What to do this weekend, Dec. 2 - 4

November 30, 2011|Nicole Cammorata, Globe Staff

It's December, did you say "Rabbit Rabbit?" There are many fun things to do this weekend to kick off the month. Short on ideas? No worries. See Nicole Cammorata, Milva DiDomizio, and June Wulff's picks for the top things to do around the Hub this weekend. Now get out and go to it!

[Pretty Things; Ugly Sweaters; Lidia Bastianich]

THURSDAY

TRASH TALK: ANTHROPOLOGY OF WASTE: Can you say “Products, Plastics, Putrefaction, and Power” five times fast? Maybe it will be easier after Samantha MacBride’s lecture, subtitled “Rethinking How We Manage Materials to Achieve Just Sustainability.” The latest installment in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology’s lecture series is followed by a reception. Dec. 1, 5:30 p.m. Free. Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge. Post-talk reception at Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge. 617-496-1027, www.peabody.harvard.edu

PRETTY THINGS 3RD BIRTHDAY PARTY: The folks behind local brewery Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project are throwing themselves a birthday bash to celebrate three years in business. Catch live music by Viva Viva and No Way Jose -- as well as the musical stylings of DJ John Funke -- while sipping limited edition brews 1901 KK and 1855 EIP and fan favorites, such as Jack D’Or and Baby Tree, on draft. Dec. 1, 8 p.m. Tickets: $5 suggested donation. 21+ Precinct. 617-623-9211, www.precinctbar.com .

FRIDAY

PLAYING THE DEVIL: Step into the world of His Abysmal Sublimity Screwtape, psychiatrist in service of the devil himself. Max McLean plays Satan’s shrink in Fellowship for the Performing Arts’s stage version of C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters.’’Dec. 2, 8 p.m. Dec. 3, 4 and 8 p.m. $29-$59. Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St., Boston. 617-824-8000, www.screwtapeonstage.com

MFA FIRST FRIDAYS: On the first Friday of each month, the Museum of Fine Arts hosts an evening for art lovers looking to mingle. There will be cocktails, munchies, and music in the Koch Gallery with entertainment by local swing band Back Bay Rhythm Makers. Dec. 2, 5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Free with museum admission; $22, $20 for students and seniors. 21+ Museum of Fine Arts. 617-267-9300, www.mfa.org

UGLY HOLIDAY SWEATER PARTY: ’Tis the season to mock mom and dad’s awful holiday fashion choices from years gone by. So raid their closets -- or swing by the local thrift store -- for the corniest, most colorful get-up you can find. A $100 cash prize will go to the man and woman with the worst (and by “worst,” we think they mean “best”) sweaters at this annual bash hosted by Social Boston Sports. Dec. 2, 9 p.m. Tickets: $15. 21+ Bleacher Bar. 617-262-2424, www.socialbostonsports.com

SATURDAY