December in Minnesota always feels like a choose-your-own-holiday-adventure, and this week, the options swing from sugarplum surges to noir-tinged radio chaos to a rock opera still sparking after 50 years.

Whether you’re leaning cozy, classic or a little unruly, the season’s full glow is sitting right there waiting for you to claim it.

The Big Wu with Kiss the Tiger at First Avenue — Dec. 13

The Big Wu have been swapping grooves and goodwill since their St. Olaf dorm-room dawn, expanding a homebuilt jam-band cosmos powered by long-form improv, loose-limbed harmonies and a fan community that behaves less like an audience and more like extended kin.

At First Avenue, they’ll unfurl the songs that turned them into local fixtures, with Kiss the Tiger lighting the fuse on the front end. It’s

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