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Published: Dec 8, 2010

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reading/signing

Nora Ephron's 2006 I Feel Bad About My Neck elt like a celebration — the longtime director/writer/journo was facing her impending jowls head-on. Admittedly her new essay collection, I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections (Knopf, Nov. 15), treads too-similar grounds, lingering dully on "the vicissitudes of modern life." Then again, this is the lady who wrote the best fake on-screen orgasm ever (with a little help from Meg Ryan), so when she visits the Free Library Tuesday (Dec. 14, freelibrary.org), give her props. —Carolyn Huckabay

x-mas album

Twenty-five years is a long time to keep a gag going, but Bah & The Humbugs aren't a joke (not strictly). America's Premier Satiric Christmas Rock Band — with playwright Michael Hollinger, CP cartoonist-alum Vance Lehmkuhl and a host of local musicians — makes holiday music that fulfills jolly, jingly obligations but also ventures down weirder, darker paths (see "Titanic Tannenbaum"). This year's extra merry with the release of Bigger Than Santa: A 25th Anniversary Humbug Tribute (bahandthehumbugs.com), on which the Humbugs make repeated appearances. —Patrick Rapa

speakeasy

After the success of Blind Tiger Speakeasy's November go-'round, the Prohibition-themed party is back, this time at cozy/covert RUBA Club Friday (Dec. 10, dahliablack.com). Expect burlesque lessons, performances from some of Philly and New York's primo shimmy-shakers like Dhalia Black (pictured) and The Flying Fox, and tunes from the '30s by DJ Dan Repsch. As always, there's cheaper admission for anyone dressed era-appropriate. Check the website to get the secret password to unlock the special drink menu. —Sean Kearney

theater

The players at 1812 Productions are making room in their monthlong This Is the Week That Is schedule to present something equally timely: An Evening of Holiday Shorts by David Sedaris (Dec. 13, 1812productions.org), a yuletide teehee fest composed of three stories from Sedaris' best-selling collection of essays, Holidays on Ice. While the author won't be there, the theater did receive special permission to produce the works for the first time on stage without him. —Josh Middleton

Forgetting David Parsons
Back and Forth Forever
The Borrowers
5 Under 40