2009, the Year in Headlights

Drinks: While some of the grownups drank milkshakes, a gaggle of experts sipped on a more than healthy selection of brew.

Food: The French reinvented themselves as the premier consumers of braten, proving once and for all you can teach an old dog new tricks.

Gear: South St saw both an influx of NY-based squatters, who quickly adopted attire displaying their local boozy allegiances, then wished they were among the natty jackasses who threw iceballs at Santa.

Events: On a night dominated by strippers & booze, bikers played rich folk games as everyone learned something very important about themselves.

Services: After recruiting professional help to get sufficiently swanky, Philadelphians set out to fleece the man, mainly by creatively using their phones.