Photo by John Sonderman

COSTUMES: Halloween is quickly approaching. While many host pumpkin carving nights, DC Creators is hosting a costume making night. They’ll bring the sewing machine and hot glue gun; you bring costume materials. Bossa Lounge, 2nd floor (2463 18th Street NW) 8:30-11:30 p.m. $5.50

SECRETS: Learn the “Secret Life of Food,” as Susan Delbert, exeutive chef at the National Press Club, and Shirley O. Corriher, a James Beard Award-winning cookbook author, explain the science behind cooking. National Press Club (529 14th Street NW) 6 p.m. $15

VEGANS: Ayinde` Howell and Zoe` Eisenberg, authors of The Lusty Vegan: A Cookbook and Relationship Manifesto for Vegans and Those Who Love Them, will share tips for how vegans can satisfy their meat loving lovers, and how omnivores can impress their plant loving lovers. The evening includes a four-course vegan meal. Eatonville (2121 14th Street NW) 6:30-9:30 p.m. $57.60

WINE PAIRINGS: You already know to pair white wines with fish and red wines with beef, but how do pairings change based on cooking methods, dominant and secondary flavors, and food texture? Find out when DCanter Wine Boutique hosts “Accounting for Taste: Pairing Food Wine with Food.” DCanter (545 8th Street SE) 7-8:30 p.m. $40