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​On New Year's Eve, Cee Lo Green rang in 2012 by visiting Times Square, hanging out with Carson Daly, and then brutalizing John Lennon's "Imagine" before a TV audience of millions.

It was a disaster. So the next day, he fled south to Miami Beach for the Orange Drive Music Festival where he (thankfully) did not reprise Lennon's classic song.

He just threw on a purple track suit, smiled wide, and put on a "Crazy" show alongside Cobra Starship and Samantha Ronson.
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Ms. Lauryn Hill and Nas serenading the James.

​After two kids, a decade-long courtship, and zero NBA championships, LeBron James has finally asked high-school sweetheart Savannah Brinson for her hand in marriage.

Having turned 27 years old approximately 24 hours earlier, King James manned up, took a knee, and proposed to Brinson during New Year's Eve dinner at the Shelborne South Beach's Vesper American Brasserie.

Meanwhile, off in the distance at the Shelborne's swanky new SL Nightclub, Lauryn Hill (presumably) sang "Killing Me Softly."
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​It's no secret that New Year's Eve in Miami ain't cheap.

But on a night when Rick Ross was (literally) making it rain money at his $100,000 SoBe bash, the EC Twins were charging $30,000 for 18 bottles of booze at SET, and Afrojack was packing WET with house junkies jonesing for a $25,000 fix, there were also thousands of regular Miamians (moms, dads, children, teens, cheapskates, condo residents, etc.) flooding Bayfront Park for a free, family-friendly party with Red Bull Soundclash, rapper-slash-actor Ludacris, and Mike "Cooler Than Me" Posner.

The Big Orange dropped on 2012. Fireworks flashed across the sky. And Crossfade snapped some pics. Just see the cut for ten photos from Red Bull's big NYE bash in Downtown Miami.
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​See the full 32-photo NYE 2012: Rick Ross at Cameo slideshow.

Rick Ross
Rosé Champagne New Year's Eve
Cameo Theatre, South Beach
Saturday, December 31, 2011

Better Than: A night when dollar bills don't fall from the sky.

With less than a half-hour till 2012, The Boss entered the building.
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Via clubmadonna.com

​Welcome to the Magic City, an amazing land of endless titties, 100-foot brass poles, full friction, free buffets, and VIP champagne rooms that (almost) never close.

That's right ... We're spending New Year's Eve at the strip club. So grab those crumpled dollar bills stashed under the mattress. Break out a fresh bottle of Binaca. And check out Crossfade's six best NYE 2012 strip club parties.

There's even an awesome gay option.
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​VIP this, general admission that ... New Year's Eve is totally overrated.

Why deal with hoards of drunk buffoons sporting ridiculously goofy 2012 sunglasses, overpriced prix-fixe menu options, and endless DUI checkpoints when you can slip into your Forever Lazy and ring in the New Year from your fallout shelter with a bottle of Wild Turkey and tons of Top 40 tuneage?

That's where you'll find us -- Crossfade's underground retreat -- wide-eyed and wired, ready for that Mayan Zombie attack that's supposed to happen when the clock strikes midnight or whatever. And while we wait, NYE programming!

Check out the plethora of televised New Year's Eve music performances scheduled for December 31.
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​The real reason for kissing at midnight on New Years Eve?

Whether you're single, married, divorced, or your outlook on monogamy is much like Tiger Woods', everyone is trying to get some. And if anyone is going to help you get laid, it's Robin Thicke.

So if you are looking to keep it sexy this NYE, we suggest you head over to the Delano Hotel where Robin will be performing at the SoBe spot's annual pool-side soiree. And lucky for us, we got to chat with him before he and his movie star wife, Paula Patton, headed down to Miami.
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Triple-team NYE with Abella (above), Alexis, and Daisy!

​What's the best kind of New Year's Eve porn party?

Well, you could always strip naked at your laptop and host a smutty celebration for one by counting down to midnight and popping a nice bottle of spumante as a powdered pair of hairless balls drop on some poor 20-something's pretty face.

Or ... You could put on some clean clothes, slip on a decent set of shoes, and drag your Pornhub-addicted ass over to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino's Opium Nightclub for this Saturday's Sex Sells!, a big XXX-rated NYE bash where you'll get to meet elite adult entertainers Abella Anderson, Alexis Texas, and Daisy Marie.
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Spend NYE on SoBe with Rev Run.

​Unless you're blind and deaf, you know Rev Run. He's a founding member of legendary rap crew Run-D.M.C. , an ex-reality TV star, prominent reverend, father of six, and a DJ.

And if you want to check out his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-level skills, he'll be dropping a full night of old-school hip-hop on the Shore Club Hotel's Skybar for New Years Eve 2012.

But before he hopped on a jet down to South Florida, Rev Run chatted with Crossfade from his New Jersey compound about everything from his fabulous career to his words of wisdom for 2012.
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Wolf + Lamb vs. Soul Clap!

​It's been a phenomenal year for underground electronic dance music in Miami. If 2010 was the year that we put training wheels on our EDM bike, then we were riding that sucker with no hands in 2011.

There was a non-stop barrage of world-class bookings. And none of it would have been possible without safe havens such as the Electric Pickle, Treehouse, Grand Central, and Eve -- not to mention indispensable crews like PL0T, SAFE, LINK, and Un_Mute.

So needless to say, this last week of 2011 has no shortage of floor-destroying international stars. Just see the cut for Miami's six best New Year's electronic dance music parties.
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