12pm: soho's macbar will give out free mac 'n cheese to the first 300 customers >>
12-5pm: the monthly greenpoint food market returns with tons of local artisanal treats, on-site gift wrapping, free raffles, more. church of messiah. >>
2pm (also 12/21): prospect park's historic lefferts house is the stage for rebellious subjects theatre's presentation of chekov's 'three sisters.' $10 suggested donation >>
2-4 pm: 3rd annual 'east meets west' christmas parade celebrates unity between little italy and chinatown. floats, marching bands, lion and dragon dancers, santa, more. starts @ mulberry + canal >>
9pm: electro-trippy phantogram play a free show @ brooklyn bowl >>
9pm: holiday party @ coney island-themed venue carnival features rockers mini kiss. free with rsvp >>
9:30pm: improv comedy troupe start trekkin' perform improvised shows based on the original star trek series. the tank, $5 >>
11pm: 'these go to 11.' 'this is spinal tap' singalong! 92yt, $13 admission includes a beer >>
sunday
every sun thru 12/27: take a ride on one of the 1930's subway cars and 1950's busses this holiday season >>
11am-4pm: stock up on your holiday food supplies as the last new amsterdam market of the year returns to south street >>
3pm: meet up with other hot chocolate aficionados in washington square park for the december hot chocolate crawl. pay-as-you-go. >>
3pm: take in some british classical tunes and holiday brass melodies courtesy of the brooklyn symphony orchestra at historic st. ann’s church. reception with beverages and buffet follows. $15 suggested >>
6:30pm: the holiday cookie takedown is sure to make the bell house smell amazing – plus, you know there’ll be bacon in there somewhere. bonus: free spiked eggnog! all-you-can-eat for $10 >>
8pm: the all-female, all-accordion, always fun main squeeze orchestra throw a holiday extravaganza at (le) poisson rouge. $12 >>
8pm: honky-tonk harmonies reign at the sweetback sisters country christmas singalong spectacular. jalopy (bk), $10 >>
+ all weekend
11am, 3pm (weekends thru 12/27): watch as otters and pallas cats tear into ‘presents’ stuffed with junglebait holiday treats at the prospect park zoo. $7 admission >>
11am-6pm: the archive of contemporary music holiday record + cd sale: thousands of lps, cds, more dirt cheap. 54 white st. >>
11am-7pm: 70 local crafters help you wrap up your holiday shopping at the brooklyn lyceum's 2nd annual holiday craft market >>
12-6pm (closes 12/20): exhibit 'this is my life (shirley bassey)' feat. youtube videos of bassey singing during various stages of her career, filtered through spinning crystal prisms. forever + today, free >>
2, 7pm (thru 12/20): pig brooch theatre co. presents ‘a charlie brown christmas - live’ accompanied by a jazz trio performing vince guaraldi’s classic score. brooklyn lyceum, $10 or $30/four >>
4-10pm (thru 12/21): indie music merch store insound's pop-up at 303 grand feat. posters, t-shirts, music art, more. free cocktails 7-10 every night >>
8pm sat, 3, 7:30pm sun: ice-skating in mid-air! santa on a unicycle! a drunken sugar plum! aerial theater troupe suspended cirque’s ‘12 acts of christmas’ flies high at galapagos. $20 >>
8pm (thru 1/2): dreamscape theatre's 'in fields where they lay' recounts world war i's christmas truce of 1914. hudson guild theatre, $15 (1/1 admission is pay-what-you-can) >>
thru 12/25: isn't it about time you saw 'it's a wonderful life' on the big screen already? ifc, $12.50 >>
