"New Year's Eve" is the second in a remarkably shallow series of holiday-themed, celebrity-stuffed confections from director Garry Marshall and screenwriter Katherine Fugate, following their 2010 "Valentine's Day" collaboration. Of course, the really good stuff will come once they get to "Columbus Day," or maybe, just maybe, "Ash Wednesday."

Alternative rock band Lit and ’80s new wave artists The Fixx will serve as half of the headlining acts at Scottsdale’s Ultimate Block Party on New Year’s Eve.

December 2, 2004

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The Gilbert Mayor's New Year's Eve party will be 8 p.m. to midnight Dec.31 at the McQueen Park Activity Center, 510 N. Horne St. The family-friendly event includes a band playing music from the 1960s and '70s, a center for "tweens" ages 5-12 sponsored by Brunswick XL Bowling, and day care for younger kids. Admission is $5 per family or $2 per person, and food will be available for purchase. The event is alcohol- and tobacco-free.

Light-rail officials are doing their part to get New Year's Eve revelers off the roads and into the trains.

Gilbert’s annual Mayor’s New Year’s Eve Party will be quite the show, organizers say.

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand's prime minister said Monday that ousted politicians rather than Muslim insurgents were likely behind the bombings that killed three people and canceled New Year's Eve festivities for thousands of revelers.

NEW YORK - Mariah Carey will perform live from Times Square on ABC's "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve." It will mark the first time in the 34-year history of the year-end special that a singer has performed from Times Square, the network said.

Time is ticking down with the year 2006 just hours away, yet some would-be partygoers still don’t know where they’ll be when the ball drops.