and chewy-crisp burnished edges. JULIANNE BELL
