If Times Square is too gaudy, crowded, and frankly insane for you, then there is another New York tradition worth your New Year's Eve—one that is, in fact, ending tonight. For the past fifty years, the Pratt Institute has set out its amazing collection of big old steam whistles out on the lawn of its Brooklyn campus. Tonight's your last chance to steam blast your way into the new year.
New Year's Eve countdown balls tend to be large, sparkly. What they tend not to be are arboreal marsupials. Not so for Brasstown, North Carolina. In the "possum capital of the south," possums are the traditional marker lowered into a cheering crowd to symbolize the end of the year.
The first time you see someone sabre a bottle of Champagne a series of thoughts run through your mind:
In 2012, dash cams introduced themselves to the world. In 2013, dash cams started breaking worldwide news. In 2014? Things got weird.
The bright ball that hovers over Times Square on New Year's Eve is a little bit reborn this year. Sure, it's iconic and colorful and mesmerizing as it always is. This year, however, the ball will captivate the world with 288 new crystals. And, boy, is it pretty.
New Year's Eve is the Las Vegas of holidays: An overhyped, boozy moneypit beloved by thirsty amateurs and precision-engineered to facilitate paralyzing morning-after regrets that are only tolerable if you're 10000% booty-faced. There is no app that will make it *good* but some apps can make it less bad.
Every year, casual wear enthusiast and Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg embarks upon a singular self-betterment goal. Past goals have included learning Mandarin and only eating animals he personally murdered. But for 2015? Zuckerberg doesn't have a goal set yet, and is crowdsourcing for suggestions.
Sony Pictures has officially opened the floodgates. According to THR, the company announced that The Interview, that one comedy with all the North Korean hacking and terrorist threats and lukewarm reviews, is now available on almost every digital streaming platform available, including Cable VOD services from Bright House Networks, Comcast, Cox Communications, Time-Warner Cable, Charter Communications, Cablevision, AT&T Uverse, FiOS, DirecTV, and VUDU.
