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LAist began the month with a new food series exploring the popular and unknown late night eats around town. If a Top Chef winner opened up a late night spot in Los Angeles, denizens would flock it, yet the LA Times and other media might be wary. Turning to sports, the Dodger season was quite memorable in the way that it imploded and the LA County Sheriff's Department made some games of their own such as "Operation Any Booking," where the object was to arrest as many people as possible within a specific 24-hour period (some might suspect these cops can be found on HotChicksWithDoucheBags). The crazy stories continue in an interview with Brandon D. Christopher, author of Dirty Little Altar Boy, and a Santa Monica College Professor being blamed for the Burma web blackout.
Seattlest watches as an historic, uh, Denny's bites the dust. A local ski area puts in a mountain bike park for summer use and there's a lot going on in the fascinating world of transportation packages. Also, at least one baby is born as a result of last year's windstorm.
Although the Phillies eventually lost to the Rockies, Phillyist still celebrated them earlier this week. They also toasted the local theatre scene, caught some art, and reported on a novel local project. Oh - they're also having an affair and hanging out with musicians.
Torontoist got pretty excited about a bunch of things people don't normally get excited about: Fog! Trashcans! Lobotomies! Cats running for parliament! Urinal cakes! They also had a lovely collection of photos from last weekend's Nuit Blanche, a crazy all-night art festival thing that people ended up being pretty ambivalent about. Oh, and how about a VR panorama of an abandoned subway station for good measure?
Nothing made much sense this week for DCist. A lack of water pressure in the Adams Morgan neighborhood caused firefighters to struggle for almost eights hours to put out a big apartment building fire -- the damage displaced residents of a 30-unit apartment building, including ESPN's Tony Reali. They realized the city government had 420,000 condoms nobody wants, and wondered what they should do with them. There was yet another weird crime involving Marion Barry. To top it all off, a developer proposed a giant, phallic "Invincibility" monument in the capital and they got themselves a creepy new wax museum.
Londonist have been grinning like tomfools during a happy seven days. National Chocolate Week might have had something to do with it. Big Ben was chiming again, the Spice Girls are back, and London will finally get a shiny new £16 billion rail scheme it so desperately needs. But then things went weird when a 25 ft Egyptian death god sailed up the Thames. Within hours, London's horses were catching fire, and parts of the center were cordoned off when a strong chilli sauce was mistaken for a chemical attack.
You already know what Bostonist has on its mind--the Red Sox. They attended the Red Sox Rally and rejoiced in the team's victory over AnaheimOrWhatever. But they were slightly perplexed by the emphasis on who would be president of Red Sox Nation. But it's not all Red Sox Mania in the Hub. They saw Minus the Bear and a truly trippy noise-rock show. Then they capped it all off with a mighty sweet Cupcake Taste Test.
On SFist, locals went into a frothy frenzy over whether or not using the article "the" before freeway numbers is OK, a timeless debate between Northern and Southern Californians. The Blue Angels took to the sky while Safeway took from the charity pot. The lifestyle of attainable Tenderloin Housing Clinic's living is a fun-filled experience. And one of Ed Jew's layers, Bill Fazio, clawed himself out of the dying case. Finally we introduced a new audio interview, SF Works, kicking things off with a pot trimmer. Heh.
Denny's sign skeleton: Seattlest / mary; firefightin' shot: DCist / lukekb; photo of the Red Sox rally: Bostonist / Victoria Welch
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Um, SFist? Can we talk? This has been bothering us for a while now. It's hard to say and believe me, we wouldn't mention it unless we cared. Please, sit down. This is an intervention.
It's about your logo.
We don't love you for your looks, SFist. It's never been about that. We love you for who you are, on the inside. Blocker, Blotter, Morning After, Oh No Ed Jew! Almost too many to mention! Quality stuff. From the beginning in what, 2004? all the way up to the heady days of Siebelgate (arguably your finest hour) it's been nothing but good times.
We regret cheating on SFGate, but we feel no guilt about eventually dumping them for you. Bird's gotta fly, SFist. And we haven't looked back. Until now.
You keep showing us your foxy sister sites every week. And their logos are so hot: Seattlest has the needle, Phillyist has the bell, LAist has the Hollywood sign. (You know about our LA complex.) Most of them were designed so the user could instantly identify the site with the city. It's tough luck that Chicagoist is the ugly sister with no distinctive landmarks. But we don't live in Chicago, do we SFist? No, we do not.
We live in San Francisco. We take architecture seriously. Our historical landmarks can move. We would rather endanger commuters' lives than build an unattractive bridge. Which bridge is that on your logo? Because it sure ain't the one that goes to Marin. Or Oakland, even. Chesapeake, maybe?
We want to be proud of your body, SFist. It's just who we are. We're superficial like that. San Francisco is home to a great many graphic designers. So it pains us when we see postcards designed with more care than your logo. Worse, it looks like it was chosen by someone (sharp inhale) ... from out of town. Oh yes, it does. Coit Tower and the Ferry Building don't look distinctive in profile. They lose contrast when they're scaled down and silhouetted together. Heck, even the noobs at CurbedSF know that. We know it isn't your fault. It's your cruel overlords at Gothamist LLC. They're the ones who pimp you out in that homely thing every day.
No, we're not overreacting. We don't have unrealistic expectations of beauty. Look at the loving detail lavished on the Sam Houston statue over at Houstonist. Check out that sexy pagoda on Shanghaiist. Hell, even Torontoist has a streetcar! How the fuck did Torontoist get a streetcar without us getting a cablecar? This is unacceptable, SFist. You're better than that and you know it. We want you to be a quirky local icon, like the late, great Herb Caen's illustration.
So, how do we approach this without hurting your feelings? We know how much you like submissions from the public. You're always asking for reader tips. (This is the age of user-generated content, no?) So here you go. Is there any doubt about which city that logo represents? We kept your Transamerica Pyramid because we know you have your pride.
This is all just a suggestion, by the way. Go ahead and mix it up. Wear what you want. Talk to your designer. We want you to be happy, SFist. But please, if you could just make more of an effort, we promise to stop oogling other sites. Really.
Silhouette of Cupid's Span, then?
A used syringe? A hobo dump on a doorstep?
That's not bad -- though our font of choice is Tahoma.
I'm just relieved that nobody's complaining about our sewer-beige background color.
Huh. You don't know what those silhouette's are and you live in SF? And I am pretty darn sure that the rest of America knows the bridges and the top of the Transamerica Pyramid too.
Apparently you also have some weird identification disease where you don't recognize the Sears Tower or the John Hancock building in Chicago.
It's okay if you never look up. But you should try it sometime. There's a whole world of identifiable building tops up there!
DC1974, he's just sayin' the bridge doesn't look anything like any of the bridges in the Bay Area. It looks like some run of the mill bridge like you'd see in the unfortunate rest of the country that isn't the Bay Area, a cheap-ass bridge that got built in less than twenty years and didn't go four times over budget.