Enclosed: A Festival of Bloody Marys

FROM PERKS The Caviar Flights You Want at Parties What you’ve got here: —Caviar. Domestic and imported. —Crème fraîche. —Blinis. —Mother-of-pearl spoons. What you’ll do with what you’ve got there: —Eat everything while conversing with attractive strangers about how delicious caviar is. Possibly other things.

BIRD’S THE WORD Another Damn Good Reason to Go to Shinola Shinola. Great place filled with great things. Great things that now suddenly include a handsome selection of wares from Allbirds. Yes, the SF-based purveyor of lightweight wool shoes is popping up there this month, so you should probably go check it out. Bring your feet.

DAS BOOT Boots of Beer. Brats. It’s Time. Schroeder’s is always a fine option for boots of beer and brats. Especially this Friday, when they kick off their Oktoberfest celebrations with a full-on biergarten on Front Street. There will be pretzels. There will be live music and polka dancing. There will be you since you’re a person of reason.

RECORD YEAR Dirtybird Is Coming to Mezzanine. Time to Dance. Dirtybird Records is throwing a party this Friday at Mezzanine. In addition to multiple DJs, enjoyable libations and attractive people to share such abundant riches with, you’ll get nothing else. Fair. Still strangely fair.

BUS STOP A Shiny New Brunch for You to Love

THE WIND CRIES MARY A Bloody Mary Fest for Your Sunday Pleasure In case a festival filled with Bloodys from multiple bars and restaurants around town sounds like a nice way to spend a Sunday, behold: the aptly named Bloody Mary Festival. You’ll sip spicy spiked concoctions from the likes of the Front Porch and Nido, then judge them, then repeat. Then probably keep repeating.