1 Louisville Magazine’s annual SWIG [4], a booze-filled celebration of Prohibition repeal, at the Henry Clay. Janet Jackson at the Yum! Center.
2 See Billy Hertz’s new work at Galerie Hertz [5](Dec. 1-31).
3 The Square [6], a dark comedy that deals with race, class, gender and pomposity, at the Speed Cinema (Dec. 1-3).
4 Ice skating at Fourth and Jefferson streets during the downtown Holiday in the City [7] (Dec. 1-Jan. 1).
5 Winter concert at Oxmoor Farm with the NouLou Chamber Players [8].
6 98 Degrees at Christmas [9], at the Palace.
7 U of L women’s basketball [10] vs. Vanderbilt, at the Yum! Center.
8 The stage adaptation of David Sedaris’ essay on working as an elf, The Santaland Diaries [11], at Actors Theatre (Dec. 1-23).
9 Santa’s Safari [12] at the Louisville Zoo (Dec. 9 & 10). A Charlie Brown Christmas Live On Stage [13] at the Brown.
10 Singer-songwriter Angel Olsen [14] at Mercury Ballroom. The ballet and the orchestra perform the Brown-Forman Nutcracker [15] at the Kentucky Center (Dec. 9-23).
11 Take a day to catch up on your holiday gift shopping. You'll thank us later.
12 KMAC poetry slam [16]. Jason Bonham [17] (son of the late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham) at the Palace for the Led Zeppelin Experience.
13 “A Very Burton Christmas [18]” features back-to-back showings of Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, at Butchertown Social.
14 Fourth annual Soul Spit [19] at Tim Faulkner Gallery, hosted by poet B Shatter, with live DJs (Dec. 14 & 15).
15 The Moscow Ballet [20] presents the Great Russian Nutcracker at Louisville Memorial Auditorium. Set designs from art director Carl Sprague (Royal Tenenbaums, Grand Budapest Hotel, La La Land)
16 R&B singer SZA [21] at Mercury Ballroom. Linkin Bridge [22] at the Brown Theater.
17 Frosty, Rudolph and Tiny Tim are all suspects in the comedy Who Killed Santa? [23]at the Alley Theater (Dec. 7-23).
18 Back for its seventh year by popular demand, The Kings of Christmas [24] at the Bard’s Town (Dec. 7-23).
19 The Moth StorySLAM [25], Topic: Dirt, at Headliners.
20 Rockers The War on Drugs [26] at the Brown.
21 Lights Under Louisville [27]at the Mega Cavern.
22 Holiday Extravaganza [28], featuring Howell Dawdy’s karaoke roulette and Hillbilly Revival, at Zanzabar.
23 The Prince Experience [29] at Mercury Ballroom.
24 Christmas Eve dinner [30] at Rivue.
25 Eat, drink, be merry.
26 The new Jumanji movie is in theaters. Or be boring and go to the gym to work off the holiday ham and pie.
27 It’s been go-go-go all month. Do you really need something to do today??
28 Bac to Mac [31], a Fleetwood Mac tribute, at Headliners.
29 If you missed the sold-out Tom Petty tribute at Headliners in November, you can still catch Nashville-based tribute band Southern Accents [32] at Mercury Ballroom.
30 The 19th annual Animation Show of Shows [33] includes 16 animated short films, at Speed Cinema (Dec. 22-31).
31 A New Year’s Eve Salute to ’70s Soul Cinema [34], with Carly Johnson, Zach Longoria, Otis Junior and more, at Headliners.
Cover Photo: Pexels.com [35]