Ringing in 2009

Duval Street in Key West, Fla., is jammed with New Year's Eve revelers very late Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008, as female impersonator Gary Marion, transformed into "Sushi," is lowered outside the Bourbon Street Pub Complex to welcome 2009 seconds later. The Big Red Shoe Drop, with "Sushi" in a large facsimile of a woman's high heel, was a whimsical takeoff on New York City's Times Square ball drop. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Andy Newman)