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Profs & Pints: How Dickens Reshaped Christmas (12/19), tunes: Ella G (12/20), tunes: Bartees Strange (2/15) tunes: Maude Latour (3/21), comedy: Maria Bamford (5/10,

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I love when celebs get into Christmas™

Aimee Mann & Ted Leo are back together for their Christmas show! Featuring guests like Paul F Tompkins, Nellie McKay, Josh Gondelman, this is a show you won’t wanna miss. (7:30pm)
A Christmas take on 50s and 60s holiday specials with some special show tunes! Featuring Jane Lynch (Glee), Kate Flannery (not Glee), and Tim Davis (Glee’s vocal arranger omg!) So you like show tunes. Doesn’t mean your gay, just means your awful! (8pm)

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Free cookies?

Celebrating National Cookie day, first 100 customers at Milk Bar get free cookies?! (opens at 9am)

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Also || film screening: Food and Country, Light Yards Express, An Irish Carol, film screening: While We Watched, tunes: Mark Roberge of OAR, DC rising up, benefit concert for helene relief, Every Holiday Sketch Show, dumpster fire comedy show

EC4DC is a mutual aid project that provides free emergency contraception to DC residents, and they need your help with packing emergency contraception kits - join them at Mt. Pleasant Library to lend a hand! (5pm)

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We want the punk!

The DC punk scene is alive and well, and if you need any convincing head to Pie Shop to rock out with DC punk bands Ekko Astral and Dim Wizard, plus Brooklyn-based punk-rock group Native Sun! (doors at 7:30pm)

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Also || nonfiction talk: The Memory Palace, tunes: Ride, author talk: Julia Kornberg, holiday trivia, tunes: SUSTO, Winternational Embassy Showcase, art exhibit: future / past, exoplanet research!, comedy: Alexis Gay, free comedy and $5 Peronis, talk: tyranny of the 2-party system, handi-hour @ Renwick, Jazz at the Gallery, tunes: Blind Boys of Alabama (Christmas show)

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Friday December 6

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Have You Heard of Christmas?

Your favorite Las Culturistas cohost, Matt Rogers is bringing camp to Christmas on his Prince of Christmas tour. Rogers’ songs are fun, catchy, and with songs like “Hottest Female Up In Whoville,” you know it’ll be a good time. (8pm)

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Give me Tiny Timber or give me death

There’s a good chance the Columbia Heights Tree Lighting Ceremony will feature a taller tree than a few years ago, but this writer is hoping for another small-but-mighty fir for this holiday season. Come for the tiny tree, stay for the free hot cocoa and holiday music! (5pm)

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Also || monthly Dupont ArtWalk, candlelight tour of Tudor Place, dance: DC casineros, tunes: The Crystal Casino, tunes: A Boy Named Banjo, sip n paint, standup, but everyone is Santa, shameless sip and paint, how to forage and cook, hbd RASA, Metro DC Labor Happy Hour, Civil War and sex work walking tour, comedy: White Elephant Blitz, a Mass for Christmas Eve concert, WIT’s White Elephant Blitz begins

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Saturday December 7

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Walk & 5k to End HIV

Register for 38th Annual Walk & 5K to End HIV at Anacostia Park to support efforts for finding a cure for HIV and to stop the stigma surrounding HIV, with funds benefiting programs and services at Whitman-Walker. (8am)

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Live out your Hallmark dreams in DC!

You’re just a big-city gal who hates the holidays! Your friends have to drag you the cities largest clothing drive! They need volunteers. As your sorting clothes you brush hands with a Man™, but before you get his name he has to leave! (8:30am-2pm)
It’s fine you didn’t get his name, you’re a big city gal! You don’t have time for love. You head to Wonderland Ballroom for their holiday market. As you peruse artisinal goods, you and one of the vendors brush hands… oh my gosh it’s Man™! (11am-4pm)
Man™ says, “When was the last time you did something crazy?” You’re a big city gal, you never have fun! Man™ takes you to the Wharf’s boat parade! His charity has a boat or something like that. (5-8pm)
Next Man™ takes you to a Holiday Concert. You should be tired, but the spirit of Christmas or whatever keeps your energy levels up. Plus, who doesn’t have fun seeing the Capital Hill Chorale? (7:30pm)
You end the night with Man™ at the Christmas pop-up at Death Punch. You and Man™ have been all over the city today, but it’s a Hallmark movie so don’t worry about the logistics. You and Man™ finally have a real conversation and he says he’s a moderate. This is why you don’t believe in Hallmark movies. (12pm-3am)

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Also || tunes: Clear Channel, comedy: White Elephant Blitz, comedy: Peter Revello ($5 off with code 730DC), Christmas with Thomas Circle Singers, wealth building panel, theatre: Rigoletto, holiday mug crafting!, boat parade viewing party, Georgetown Jingle, Chevy Chase winter market, dance: Marcus Isaiah, weed at Tudor Place, the Lodge @ National Landing, NGA: Kerry James Marshall and John Singleton Copley, photoshoot, Art Enables holiday market, flower potluck goes to Arlington, tunes: Stop Light Observations, write draw dream, BeGreat Winter Gala, make handmade pottery, artist panel, coaches v racism, Hamiltunes, Black Broadway walking tour, make your own facial mosturizer, end of exhibition party, Native Art Market, teddy bear tea ($), repeal day ball, Holiday Concert, a diff Holiday Concert, comedy for Palestine: Sabeen Sadiq, Wonderland Winter Market, art talk: Kerry James Marshall and John Singleton Copley, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, MTV Santa Celebration, material things extravaganza

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Sunday December 8

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A Pleasant evening of DC cocktails

Head to Bold Forks Books for an evening of cocktails celebrating Travis Mitchell’s book “DC Cocktails” (which features cocktails from bars around DC) plus drinks from Mt. Pleasant fav OKPB! Who knows, you might even run into a familiar face while you’re there! (5pm)

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Actually a reason to go out to Tysons

Two folk icons Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are playing at Capitol One Hall in Tysons! It’s far, but hearing Look At Miss Ohio live is worth it!!! (6:30pm)

Also in dynamic duos, even if they have little else in common: billy woods (Armand Hammer) & Kenny Segal reprise their excellent, crisp & grim collaborative 2019 album “Hiding Places” album at Union Stage. (

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Also || Juste Debout: It’s a dance-off, theatre: Rigoletto, Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture 2024, tunes: Granny & the Boys, Modern Nutcracker Ballet, exhibition: The Steam Engine, brunch + burlesque, yet another soapmaking class, Native Art Market, R&B Club: Best Holiday Music, Wine and Puppet Craft, talk: India & world film, tunes: Faraway Ghost x Sunken Cages

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Monday December 9

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Are you more poetic than a 5th grader?

The Parkmont Poetry Festival celebrates poetry written and submitted by students from the DMV, and DCPL is hosting student poets for a reading and a publication party! Stop by for refreshments and check out the book of poetry from this year’s contestants. (5pm)

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Also || talk: Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), learn about George Washington from GW researchers, Federal Contractors winter soiree, tunes: Andrew Marlin Stringband, podcast: KAMA journeys, donate women’s sweaters to Light Church

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Tuesday December 10

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I’m nobody, are you nobody too?

I memorized that poem by Emily Dickinson in third grade and it hasn’t left my brain since (do I remember the password to my email? Nope! But I remember this poem!) Anyway, come celebrate the poetry icon's birthday with a reading from the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award winner Kimiko Hahn and black cake! (7:30pm)

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Not a Political Scientist, but a political scientist

In her book “CORE SAMPLES,” climate scientist and policy expert Anna Farro Henderson talks about what it’s like being a scientist in politics and explores how science is conducted and legislated. Hear about her work and research at Busboys and Poets! (6pm)