New Year's Eve = Clio's Annual Gala

It's been two years since we opened, and baby Clio wants to party. Won't you join her on New Year's Eve? We're going back to the 1860's this year, a decade as tumultous as our own, because history doesn't repeat itself—but it rhymes. We will be accompanied on that journey in Clio's lower 40 by Hollywood's DJ LeBron, in The Town for one night only.

Stovepipe hats and Honest Abe are the obvious costume choices, but don't forget Manet, Courbet, and 1863's Salon des Refusés. Come on horseback: the Pony Express started delivering mail in 1860. The weirdo Lewis Carroll dreamed up Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865. Johann Strauss the younger presented his Blue Danube Waltz in 1866. Tsar Alexander II abolished serfdom in Russia in 1861 and sold Alaska to the US for a mere $7 million in 1867 (less than that spot in Tahoe you have your eye on, we'd wager).

Also in the 1860s: Skiing was invented. "Wild Bill" Hickok and Kit Carson were slinging guns and having fun. The Dominion of Canada was created. The Meji Restoration catapulted Japan into a global imperial power. Louisa May Alcott published Little Women. The US transcontinental railroad was completed and the Suez Canal opened. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. Mendeleev developed the periodic table. Florence Nightingale opened the first nursing school in the world. Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables; Tolstoy penned War and Peace; Dostoevsky threw down Crime and Punishment; Dickens gave us Pip, Miss Havisham, and Great Expectations; Marx punished and inspired us with Das Kapital; and Horatio Alger published Ragged Dick (free drink for anyone in that costume).

The world was changing; the possibilities were endless. The same holds true for us today, even and especially in this desperate and beautiful world we occupy. Get a ticket, be fabulous, and celebrate the presence of the past with us all night. It's Clio's birthday!

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