Whether you were dancing to electronic music with GLOW, dancing under rainbow lights at the W, searching for a midnight kiss in a sea of 7,000 at the Gaylord, or watching the ball drop in NYC from your couch, this New Year's Eve was certainly one for the record books! Get yourself caught up with everything you don't remember, and everything you wish you did, with our ode to the best soirees in DC that rang in 2012. It could be the end of the world as we know it.

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Sometimes an actor takes on a role or acting style so iconic that it becomes hard to separate him or her from the character. Sometimes, this works out, like when Nic Cage turns out to be an absolute lunatic in real life, but in the case of John Slattery from "Mad Men," assuming that his off-camera persona is also an overindulgent, silver-spoon dilettante with no taste for counter-culture might be a little presumptuous, especially after Emily caught him hanging in Silver Lake last night. Could the real John Slattery be– gasp– a hipster!?

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Hailee Steinfeld, Sarah Hyland Chord Overstreet and other young stars party with Teen Vogue at the New York City lot at Paramount Studios; Olivia Wilde, Demi Moore, Annette Bening and several other powerful figures in Hollywood do lunch in Beverly Hills; Aaron Paul, Cindy Crawford, Vanessa Hudgens and more hit the world premiere of the new Cirque Du Soleil show; Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks and the rest of the "Mad Men" cast host a brunch for The Rape Treatment Center; More»

• John Travolta's 1970 Mercedes-Benz gets jacked in daylight from parking spot on the street in Santa Monica while he was inside a Jaguar dealership for roughly 10 minutes. [TMZ]
• At least 40 dead after a magnitude 6.8 earthquakes strikes northeastern India, Nepal and Tibet, followed by rain, landslides and severed communications compromising rescue efforts. [LATimes]

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• Los Angeles Film School suspends letter protesting the farmers market city permit application, allowing the Hollywood Farmers Market to maintain its Ivar location for at least a year. [LATimes]
• BBC employees ordered to abide by the corporation's new rules regarding their personal Tweets, such as "don't do anything stupid." [Telegraph]
• "Mad Men", "Boardwalk Empire", "Mildred Pierce", "Modern Family", "Saturday Night Live" sweep this year's Emmy nominations. [KABC]
• Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña end up at the scene of a gang shooting in South L.A. last night while researching roles as cops for their film End of Watch. [KTLA]
• Mark your calendars! Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries are reportedly getting married on August 20 with a fleet a of Maybachs and Rolls Phantoms to keep it classy and sophisticated, ya know. [HuffPo]

Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, and my man Jon Hamm celebrate Season 4 of "Breaking Bad" with AMC at a Hollywood screening of episode 1 and meth-lab themed after party at Tropicana; Justin Chambers, Colton Haynes, Charisma Carpenter and a slew of more young Hollywood talent step out in support of solving the world's water crisis at the the 2nd Annual Thrist Gala in Beverly Hills—it was another Tuesday night in L.A., get the full story on everything that went down in today's edition of Last Night's Parties. [Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul photo via] More»