First Night, the Glossary
First Night is a North American artistic and cultural celebration on New Year's Eve, taking place from afternoon until midnight.[1]
Table of Contents
30 relations: Alcohol-free zone, Boston, Boston Common, Boston Harbor, CBS, Copley Square, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts, Event management, Family-friendly, Great Recession, Historic districts in the United States, Ice sculpture, NBC, NBCUniversal, New England Cable News, New Year's Eve, September 11 attacks, Social distancing, Telegram & Gazette, Telemundo, The Boston Globe, The Eagle-Tribune, The New York Times, Thomas Menino, Walkability, WBZ-TV, WNEU, Worcester Magazine, WYCN-LD.
- Recurring events established in 1975
Alcohol-free zone
An alcohol-free zone, or dry zone, is a geographic area, location or establishment where the public consumption and sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited.
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Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
Boston Common
The Boston Common is a public park in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.
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Boston Harbor
Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay, located adjacent to Boston Massachusetts.
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CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
Copley Square
Copley Square is a public square in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, bounded by Boylston Street, Clarendon Street, St.
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COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
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COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts
The COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts was part of a pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
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Event management
Event management is the application of project management to the creation and development of small and/or large-scale personal or corporate events such as festivals, conferences, ceremonies, weddings, formal parties, concerts, or conventions.
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Family-friendly
A family-friendly product or service is one that is considered to be suitable for all members of an average family.
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Great Recession
The Great Recession was a period of marked decline in economies around the world that occurred in the late 2000s.
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Historic districts in the United States
Historic districts in the United States are designated historic districts recognizing a group of buildings, archaeological resources, or other properties as historically or architecturally significant.
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Ice sculpture
Ice sculpture is a form of sculpture that uses ice as the raw material.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal Media, LLC (abbreviated as NBCU and doing business as simply NBCUniversal or Comcast NBCUniversal since 2013) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is a subsidiary of Comcast and is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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New England Cable News
New England Cable News (NECN) is a regional 24-hour cable news television network owned and operated by NBCUniversal (as part of the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations division, both ultimately owned by Comcast) serving the New England region of the United States.
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New Year's Eve
In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Eve, also known as Old Year's Day, is the evening or the entire day of the last day of the year, 31 December. First Night and New Year's Eve are new Year celebrations.
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September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.
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In public health, social distancing, also called physical distancing, (NB. Regula Venske is president of the PEN Centre Germany.) is a set of non-pharmaceutical interventions or measures intended to prevent the spread of a contagious disease by maintaining a physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other.
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Telegram & Gazette
The Telegram & Gazette (and Sunday Telegram) is the only daily newspaper of Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Telemundo
Telemundo (formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast. It provides content nationally with programming syndicated worldwide to more than 100 countries in over 35 languages.
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Eagle-Tribune
The Eagle-Tribune (and Sunday Eagle-Tribune) is a seven-day morning daily newspaper covering the Merrimack Valley and Essex County, Massachusetts, and southern New Hampshire.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Thomas Menino
Thomas Michael Menino (December 27, 1942 – October 30, 2014) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Boston, from 1993 to 2014.
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Walkability
In urban planning, walkability is the accessibility of amenities by foot.
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WBZ-TV
WBZ-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, serving as the market's CBS outlet.
WNEU
WNEU (channel 60) is a television station licensed to Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, serving as the Boston-area outlet for the Spanish-language network Telemundo.
Worcester Magazine
Worcester Magazine is a weekly free alternative media magazine in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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WYCN-LD
WYCN-LD (channel 8) is a low-power television station in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language network Telemundo.
See also
Recurring events established in 1975
- ARTGO
- Aeschylia Festival
- Africa Aerospace and Defence Expo
- Arab Health
- Atlanta Fantasy Fair
- Brave Raj Stakes
- Buenos Aires International Book Fair
- Cambridge Poetry Festival
- Capital Pride (Washington, D.C.)
- Cleveland International Piano Competition
- Comiket
- Crossroads of the West Gun Shows
- Exercise Red Flag
- Fantasia Fair
- First Night
- Games Day
- Houston Shakespeare Festival
- Icon (Iowa science fiction convention)
- La Pourcailhade
- Ligna
- Miss Eswatini
- Miss Singapore International
- Miss Universe Saint Lucia
- NME Single of the Year
- National Twelve-Bell Striking Contest
- Origins Game Fair
- Seoul Independent Film Festival
- Swancon
- Sydmonton Festival
- Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
- The European Fine Art Fair
- Unicon (Maryland science fiction convention)
- Unthanksgiving Day
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Night
Also known as First Night Boston.