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FRIDAY
DRIVE-IN MOVIE: Union Market’s (1309 5th Street NE) Drive-In movie has been canceled tonight due to rain. celebrates National Cookbook Launch Day tonight with a screening of Julie and Julia. 8 p.m. Free. — Elisabeth Grant
JAZZ: Mickey Bass is best known for playing his namesake instrument with drumming legend Art Blakey for much of the ’60s into the early ’70s. He is also an accomplished composer and arranger who has worked with a number of luminaries in that capacity. Bass will lead his Manhattan Burn Unit on Friday and Saturday at Bohemian Caverns. 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. sets. Tickets $20 online/$25 at the door. — Sriram Gopal
FILM: Tonight marks the start of the 4th Annual Reel Independent Film Extravaganza at West End Cinemas (2301 M Street NW). Dr. Hawa Abdi, Somalia’s first female gynecologist, will speak and the documentary The New Public will screen. 7 p.m. Tickets are $10.34 for adults and can be purchased here. Through October 17.
COMEDY: Tonight’s main Bentzen Ball show is sold out (though there are still tickets for two other showcases), but there’s still comedy to be seen in the city. Wonderland Ballroom (1101 Kenyon Street NW) will host The Furlough Show, headlined by Tyler Richardson, which is free for government employees. Everyone else pays $5. Expect shutdown jokes. 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY
FOOD & DRINK: Taste of D.C. brings over 70 restaurants, over 50 beers and 50 wines, and live entertainment to Pennsylvania Avenue between 9th and 14th Streets NW this Saturday and Sunday. It will also host the Ben’s Chili Bowl World Chili Eating contest (Saturday) and a BGR Burger Eating Contest (Sunday). Noon-7 p.m. Tickets: $10 general admission, $5 children between 6 and 12 (children 5 and under are free). — Elisabeth Grant
ARTY PARTY: Artisphere (1101 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Va.) will celebrate its third birthday this weekend with a Night of 1,000 Andys dance party featuring MarchFourth Marching Band, Javelin, Ingelside Collective (members of Fugazi and Thievery Corporation), Baby Alcatraz, Ian Svenonius, and Andrew Bucket. Tickets $15 in advance, $18 day off. 8 p.m.
BIKES AND BEER: Bardo’s bi-monthly brewery bike tour continues, starting at the Takoma Metro station to 3 Stars Brewing, “then down the Metropolitan Branch Trail to New Columbia distillery before heading to the beer garden at Bardo for pints, Oktoberfest beers, cornhole and Willie’s Po Boy food truck.” 1-4 p.m. Free.
SUNDAY
COMEDY:The Bentzen Ball comedy festival concludes on Sunday with Ira Glass (of NPR’s This American Life) and friends at the Lincoln Theatre (1215 U Street NW). 7 p.m. Tickets: $30. — Elisabeth Grant
RUN: Exercise for a good cause at the Boo! Run for Life “organized by friends and family of Dean R. O’Neill to benefit the Dean R. O’Neill Renal Cell Cancer Research Fund at the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. All proceeds from the race support a renal cell cancer research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.” Runners start and finish in front of the National Building Museum. 7:30 a.m. Register here.
FAIR: Washington Performing Arts Center will host its Fall Arts Fair at THEARC (1901 Mississippi Avenue SE) beginning at 1 p.m. “Spend the afternoon immersed in D.C.’s rich artistic community. Featuring everything from face painting to food trucks to an instrument petting zoo.” Free.
MUSIC:After having to start from scratch after a flood trashed the group’s practice space in Oregon back in 2009, The Helio Sequence put out its fifth full length record Negotiations last fall with its widescreen aspirations and sweeping rock movements. Fellow Oregonian’s Menomena open the show at the Black Cat, in what could be considered a double headliner. The Portland group is on the road pushing last year’s underrated Moms. $15-17, 8 p.m. — Andy Hess
