On the List: December 8-14

Sherlock, one of the three winners of the dog costume competition, at last week’s 2200 Plaza’s holiday celebration. Photo credit: Team Photogenic.

Wednesday, December 8th

• Deck the Hall, if you must, with 107.7′s annual ball in the form of an arena show featuring an uncomfortably eclectic and head-scratching lineup of Broken Bells, the Black Keys, Jimmy Eat World, Cake, the Temper Trap, and Sleigh Bells @ WaMu
• Kiwi folk-pop songstress Brooke Fraser @ the Triple Door

Thursday, December 9th

• Fences, Neon Trees, and Middle Class Rut play the day-after party for the Deck the Hall Ball @ Showbox
• Thee Oh Sees play a free (with RSVP and willingness to arrive early) show @ Chop Suey
• Four Boxes is a $40,000 shoestring thriller that’s been described as “Rear Window on the internet.” Director is in attendance for the 7 p.m. screening @ Northwest Film Forum
• Get to Stornoway early, as the days of being able to see the Head and the Heart on small stages feel increasingly limited @ the Crocodile
• Oh lordy, attention all Ryan Murphy fans: Gleek sing-a-long @ Central Cinema
• The first-ever meeting of the Seattle Coffee Society offers a chance for baristas, roasters, green buyers, machine techs, cuppers, and other bean pros to get together, drink coffee, and blah blah blah the specialty coffee industry @ Seattle Coffee Works
• Art historian Rebecca Albiani explores crow and raven imagery in Pacific Northwest Indian art, German Romanticism, and Picasso @ the Frye Art Museum

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Friday, December 10th

• Their annual holiday party means cheap cider, sangria, and mimosas aplenty @ Meza
• If you love Mad Rad but missed their first CD release party or just really need another rapid infusion of hipster hop, see them all-ages style, with Champagne Champagne, Helladope, and Infinite Loop @ Vera Project
• Low are playing a relatively tiny show of aching harmonies and minimalist tensions @ Tractor Tavern
• For their first time back in Seattle in ten years, Penn & Teller show you some tricks (all weekend) @ the Paramount
• Tame Impala bring sunny dream pop to your winter night @ Neumo’s
• It’s a Wonderful Life plays now through 12/30 @ the Grand Illusion
• Stéphane Denève conducts Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet at a special Seattle Symphony Rush Hour performance @ Benaroya Hall
• That Stephin Merritt documentary that played at SIFF is back (through Dec. 16), alternating with a new Raging Bull print @ Northwest Film Forum

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Figgy Pudding carolers deck the halls in the Pan Pacific hotel lobby. Photo credit: Team Photogenic

Saturday, December 11th

• It’s a three-fer, with The Posies, Brendan Benson, and Aqueduct @ Showbox
• Black Prairie, a.k.a. three-fifths of the Decemberists, play Oregon Americana @ Sunset Tavern
• Willy Wonka in Smell-O-Vision (12/10-12/12) @ SIFF Cinema
• Absolute Karaoke presents the third Annual Battle in Seattle @ Columbia City Theater
• The Burlesque Nutcracker runs naughtily (through Dec. 24) @ the Triple Door

Sunday, December 12th

• Dancer and Prancer (the alter egos of Coconut Coolouts, Suspicions, etc.) and help you have a very surf rocky xmas @ the Hideout
• All day, it’s the first annual Seattle Folk Festival @ Town Hall Seattle
• Team Jacob! Get the real story of the Quileute wolves at a tour of Native American art @ SAM
• The Seattle International Piano Festival presents Dr. Susan Chan playing Preludes, Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor by Chopin, as well as works by Somei Satoh and Tan Dun @ the Frye Art Museum
• The first talk sold out, so filmmaker Warren Miller makes an encore appearance @ Benaroya Hall

Monday, December 13th

• The Stickers (Seattle’s Newest No Wave Buzzband™), Redwood Plan, and Pony Time @ Chop Suey
• Talented persnickety British singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy will assuredly have a rant or two ready for the audience @ Triple Door
• Leslie Nielsen, ladies and gentlemen. The comedian is remembered with a tribute screening of The Naked Gun @ Central Cinema

Tuesday, December 14th

• The first night of indie rock jazz covers, care of the Bad Plus @ Jazz Alley