Repeat after me this mantra for sanity during the biggest shopping day of the year: You are an enlightened consumer. You are not tricked by big-box stores chanting cheapo prices on flat-screens, golf clubs, and the newest GameBoy Color – or whatever video game handhelds are in right now. I sort of stopped looking after the age of 15, to be honest! Local cool lit spot Alienated Majesty helps keep your worst sale impulses at bay by offering not doorbuster deals but the cold dark comforts of heavy metal. That’s right: All Friday they’ll be blasting dirges while you shop neat niceties. Special for this year, they’ve got Honduran Creole food pop-up Five O Four slinging pastelitos from 2 to 5pm. – James Scott