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Show The Salt Lake Tribune CALENDAR Friday, December24, 1999 Wasatch Front: year where responsibility takes a backseat and a hangoveris par for the course. Even if you don’t consider Will WeParty Like It’s 1999? yourself a mystical person by na- ture, visiting a fortuneteller on New Year's Eve can be fun. This year, you can get a palm or tarot readingat a few places, including the Oasis Cafe (322-0404), which will have three of Salt Lake City’s @ Continued from E-1 you are one of these people, still wondering what your ideal Y2K Eve plan should be. Maybe you thought you would be too busy hunkering down in the night out. Maybe you are simply a procrastinator. Maybe you just Ogden to view the lasers, special effects and go-go dancers (male and fe- male). Appearances by Father Timeand the GrimReaper are on tap, and the club will havea live video feed from Times Square runningon 25 screens. Provo, are holding First Night community celebrations(see related story). If you are just now sorting out all the options, relax. There is plenty of time. Here are a few Aslongas you're getting your cards or palm read, might as well throwina little exotic entertainment as well. How about a New Year's Eve Millennium Extrava- ts, and if none of them are to your liking, Dick Clark’s show remains fallback choice. ganza from Bellydancing by Thia? Formalities: If you feellike really getting decked to the nines, to impress the better half or a complete stranger, New Year’s Eve is the one night you can wear a tuxedo or evening gown out among your fellow Utahns and lookrelatively normal. Even if you don’t grand dame of champagne, will hover over the dining room at actually attendaformalevent, you canjusttell people you did. Bambara, morphing from oldto young during the evening nominated as Best New Country artists by the American Music Awards. There are a variety of ticket packages for the bullriding/country countdownevent, whichstarts at 7 p.m. (325-7328). Honky Tonkin’: If you want to greet the new year in classic country duds, you caneitherhit a country and western bar, or join the throngs of country music and Something Different: New Year's Eveis, of course,the perfect opportunity to do somethingor go Country artist Chely Wright will follow bull riders at Delta Center. At the Salt Lake Hilton, Jazz (963-5464). swingman Bryon Russell is hosting “Bryon Russell’s Birthday and New Year's Eve Bash,” a formal eventstarting at 8 p.m. and extending long past midnight (467-8499). The Utah Symphonyis another formal option, as the symphony celebrates the New Year with guest vocalist Michael Maguire, performing the best of Broadway and swing-era tunes, along with a tribute to Frank Sinatra, beginning at 10 p.m, at AbravanelHall. After the concert, guests can catch a fireworks display before dancing until 2 a.m. in the North Lobbyof the Salt Palace to the sounds of the Dan Waldis ‘Trio (955-2787). Deer Valley’s Snow Park Lodgewill host a formal dinner featuring its renowned food buffet, with dancing until 12:30 a.m. ( 37), and Bambara, the restaurant in the Hotel Monaco, is having a dinner with a wide selection of specialty wines for the evening. After er, Bambara diners can head to the Hotel Mo- naco Ballroom for music by Straight No Chaser anda “lavish chocolatebar.” As a bonus,a holo- rodeo fans sure to descend on the Delta Center. somewhere you normally would neverthink about. For millions of Americans,this is the one night a At the Grecian Gardens Restaurant (262-7822), the belly dancers are one part of the dinnerentertainment,along with Greek dance lessonsandlive Greek music. Taking on someoneelse's personality through a finely tuned costume is another option. The Rhino Grille and Monkey Bar (262-6776) is hosting a costume- optional, five-course dinner, and the Salt Lake City Airport Hil- ton has a masqueradeball, com- plete with a dinnerand fireworks display, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Utah AIDS LArnsaa . Pidiitee PERRI ek OE Side Effects ing music spanning several centuries such as Gregorian chant and ticket for your memorable millen nium bash. Las Vegas, of course, is always a party, and on New Year’s Eve, if you are willing to pay exorbitant ticket prices, you can celebrate the new year with the works of Francisco Guerrero, Anton Brucknerand Arvo Part. At midnight, the historic cathedral bells will chime in the new year. schedule. Snowbird, in addition to those events, has the Duke Ellington Orchestra, led by longtime member Charlie Young, performing 100 years of music in the Cliff Lodge Ballroom (800-947-8227). Both Snowbird and Deer Valley have millennial activities for the kids, too. Sundance (223-4849)is hosting a millennium partyaswell, in the Sundance Rehearsal Hall. Music from the past and present and a giant projection screen with images of the past century should make the Sundance event somewhat unique amongtheresorts. Ogden/Provo:Bothcities are having community First Night events, but there is more. At the Provo Marriott Hotel (377-4700), Hunt Mystery and Company are staging “Magic Is Murder,” an interactive evening of “comedy, dance and a death-defying escape from a machine with 24-inch stainless steel blades.” And the Ogden Radisson Hotel (800-3333333) will fill its Crystal Ballroom with the sounds of R&B and Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, The Beach Boys, The Cult, Hall and Oates, Don Rickles, Dread Zeppelin, Frankie Avalon, The Gap Band, The Guess Who, Pat Benatar, The Platters, REO Speed wagon, Robert Goulet, Rod Stewart, Rodney Dangerfield, Santana, Slaughter, The Smothers Broth ers, Starship, Stevie Nicks, Tony Bennett or Wayne Newton. Wow, how to choose? Staying Home: Perhaps you ai still not convinced that leaving homeis worth your while on New Year's Eve. Maybe youjust have to see what Y2Kwill do to the world before you greet the Year 2000. That is a logical approach, and you might as well spend yourtime at home listening to America’s favorite conspiracy theorist, Art Bell, as his “Coast to Coast AM” program startsat a special time to track the movement of the Y2K computer bug across the conti nent. Bell will be on the air for eight hours, beginning at 8 p.m. MST, with “famousfuturist” Gor- don Michael Scallion as his guest for thefirst three hours. Bell can be heard on 570-AM in Salt Lake City and various smaller stations throughoutthestate. oteee Foundation. Atrip to a churchis certainly a different vibe for New Year’s Eve, but The Cathedral of the The homeofthe Jazzis hosting the Professional Bull Riders Bud Light CupSeries opener, with thetop 45 bull riders in the world vyingfor the Salt Lake City Open championship. Whatbetter way to ring in a new year than watching cowboys take the rides of their lives, eight seconds at a time? Af- er thebull riding, the Colossal Country Countdownto the Millennium will take over the arena, featuring two of country’s female up-and-coming acts. Chely Wright wonthe Academy of Country Music’s Top New Female Vocalist award in 1996, and Magna natives SHeDAISY were recently Pde a 1 1 : 6) CELEBRATE THE <o MILLENNIUM IN COMFORT! EVERY PIANO AT THE AIRPORT COMFORTINN ON SALE!! (200 NO. ADMIRAL BYRDRD.) 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