FRIDAY
8pm: ‘nerd nite’ launches their new magazine with a party featuring presentations, djs, dancing, more. galapagos, $11.11.

8pm: bonjour! sing along to your favorite tunes from beauty and the beast and compete against other fans in the trivia, costume, and egg-eating contests. bell house, $10 adv, $12 dos. (more…)

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9pm-1am: get your new year’s eve eve drink on with four hours of all-you-can-drink liquor at public assembly’s booze buffet for just $10. (more…)

FRIDAY
8pm: comedy + music promoters creaghead + company’s ‘mandatory office party‘ presents an evening of comedy with rob cantrell, brooke van poppelen, sean patton, tom shillue, barry rothbart, and host caroline creaghead. plus, $7 creag nog and captain drink special. union hall, $8.  (more…)

Santa knows you've been naughty. And he likes it.

Thursday’s No Office Holiday Party had so many highlights: those high-quality photos from Shootbooth and their 100-year old camera; Kurt Braunohler turning your workplace horror stories into comedy gold or the jams of DJ Colleen Crumbcake that kept everyone dancing way past curfew. For us, the highlight might have been the 10-person Team Brokelyn live-band karaoke rendition of Blister in the Sun, which might have shook the stage (and scared the band) a little. You can relive the freelance-fueled fun via these pictures from our friends at The Brooklyn Chemistry, who documented all the singing, dancing, sexy Santa (and Santa-ess) loving evening. A few of our favorites below! (more…)

FRIDAY
5pm-1am (thru 12/17): the brooklyn night bazaar returns with independent merchants and food vendors, plus performances by the hold steady, fucked up, midnight magic, titus andronicus, lcd soundsystem’s james murphy (dj set), more. 149 kent ave (williamsburg), free, $10-22 for bands. (more…)

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6:30pm: dan rollman and corey henderson discuss their book the recordsetter book of world records and attempt to break the record for the largest group hug in a bookstore, amongst other feats. powerhouse arena, free. (more…)

Mistletoe mischief ahoy! Poster by Meghan Doherty.

If you’re a freelancer/work-from-home type, you get to miss out on all the annoyances of the office: the commute, the horribly claustrophobic cubicle walls, the need for “personal hygiene,” etc. But you also miss the good things: namely, a chance to get wasted with your coworkers and blame it all on “holiday cheer.” Well, Brooklyn blogs to the rescue! We’re teaming with our friends at the skint, Brooklyn Based and Fucked in Park Slope to bring you the No Office Holiday Party on Dec. 15 at Littlefield. We’ve got cheap holiday punch, a hot Santa photo booth, live-band karaoke and the always hilarious Kurt Braunohler. And you can make out with whomever you like under the mistletoe; we promise the boss isn’t watching. Full details below. (more…)

FRIDAY
8pm: tonight’s kings county comedy hour at bushwick’s vaudeville park features bob powers, brooke van poppelen, elihu dietz, michelle wolf, erik bergstrom, and host matt koff (the onion news network). $5.  (more…)

FRIDAY
12-4pm: all robicelli’s cupcakes are 50% off at dekalb market: pumpkin spice latte, bourbon caramel apple, and pear cardamom ginger. $1.50/each (reg $3).  (more…)

FRIDAY
7:30pm: put on your best specs for nerd night trivia + presentations about zombie combat methods, bad trips (that’s travelling trips) and the ‘psychology’ of twilight. galapagos, $10 adv, $14 door. (more…)