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METRO MUSIC: Jason Mendelson and his 6-piece band the Open Doors will be performing an hour of MetroSongs at Ebenezer’s Coffeehouse (201 F Street NE) near Union Station tonight. Mendelson is on his third volume of MetroSongs, and the new album is called “Red Handed.” He’s previously released Volume 1: Mostly Blue, which has station-named songs including “Rosslyn,” “Federal Center SW,” and “Pentagon,” to name a few. He branched out on Volume 2: Party Train, with songs like “Pizza Party at Virginia Square” and “Crawling Out of Crystal City.” Come out tonight for an hour of music and copies of Volume 3: Red Handed, which will be on sale for just $5 at the show (or $9.99 on iTunes). Sounds like the perfect gift for that cute girl you commute with everyday but have never spoken to. 7:30 p.m. Admission is $10.

MOVIE: The A.V. Club presents the dark comedy Bad Santa at the Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse (2903 Columbia Pike, Arlington VA) tonight, with A.V. Club Staffer Keith Phipps as host. Come watch “thieving, womanizing, gin-soaked mall Santa, Billy Bob Thornton” as he “delivers the surliness and profanity that’s as much a part the holiday season as carols and good cheer.” 7:30 p.m. $6.50.

ART SALE: Shop art, jewelry, ceramics, and more made by Corcoran College of Art and Design students and staff at the Off the Walls art sale tonight (5:00-9:00 p.m.), Friday (10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.), and Saturday (10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.) at the Corcoran (500 Seventeenth Street NW). Along with purchasing unique, locally-made art you’ll also be supporting both the artist and the Corcoran College of Art and Design.

ART, MUSIC & FILM: The Phillips Collections’ (1600 21st Street NW) latest installment of their Phillips After 5 series is a Danish Winter Fairy Tale. The event tonight will include performances by Danish jazz pianist Soren Moller, a gallery talk by Per Kirkeby, and a screening of the film The Fir Tree, “based on a fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen.” 5:00-8:30 p.m. $12.