Fast Food: The Encyclopedia Show @ Vittum Theater

The Encyclopedia Show is a monthly extravaganza of music, visual art and spoken word, and the theme for March is fast food. The show features 19 artists and starts tonight at 7:30 pm at the Vittum Theater, 1012 N. Noble St. Tickets are $6 at the door.

Women's/Trans Bike Night @ West Town Bikes

Every first and third Wednesday of the month, the ladies at West Town Bikes/Ciclo Urbano (2459 W Division St, 773-772-6523) open the shop from 7pm until 10pm for women and trans-gendered cyclists to come in and work on their bikes in a "non-patriarchal environment." It is free although donations are appreciated. Bring some snacks or beers and plenty of questions. At the end of every lesson they make sure you know how to change a flat. Check out this video about Women's Night on the WCIU website.

punkplay @ Steppenwolf

Gregory Moss's punkplay, about "two sort of marginal adolescent boys growing up in the suburbs who latch on to punk rock and use it to find an identity outside of the mainstream," is a Pavement Group production, going up as part of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's new Visiting Company Initiative, Garage Rep. Read the Gapers Block interview with Moss here. The show starts at 8pm in the Merle Reskin Garage Theatre, 1624 N. Halsted. Tickets are $20 and available here or by calling (312) 335-1650. Student tickets are $12. Wednesday performances are "pay what you can."

MEET THE OSCARS Chicago @ The Shops at Northbridge

Practice the acceptance speech you know you've been writing since you were a kid at MEET THE OSCARS Chicago, an exhibition brought by Kodak to The Shops at Northbridge, 520 N. Michigan Ave. You can hold and have your photo taken with a real Oscar statuette, learn more about Chicago's own R.S. Owens & Company, which makes the statuettes, and check out Oscars previously awarded to Bette Davis, DuPont Film Manufacturing and Eastman Kodak. This event is free. 10am to 7pm on Level 1 in front of Nordstrom.

Sunsara Taylor Speaks on Feminism

Sunsara Taylor, an activist with the Revolutionary Communist Party has a habit of leaving controversy in her wake. Her lecture for the Ethical Humanists Society of Chicago was canceled last November, and when she tried to attend, the society called the police and her videographer was arrested.

Taylor will be making a lecture on feminism at 7pm at the University of Chicago's Assembly Hall of International House, 1414 E. 59th Street. Whether you are interested in Taylor's public persona or the comparison of women who wear burqas and women who wear thongs, the event should be thought provoking.

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Drive-Thru Staff Cooks for Soup and Bread @ Hideout

The Hideout (1354 W. Wabansia) holds its Soup and Bread weekly fundraiser tonight for a local food-related charity where local chefs and foodies (one of tonight's special chefs is your beloved Drive-Thru staff!) prepare a selection of soups for your casual slurping from the bar's crock pots. Donations encouraged. Event runs 5:30-8pm.