Photo by Victoria PickeringMOVIES: AFI Silver Theater’s (8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, Md.) Holiday Classics series continues tonight with The Lion in Winter (starring the late Peter O’Toole) at 4:25 p.m., It’s a Wonderful Life at 7:10 p.m., and Die Hard at 9:45 p.m. If you can take a rather long lunch break, or if you’re already on holiday break, The Muppet Christmas Carol is playing at noon today and tomorrow.
SHOPPING: Only two shopping days left before Christmas! If you’re looking for last minute gifts like lama hair slippers, super soft infinity scarves, and old maps, stop by for the last day of the Downtown Holiday Market (8th and F Streets NW). Noon-8 p.m.
FOOD & DRINK: Trummer’s on Main (7134 Main Street, Clifton Va.) is serving up a Holiday Dinner this evening, featuring sweetbread and smoked oyster fricassse, Christmas goose rollade, Berkshire pork chop and pork cheek, and more. 5:30-9 p.m. $59.
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TUESDAY: Little Miss Whiskey’s Golden Dollar (1104 H Street NE) plans your Christmas Eve for you with a screening of two holiday horror classics. Sorority girls Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder are threatened by killer Keir Dullea in Black Christmas, whose director Bob Clark went on to make another holiday classic, A Christmas Story. In Jack Frost (1997), not to be confused with Michael Keaton and Buddy Hackett vehicles of the same name, a serial killer dies in a crash with a genetics truck (sure!) and comes back as the titular snowman. The house will be serving holiday drinks like Criminally Bad Elf and Samichlaus (14 percent ABV) for to drown your holiday horrors. View the trailer for Black Christmas.8. Free. – Pat Padua
WEDNESDAY: If you’re looking for something to do on Wednesday (other than spending all day in your jammies shredding wrapping paper with your bare hands), head to the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (2700 F Street NW) for an All-Star Christmas Day Jazz Jam. Musicians in attendance will include Chuck Redd, Lenny Robinson, James King, and Tom and Delores King Williams. 6 p.m. Free.
FRIDAY: Cajun cellist Sean Grissom and the Alexandria Kleztet take part in a Holiday Vaudeville performance on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (2700 F Street NW) this Friday. 6 p.m. Free.
SUNDAY: If Santa brings you something you don’t love, re-gift it at the Black Cat (1811 14th Street NW) White Elephant Party on Sunday night. Doors 8 p.m., re-gifting starts at 9 p.m. Free.