MICHAEL SWAN: HELL’S KITCHEN TO REOPEN NEW YEAR’S EVE >>>

You've been waiting for your posse to come up with a plan for New Year's Eve. Meanwhile, they have been waiting for your brilliant plan. Before you end up watching your mate fall asleep in front of The Three Stooges marathon, ponder heading to the new Hell’s Kitchen, which opens Thursday, Dec. 31. Yup, it's on!

Tacoma Rock City blog reminds us that Hell’s Kitchen will, in fact reopen in its new downtown Tacoma location on New Year’s Eve, just as booking agent Flash predicted in the Weekly Volcano back in November.

Thus, we come to that point at which we decide exactly what New Year's Eve is all about. Is it for drinking and celebrating and having a great time that you'll barely remember the next day? Or is it about building up ridiculous expectations in pursuit of a memorable evening that pins unnecessary significance upon the changing of the calendar?

If the former description comes closer to your philosophy of auld lang syne, then be sure to drop by Hell’s Kitchen on New Year’s Eve. For a reasonable price â€" FREE! â€" you can see the new and improved Hell’s Kitchen AND have The Jet City Fix, Atomic Outlaws and Wide Eye Panic rock you into the New Year beginning at 8 p.m. Hell yeah! Even if your hipper-than-thou ass has to pretend like you're going to be all ironic and shit, you know that this is the kind of party you want to use to forget about 2009.

For more details, keep an eye on Hell’s Kitchen’s Web site.

And be sure to pick up the Weekly Volcano tomorrow for our New Year's Eve guide.