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A sad week for LAist as they lose their trusted and amazing editor Tony Pierce to the LA Times, but what a blast his last week was. He shared his 25 Favorite CDs of 2007 and wrote a great review of just a good movie, No Country For Old Men. At UCLA, thousands of students celebrated the end of their quarter by running around campus in their undies (lots of photos in a two-part photo essay, one, two). That wasn't the only photo essay either: Joss Whedon/Mutant Enemy friends and Star Trek actors all joined in at the Writers Strike and KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas brought two nights of amazing bands that included Avenged Sevenfold, Linkin Park (Part I), Modest Mouse, Muse, Spoon and The Killers (Part II). Not only is L.A. a great music town, it has just been named the best city for bookish types. For those who are looking for something a little more active, American Gladiators are back (yes!) and if that's not enough, how about a Christmas gift of action and adventure?

Kwik-E-Mart, a store normally confined to your television set, is invading 7-Eleven stores across the country; locally, there's one in Mountain View.

The nicer the weather gets, the busier we get across the Ist-A-Verse. But we like being busy. Here's a peek at what we've been up to since last week!

It's the first Thursday of the month, the official "wine and cheese chaser" day to descend on downtown art galleries and people watch.

Cultural Learnings of Blogosphere for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of -Ist-a-verse

Let's look back at a week in which no site in the -ist network adopted anyone from Africa...

Hey, have y'all been using our new "Recommend this" feature at the bottom of each post? This week we're bringing you the "Most Recommended" posts from across the -ist world, as well as recommending some of our own.

Sure, we mock the Chronicle all the time -- but we mock because we love! So let us extend a hearty back-slap of congratulations to our main bastion of the Mainstream Media out here in San Francisco for winning a Pulitzer for feature photojournalism! Deanna Fitzmaurice's photographs illustrating a series about an Iraqi boy flown to the Children's Hospital in Oakland for life-saving surgery after he was injured in an explosion, called "Operation Lionheart," beat out the Minneapolis Star-Tribune's photo essay on a woman soldier recovering from head trauma and the LA Times' famous picture of the Marine smoking. We're so proud! The Chron was totally robbed for a Pulitzer on their BALCO coverage, though. They'll just have to settle for getting a Congressional inquiry started and triggering a nationwide debate is all.

Friday night, while we were hanging out with the SXSW crew for a last hurrah, friend (and roommate) of SFist Bayete got a last minute invite to an impromptu fight night at the club house of the inimitable East Bay Rats. While there he took some absolutely fantastic photos, and lucky for us, suggested that we may want to use one. We saw the pictures and said, "Hey, mind if we use a few?" And a photo essay was born. Dudes getting it in the face and boxing foxes after the jump.