Where to shop.

Find that unique Christmas gift that's been eluding you at The Stitch n' Kitsch Winter Handmade Market at the United Church in uptown Waterloo this Saturday, Dec. 9 from 10 AM to 5 PM.

Need some other #shoplocal holiday suggestions? Have a baker or chef on your list - Relish Cooking Store is your local stop for anything and everything kitchen related.

Hogwart's Room or Requirement in real life is Gifted on Park Street in Waterloo. Every time I go in there, I find exactly what I'm I didn't even know I was looking for.

What to play.

Our friends at Astrodog Media have a holiday contents for swag, bragging rights and glory (and also a major grand prize) with Ruff Galaxy.

Play each week to win prizes like toques, tees and hats. The top ten high scorers will win admission to RUFF GALAXY: Unleashed, an in-person tournament held in January 2018, where each entrant is competing to win $10,000.00 (CAD) of in-kind video production services provided by Astrodog Media.

What to do.

The only thing standing between me and my fashion empire is signing up for Learn to Sew at Spool and Spindle. Hey look, they have a class tonight, Monday at Dec. 4 at 7 PM. Make it work.

Emily Anglin (who we are honoured to have lost to in the 2016 Community Edition reader's choice awards) will be at Open Sesame this Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 7 PM. She'll be reading from her new book - Third Person (BookThug, 2017). In this new collection of uncanny, darkly humorous short stories, tense professional and personal negotiations between two people become even more complicated when a third person arrives, and disorienting gaps open up between words and reality.

THEMUSEUM's Model Citizens exhibition continues this Wednesday, Dec. 6 at 7 PM with a screening of "Mann" followed by a Q&A with director Kyle Sawyer. "Mann" tells the story of a down and out mannequin who can't let the girl he likes know how he feels.

It's like "Who's Line Is It Anyways" and "The Price is Right" had a baby - Improv Jam is where members of the audience who have done improv before are invited to add their name to the bucket. Each scene a new audience member is drawn from the bucket to join the cast on stage. Thursday, Dec. 7 at 8 PM at Button Factory Arts.

Downtown Kitchener plays host to the annual Christkindl Market from Thursday, Dec. 7 to Dec. 10. Shop over one hundred vendors and enjoy music from 30 live acts during the market.

The CrackBerry.com team is rolling into town for a stop on their Unstoppable Tour this Friday, Dec. 8 at 5:30 PM at Starlight in uptown Waterloo. Head over and check out the BlackBerry KEYone and the new BlackBerry Motion.

KW Glee has three performances this weekend at the Humanities Theatre at the University of Waterloo. Friday, Dec. 8 at 7 PM, Saturday, Dec. 9 at 2 PM and 7 PM, and Sunday, Dec. 10 at 1 PM.

Where to be for...

...Music

I Mother Earth & Finger Eleven
Thurs. Dec. 7 | 7:30 PM
Maxwell's

...Yoga

Yoga and Beer
Sun. Dec. 10 | 3 PM
Starlight Social Club

...Movie

The Room
Sat. Dec. 9 | 9:10 PM
Princess Cinema