Photo by Caroline AngeloCRAFTS: Create ornaments, snowflakes, and greeting cards while holiday music sets the atmosphere at the Corcoran Uncorked (500 Seventeenth Street NW) Campy Holiday event tonight. If possible, wear your best ugly sweater. 5-9 p.m. Tickets: $12.
MUSIC: Tubas take over the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (2700 F Street NW) tonight for Merry TubaChristmas, an annual event celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Grab your tuba, sousaphone, and euphonium and head over at 3:00 p.m. to rehearse and participate, or get to the stage at 6 p.m. to hear what 300 tubas playing Christmas songs sounds like. Free.
THEATER: Film director and Baltimore native John Waters (known for Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, Cry-Baby, and many other films) brings his pencil thin mustachioed self to the Birchmere (3701 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria VA) this evening for A John Waters Christmas. 7:30 p.m. $49.50.
HAPPY HOUR: A group of DCist commenters, also known as the commentariat, is hosting their monthly happy hour at Bluejacket (300 Tingey Street SE) tonight. Come out to meet the real people behind the snark. 5:30 p.m. until it gets weird.
FILM: Drafthouse Films has restored director Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45, a 1981 classic of empowering exploitation or exploitative empowerment starring the late Zoe Lund as a mute garment district worker who guns down Manhattan’s woman-hating men (read: all of them). Read my Spectrum Culture review here. It’s only area screening is tonight at 10:35 p.m. at Alamo Drafthouse. (20575 Easthampton Plaza, Ashburn, Va.). – Pat Padua
FESTIVUS: Air your grievances, frolic around a pole, and enjoy 15 holiday drafts (including Great Lakes Christmas Ale, DC Brau Exaltation Ale, The Bruery 6 Geese a Laying, and more) at Rustico Alexandria’s (827 Slaters Lane Alexandria, VA) Festivus celebration this evening. 6 p.m.
