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SPECIAL EVENT
Creative Connect

Photo by Stephen Stephens

SPECIAL EVENT
Sky Park Fashion Mixer

BENEFIT EVENT
Each One Teach One

Not sure where to go this New Year's Eve? Secrets of the City has you covered. Take a peel through our New Year's Eve Guide to find the perfect event to fit your personality (or level of debauchery). Enjoy a laid back evening with us at the Red Stag Supper Club, get glammed up for a gala, or dance your lights out at a glossy downtown nightclub. No matter where you end up, we hope 2009 is your best year yet!

I can't remember any year in which people were as eager to ring out the old and ring in the new as they are this time. Lots of us just want 2008 to be over with, and we're prepared to stay up till midnight just to make damn sure the year doesn't linger a minute longer.

There is less agreement on the best way to celebrate: one last blow-out for old-times sake, or do we start the living next year's resolutions the night before - you know, living sustainably, and sensibly and within our means? In either case, there are lots of options.

Trying to eat a sustainable diet? One big reason the whole Eating Locally trend has caught on is that a lot of environmentally conscious consumers have started thinking about their carbon footprint. Now a group of Minneapolis restaurants has taken the next big step - composting kitchen wastes to cut down on landfill.

Restaurants produce a lot of trash, and most of it winds up in landfills, where they produce methane, which contributes to global warming. Composting, by contrast, turns the waste into nutrient-rich soil.

THEATER
The Santaland Diaries

I'm still figuring out a lot of this new media stuff - like I have created my own Facebook page, and Twitter account, but I haven't figured out how to use them (or more importantly, why),  and I am still getting the hang of text messaging.

MUSIC
Bella Kosha