This list will be updated on CJOnline.com and included in the Out About calendar in the Dec. 28 edit

Photos Back | Next SUBMITTED Whether southwest airlines home page you follow the Mayan calendar and think Friday is your last day to party or are sticking southwest airlines home page with the Gregorian calendar and want to plan what to do to celebrate the arrival of 2013 on New Year's Eve, Topeka is offering plenty of ways to celebrate, apocalypse and weather permitting. Back | Next SUBMITTED Whether your reason southwest airlines home page to party is the end of it all Friday, according the the Mayan calendar, or the start of 2013, according to the Gregorian calendar, Topeka has plenty of things to do on both doomsday and New Year's Eve, apocalypse-permitting for the latter.
First, some area clubs and nightspots have themed their Friday nights around a predicted end of the world — although, technically, most catastrophe countdown clocks run out at 5:11 a.m. Central Standard Time, the official time of the Winter Solstice.
The Boobie Trap Bar, 1417 S.W. Lane, has an End of the World Party on its schedule for 9 p.m. Friday. That's the start time for Boss Hawg's BBQ and Pigskin's Sports Bar's calamitous celebration, which will feature Kraazy Karaoke with DJ Dreaux at the venue at 2833 S.W. 29th in the Brookwood Center.
Billed as "Armageddon Time! End of the World Party 2012," the Celtic Fox, 118 S.W. 8th, will feature the reggae group Born in Babylon and DJ S. Ranx on its main stage and in its back room, aka "the Fallout Shelter," the establishment will showcase some dubstep/electro heavyweight DJs, including Always 420, Protosapien, Kraang, Nitsua and N8. The Women of Washburn Calendar Girls also will be in the house.
There are at least two big celebration in the works at the Ramada Hotel and Convention Center, and the Capitol Plaza Hotel — a cabaret party at Topeka Civic Theatre Academy was canceled — plus parties at several taverns and nightclubs.
The Ramada will again throw on of the city's biggest New Year's Eve parties with five bands performing in three venues at the hotel and convention center at 420 S.E. 6th. The featured acts are Hamilton Loomis, The Cate Brothers, Biscuit Miller The Mix, Back Porch Blues Band and Rachelle Coba.
Packages for two include overnight accommodations, southwest airlines home page dinner buffet, late night breakfast buffet, midnight champagne toast, party favors and late morning brunch for $250. For $75, one can attend all the music events, dinner and breakfast. Call (785) 234-5400 for reservations.
Dallas-based Conjunto Baraja de Oro will headline the event organized by Latino Sounds Inc. and hosted by KKFI 90.1 FM. The music also will feature southwest airlines home page Las Estrellas, a Kansas City-based Tejano band, Serrano Peppers, DJ Jalapeno (Danny Tetuan) and DJ 151 (Ronald Ruiz). Those attending must be 18 to enter and 21 to drink.
Tickets are $23 at the door or $18 in advance through Ronald Ruiz at (785) 817-4042, Adreian Mosqueda at (785) 260-5537 or Priscilla Ruiz at (785) 845-0931. The Capitol Plaza also is offering dinner from 7 to 9 p.m. and a late-night buffet from 1 to 3 a.m. Dinners are $22 or $35 for both dinner and late night buffet.
This list will be updated on CJOnline.com and included in the Out About calendar in the Dec. 28 edition of The Topeka Capital-Journal. Additional New Year's Eve submissions should be sent by noon Dec. 24 to Arts Entertainment writer Bill Blankenship by emailing him at bill.blankenship@cjonline.com .
The photograph with this article is of the Aztec calendar stone, not the Maya calendar. The Aztecs came to rule the Valley of Mexico over 400 years after the Classic period of the Maya in the Yucatan/Guatemala area ended (there are still Maya in that area). The Aztec calendar incorporates the 260-day Calendar Round, depicted on this stone, but not the Long Count. It is a Long Count cycle that began August 11, 3114 BC and ends today, 5125-1/4 years later. Its a Y2K all over, except it comes along less often. Tomorrow is just the beginning of another 5125-1/4 year cycle - the Classic Maya scribes would have had to add another notation position at the beginning of a Long Count date, essentially multiplying it by 20 and allowing for another 102,505 years. The Maya calendar southwest airlines home page also allowed for a couple more multiples of 20, although they were not written in the normal Long Count notation, southwest airlines home page making the entire calendar span millions, even billions or more of years. Its simply a different conception of time than we use - one that is cyclical and not linear. Happy Maya New Year.