One of these men could be the last DJ you see in 2009.

Planning is for chumps. Which explains why everyone got crap from Things Remembered when you got desperate at the mall around 4:30 on Dec. 24. And it also explains why you have no plans at around 4 p.m. for the last eight hours of New Year’s Eve. So if you want to brush up on what to do, like check out Tiesto at Haze or Z-Trip at Moon, hit up our rundown of all the clubs, bars, celebrities, music and dining available to you tonight. And then try to cram it all in. You’d better get cracking.

By Jason Scavone

Gentlemen, start your plastic cups. (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)

Get your year started right — by involuntarily pounding enough cheap beer to strangle your hangover from tonight in its tiny little hangover crib.

The World Series of Beer Pong returns to the Flamingo Jan. 1 to Jan. 5. Last year, they got more than 800 pongers with Ron Hamilton of Brentwood, N.Y and Michael Popielarski of Massapequa, N.Y of team Smashing Time capturing the $50,000 grand prize. And you thought your college education went to waste.

By Jason Scavone

Adding Champagne to anything does make it kind of miraculous.

It’s like putting a top hat and monocle on your Margarita.

Not sitting still on sour mix, Palazzo’s Double Helix gets all classy on it with the Miracle Margarita, a mix of Ambhar reposado and Grand Marnier with Veuve Clicquot Champagne for a heady, shimmering, golden cocktail served up in a Riedel glass. Champagne and tequila. Look, you’re going to be drinking both of them for New Year’s Eve anyway. May as well cut to the chase.

“We are a wine bar, so we thought we’d put the two together. We have these cocktails that our bartenders have come up with infused with wine,” Double Helix General Manager Raymond Nisi said. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

(Photo by Melissa Reese | SpyOnVegas.com)

Man, if you are going to make your friends join you in the “Thriller” dance, the least you can do is hook everyone up with zombie makeup.

By Jason Scavone

(Photo by Denise Truscello. Additional photos by Shane O’Neal, Gennie Larson.)

Sirius Radio’s Playboy Morning Show host Andrea Lowell married James Kim on Wednesday, with a wedding dinner at Simon and a party at the Playboy Club. That’s just cold, to make a newly-married guy go hang out at the Playboy Club and pose for pictures with bunnies. That’s like taking someone out of a prisoner of war camp, feeding him a big buffet and then make him hang around a bunch of steaks.

Over at N9NE Steakhouse, UFC head Dana White had dinner with Shane Victorino of the Phillies just a few nights after they were hanging out at the Playboy Club. Tuesday night at N9NE, Tampa Bay third baseman Evan Longoria had dinner with a group of 10 that moved up to Moon later in the evening. Who was there to greet him? Dana White, who was with Ultimate Fighter Season 1 winner Diego Sanchez. We’re telling you, either Dana White has his eye on Bud Selig’s job or he’s bringing in a bunch of baseball players to fight. We’re pretty sure Canseco is available.

Activist and actor Ed Begley Jr. was at last night’s Blue Man Group inside The Venetian, while American Idol Season 8 winner Kris Allen brought his band and wife, Katy, to the 9:30 show of Love. He did a set next door at the B.B. King Blues Club after. On Monday, Babyface checked out Mystere and hit Believe on Tuesday.

By Jason Scavone

She gets our vote. For everything. Up to and including President of the World. (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)

Last night’s World MMA Awards forced a bunch of guys who never wear shirts to put on tuxes for the ceremony at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel to witness a triumph of determination, will, fortitude, training and strength. We’re talking about Arianny Celeste repeating as Ring Girl of the Year. It’s a crowning moment in MMA. It’s one more reason boxing is withering: Not enough attention to ring girls. (And the whole part where the fights everyone wants to see can’t get scheduled because there isn’t a sanctioning body strong enough to lay down rules. But mostly, the ring girls.)

Dana White repeated as Leading Man, Brock Lesnar was Breakthrough Fighter of the Year, the Diego Sanchez/Clay Guida match was Fight of the Year and Georges St. Pierre took Fighter of the Year.

By Jason Scavone

Kim Kardashian, seen here enjoying skewered Smurf balls. (Photo by Erik Kabik. Additional photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)

Kim Kardashian brought Brittny Gastineau with her to the pre-New Year’s Eve party at Eva Longoria’s Eve, above Beso at Crystals. Wilmer Valderrama, Will.i.am, Apl.de.ap, Mario Lopez and Tito Ortiz were milling about, too. They were taping for Fox’s New Year’s Eve special tonight. If they really were committed to interesting television, Fox would’ve had Glen Beck interview Kim Kardashian. We’re curious about the conspiratorial relationship between expanding booties and the administration’s plans to tattoo UPC codes on babies, too.

By Jason Scavone

Up for ‘Best N.Y. Giants/Green Mile Crossover Fight.’ (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)

As if a year of violence isn’t its own reward, Fighters Only Magazine hosts the 2009 World MMA Awards tonight at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel, hosted by comic John Heffron. If you can’t be there in person — or you’re just holding out for the $40 all-you-can-drink afterparty at Wasted Space — it’s streaming live on Versus.com. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

She can’t believe these scurrilous lies about the show going on live. (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)

Finally doing something to stop her baby-having, NBA-player-marrying sisters from stealing the spotlight, Kim Kardashian hosts a pre-New Year’s Eve party at Eve inside Crystals tonight. They’re taping for Fox’s Billboard’s New Year’s Eve Live tonight. For air tomorrow night. For a show called Billboard New Year’s Eve Live. We can’t condone this kind of deception. Up is down, black is white. This isn’t how you want to start your 2010. Dick Clark wouldn’t lie to you like this. Or the animatronic Dick Clark doll they’ll wheel out for 30 seconds during the broadcast. Either way.

By Jason Scavone

Tick. Tock.

New Year’s Eve is tomorrow. The last day of 2009. That means one thing, besides getting blackout drunk, throwing up in a potted plant at the bar, getting kicked out, and waking up a few hours later half buried in dirt and debris on a construction site with no pants: It means it’s resolution time. If your resolution was to not wear pants, congratulations. You’re one step ahead of the rest of us.

Sometimes, they’re a joke (Really? Lose 40 pounds in two weeks? Try again, guy-who-will-go-to-the-gym-in-January-and-then-quit-and-seek-solace-at-In-N-Out), and some are genuine appeals. But resolutions that will really change people take hard work. (Ed. note: This is why immediately disqualify the resolution-making process from our yearly suffering-on-the-couch Jan. 1 regimen.)

One of those resolutions is cleansing a bad dating past. We all have some patterns we could probably improve, whether it’s being a doormat to our girlfriends, being a crazy bitch to our boyfriends, or dating the wrong types of people and keeping toxic relationships alive. This year, make a vow other than to avenge your parents senseless murder by waging a solitary war on crime (assuming you are Batman).

Seriously. It will take work, you will be tempted by hotness — but in the end, it’ll be worth it, because you won’t be hurt or driven crazy by anyone. By this time next year, you’ll probably be in a better place. Not like now, where you’re going to spend the waning minutes of 2009 screaming “Fuck this year!” Am I right? Of course I am. Here’s what you should do: Click for more words and pictures »

By Stephanie Sims