The Silver Spring Penguin

There’s enough holiday and artsy-fartsy crap going down in Silver Spring this weekend. However, ’tis the season when the entire Penguin staff takes in some good, ole-fashioned debauchery.

This year, it comes courtesy of the AFI Silver Theatre, which rolls the 2003 film “Bad Santa” this weekend and next. The comedy, starring Billy Bob Thornton and the late great Bernie Mac, has all the elements of a holiday classic: sex, swearing, more swearing, and unabashed alcoholism. There’s even a cute fat kid who learns the true meaning of Christmas. Awww!

So fill your cup with good cheer (or whatever’s on tap) and enjoy the weekend!

Friday

8:00 p.m. The Spooky Action Theater presents “Tales of Doomed Love (or Is It Ever Worth It?)” by Andrea Stolowitz. This event takes place at Montgomery College’s Black Box Theater (Philadelphia at Chicago Aves, Takoma Park) and costs $15 per person.

10:00 p.m. Event producer 88 presents Loda, a music and multimedia event, at the Gallery Lounge (1115 East-West Hwy). There is a $10 cover charge.

Saturday

1:00 p.m. Help the Pulmonary Hypertension Association collect enough blue lip prints to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records. Pucker up and make your contribution at the Pyramid Atlantic community-arts store (924 Ellsworth Dr). This event is free, open to the public, and goes until 5:00 p.m.

4:30 p.m. The Imagination Stage presents a free preview of its upcoming production of “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe”. The performance takes place on Ellsworth Drive, between Georgia Avenue and Fenton Street, and is open to the public.

7:00 p.m. The Pyramid Atlantic community-arts store (924 Ellsworth Dr) presents a discussion on how audiences interact with landscapes and cityscapes in contemporary film and video. Featured film makers include Chris Lynn, Mar Solis and Fabienne Gautier. This event is free and open to the public.

8:00 p.m. The Spooky Action Theater presents “Tales of Doomed Love (or Is It Ever Worth It?)” by Andrea Stolowitz. This event takes place at Montgomery College’s Black Box Theater (Philadelphia at Chicago Aves, Takoma Park) and costs $15 per person.

Sunday

10:00 a.m. The AFI Silver Theatre (8633 Colesville Rd) presents Talk Cinema, a screening and discussion of one film that has not yet been released theatrically. Audience members do not know what the film is until they arrive at the theater. (Hint: “Two Oscar winners reunite onscreen for the second time in two years in this unconventional love story,” according to the AFI website.) This event costs $20 per ticket.

2:00 p.m. The Spooky Action Theater presents “Tales of Doomed Love (or Is It Ever Worth It?)” by Andrea Stolowitz. This event takes place at Montgomery College’s Black Box Theater (Philadelphia at Chicago Aves, Takoma Park) and costs $15 per person.

7:00 p.m. The Sonic Circuits festival showcases three groups — Mind Over Matter Music Over Mind, Lost Civilizations, and Blue Sausage Infant — as part of its ongoing experimental-music series. This event takes place at the Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center (8230 Georgia Ave) and costs $5 per ticket.

Photo courtesy of Flickr user Philms.