New Year songs
New Year, New Laws
2023 In the Rearview Mirror
Books About Winter
Winter Sports
100
The title of this traditional New Year song by Robert Burns translates roughly to "old long since".
Auld Lang Syne
100
A new law this year mandates that these companies settle bills with insurance companies rather than charging patients exorbitant out-of-network rates.
Ambulance companies
100
More than 70,000 attendees at this festival were stranded in the desert when torrential rain and mud overwhelmed their campsites.
Burning Man
100
C.S. Lewis wrote a series about this fantasy country where, for many years, it was "always winter but never Christmas."
Narnia
100
In the 1981-82 season, this Edmonton Oiler became the first NHL player to score 50 goals in one season.
Wayne Gretzky
200
This artist's Reputation album included a love song with the lyric, "I want your midnights, but I'll be cleaning up bottles with you on New Year's Day."
Taylor Swift
200
Six California cities now have the authority to begin a pilot program that uses these to catch and fine speeding drivers.
Cameras
200
LA Laker LeBron James beat the record held by this *former* Laker, when he became the NBA's leading scorer after scoring the 38,388th point of his career in February.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
200
The Long Winter, in which the writer's family is snowbound in a small Dakota town with dwindling supplies, is the sixth installment in this author's Little House series.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
200
The first Winter Olympics were held in 1924 in this country.
France
300
This 1942 musical was best known for its Academy-Award winning song "White Christmas", but it also has Bing Crosby singing "Let's Start the New Year Right".
Holiday Inn
300
Lawmakers have ended California's ban on this recreational driving practice, citing its importance as a part of car culture.
Cruising
300
Greta Gerwig directed this blockbuster movie, which was the highest-grossing film at the US box office for 2023.
Barbie
300
This horror classic by Stephen King is a harrowing story of a writer and his family spending a snowy winter as caretakers at the Overlook Hotel.
The Shining
300
The course for this downhill skiing event was traditionally marked with rigid bamboo poles, but in the 1980s, hinged poles that could be knocked over by the skier were adopted.
Slalom
400
In interviews, Bono from the band U2 indicated that his inspiration for their 1983 hit "New Years Day" was the imprisonment of this Polish leader.
Lech Walesa
400
Selling or distributing more than one kilogram of this drug will carry a mandatory three-year addition to the usual sentence for convicted offenders.
Fentanyl
400
This former star of *The Nanny* led SAG-AFTRA through an actors' strike this year.
Fran Drescher
400
A train stopped by a snowstorm is the setting for this classic mystery by Agatha Christie.
Murder on the Orient Express
400
This game, which originated in Scotland in the 16th century, involves teams called rinks, led by captains called skips, who slide literal rocks across sheets of ice.
Curling
500
"Remember Us to Life", a 2016 album by this Russian-born, Bronx-raised singer-songwriter, included a song about a woman who "sets her alarm five minutes to midnight and wakes just in time to greet the new year."
Regina Spektor
500
Employers in California are now required to provide employees with five of these per year, up from three.
Sick days
500
The 2023 Super Bowl between these two teams marked the first time that two brothers have played against each other in the big game.
Kansas City Chiefs, Philadelphia Eagles
500
This book is the first in Fredrik Backman's trilogy about a small Swedish town and its hockey team.
Beartown
500
This pair of Canadian ice dancers competed together from childhood until their retirement from the sport in 2019, and in spite of their many passionately-choreographed routines, maintain that they have Never Been a Couple
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir