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Hear your dad’s bird-clock chirp 4 p.m. and remember that you’re 28 years old and living with your parents on the weekends. Then panic because it’s already getting dark outside and you have no plans for the night because all of your single friends have been invited to a wedding inconveniently (!) scheduled on New Year’s Eve. Find yourself feeling unpopular and still depressed after watching UL play like a third-tier grade-school basketball team.
As a 22-year-old, I am relatively new to the adult New Year's Eve scene, so I wasn't sure what to expect when I showed up at Fourth Street Live! this past Saturday. However, I soon saw that it was full of excitement, energy, music, and of course tons of alcohol! There was even a live (free) concert featuring a 70s style band (afros, bell bottoms and all) on the ground floor. The second floor, which holds numerous night clubs featured live DJ music and $5 mixed drinks. Unfortunately, the cover charge to enter the second floor was a whopping $30 for those without VIP tickets.
Children love slumber parties -- it's a fact -- which is the reason why so many look forward to the New Year holiday: it's the one night when many families deem it appropriate for youngsters to stay up past their bedtime to celebrate. The Louisville Zoo has capitalized on this trend this year by offering the first-annual "Zoo Snooze," the wildest way to ring in 2012!
After several lives over the years, Tink's Pub, a local lesbian bar, will once again close its doors after one last hooray on New Year's Eve.
The current incarnation, located at 2235 S. Preston, has been a central Louisville staple for ten years. The bar, which boasts that every night is ladies' night, has provided a great gathering space for ladies (and lots of men too) to shoot pool, play music in the jukebox, play video poker, throw darts, and sing karaoke. It also offered the occasional drag king show.
Before the last cookie is eaten, the last drop of egg nog drank, or the last gift unwrapped this holiday season, people are asking, “What are you doing New Year’s Eve?” With the Christmas rush, it’s easy to be left scampering for an answer. Fret no more! I’ve compiled a list of various options to ring in the new year, whether you’re looking for a big bash or a quiet affair.
Bud light presents Louisville's Biggest New Year's Eve Party on Saturday, December 31! Celebrate with all of your friends at 4th Street as you welcome the year 2012 with live music from 100% Poly and a "Times Square" Ball Drop at Midnight. Plus, register for your chance to win a trip to the 2012 Grammy Awards! For official contest rules, visit http://www.NYELouisville.com. Contact info@4thstreetlive.com to register.
"New Year's Eve" celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in the intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year. -- (C) Warner Bros
For your free tickets while they last, go to gofobo.com/rsvp and enter the code LOUISSJGA.
If for no other reason, you have to appreciate the Hangover Classic 10K run for its tongue-in-cheek playfulness.
The annual New Year’s Day road race takes the attitude that there is no better time to start keeping New Year’s resolutions that the early part of January 1st, and offers those promising to stay in shape an opportunity to make rubber meet road right out of the gate.
The truth of the matter is that a race of this caliber is primarily only interesting to dedicated, h