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Sinterklaas traditionally arrives by steam-boat in November and festivities come to a climax on December 5th, the eve of his feast-day.

The Big Star song was as close as the closing-day festivities came to veering toward mawkishness.

"After the Christmas festivities comes the annual dusting off of your CV," says Corinne Mills, managing director of Personal Career Management.

But the long show, during which the president joined the United States team in the stands to watch some of the festivities, came and went without reported incident.

For me, the absolute highlight of the festivities came toward the end, when the cannabis-infused oysters, octopus, duck breast, and ash-dusted chèvre all had a chance to take hold, and not quite "high as fuck," but more than a little giddy—I corralled together my tightest cannabis circle to hit up the evening's grand finale, a THC-infused ice cream bar.

That the wine so noted for sprightly bubbles and light-hearted festivity comes from this often difficult setting is the first of many surprises in the film.

October 27 2012 November 1 201212 Opening-night festivities finally come to the 92nd Street Y, where the lauded Hungarian-born pianist — whose performances are as intellectually probing as they are romantically expressive — devotes his energies to Bach in two concerts, offering Books I and II, respectively, of the composer's "Well-Tempered Clavier".

Just hours before the opening party for "It Ain't Fair," an exhibition of more than 30 emerging artists on the fringe of Art Basel Miami Beach, the glamorous, outsize international art fair held every year in early December, the O.H.W.O.W. gallery (for Our House West of Wynwood) was still strewn with forlorn boxes, the wall stacked with cases of beer that only hinted at the festivities to come.

Carver suggested that after the festivities I come out to the Valley to inspect one of his new inventions at Foveon.

By throwing on tunes that get you pumped about the festivities to come, it not only makes the process a ton of fun but it can also give you the confidence you need to step out feeling as good as you look and looking as good as you feel.

The festivities Sunday came one day after Bayern clinched the Bundesliga title with a 3-1 victory against Hertha Berlin, which has been relegated.