5 things to do around town

’Hangover’ Experience

Unless you have friends or family in town, it’s one of the last places many locals want to go.

But New Year’s Day isn’t such a bad time to visit the Strip. Especially since most of the tourists will still be in their rooms, either sleeping off the night before or nursing hangovers.

It’s also a fitting time to celebrate “The Hangover.”

At 4 p.m. Thursday, Madame Tussauds Las Vegas, 3377 Las Vegas Blvd. South, will introduce “The Hangover” Experience.

The 1,100-square-foot room includes re-creations of the trashed Caesars Palace suite, a wedding chapel and a wrecked police car. It also includes Madame Tussauds’ latest figure, Alan (played by Zach Galifianakis), who’ll join the wax figure of Phil (Bradley Cooper).

For more information, as well as discounted tickets for locals, see www.madametussauds.com/LasVegas. Gallery hoopla

It may be a holiday weekend, but that’s not stopping the party at two local galleries. Downtown’s Trifecta Gallery celebrates its farewell show, a January showcase of works by Cirque du Soleil employees, with a free First Friday preview from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the gallery, inside the Arts Factory at 107 E. Charleston Blvd. Call 702-366-7001 or visit www.trifectagallery.com for details. And The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas’ P3Studio salutes artist-in-residence JK Russ and her “House of Paper Birds” with a closing reception (featuring a screening of the 2012 JK Russ and Mina Kahn video collaboration “Desert City Bird Life”) from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday in the P3Studio at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South. For more information, call 702-698-7000.

Happy chow year

Restaurants at Aliante, 7300 N. Aliante Parkway in North Las Vegas, have introduced several specials for the new year. MRKT Sea &Land is offering early bird specials from 5 to 7 p.m. daily, including prime rib, mashed potatoes and green beans for $18. MRKT also is serving a sirloin steak and king crab combo for $25. Farm 24-7 is serving a three-ingredient build-your-own omelet for $6 all day, and a $5 moonlight special of one pancake and one egg with two strips of bacon or two sausage links. Bistro 57 is offering veal scaloppini alla Romano for $18, and The Salted Lime offers four $6 entrees from 4 to 7 p.m. Sundays through Tuesdays.

‘Nightingale’ sings

Musicians consider it a point of pride to work on New Year’s Eve. But retro-glam chanteuse Laura Schaffer rolls her “Noir Nightingale” work ethic into 2015, adding Thursdays to her Monday berth at The Tuscany’s Piazza Lounge this month. She sings standards with a quartet from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. at 255 E. Flamingo Road. Shaffer also sings with a trio from 9 p.m. Friday at Nora’s Cuisine, 6020 W. Flamingo Road.

Into Oblivion

You’d have to be wicked crazy, kid, to miss Boston’s female-fronted rockers Red Oblivion when they hit Las Vegas. They met at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, so you know these cats can play. See them at 8 p.m. Sunday at The Bunkhouse Saloon, 124 S. 11th St. Tickets are $5; call 702-854-1414.