Have a ball on New Year's Eve
December 11, 2003
Staying around Seattle for New Year's Eve? Here are a few parties and events that you might want to check out.
Club Medusa, on the corner of Western and Bell streets, is hosting a New Year's Eve New York Style party with DJ Princess Superstar from, you guessed it, New York City. Tickets are $40 in advance ($50 at the door).
The Experience Music Project has an all-ages party with Maktub and the United State of Electronica. Tickets are $30 for this 9 p.m. show and party.
The Lights and The Divorce play the New Year's Eve Christmas Croc Spectacular at the Crocodile Cafe. There will be a champagne toast at midnight and free plastic hats and noisemakers. Tickets are $15.
KISS 106.1 and The Seattle Weekly present the Absolut New Year's Party with four floors of fun and dancing, including Left Hand Smoke and Dudley Manlove Quartet, among others. Tickets are $35 for the 21-and-over celebration.
Chop Suey hosts the second Jalwa New Year's Eve Celebration with Peter Madril. Tickets are $20 for this 21-and-over show.
Pretty Girls Make Graves follows its recent UW appearance with a New Year's show at the Graceland. The Catheters and Hint Hint open this 9 p.m. show. It's all ages.
Consolidated Works hosts its 21-and-over Heaven and Hell Ball with The Long Winters, Lifesavas, The Decemberists and others. Tickets are $20 in advance ($25 at the door).
The Radisson Hotel is hosting a 21-and-over New Year's party. Tickets are $45 for this 9 p.m. celebration.
The Showbox has a 21-and-over Funk Night to celebrate the new year. Pricing and times are yet to be announced.
If none of these work out for you, then there are always about 50,000 people gathered under the Space Needle for the annual fireworks show.
Other celebrations and traditions:
Times Square, New York
This is quite possibly the world's most famous New Year's celebration, with more than half a million people gathering every year in the heart of Manhattan to celebrate the new year. Traffic in the world's busiest intersection is stopped for hours beforehand, and all the attention is focused on a six-foot crystal ball that weighs more than half a ton.
The Las
Vegas Strip
For those old enough to gamble, Las Vegas is a prime New Year's destination. With a fireworks show that costs half a million dollars and lasts for eight minutes, this celebration is a massive production that those of age are sure to love.
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