nstead of the usual house-party hum drum, why not take your true love to a big Hootenanny? The glossy events that you see in the following pages represent the best NYE feats in the city. Check 'em out, find the one that speaks to you, and nab your tickets. She'll never look at NYE the same way.


Resolution 2007 with Tiesto :: Centre Bell
You will be smoking again by February; your gym membership will lapse; you will not be kinder, you will not eat better, you will not put down the crack pipe. I think hobbies ("vice" has such a negative connotation) are important; we don't want to hear about your job, for god's sake, so take another hit, eat a bacon double cheeseburger and trance-dance yourself into a blissful coronary with mega-DJ, Tiesto and a few thousand of your closest friends. Happy New Year. -S.T.

Tickets are $25 @ www.resolutionnye.com Centre Bell, 1260 De la Gauchetiere Ouest, Montreal, QC More New Year's Eve events



Casablanca NYE :: Place d’Armes Hotel
My New Year's Resolution: I will no longer employ occupatio. For instance, I will not write "here's looking at you, kid," or "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." That would be trite. Superstar chef, Carl Röder, provides a four course dinner of Quebec-Moroccan fusion as belly dancers enhance your hunger (stomachs make you hungry, don't they?) and violinists wander about. Dress like Bogey and beware of national socialists. Again, I am bound by resolution not to write "We'll always have Paris." -S.T.

Tickets are $200 @ 514-842-1887. Doors @ 7:00pm. 55 St-Jacques Street West, Montreal, QC. More New Year's Eve events



System NYE :: System Nightclub
Judgment free: Crescent Street Bars = young, good looking tourists with no baggage and a traveler's romance-related ethos. I'm just saying. System's New Year's event offers an open bar from 8:00pm-11:00pm or, for a fee, all night long, so judge your drinking habits and abilities accordingly. I'm just saying. -S.T.

Tickets are $45 or $99 VIP (open bar, all night) @ Admission www.admission.com System Nightclub, 2020 Crescent Street, Montreal, QC More New Year's Eve events




Countdown 2007:: Le Medley
For one night a year, counting down isn't just for OCDers. DJ Karl B presides over this open-bar, ball-drop watching, dry-hump event. Beware of friction. -S.T.

Tickets are $85 @ Le Medley, or Ticketpro www.ticketpro.ca Doors @ 8:00pm. Le Medley, 1170 Rue Saint-Denis, Montreal, QC More New Year's Eve events




Upper Club NYE 2007:: Upper Club
Figuratively looking down on people is fine and everything, but literally looking down on people is spit-drop fantastic (not to mention, very 2007). DJ Pierre Purpall Jr. drops an eclectic mix of deodorant dance tracks on a swank seat crowd. -S.T.

Tickets are $70 @ 514-924-7878. Doors @ 9:00pm. Upper Club, 3519 Saint Laurent, Montreal, QC. More New Year's Eve events

You will be smoking again by February; your gym membership will lapse; you will not be kinder...

Final Fantasy :: Orchid Nightclub
Regrettably, sans Owen Pallet and video game free, Orchid's Final Fantasy is an open bar night followed by a free-admission New Year's Day Evening (true, but I really just wanted to write: "year, day, evening;" it was my final word fantasy. Now I just feel empty). -S.T.

Tickets are $65 - $95 @ 514-963-2707 or www.finalfantasymontreal.com Orchid Nightclub and Lounge, 3556 Saint Laurent, Montreal, QC More New Year's Eve events