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Celebrate New Year's With Food, Music, Drinks

Some good meals, good shows and fun this weekend.

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it.

Each week, we’ll tell you about one great idea to give you a much deserved break, and make your life a little easier, maybe a whole lot easier.

But this weekend is New Year’s, the start of a whole new year, and, honestly, a night to have a little bit of fun and celebrate the year that was. So we’ve got for you a list of things to do this weekend to celebrate 2011 and usher in 2012 with a fun, albeit safe, bang.

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  • Looking to end 2011 by solving a good murder? Head over to on Commons Way Saturday for a murder mystery dinner, complete with a show, four-hour bar and full service dinner to last the entire evening. The event lasts from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., so you can eat good food, have a little to drink and solve a roaring 1920s murder mystery as 2012 begins. The cost is $125 a person.
  • Head to a New Year’s Eve Bash at , beginning at 9 p.m. Saturday. The restaurant will feature live music from “Who’s Your Daddy?” with country rock music, in addition to a food buffet and champagne toast.
  • New Year's Eve fun begins at 9 p.m. at the Tap Room in Warren, with a two-hour buffet, an entertaining DJ, champagne toast and the accessories and party hats you need to kick the new year off right. And you can book one of the Somerset Hills Hotel's deluxe guestrooms and admission for two to the New Year’s Eve Bash in the Tap Room Lounge for just $139.
  • Warren's Uproot Restaurant promises a special dinner for your New Year's Eve celebrations, with a three-course dinner and champagne toast at midnight. The dinner includes a seasonal preparation served up as the Amuse Bouche, and the three courses include such delights as Lobster Bisque, Honey crisp apple salad with bitter greens and marinated grilled shrimp, roasted Branzino with shallot jalapeño salsa, and ... well, there's too much—check the complete menu posted on the restaurant's website, and let the mouth-watering begin.

Did we leave out any amazing New Year's parties this weekend? Let us know in the comments!


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