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FOOD & DRINK: Join New Belgium and Allagash Brewing at Meridian Pint (3400 11th Street NW) tonight for A Journey from Oak to Package, a one hour event where you’ll learn about blending, barrel-aging, and fruited beers and enjoy ten 2 ounce beer samples. Tickets: 7 p.m. $20.

>> Station 4 (1101 4th Street SW) is offering new Monday night beer dinners, beginning tonight, pairing three-course meals with some mainstream beers. Tonight’s kickoff dinner presents a starter course paired with Peroni, a choice of any of the entrees paired with Batch 19 or Pilsner Urquell, finished off with a dessert paired with Blue Moon. While the beers listed may not satisfy the beer aficionados out there, at $30 for 3 beers and 3 courses, this dinner is definitely a deal worth considering. Call (202) 488-0987 for reservations. $30 plus tax and tip.

MUSIC: The Joy Formidable plays the 9:30 Club (815 V Street NW) with A Place to Bury Strangers and Exitmusic. 7:00 p.m. $25.

>> The Luminescent Orchestrii, playing Balkan and Gypsy music, take the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (2700 F Street NW) tonight as part of The Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna series. 6:00 p.m. Free.

Coming up this week…

TUESDAY: Learn how to outsmart yourself at DC Science Cafe’s evening on “Know Thyself: Outwitting Your Brain’s Hard-Wired Ways” with science writer Wray Herbert at Busboys and Poets’ 5th & K location (1025 5th Street NW) this Tuesday. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

WEDNESDAY: Van Halen and Kool & the Gang play the Verizon Center (601 F Street NW) Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $29.50-$149.50.

THURSDAY: Wayne Brady, of Whose Line is it Anyway?, “brings to life legendary vocalists Sammy Davis Jr. and Sam Cooke” with the NSO Pops at the Kennedy Center (2700 F Street NW). 7:00 p.m. $20-$85.

FRIDAY: Take part in a Social Learning Summit this Friday and Saturday, put on by American University’s Social Media Club, to hear from a variety of speakers on the latest trends in social media and technology. 7:30 p.m. Tickets $10.

SATURDAY: Let’s go fly a kite at the National Cherry Blossom Kite Festival this Saturday. 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Free.