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MUSIC: A Hawk & A Hacksaw, featuring former Neutral Milk Hotel drummer Jeremy Barnes, brings their folk-inspired music to the Red Palace (1212 H Street NE) stage. 8:30 p.m. $12.

>> Two D.C. bands, Left on Vermont and The Public Good, perform at the Black Cat Backstage (1811 14th Street NW). 8 p.m. $8.

BEER: Jack Rose (2007 18th Street NW) presents “Night of the Living Gourd” tonight, featuring 15 pumpkin beers including “The Fear” by Flying Dog, which will be served in a pumpkin firkin. 5 p.m., firkin tapping at 7 p.m.

FOOD & DRINK: The Museum of the American Cocktail presents The Punch Bowl, an evening with author and bartender Dan Searing at The Passenger (1021 7th Street NW). The event will feature punch recipes, the history of punch, and a tasting of four punches, along with appetizers. (If you can’t make it, check out our interview with Searing from June.) 6:30-8:00 p.m. $45 in advance, $50 at the door.

MOVIE: The National Museum of the American Indian (4th Street and Independence Avenue SW) presents a series of short (7-15 minute) documentaries on climate change at the Conversations with the Earth: Indigenous Film Screening event. 7-9 p.m. Free.

TALK: Yesterday we featured Joan Nathan, cookbook author and host of PBS’s Jewish Cooking in America, in a post where she supplied us with a plum tart recipe. Tonight, Nathan comes to National Geographic Live! (1600 M Street NW) to discuss “Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France.” Royal Wine Corp. will sponsor a reception after the talk. 7 p.m. $48.

POETRY: A panel of authors and poets will gather at the Library of Congress (Mumford Room, Sixth Floor James Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue SE) tonight to discuss poetry traditions in the U.S. and Mexico, and where they’ve sometimes crossed paths. 7 p.m. Free.