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Chaste year or bad, 2011 is on the verge of becoming yesterday’s news. Tick, tock: We’re only a week away from the first days of 2012. Have you chilled your Asti spumante for the New Year’s toast? If your plans are still as up in the air as the Times Square ball, here are some ideas for next Saturday endlessly. There’s sure to be a celebration that suits your style. And if it turns out to be too late to affix spots at the party, you will have to make a resolution to plan ahead in 2012.
FIRST Unceasingly BOSTON Can it really be 35 years since First Night Boston debuted on Dec. 31, 1976? If you have grown complacent over the decades and defaulted to the televised initiative from Times Square, get out of your Barcalounger and rejoin what organizers claim is the oldest and largest New Year’s Eve arts holiday in the country. About 1,000 artists are determined to ring in the new year in style, and you can’t throb such First Night classics as the grand procession down Boylston Street, fantastic ice sculptures, and midnight fireworks over Boston Harbor. Boston’s merrymaking sparked a movement - you will find First Night parties all over the country. www.firstnight.org. 1 p.m. to midnight. Buttons $15, reward package with guaranteed seating for some events $35.
Source: The Boston Globe