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| | SHOPPING DIY Wrap  Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times STRING FEVER Valerie Courtney had many wrapping options to consider at Tinsel Trading.
If you’ve been following our advice, you should have your holiday shopping finished by now. (Right?!) If you’re ready for the wrapping stage, take a crisply creased page from Valerie Courtney, a Martha Stewart product designer, and package your stuff right. By which she means: in an old Kleenex box, a foil takeout container, or an Ikea bin. Embellish these with ornaments, pine tree air fresheners, corsages or vintage fabric. The DIY touch will be just the thing to offset the $300 camera that David Pogue recommends (especially if you buy it for yourself). “Shopping with Valerie Courtney: Pretty as a Package,” by Kimberly Stevens “Best Bets in Cameras, Under $300,” by David Pogue
MUSIC Out of the Lofts
The bespectacled party rocker Dan Deacon has moved up from the beer-and-sweat-filled floors of illegal loft spaces. Tonight he plays the Masonic Temple in Brooklyn with a 15-piece orchestra, featuring members of other buzzy bands like Ponytail and Future Islands. Normally a solo performer, Deacon will perform some works from his forthcoming album, “Bromst.” Dirty Projectors and So Percussion will open; maybe, just maybe, beer will be spilled. DANCE Bausch at BAM
The choreographer Pina Bausch returns to BAM’s Next Wave Festival by way of India tonight. “Bamboo Blues,” her newest piece, was inspired by her travels there, and stars Shantala Shivalingappa, a classically trained Indian dancer, whom Alastair Macaulay has praised for her charm and wit. Expect a sudden craving for naan afterward. “A Dancer Rises in the East, and Now the West,” by Julie Bloom DIY DRINKING Try This at Home
Mmmm, beer. Even better: EXTREME beer. Tonight at the Whole Foods on the Lower East Side learn how to brew your own, in the style of the Dogfish Head Brewery founder Sam Calagione, known for concoctions made with fresh oysters and arctic cloudberries. Take your newfound skills home, bottle them up, and give all those indie brewers a run for their money. Or just say you will, after you have one more sample.... “Brooklyn Returns to a Heady Time,” by Paul Adams NIGHTLIFE A Gallic Goof
The French musician Sébastien Tellier is très cheesy, writes Jon Pareles, taking the stage in silver lamé and rock star sunglasses, and crooning numbers like “Sexual Sportswear,” complete with orchestrated moans. His most recent album, “Sexuality,” was produced by half of Daft Punk and the wry songs sometimes find “romantic wonderment within the tacky settings,” Pareles writes. Tellier gets all ironically breathy at Le Poisson Rouge tonight. “Sometimes Singing in English, but With a Gallic (and Goofy) Savoir-Faire,” by Jon Pareles
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