Your guide to the fun stuff going on around the region this weekend, including supporting your favorite uninsured burlesque and variety performers at PASTIE-AID, raising a glass with DC Brau, slinging back all-you-can eat oysters at Hank’s, learning how to throw a pig roast at PS7’s, picking up Bluebrain’s newest experimental music project, or spending all Sunday watching Lord of the Rings. All that, and more, in our Weekend Picks.

Your guide to the fun stuff going on around the region this weekend, including a rockstar photographer, comedian Tim Meadows, the best of the National Cherry Blossom Festival (the parade, street culture festival, and kite festival), beer and art scavenger hunts, Nerd Nite, tons of movies, and so much more.