So, it's the eleventh hour and you've decided against crushing up a couple of Ambiens into a mug of fume blanc and calling it a year. Instead, you've turned that frown upside down, choosing to see what's happening tonight on New Year's Eve 2008. Good for you. And to help you out, here are some last-minute events for each neighborhood in the San Francisco. Just follow links for more info; they will provide you......

Update: Gale Force winds and a small craft advisory will keep crabbers fisher(people?) off of the Bay. Clearly, God hates us. Bastard. After the Cosco Busan fuel spill brouhaha, tasty crabmeat and fish pulled from the Bay have now been deemed safe to eat, effectively lifting Schwarzenegger's fishing ban. Although waters just outside the Bay were considered fish-able, "local crabbers chose not to fish until the crabs were ruled safe, even though the crabbing......

Last week's winner: the SJ Metro . Cover article: San Jose Pride - family day in the park on Saturday, Gay Rodeo, Women's Music Festival this weekend. A new queer nightclub in downtown San Jo. Problems with contracting for paratransit at Santa Clara County Transit VTA . Annalee Newitz on notableness on Wikipedia. The Ann Arbor Film Festival at Foothill College. And now for our frontrunner, the SF Weekly, big trouble at the Culinary Academy......

Intrepid photographer Matt Cohen went to the Grand National Rodeo over the past week and took these amazing action photo of the event. Posted are some of the best. If you want to see the whole collection, check out his Flickr stream.......

It looks like the Chronicle's two BALCO reporters, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, will not be joining Josh Wolf in prison as they're no longer on the hook. The main reason being the source who they were protecting finally came forward to admit that that he was the leak. The person in question was the lawyer for Victor Conte and BALCO vice president James Valente, Troy Ellerman. Ellerman is being charged for handing court transcripts over to Fainaru-Wade and Wiliams. In a perfectly oily move that gives lawyers the reputation they have (sorry SFist Rita!), Ellerman was busy complaining to the judge about leaks all the while being the one who was leaking. Of course, it could have all been his master plan. After all, who would suspect the guy complaining the most about leaks? ...

Late last night, Yahoo! of all sites was reporting that the leak in the BALCO case was Victor Conte's defense lawyer. Or at least that's what the FBI is thinking as they've launched an investigation. ...

A suspected gang member is in custody after shooting dead an East Palo Alto cop who was responding to a call about a disturbance at a taqueria. The cop had an Explorer Scout in his car on an officer ride-along when he was killed. The Explorer Scout, who was not injured, immediately called in for help and gave a detailed description of the killer. It's like the opposite of the lady who faked running the Boston Marathon -- a bus driver for the Santa Cruz Transportation Authority was arrested for fraud and grand theft, after his employer found out that despite claiming total disability and collecting workers' comp payments, he had actually run the Big Sur Marathon. No word on his time. And a man fleeing the cops in Rodeo, near Hercules, decided his best way out of his situation was to run onto I-80 (despite folks telling him it was a bad idea) where he promptly -- boom! -- got hit by a truck. He's now in the same hospital as the two people he attacked with a deadly weapon, and as soon as he gets better, will be booked for attempted murder. As the officer said, ""The gentleman decided to try it [running across the highway] and it didn't work out. It just is so idiotic." ...

SFist went to the rodeo yesterday. Yeehaw! This year was the 60th Grand National Rodeo at the Cow Palace and boy howdy, was it fun. The rodeo, livestock show and other related events lasted the whole week, but we showed up at the end for the event finals. We don't know much about the rodeo -- everything we know we learned watching 8 Seconds -- but we've always wanted to go, and it was as......

It's hump day, which means it's time to start planning that trip out of the city this weekend. Last weekend, SFist had a car, so we decided to take a trip across the monument to design and engineering that is the Golden Gate Bridge, destination: Marin Headlands. Traffic was a pain getting up Van Ness to Lombard, but after that it was smooth sailing. If you don't have a car, you can make the trip on a bike, too - the entire round trip was only thirty two miles!...