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Archive New Year’s Eve
Seemingly the entire world celebrated the arrival of 2015 the same way Americans do: with bombastic fireworks displays. Those who checked out Snapchat’s New Year’s Eve story were treated to colorful explosions in Brazil, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, Scotland, and of course Times Square. But the biggest display of all may have been this incredible video of basically the entire population of Manilla (the biggest city in the Philippines) setting off fireworks at midnight. More
Boston uber-supergroup Animal Hospital Ensemble has played at the Hynes Convention Center (in large ballrooms) on the last two New Year’s Eves. This year though, they’ll be playing the sound-space of the convention center itself. More
HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” is still on hiatus until 2015, but the host has returned in a web exclusive to help articulate what many of us have long realized: New Year’s Eve is the worst holiday of the year. More
Going out on New Year’s Eve is tricky business. If you’re not careful, you could wind up sardined in with a bunch of strangers, holding a $20 flute of bad champagne and struggling to muster some remaining enthusiasm for “Blurred Lines.” But it’s time to leave 2013 — and Robin Thicke — behind. This New Year’s Eve, mark the passing of time among friends, cathartically dancing to timelessly good music. If you’re down, the Together crew has you covered. They’ll be showcasing some of Boston’s finest DJs at Great Scott Tuesday, including the great DJ Kon. While he packs dance floors around the world, luckily for us, Kon will be ringing in the new year at home. Better still, as we wrap up 2013, the master DJ, who has over two decades of experience under his belt, agreed to share some of his favorite tracks of this and other years gone by. More
When partying with style, you can’t do it all. What you can manage to do, though, you should enjoy with great gusto. Enjoying Boston’s annual First Night celebration is no different. Rescued from the jaws of recession in October (in a last-minute effort led by the city and donors like the Highland Street Foundation), the city’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration was about to be absent from the environs of the Back Bay for the first time this year since 1975. And as part of his swan song campaign, Mayor Thomas Menino announced in a November press conference that this year’s “new day” for Boston’s First Night would be “bigger and better.” More
New Year’s Eve can be overwhelming. You can spend a lot of money to get into a bar, just to spend even more money to buy drinks. You can host a party of your own and run out of PBR before midnight. You can even going into the red dropping a pretty penny on a multiple course meal at a classy restaurant. Instead, create a musical memory. Here are 10 places around Boston where you can catch some of the best shows to ring in 2014. More