Best Of: November 2008 Archives

Photograph of Kermit the Frog in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade by Jen Chung Gothamist was horrified when an out-of-control crowd fatally trampled a Wal-Mart worker on Black Friday.Shanghaiist looks at media reports of the supposed ban of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy.Bostonist saw a lot of hats and a lot of legs while drinking a lot of booze at a pretend USO Show.LAist joined Weezer's Rivers Cuomo for his latest hootenanny in Long Beach. As always, the jam session was a blast.DCist followed the escapades of one of the city's dumbest criminals,......

Credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Chicagoist took umbrage with a New York Times article, explored the Korean food Disneyland, examined Rahm Emanuel's Charades game-face, and checked out a cookbook that focuses on an, er, unorthodox ingredient.Phillyist covered Philadelphia's Prop. 8 protests and continued to debate Eagles fandom.Gothamist bemoaned plans for a fare hike and service cuts as public transit agency MTA unveiled a grim proposal to address a looming, billion-dollar deficit.LAist found a hipster bar that is way too overly ironic--therefore, a call to end......

Photograph of a waiting-to-vote line outside P.S. 87 in NYC by swruler0284 on Flickr Gothamist greeted Election Day with excitement--and some really, really long lines. Even Tim Robbins had a meltdown at his polling site!Bostonist discovered that it's hard out there for a singer when we met The Opera Guy, a classically trained busker, and Jess Tardy, an independent singer-songwriter whose work has appeared on television.Seattlest thought that this video of Capitol Hill hipsters literally dancing in the streets -- to Journey, no less -- ought to go into an......