Category: New Year

First Night Boston 2023: Boston’s New Year’s Eve Celebration

Boston’s First Night has been a New Year’s Eve celebration of artistic performances, the wonders of the season, and the beginning of a new year. In keeping with this fantastic Boston tradition, the First Night celebration will open 2023 with an array of performances. A series of shows will be performed by Puppet Showplace Theater,…


Forecasters Warn Southern States to Brace for a Wet and Windy New Year

A cold and wet New Year’s Eve is in store for parts of the United States as meteorologists predict rainfall across a large portion of the country. The National Weather Service reported on Dec. 30 that 2023 is ushering in severe storms and potentially damaging winds as a storm line stretching from Texas up to…


An Old Debt Carries Over to a New Year

Commentary “Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.”—Herbert Hoover “Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.”—Benjamin Franklin Eighteen Republican senators voted for the monstrosity known as the $1.7 trillion Omnibus spending bill, thus forever relinquishing their claim to belong to a party committed to less spending, smaller government, and…


Sydney to Shine With Biggest NYE Fireworks

Sydney’s iconic harbour is set to shine on New Year’s Eve with 100,000 pyrotechnic effects lighting up the skyline after two years of muted celebrations. Shedding off social restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, about one million revellers are expected to ring in 2023 in spectacular fashion in what has become an event marked on the…


23 Things to Let Go in 2023

A new year inspires us to reach for new goals and strive for new aims. What if the key to having the best year yet lies not in accumulating, but in letting go? Here are 23 things to consider letting go of in 2023. Jealousy Jealousy and compassion can’t exist simultaneously. If you’re harboring jealousy,…


10 Things to Get Rid of in the New Year

It’s that time of year to embrace fresh starts and say goodbye to old habits. And while many of us focus on personal resolutions — lose weight, spend less, join a gym — your home can also benefit from that “out with the old, in with the new” vibe. Here, 10 things to rid your…


Activities to Look Forward to, Year-Round

One way to make life a lot more delightful is to ensure you’ve always got something to look forward to. When work gets busy or troubles abound, having something on the horizon to look forward to can be just the thing to pull you through with a smile. The start of a new year is…


Giant ‘2023’ Arrives in Times Square Ahead of New Year

NEW YORK—The seven-foot-tall numerals for 2023 arrive in Times Square in preparation for the 2023 New Year’s Eve ball drop. …


Design Recipes: Start the New Year Off Right With This Home Checklist

By Cathy Hobbs From Tribune News Service Ready for that feeling of “out with the old, in with the new”? We’ve all heard of New Year’s resolutions. But what about fixes for your home? The back-burner items that you have been putting off for months can now become front-burner fixes in the new year. Not…


American Christmas, American New Year

The following is adapted from an online presentation recorded at Hillsdale College on Oct. 18, 2022. On the mezzanine floor of the Parker House Hotel in Boston hangs a mirror, still today. In the late fall of 1867, this mirror hung in the apartment at the hotel occupied by the great English novelist Charles Dickens,…