Weekday events of note, 12/19-12/22:

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Monday 12/19:

• Cartoon Christmas Trio (performing Vince Guaraldi 'Peanuts' classics, and more) at Newark's Iron Hill Brewpub. 7-9pm. FREE.  Can't make it?  They're playing all week at different Iron Hills (Irons Hill?) - see the rest of my calendar.
• Movie Monday at the Kennett Flash: It's A Wonderful Life. Free, donations encouraged. Doors at 7pm, show at 7:30.
• Monday night football at Theatre N: Steelers vs. 49ers.  8:30pm, FREE.
• Movie Monday at the Trocadero: Die Hard.  21+, $3.  Doors at 6:30, show at 8, arrive before 7 and get a free beer and popcorn.
• Benefit for Maxx Stoyanoff-Williams, lead singer of Philly's Black Landlord (who have also played in Wilmington, if I'm not mistaken).  He recently spent a month in the hospital, while uninsured, and needs help with his sky-high medical bills. Place: The Standard Tap (Northern Liberties gastropub owned by the Johnny Brenda's people), 4-7pm. Facebook invite page.

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Tuesday 12/20:

• It's ye olde Tuesday "nothin' doing".  You and I both probably have last minute shopping to do, anyway.
• Wait!  I found something: Cartoon Christmas Trio at the Iron Hill in Lancaster.  I didn't even know there was one in Lancaster.  Says the band: "The Amish are scared of Jackie Browne" (the drummer in the trio, also a long-time local percussion teacher).  I can believe it.  Dude is intense.  7-9pm.  FREE

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Wednesday 12/21:

• 4W5 Blues Jam at the Queen. 7pm, free.
• Cartoon Christmas Trio at the Iron Hill in Wilmington. 7-9pm, FREE.
• Local institution Montana Wildaxe plays their yearly holiday show at Logan House. 9pm, $5
• Free show Wednesdays at Mojo Main, with a rotating cast of local up-and-comers, the names of which are posted weekly here: http://www.mojomain.com/calendar . 21+, 9pm, no cover. 

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Thursday 12/22:

• Winter Solstice Celebration at the Stateline Woods Preserve, with the Southern Chester Co. Land Conservancy.  Bonfire, live music, hot chocolate, star gazing. $15.  See, I would love Christmas a whole lot more if there were things like this going on every night.   More details.
• Karaoke at Mojo Main. 9pm, free
• Fat Daddy Has Been at the Queen Theatre. 9pm, $13 http://queentickets.worldcafelive.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=250
• Graffiti Radio Presents at Mojo Main: Spring Heeled Jack (Lancaster Co. blues), Universal Funk Order, and Mozaic Flow (brass-funk feat. musicians who've collaborated with The Roots). 21+, 8pm, $5.
• Cartoon Christmas Trio at the Iron Hill in West Chester. 7-9pm, FREE.
• Strummerville: a benefit tribute to Joe Strummer, featuring The Future Unwritten and 7 other bands. North Star Bar. 21+, 9pm, $10.  (Strummerville is a charity set up by the family of Joe Strummer, after his death, to offer support and resources to aspiring musicians who lack access to them).

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Upcoming: Matisyahu at TLA Sat. (yes, Christmas Eve.  Why not?  Dude's Jewish), Spring Standards & Mean Lady at Arden Gild Hall on Monday, Diplo at Union Transfer on 12/29, Diego Paulo reunion at Mojo Main on 12/30, .mewithoutYou / Thursday (fairwell tour) / Screaming Females at the TLA on 12/30, Boy Sets Fire at Mojo Main on 1/5.