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Clean Sweep Sale
50% off storewide (clothing, housewares, furniture, etc), with all net profits used to help the lowest-income pet owners spay or neuter their pets through AnimalKind's "The $20 Fix" program & SpayNC Helpline.
919-872-0019Heartbeats Jam
Community drum circle; some loaner drums available. Gifts With a Heart, Swift Creek Shopping Center, 2867 Jones Franklin Rd, Raleigh.
$1www.raleighdrumcircle.org
2nd Annual Post-Xmas Dance Party Presented by Future Islands
No, former hometown heroes Future Islands are not playing a teeny-tiny post-Christmas show in Raleigh. Its members are just deejaying this Kings shindig, but even so, it's hard not to have faith in a party driven by some of the nation's finest purveyors of dance-friendly jams. Start early on your New Year's fitness resolution and dance off all those holiday sweets and drinks, or use it as an excuse to keep up your partying until 2017—it should be very merry either way. Proceeds from the party benefit the long-running Helping Hand Mission, which has focused on direct community support in Raleigh since 1972. —Allison Hussey
$8 919-833-1091Just Sit at Home
Write the great American novel, or at least outline a couple of chapters. Organize your clothes by "wear" and "never wear," then add each item from "never wear" back to "wear," because you never know. Teach your cat to flush the toilet. Clear your inbox, even months-old emails from exes and surveys for dubious magazine subscriptions. Paint your nails, remove the polish, and paint them again. Watch Treme all the way through without stopping to rewatch The Wire. Learn the ondes Martenot, or at least the ukulele. Stare at cobwebs, then stare at a broom (maybe something will happen). Go to the movies. Listlessly click around on Facebook. Eat junk food. Play board games with your family, if that's what it takes. You have to figure out something to prevent you from stumbling around in your PJs all week, because other than the few worthy events we scavenged for our arts calendars, there really is nothing to do, unless you'd like to see eleven different Nutcrackers. It's a holiday wasteland out there; enjoy the annual rite of relearning what humans do with unstructured time. —Brian Howe
Hayti Kwanzaa
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