Topics: holiday parties, Christmas carol singing, Cobble Hill Ballet's The Nutcracker at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Serafina Tribeca, Mates of State + Versus + Girl Scout Handbook + The Aislers Set at Littlefield, Yo La Tengo + The Aislers Set at the Bowery Ballroom, Madonna + Honey Dijon at Barclays Center, Jon Langford + Sally Timms at the Good Fork Pub, I Get Wild shows at Reservoir Studios, Littlefield, Colony Woodstock, John and Peter's New Hope, Gutenberg! The Musical at the James Earl Jones Theatre, birthday parties, Garcia Peoples at Bacaro, Bob Dylan at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Baltimore, Untable, Le Rock, Five Acres, Good Night in Woodstock, Gus's Chop House, Depeche Mode at Madison Square Garden.