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| | COSTUMED PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS Very Bad Santas  Cary Conover for The New York Times As hundreds took part in the Santacon revelry on Saturday, two paused at a playground on West 43rd Street.
Santa hits New York tomorrow. Or rather, hundreds of Santas do, all attired in traditional red suits and white beards, carrying the nontraditional MetroCard and occasional hip flask. It’s Santacon, when hordes of St. Nicks ride subways instead of reindeer, down pastrami and booze instead of cookies and milk, and create holly jolly mayhem in holiday stomping grounds like Central Park, Times Square and strip clubs. Check santacon.com for updates, or follow the trail of ho-ho-hos. “No Saints in Sight as These Santas Get Their Jollies,” by Alan Feuer
NON-COSTUMED MUSICAL MAYHEM March of the Boomboxes
He was doing this years before Improv Everywhere’s MP3 Experiment: tomorrow, join “Unsilent Night,” Phil Kline’s annual boombox Christmas parade at Washington Square Park. Participants bring the boomboxes; Kline, a classical composer esteemed for his “healthy disregard of traditional boundaries” provides tapes and CDs of his cacophonous music; everyone presses ‘play’ at once; and voilà: a decidedly postmodern, thoroughly democratic symphony is born. FILM Showdown at the Multiplex
It’s Oscar-bait movie weekend, as “Che,” “Doubt” and “Gran Torino,” open. Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour epic “is a very long song composed in about three notes,” writes A.O. Scott. “Its motifs are facial hair, tobacco smoke and earnest militant rhetoric.” So, um, how about the other two? Meryl Streep, playing a nun in “Doubt,” the adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s Tony-winning play, shakes “up the story’s reverential solemnity with gusts of energy and comedy,” Manohla Dargis writes, calling her performance “gratifying nunsense.” And “Gran Torino,” directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as a former auto worker, is “a sleek, muscle car of a movie” that “moves from comedy into drama and then tragedy and then into something completely unexpected,” Dargis writes. “This isn’t John Wayne at the end of the 20th century, but Clint Eastwood at the start of the still-new 21st, remaking the image of the hero one more and perhaps final time, one generation of Americans making way for the next.” “Saluting the Rebel Underneath the T-Shirt,” by A.O. Scott “Between Heaven and Earth, Room for Ambiguity,” by Manohla Dargis “Hope for a Racist, and Maybe a Country,” by Manohla Dargis MUSIC Last Days of the Knit
The clock is ticking on the Knitting Factory’s Manhattan location — in a few weeks, the club moves to the old Luna Lounge space in Williamsburg — and tomorrow it will prep by importing some Brooklyn bands. As part of the Oneida Festival, catch that long-running avant-rock band and pals like Knyfe Hyts, Pterodactyl and Parts & Labor. On its latest album, “Receivers,” P&L is “making some latter-day transition from punk to new wave — all the better to encourage singalongs,” writes Jon Pareles. You heard the man: go join in. “Playlist: Blues From Dylan, And Heartaches From the 1920s,” by Jon Pareles NIGHTLIFE, CHARITY Give ‘Em Lip
Attention Tom Selleck fans: tomorrow is the annual ’Stache Bash, in which dudes who have been growing lip-ticklers for charity get to show them off. Head to Galapagos for competitions like the World’s Strongest Mustache, the Wet Mustache Contest and the all-important Beer Foam Retention Test. That will be helped by the open bar. D.I.Y. SHOPPING, NIGHTLIFE Hack the Snowglobe
If you’re not one of the lucky few doing your shopping anonymously chez Muffie, do the next best thing: make your gifts chez Eyebeam. Tomorrow afternoon the art and tech studio hosts its annual Holiday Hackshop, where you can learn how to make things like Extreme Weather Snowglobes and Frankensteined iPods. A holiday party, complete with Frankensteined eggnog, follows.
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