Dark Matters: The Alternative New Year's Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza

More than 150 artists, including spoken-word performers E. J. Antonio, Adam Falkner and Jon Sands, take the mic at this 17th annual wordfest. Get a jump on your do-gooder New Year’s resolutions, too: Donate your unwanted tomes to Books Through Bars, which provides educational materials to inmates, and bring canned food for Urban Pathways, an organization that helps homeless adults.