Photo by MrStinkhead.FOOD & DRINK: Beginning tonight, Bar Pilar’s (1833 14th Street NW) Blue Crab Dinners are back, offering a crab feast for two that includes a mound of crabs and two sides (not all sides will be available each week, but include steamed corn on the cob, shrimp with mussels, cornbread, housemade slaw and potato salad). Reservations aren’t accepted, but call ahead at (202) 265-1751. $60 for two.
>> Celebrate D.C. Belgian Restaurant Week in style with a lavish seven-course Belgian Beer Dinner prepared by seven chefs from D.C. Belgian restaurants at the Belgian Ambassador’s Residence. Contact Belga Cafe at (202) 544-0100 for reservations. Cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. $175.
MUSIC: If you can’t hear “Love Is A Battlefield” without rocking out, make sure to catch Pat Benatar perform at the 9:30 Club (815 V Street NW) tonight with her producer and guitarist Neil Giraldo. 7 p.m. $45.
>> Lucinda Williams and Amos Lee take the stage at Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). 8 p.m. $25-42.
THEATER: The Capital Fringe Festival continues tonight with mortifying moments of childhood in Please Don’t Beat Me Up 9:45 p.m. at Wonderbox (629 New York Avenue NW). There are also quite a number of other choices tonight — consult our extensive coverage for some thoughts on what to see. Each show is $17, plus a one-time cost of $7 for a Fringe bracelet (required for admission to all performances).
TALK: Explore Lincoln assassination conspiracy theories with Michael Kauffman (author of American Brutus), Frank J. Williams (Chairman of The Lincoln Forum and retired Chief Justice of Rhode Island) and H. Donald Winkler (author of Stealing Secrets and Lincoln and Booth: More Light on the Conspiracy) at a discussion tonight inside Ford’s Theater (511 10th Street NW). 7 p.m. $25.