The Holiday Craft Market at the Brooklyn Lyceum!

Oh, the holidays--the season of giving, family togetherness, and heart attack-inducing stress levels. Children are demanding toys more technologically advanced than my macbook, and wives are expecting diamonds to make up for last year's surprise paper shredder.

But have no fear! The Brooklyn Lyceum has the solution to all your gift-giving dilemmas. So sit back and procrastinate, because on December 19-20 you can head on over to the Holiday Craft Market and find gifts that are truly sui-generis, from the bottom of your heart and the heart of Brooklyn, too.

From 11 a.m.-7 p.m., you can browse the stands of 60+ local crafty vendors until you've stocked up on stocking stuffers and presents for the whole of your extended family. Admission is free, so you'll have even more cash to spend on the people you love, or maybe a little extra to buy yourself one of Mogador's falafels.

the daily [mis]haps

There was a time before repairmen, before the giant silver platter we call mass-production served us our every whim for the low low price of a five minute walk to the convenience store. Well, it's time to put those opposable thumbs to good use at The Fixer's Collective. Have a broken anything? Evil wire-breathing umbrella?Whip out those tools every Thursday at Proteus Gowanus and rediscover what it means to be self-reliant.

Maybe too hands-on and not enough indie-glam to satisfy your needs? Check out the Brooklyn Indie Market in Carroll Gardens, where this saturday you can witness the steampunk fashion show.

If you have yet to take advantage of the musicopia of indie bands inundating New York as part of the CMJ Music Festival, then you owe it to your indie-deprived ears to hit up the FREE show tonight at the Bell House hosted by the Gothamist and Brooklyn Based.