You’re going to drink coffee on December 24 anyway — so you might as well drink it at Peet’s Coffee and Tea. On Christmas Eve day, Peet’s is offering complimentary fresh-brewed coffee and encouraging customers to make a donation, which will benefit local nonprofit organizations. Peet’s will match each dollar donated, up to $1000 per store. Contact your local Peet’s for information.
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Legendary Harte, Soft sell, Persistence of memory, More 
- Legendary Harte
Rick Harte literally suffered to stake out his role in Boston music history.
- Soft sell
Sing! isn’t just the emphatic title of Tiger Saw’s third and most recent full-length on Kimchee Records: it’s also the rotating-member-band’s manifesto.
- Persistence of memory
Though you don’t need to know anything about Elvis Perkins’s colorful and, at times, deeply tragic family history to appreciate his debut album, significant details can’t help but call out to you.
- Shopping advice from the star
If anyone in Maine knows how to shop with gusto, it’s the Marden’s lady.
- Grab bag
The 9th Annual Rhythm & Roots Festival hits Charlestown this weekend, in its traditional and very effective Labor Day weekend slot on the calendar.
- Local jokers
Local government is full of boobs.
- Naughty or nice?
Portland-area residents do pretty well when it comes to horrendous light displays. Slideshow: Portland holiday displays
- A change is gonna come
I was raised in the south. It was the 1950s. The civil-rights movement was just getting started. Nobody in my fourth-grade class considered it unusual when our teacher told us racial segregation was the “natural” state of humanity.
- Help wanted
I can’t speak for everyone, but I’d take a painting over a snowflake sweater any day of the week.
- Soft thrusts
Seeking the gore-porn stimulations of mutilations, leather, and fellatio to get your Halloween on? Well, Players’ Ring is offering severed fingers, wanton women with whips, and a very, very demanding master, not to mention a mordant punchline. Rolling Die Productions does it all in the spirit of the early 20th-century French horror spectacles of the Grand Guignol Theater.
- Madness and mayhem
So you think that ghosts and goblins and vampires and werewolves are pretty scary creatures even when it’s not Halloween, hmmm? Well, that’s perfectly natural, but there’s one word in that sentence that lords it over every gibbering monster ever conceived: think.
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