I'm attending a conference in Hamburg after Christmas and will be in Berlin for Silvester. I'm looking to avoid a repeat of last year's debacle where I found myself at the flat of a member of the Pirate Party being bored to tears while Dinner for One with Hungarian subtitles played on a old laptop with a defective SCSI output.

So...Silvester.

I'd like to be somewhere indoors. I'd also like to dress up a bit. Here in Alaska that means washing your Carhartts so I enjoy dressing-up up to and including black tie. And as much as I like pork byproducts, I'd like to avoid any err...sausage fests.

Music is nice. Being able to talk is also nice as my German is near fluent. Any and all advice appreciated!