The bears before they went boom:

Spatch is reminded he is one of them.

Photos of some of the 500 people who ran into the bay at L Street.

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:

Boston.com reports that the mayor is urging people to use the T tonight for getting around Boston for First Night. The MBTA will also offer free service from 8 pm to 2:30 tonight in honor of NYE. Now if only they would do that every night to save bar-goers from the nightmare of finding a cab at 2 am.

FirstNight tweets.

More FirstNight updates.

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).

Nothing should stand between a girl and her Chanukah brisket, especially not the crappy, axle-cracking condition of Charles River Drive in Watertown, a grumpy Mels grumps.