What a wonderful new array of nightlife options we have in store for you in 2015. Okay, most of them are the same events. But it's a new year, so it's different, kind of.

Start off 2015 with panache. No need to gulp champagne for a while, unless you like the bubbly. It has been said that your first entertainments of the new year may determine how your entire year plays out... it couldn't hurt to try something new.

How do you celebrate the new year? Do you make resolutions? To drink less? To drink more? Whatever your newly found convictions, celebrate the new year safely.

Whether with friends and family, or fellow orphans over the holidays, be of good cheer, despite (non)catastrophic precipitation, judicial monstrosities or cataclysmic economic crunches. It's the holidays! Smile. They'll be over soon.

How you prepare for a holiday can depend on your mood. To cheer you up, get some early ho ho ho's at some of these spirited nightlife events.

Holidays can be especially difficult for those living with HIV. Every year The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation offers a holiday spectacular not only to entertain you, but to let people with AIDS know that they are not forgotten.

While its first run back in 2009 drew a few dozen scantily clad participants, this year's sixth annual Santa Skivvies Run promises to be the biggest yet!

It's a Santa-silly season. Get out your red and white drag, your red Speedos, your reindeer antler hats and your jingle balls.

Singer, actor, film producer and theatre teacher Shawn Ryan is already getting into the Christmas spirit, by sheer necessity.

While others wait in lines at stores over the holiday weekend, you can enjoy some fun shopping locally and online to make your stocking stuffed and full of fun.

Flurries of fun, spiked eggnog, hustle and shake on dance floors; it may not be Buffalo, and our winter's wet, but you can enjoy a brisk trek to find warming nightlife fun.

Music, movie tributes, beer busts, karaoke, classic show tunes. Take your pick of nightlife options.

November can inspire increased sweater usage, some dude coolness (Jeff Bridges, Bear's Den, Point Break Live) and some surprising vocals (Blues Broads, Lights) and lip-synching (Lilith Bear).

From Halloween to elections, with Day of the Dead in between, this could be a scary week, or a fun one, depending on your attitude.