FOOD—Alton Brown’s good-natured food knowledge is a gift to unskilled cooks everywhere, and perhaps the only thing keeping those of us with abysmal veggie-chopping skills from having bloody stumps where our fingers used to be. Tonight’s appearance is a muddling of gently goofy food-related commentary, stand-up, and live music. MEGAN BURBANK
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 7:30 pm, $35-110 (good luck finding tickets!), all ages
FILM—Do you like your horror movies stuffed with wack-a-doodle and crazy-gory death scenes? Well, say hello to Pieces, a chainsaw serial-killing grindhouse flick from 1982. This thing’s bizarro, hilarious, and bloody insane to the very end with a cringing affront to the eyes and mind… in the most entertaining of ways. In other words, you have to see it to believe it. COURTNEY FERGUSON
Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy, 7:30 pm, $8