Can’t decide where to rock ‘n roll this New Year’s Eve? Then you can toast with the bubbly,throw confetti, and in some cases, dance the night away. Reserve your spot at one of these local parties:
Diva Lounge, may have the biggest party in town, offering dinner, open bar, dancing, live music after midnight by hip hop masters Sugarhill Gang and festive party favors to make your New Year’s so much fun, that the next day you’ll say it was worth the hangover. General Manager, Erin Taggert, has promised that the Lounge won’t be overcrowded, and they expect the age mix of young and young at heart to keep the fires burnin’ until 4 AM! Before midnight, the three deejays will get you rocking with Old School, Hip-Hop, and Reggaeton. Have dinner & cocktails for $140 beginning at 8pm, or just come for your favorite drinks at 10:30 pm ($100). Both party packages include premium open bar featuring specialty Diva cocktails and a champagne toast at midnight. All taxes and gratuities included.
Church Street Cafe, will nourish and quench all of you First Nighters with mealtimes complicated by the top entertainment you are dying to see. Church Street Café’s Holiday Festival 2006 includes the following options: the full dinner menu, a special $50 prix-fixe menu, a first brunch from 11:30 pm until 1:30 am, as well as drinks and snacks outside. Upstairs at Church will feature dancing with the Kevin Reilly Quartet from 9:30 p.m. until 1:00 a.m.
Palazzo, has a full wine bar, prix fixe menu and live jazz playing all night until the countdown to 2006. The first seating, 5-7 pm offers a 3 course menu; their second seating, from 8 pm to midnight, offers a 5 course menu, with a complimentary champagne toast.
Round Trip Fare is offering a special menu for New Year’s Eve; celebrate with champagne, wine, beer or whatever strikes your fancy from the bar.
Raymond’s, does not require reservations, and with dinner seatings until midnight, you can still catch both sets of Richie Havens and get a nice meal from their full menu plus specials. BYO, they’ll supply the noisemakers and balloons. Can’t make it that evening? Visit them for New Year’s Brunch on Dec. 31st and Jan. 1.
Jump and Jive at Just Jake’s, where for a $75 admission you"ll enjoy an outrageous dance band, New Power Soul, a premium open bar, hot appetizers, champagne toast, and party favors, 9:00 pm – 2:30 am.
For more dining options, go here.
Not that anybody cares, but you won’t find me in any of these fine establishments. I shall spend last day of the year looking for a hole to get sick in.
walleroo…sounds like my end of year to do list
What about some of the local jazz places? Trumpets? or that dinner show place?
walleroo, if you’re really feeling ill, so be it. Get well soon.
But if you’re really looking for a hole to get sick IN, then I can suggest many fine north Jersey establishments, all of which require an up to date tetanus shot before you use the rest rooms, and perhaps a rinse with Kwell after you’ve visited them too. Just let me know.
It might also behoove you, walleroo, whatever your physical condition, to simply stop your whimpering about it. You could certainly use a little bit more John Wayne about you, so I’ve noticed.
I just cannot bring myself to watch John Wayne movies. He doesn’t do it for me. (Though if he had landed one of the leading roles in Brokeback Mtn, I might have reconsidered.) Now Clint Eastwood–there’s a role model.
Wallero-what’s up? Is there anything we can do? I personally haven’t had the best of years- presently in the middle of a vicious tax audit, health and family probs but hell man…
lyrics taken from BIG COUNTRY:
So take that look out of here it doesn’t fit you
Because it’s happened doesn’t mean you’ve been discarded
Pull up your head off the floor? come up screaming
Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
But you can’t stay here with every single hope you had shattered
I’m not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
But I can live and breathe
And see the sun in wintertime
In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover’s voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive
May the New Year bring you all Health,Financial well being, and Happiness.
walleroo, he who rejects the Duke also rejects “The Searchers” at great peril to his immortal soul. There is no greater screen meditation on race relations, and perhaps even on manhood itself (instead of on the self-absorbed moaning that is much of “Brokeback Mountain”, than that John Ford movie offers up. (Save perhaps in “The Unforgiven,” which conveniently is also from an Ala LeMay novel.)
Boyfriend and I will be doing the Midnight Run (4 miles) in Central Park.
A happy & healthy New Year to everyone.
First Night Montclair 2006
Presented by The Township of Montclair in association with
Arc Properties and JP Morgan Chase Bank
A Celebration of the New Year with Family and Friends!
First Night Montclair 2006 will ring in the New Year with an exciting lineup of sophisticated entertainment in an alcohol-free community event. First Night is a unique way for friends, neighbors and families to get together to celebrate the New Year and enjoy an affordable and memorable evening in the heart of Montclair’s bustling downtown. Last year’s revitalized First Night saw over 5000 revelers, and this year’s program promises to be bigger and better than ever.
Our premier acts for 2006 include music legend Richie Havens, world-renowned mentalist the Amazing Kreskin, Nickelodeon Live! with special guests Dora the Explorer and Diego and Children’s Folk Singer Tom Chapin. Other diverse musical acts, artistic programs and cultural events have been carefully chosen to appeal to many tastes and styles. The event will be held throughout Downtown Montclair. There’s something for everyone to enjoy!
Richie Havens
One of the most gifted and recognizable voices in popular music, Richie Havens’ fiery, poignant, soulful singing style has remained unique and ageless since he first emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960’s. His is a voice that has inspired and electrified audiences from the Woodstock Music & Arts Fair in 1969 to the present day.
The Amazing Kreskin
With a showman’s flair, a comedian’s wit, and capacities that only a bona fide mentalist can posses and profess, The Amazing Kreskin (a Montclair native) has, for over four decades, dramatized the unique facets of the human mind. Kreskin is constantly challenging the impossible with amazing results and his performance will make you a believer. One show only!
Nickelodeon Live!
The world’s most popular children’s television network brings action, excitement and yes, slime to First Night Montclair. This interactive performance is built on audience participation and is sure to generate squeals of laughter and plenty of smiles from kids young and old. Please note: seating is limited and the audience will be arranged on a first come, first served basis. Popular characters Dora the Explorer and Diego will make an appearance to delight children of all ages.
Tom Chapin
Tom Chapin’s contemporary folk and pop music spans generations and is a joyous look at being a kid. For more than thirty years, Chapin has entertained, amused and enlightened audiences of all ages with life-affirming original songs told in a sophisticated array of musical styles. Tom’s remarkable musicianship, great songwriting and personal warmth shine through each performance.
Some of the night’s other highlights include:
· Opening Ceremony and Procession – 7 PM – Church Street and Bloomfield Ave
· The New Jersey Ballet
· Sweet Georgia Brown – Blues by the last of the Red Hot Mamas
· Robin Spielberg – Classical Pianist
· Patience Moore – Children’s folk singer
· Roman Lankios – Strolling musician
· Division East – Skateboard demo
· The Persuasions – Doo Wop
· The Heavenly Angels – Gospel
· Dr. Dubious and the Agnostics – Dixieland music
· Square Dancing
· Fireworks and Auld Lang Syne with Drums of Thunder – Midnight – Hillside Playground
Many of Montclair’s businesses will be open until midnight to add to the festive atmosphere and all the events are accessible by foot or through the use of free shuttles available from the Montclair Art Museum and Lackawanna Station/Pathmark
First Night Montclair is the premier New Year’s Eve celebration in NJ. Montclair’s vibrant downtown, the diversity of entertainment and the tremendous spirit of the evening will provide people from all over the region with a New Year’s Eve to remember. Our continuing mission is to broaden and deepen the public’s appreciation of the visual and performing arts through an alcohol free evening of sophisticated entertainment for the entire family. In all its activities and services, First Night Montclair promotes community, creativity and cultural diversity.
Tickets for First Night 2006
$15 for adults
$5 for children (under 12)
Available Online at:
http://www.firstnightmontclair.com
And at the following locations:
Chase Bank
Upper Montclair – 580 Valley Road
Watchung – 17 Watchung Plaza
Downtown – 475 Bloomfield Ave
Kings Supermarkets
Upper Montclair – 650 Valley Rd
West Caldwell – 875 Bloomfield Ave
Verona – 300 Pompton Ave
Also
South End Hardware – 321 Orange Rd
Montclair Municipal Building – Recreation and Cultural Affairs – 205 Claremont Ave
Week preceding the event at 544 Bloomfield Ave (former Screening Zone/Halloween Store)
Information:
For information call – 973.509.4958
or
http://www.firstnightmontclair.com
Hello up there! Can anybody see me beneath this freaking pile of press release gibberish? Jeezus, save it for the Watercooler, puh-leeze!
cstarling, your expressions of concern are deeply appreciated. However, I’m all right. A little battered, a little broken, but don’t worry, it’s only a flesh wound.
I haven’t seen The Searchers, cathar, but I’ll have you know that I’ve just put it at the top of my Netflix queue.
Miss Martta: you go, girl!
And to everyone: every good wish for the new year.
Is there anything going on for the sans-kids, but too mature for the Diva Lounge set?
Cecil’s in Montclair is doing a dinner buffet plus jazz with the T.S. Monk sextet for $75/pp.
Cecil’s in West Orange is doing a dinner buffet plus jazz with the T.S. Monk sextet for $75/pp.
Cecil’s is in West Orange. My bad. Ignore the first post.
wallero-just checking:)
Miss Martha what a great way to approach the New Year-Running-ENJOY
Cathar you keep me challenged!
May the rain hold out–Be Safe!
My own true challenge as I’ve already passed a long skein of New Year’s Eves, clarice, is styaing awake till, say, 1AM. The year has passed in more than once in the last 10-15 years through my snoozing. Why, I’ve even fallen asleep during John Wayne movies, to my eternal shame.
But I too could have done without the press release above, for which this is hardly the proper venue. Press releases like this one are simply so much determinedly upbeat persiflage.
Nonetheless, to all (the word “all” is somewhat easier to type of late, if never a breeze to my partisan fingers) who come here, a grand, happy, continued verbally contentious and edifying 2006.
I’ll be spending New Year’s Eve with friends in Bloomfield (house party). New Year’s Day with my wife at home, and a few lobsters and bottles of champagne. Life is good.
Watch those claws, Jim. And have a good one. Cheers.
Watch your Champagne, Jim, them lobstahs have been known to drink it all up on you, by God.
persiflage…”light good-natured talk or banter”
I installed software on my computer which allows me to dictate without typing. Kinda cool, but kinda creepy, too.
Anyhoo, meeting up with some friends tonight at Egan’s around 6-ish.
Actuslly, Iceman, it also means raillery or idle, hollow chatter, which seems to sum up so many press releases.
And I was expecting readers here to know the word. Do you mean to tell me that the same posters who can so readily divine the mind of President Bush, who can sum up our Iraq policy with a few obscenities, who are so bold as to take on Plofker and Mayor Remsen here, wouldn’t know the definition of a word applicable to various political gasbags? Nah, it couldn’t be.
Happy 2006 anyway.
LOL, cathar…now I need to work in my other fave new word…gasconade!
(sounds)
My favorite (recording is a little hot, keep the volume low)
for Walleroo (can you guess who that was? a hint)
for cathar
So, tak a cup o’kindness yet and have a happy new year.
p.s. My favorite verse is the last one. (lest there be any doubt of the song’s Scottish origin)
will it be possible to get into the kweskin,,or richie havens concerts in all reality?..or will the waiting hipsters make it a bit impossible…?
will it be possible to get into the kweskin,,or richie havens concerts in all reality?..or will the waiting hipsters make it a bit impossible…?
Very cute there, ROC, cute and funny!
In the original version of “The Four Feathers” (not the ghastly “updating” that had Heath Ledger pouting over Goldie Hawn’s equally frivolous offspring), the band at the pier in fact plays ‘Auld Lang Syne” as the British Army sails off to fight in the Sudan against the Mahdi. And there’s quite a bit of relevance now in that scene to our own battles against Islamofascist “insurgents.”
SENORITA’S MEXICAN GRILL is having their first annual “Mexican Blitz” New Year’s Celebration. For $65.00 fix price they will have an open bar, buffet with your favorite Mexican dishes and Italian dishes(it’s Bloomfield after all) DJ,dance, party favors etc. Starting at 8:30p.m. until the cerveza runs out!!!
Aw, gee, thanks, ROC. Hadn’t heard that one. Almost as good as “You Know My Name, Look Up My Number.”