Would you pay $650 for a table at Applebee’s in Times Square to watch the ball drop? Apparently many New Year’s Eve revelers are willing to fork over just that and even more — including $12,500 for a luxury couples package at the Marriott Marquis — to ring in 2024, according to events entrepreneur Joshua … Read more
If Christmas is spent with family, then New Year’s Eve is spent with friends. There have been so many festivities of late that it is hard to believe this will be the first New Year’s Eve without any Covid-19 restrictions and will mark the return of the countdown fireworks in Hong Kong after a five-year … Read more
The Ruby Room in Oakland, Calif., is closing after 24 years. Mariah Tiffany/ Special to SFGATE It’s the end of an era: Iconic Oakland dive bar Ruby Room is closing at the end of the year after 24 years of cheap drinks, moody red lighting and cigarette smoke, as first reported by Oaklandside. The decision … Read more
