• Jan. 6: Wine Walk
Wouldn’t you love a chance to stroll down The Strip, sipping on wine and hanging out with your friends? Then all you have to do is head down to the gayborhood on Thursday, Jan. 6, for The Cedar Springs Wine Walk, from 6-9 p.m. Buy your $10 Cedar Springs Merchants Association wine glass, at the tent that will be set up in front of The Round-Up Saloon, and you get to enjoy free wine all evening from participating merchants. You will also get a raffle ticket for a drawing to win a great gift basket filled with goodies from the Cedar Springs Merchants Association. The drawing for the gift basket will be held inside the Round-Up at the end of the event.
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Party like its 2021
It’s New Year’s Eve, and you have PLENTY of options on where and how to spend the last evening of 2021 and the first morning of 2022.
•The Round-Up Saloon offers a barbeque at 8 p.m. and a complimentary champagne toast and cash balloon drop at midnight, followed by a breakfast buffet available until the club closes. Tickets are $30, available at the club or on EventBrite. Check out Facebook.com/events/428971862117904 for details.
• DJ’s Lord Byron, Son of Sam and Red Vamp are spinning the tunes for the Panoptikon Industrial Discoteque’s NYE 2022 Masquerade Party at Elm and Pearl Nightclub in downtown Dallas. Doors open at 8 p.m and the party goes til 2 a.m., with a champagne toast at midnight. Tickets are $20 (unless you were smart and got yours early) and remember, this is a 21-and-up party only. Visit Facebook.com/DallasPanoptikon for details.
• Celebrate the New Year with your pals at JR.’s on New Year’s Eve, including DJ Marge who will be mixing the music all night long. The party starts at 9 p.m. and there will be a champagne toast at midnight along with a cash drop and plenty more. And you can watch the activity on The Strip from JR’s heated Upper Deck patio. There’s no cover, but you gotta be 21 to get in. See Facebook.com/Events/603969533992092 for all the details.
• Raquel Blake and Daphne Rio are hosting their That’s Showbiz drag show at Cedar Springs Tap House, with a countdown to midnight and a champagne toast when the clock strikes 12. There’s no cover, but ou need to call 214-377-7446 to reserve a table.
• Stay classy — or rather, classical — and spend this New Year’s Eve with the Dallas Symphony and it’s tribute to the Viennese tradition. Toast the New Year with lively waltzes from the Strauss dynasty, then, stay afterward to ring in the New Year at the exclusive Meyerson ’Til Midnight after-party. It all starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Meyerson Symphony Center. Visit DallasSymphony.org for more information.
• RAM Party Dallas New Year’s Eve lets you send 2021 out with a bang over at the Gilley’s Dallas event venue. The party starts at 10 p.m. and goes on for six full hours, with music from international DJ GSP from Greece after an opening set by DJ Rue-D. Visit RamPartyNYC.com for tickets.
• It ain’t New Year’s Eve without fireworks, and this year, for the sixth year, Reunion Tower and Hunt Realty Investments Inc. are putting on the only 360-degree, panoramic fireworks spectacular in the Central Time Zone from atop Reunion Tower. The show starts at 11:59 p.m. And it all benefits Children’s Health. Checking outchttp://Facebook.com/Events/177249127934243 for all the details.