If you’re like us, you’ve got more holiday parties to attend this weekend than you can count with your socks off. But just in case you’re still looking for more merriment, here’s a look at this weekend’s offerings.
FRIDAY:
>> Charm City’s own Lake Trout has been getting stellar reviews for their sophomore effort, Them, Not You. They also spent part of the fall opening up for the Pixies, which makes us so envious, we need to sit down for a minute. $12, Black Cat at 9:30 p.m. with Cedars and Gun.
SATURDAY:
>> The Alkem Foundation is a non-profit seeking to provide free Internet resources and support to artists and musicians. Sounds right up our alley. So why not drop by Warehouse Nextdoor at 8:30 p.m. for a benefit concert in their honor, featuring Lida Husik, Sarah Azzara, DCIC, Kohoutek, The Antiques, Shame Girl and Pup Tent.
>> What? You haven’t bought your tickets to see Les Miserables at the National Theatre yet? If you missed DCist’s review, check it out here. Then hurry up and buy your tickets online, because ever since the Post also published a glowing review, most of the good seats are already gone.
SUNDAY:
>> Celebrate Kwanzaa this year with D.C.’s popular West African dance troupe Coyaba Dance Theater, as they present an afternoon of music and rhythms at community-focused Dance Place. 4 p.m., tickets are $7 to $20; also benefit gala on Friday at 7 p.m. w/dinner and drinks ($75), and regular-priced performance Saturday at 8 p.m.
>> Already fed up with all the friggin’ holiday spirit that’s oozing over every inch of commercial and residential space in the city like a sinister slime? Looking for an easy way to tune it all out, and maybe even renew your skepticism about the future of humanity? We’d suggest taking in a screening of perhaps the greatest film of all time, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb at American City Diner & Cinema Cafe. If you’ve never seen it, well, shame on you. If you have, you know why watching Slim Pickens read through the contents of the crew survival kit never gets old. Just remember to protect the purity of your precious bodily fluids. 8 p.m.
