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MUSIC: Spend your New Year's shaking that a$$ to witty, high-energy hip hop by Kreayshawn (who now lives in Los Angeles), and smart/quirky electronic indie by Wallpaper, along with Roach Gigz, Starting Six, DJ Amen, and DJ Fatboy. (8 p.m., The Regency Ballroom, 1290 Sutter Street) [ more › ]

On the last Day Around the Bay of 2011, we give you tales about AOL employees, partying down the night before New Year's Eve, Chef Sean Canavan, North Beach muggings, and... [ more › ]

Rounding out the year in deplorable teen news, KRON4 reports that three underagers were busted for mugging a 36-year-old man while he took a leak in a North Beach alleyway. The victim, who had been talking to the three suspects before he felt the urge to relieve himself, ducked in to an alley near Fresno Street and Romolo Place where the teens jumped him while he stood there, back turned with his equipment out. [ more › ]

Drivers coming off the Bay Bridge in to the city during the last week of 2011 will probably recognize this curious billboard message from "The Bay Bridge". The billboard was part of a crowdsourcing experiment from San Francisco-based startup LoudSauce, the same company that took donations to place an Occupy Wall Street commercial on National TV and buy out a full page ad in the Chronicle a few weeks back. [ more › ]

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Time, man. You think you get it. And then you realize that the Ancient Greeks and Romans were so calendar-challenged that they had to insert random months every few years to make sure the seasons lined up properly. Then you have the Gregorian calendar, and the day in 1752 when England the U.S. decided to adopt it, effectively losing 11 days all at once. It's kind of insane. (You may have also heard that Samoa just decided to switch time zones, and Samoans didn't get a Friday. Like today didn't exist for them, at all.) [ more › ]

Over in Oakland, chef-restaurateur Daniel Patterson has just opened a fourth new restaurant, after just recently opening Plum Bar next to his one-year-old Plum at Webster and Broadway (he also owns the Michelin two-star Coi in North Beach). Haven is a New American bistro of sorts with an emphasis shared dishes, and the chef is the talented Kim Alter, who won some raves for a brief stint earlier this year at Plate Shop in Sausalito. [ more › ]

The story of Banana-Sam, the Squirrel Monkey reported missing from the San Francisco Zoo earlier today, seems to have taken the city by storm on this slow news day. Like any good viral sensation, this one has it's very own twitter account from which we can track Banana-Sam's crosstown exploits. If the little fella is to be believed (and why wouldn't we trust a tweeting monkey?), security out there at the Zoo was "laughably simple" to breach, but he still had to wait an hour for the L-Taraval before he could escape the Outer Sunset. [ more › ]

40-year-old Raymond Wong of Pinole was arrested Christmas Eve and charged yesterday in a 12-year-old murder case that had gone cold years ago. Wong is accused of murdering his one-time girlfriend, Alice Sin, who was killed in 1999 when she was 21 years old. Her body was found shot on a remote dirt road in Churchill County, Nevada, in what appeared to be a racially motivated attack. [ more › ]

(By Daisy Barringer) It's all come down to this. The 49ers must win on the road in St. Louis tomorrow to guarantee the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye. A Saints loss to the Panthers in New Orleans would also give the 49ers the No. 2 seed, but since everyone is playing at the same time, the Niners can't take any chances. [ more › ]

The San Francisco is asking for the public's help to retrieve a reportedly stolen squirrel monkey. "This morning zoo staff discovered a 17-year-old male squirrel monkey, 'Banana-Sam,' was missing from an exhibit that had been breached by vandals," reports BCN. "Banana-Sam weighs approximately 2 pounds and is more than a foot tall." [ more › ]

Muni is certainly not doing itself any favors in terms of year-end accident statistics today. Bay City New reports a second light rail vehicle had an accident in SoMa during the morning rush hour when an outbound K-Ingleside collided with a car near Third and King Streets around 9:15 a.m. Unlike the earlier crash on the T-Line, no one was injured in the incident and no one even bothered to tweet a picture of it as far as we can tell. [ more › ]

PBR-drinking chef Ron Eyester of Rosebud restaurant and Family Dog bar in Atlanta isn't keen on certain types so customers—namely, those who aren't well-versed in the delicate ways of consuming his artisan down-home food. Or something like that. Enter his recent article on dining manners over on Eatocracy. "I am very proud of the relationships that my staff and I have developed with many of our regular guests," Eyester notes, adding. "but there is also another 'special demographic of folks' that are worth mentioning." And that demographic could be you. All of these poor diners (sometimes literally, since many cannot afford to eat overpriced onion rings these days) share a "common thread of ignorance that makes them easily identifiable by both restaurant employees and the everyday diner alike." [ more › ]

MUSIC: Legendary '80s-era LA punk band, X, bring their annual Xmas Rock n Roll Revival show to Slim's for two nights, featuring the four original X band members along with gospel duo, Sean Wheeler and Zander Schloss, and The Black Tibetans. (8 p.m., Slim's, 333 11th Street) [ more › ]

Juan Martinez, the 23-year-old accused of fleeing the scene after his car allegedly hopped a curb and fatally struck a pedestrian on Cesar Chavez, admitted to police that he drank "13 or 14" beers before getting behind the wheel on Christmas Eve morning. [ more › ]

"So You Were Saying?" by Whole Wheat Toast. [ more › ]

A collision just before 6 a.m. this morning at 3rd and 22nd Street is still tying up traffic and slowing down Muni trains, according to Alert SF, which recommends avoiding the area. A police patrol car and a Muni T-line streetcar collided at the intersection at 5:45 a.m., injuring two police officers, a Muni passenger and the Muni driver. [ more › ]

In the last morning roundup of 2011 we have: tips for writing that year-end food trend piece, a surefire cure for that New Year's hangover, a disappearing Japantown landmark, a rowdy bar in Walnut Creek and happy SoMa landlords. [ more › ]

Five busloads of Bay Area high school students bound for a ski trip in Utah were busted by cops in Elko, Nevada for a truly impressive drug stash that looks to amount to pounds and pounds of kind bud, pills, and whatever else. Some narcs concerned citizens at the Maverick Country Store in Elko spotted the young city slickers allegedly toking outside the buses during a pee break, and they called in the authorities ... because it's Nevada. [ more › ]