House night moves on
After 5 ½ years, HotDish is hanging it up. At First Avenue, anyway. The monthly house night's run in the club's Record Room comes to an end Saturday, but organizers have indicated the four-to-the-floor-and-more party will continue elsewhere. Local house and techno stud Daniel Paul, aka Ghetto, helps HotDish co-conspirators Nate Laurence and J. Mathews close this chapter. (10 p.m., Sat., $5, 18-plus, 701 1st Av. N., Mpls., 612-332-1775, www.first-avenue.com)
Drink it black
Battling deranged soccer moms for discounted electronics at 5 a.m. sounds like a miserable way to spend Black Friday. If cozying up with burly, black beers sounds more appealing, check out the third annual Imperial Black Friday event at Señor Wong — which is now billing itself as SW Craft Bar. In partner with Minnesota Beer Activists, the generically rebranded Lowertown bar will have 12-plus imperial stouts on hand, including 2013 versions of Surly Darkness, Deschutes Abyss and Goose Island Bourbon County Stout. Catch a live Minnesota Beer Cast taping at noon, a bottle giveaway at 3:30 p.m. and live music starting at 5 p.m. (11 a.m. Fri., 111 E. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, 651-224-2019, www.swcraftbar.com)
7 bulls a-bucking?
With Thanksgiving behind us, it's time to intoxicatingly embrace the Christmas spirit. The 11th annual 12 Bars of Christmas hits downtown Minneapolis next Friday. The X-Mas-themed bar crawl blows through 12-plus bars, including the Pourhouse, Rouge at the Lounge, Uncle Buck's and Cowboy Jack's, with proceeds benefiting the St. Paul and Minneapolis Children's hospitals — this is the season of giving, after all. (6 p.m. Dec. 5, $25, 21-plus, www.12boc.com)
MICHAEL RIETMULDER
