FORMAL—Local label/boutique Tender Loving Empire throws their first-ever Winter Formal—and dressing up is recommended. Playing the festivities are goodtime party-folkers Pancake Breakfast, plus new TLE signees Loch Lomond, backed by a chamber orchestra. Tickets are on sale, but if you bought a gift at the TLE store in the past two weeks, you've already scored a free ticket. NL
w/Aan; The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie, 9 pm, $15
CRAFTY—Holiday shopping rules to live by: shop early, and shop local. You can do both at Reading Frenzy's 15th annual Cheap Art and Craft Show—all the art and crafts on sale are priced under $50, including "Reading Frenzy exclusives" from Nikki McClure and Carson Ellis. AH
Reading Frenzy, 921 SW Oak, 6 pm, FREE