Our music critics have already chosen the 44 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 the Local Sightings Film Festival to an evening with Eric Andre, and from Paula Vogel’s Tony Award–winning play Indecent to the Smoke Farm Symposium. See them all below, and find even more events on our complete Things To Do calendar.
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Caitlin Doughty: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
No one might know what happens when you die (actually, I do: nothing), but funeral director, mortician, and YouTube star Caitlin Doughty can certainly answer less ethereal questions about death. For instance: Do people poop when they die? And how do I get a Viking funeral? And, of course, will my cat eat my eyeballs out when I die alone on my kitchen floor after choking on a cupcake? Doughty’s new book answers these questions and many more, and like all her work, will help demystify the most inevitable and perhaps most mysterious part of being alive: dying. KATIE HERZOG
