A who had pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State was arrested this week for reportedly planning to attack diners at a restaurant or bar with a machete on New Year’s Eve.
A woman's New Year's Eve was ruined when she narrowly missed the ferry to Vancouver and couldn't convince the station staff to let her board after the cutoff time. With her boat about to depart without her, she threw a tremendous, last-ditch temper tantrum that has rocked Canada's national sense of politeness and…
It's New Years Eve on an island in Turks and Caicos. Sitting at a small beach bar is a leathery white-haired ghost who sometimes still haunts Johnny Depp. Nightmare teen Justin Bieber enters the room.
This excruciating video of an impromptu dance party-turned-protest-turned-mass arrest on Manhattan's Lower East Side is a perfect reminder of why you should never leave the comfort of your own apartment, under any circumstances, especially on New Year's Eve.
According to the Associated Press, at least 36 people died and another 47 were injured after a Shanghai New Year's celebration turned into a deadly stampede.
According to a report from DNAinfo's Murray Weiss, the NYPD is investigating social media death threats against cops from alleged gang members who are apparently promising to turn tonight's New Year's Eve celebrations into "Kill a Pig Night." But who are these violent tweeters? Do they exist at all?
Smoochy smoochy smooch. New Year's Eve is but two days away. Who you gonna kiss come midnight? For no discernible reason, Quinnipiac University conducted a poll: "Would you rather ring in 2015 on a date with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Gov. Andrew Cuomo or NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio?"
Last Week Tonight won't officially return until Feb. 8, but John Oliver keeps popping up to make delightful videos about how dumb and terrible the holidays are. On the chopping block this week: New Year's Eve, a.k.a The Worst.
A Bloomington, Indiana, woman who found her soulmate on New Year's Eve is searching high and low for the missing Casanova who neglected to leave behind his contact information before disappearing into the night shortly after peeing on her leg.
[The ground of New York City's Times Square early New Year's Day was littered with confetti, garbage, and Lord knows what else. In the distance, you can see Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, an exclusive restaurant that sold New Year's Eve party tickets for $679. Photo by Tine Fineberg via AP]
New Year's Eve: if it's not impossible to find something fun to do, it always feels like something more fun is going on somewhere else. Like — to pick a name out of thin air here — the Applebee's in Times Square, where you can attend a NYE bash this year for the low, low price of... $375!
Welcome to The 12 Days of Thatz Not Okay, a special holiday edition of a regular column in which I school inquiring readers on what is and is not okay. Check back tomorrow for our next seasonal installment. As always, please send your questions (max: 200 words) to caity.weaver@gawker.com with the subject "Thatz Not…
A man in search of the ultimate meet-cute story has taken to Facebook in the hopes of finding a woman he met last New Year's Eve after they both got lost.
Fireworks: By now you've seen them all.
Kathy Griffin continued her annual New Years Eve tradition of making her CNN cohost Anderson Cooper squirm and giggle in front of the massive crowd in Times Square and the families watching at home. Cooper's coming out this year apparently had no effect on his attitude toward getting felt up by Griffin in public…
PR email blasts take on a kind of terrifying, poetic majesty at this time of year. Some caps become all caps; "don't-miss" becomes "can't-miss"; I have now read the words "burlesque" and "cabaret" so many times that they have lost all meaning. Everything is burlesque. All things are burlesque. Nothing is burlesque.…
Jessica Biel stopped by tonight's Late Show to chat with David Letterman and promote New Year's Eve, rom-com king Garry Marshall's star-studded regurgitation of 2010's inexplicably successful Valentine's Day. At one point, Letterman read Biel a list of about 15 of her A-list co-star to see how many of them she'd…
Here's a new full-length trailer for the upcoming ensemble romcom New Year's Eve, director Garry Marshall's second attempt, after the catastrophe that was Valentine's Day, to tap into Love Actually's sprawling charm. Yuck.
As if the throngs of screaming crowds weren't already bad enough in Times Square for New Year's Eve, it was announced today that Lady Gaga will perform at the annual event. Now it's just going to throngs of screeching teenage girls and homosexuals howling into the cold winter air for their idol. That's the last thing…
Here's the trailer for New Year's Eve, an upcoming ensemble film from rom-com king Garry Marshall. The movie follows several couples (and some poor singles) around New York City on the last day of the year—where they all become intertwined in some way, naturally—and looks to be a carbon copy of Marshall's last…
