The bears before they went boom:

Spatch is reminded he is one of them.

Karin's New Year's Eve started with a pair of broken eyeglasses and ended with a dead mouse in the washing machine.

Katken photographed the Grand Procession down Boylston Street tonight.

16WadeSt photographed an ice sculpture in progress:

Paul Keleher also took in the sculptures:

The Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble at 3 p.m. is not to be, FirstNight tweets.

Drink at a Cambridge establishment on New Year's Eve and get a free cab voucher (for the first $35 worth of your ride, at any rate, but the tip is not included).

Although the afternoon performance is still canceled, the evening performance at the Church with the Giant Crack will go on, but with a piano, not the organ, FirstNight tweets.