Photograph of investigation at Times Square recruiting center by kerfuffle & zeitgeist on Flickr Gothamist found that an explosive set off outside the Times Square army recruiting center may be similar to five past bombings in New York City.Seattlest worried when severed right feet and bottles of rat poison started washing up on local beaches.Shanghaiist was surprised by Bjork's rooting for Tibetan independence at her concert (see video), and the political fallout has only......

Offices in Capitol Hill received a manila envelope with a letter claiming responsibility for today's bombing of a landmark military recruiting station in Times Square, NYC. Our parent site, Gothamist, tells us that "WNBC reports that the letters, which arrived today, included a photo of the Army recruiting center 'before it was bombed and...the words 'We did it.'" Which group is claiming responsibility, exactly, remains to be known. According to the AP, Senator Dianne......

Let's check in on local girl Marvita, and her quest to become "America's Next Top Model." After arriving in New York, the girls moved into their loft, which, while nice, wasn't exactly posh, what with the bunk beds in one room, and one giant bed in another. Regardless, it was a step up for Marvita, who talked about being homeless, without parents, at the age of 18. Also in the loft: No smoking! And......

Man, it seems like forever since the last miraculous episode of "Project Runway" doesn't it? To recap: Chris March came back. And that's all that really mattered. At the beginning of this episode, the designers were still talking about how ugly Steven's dress was, and how happy they all were to still be there. We had to go through the boring choosing-of-the-models, and yes, we do always talk about how boring this part of the......

The cold weather - and holiday festivities - descended upon Gothamist. The Rockefeller Christmas tree was lit, Broadway stagehand finally ended their strike, and NASCAR decided to run their victory lap through Times Square. There were disturbing photographs revealing the working conditions in which many city manholes are produced and ninjas were also a hot topic, either robbing homes or entering into alibis. But the city was really rocked by how Rudy Giuliani's visits......

Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We're exhausted just thinking about it. First up, SFist, who saw their little 'ole site be the center of what was a nice little scandal (even getting their editor on TV) only to find their scandal dwarfed by the even bigger scandal caused by their Mayor boffing one of his aides' wife. We're not just tooting our horn when we say we think SFist summed up the whole thing better than anyone: Holy Crap!!!!! ...

We realize that those of you with Tivo don't have to trouble yourselves with the minutiae of daily television programming, but for you old schoolers with the VCRs and you hard-liners who only watch original broadcasts, heads up! This morning at 11:00 a.m., NBC is broadcasting its television coverage of the 2006 Maverick's Big Wave Surf Contest. The contest was originally held February 7, 2006, one of the most unbelievably beautiful winter days in recorded......

We saw movies, and more movies, and famous people, and more movies, and kinda porny movies, and French movies, and political movies, and locally produced movies. Movies! And thank goodness we had movies to escape to, so we could stop obsessively weeping over being called "garbage. Classy! We may be garbage, but we're Times Square garbage! We'd drown our sorrows in alcohol, but won't be doing so at the North Beach Festival. Gavin, you're......

Houstonist reports on cross-dressing thieves and undressing educators this week. A Peeping Tom defends himself with a papaya and an outraged onlooker asks Ken Lay, "TATER TOTS OR FRIES?" Also, FEMA wants it's money back. LAist are a bug bunch of geeks. They're Star Trek geeks, David Duchovny geeks and Frank Gehry geeks. During their Cochella preview their readers reveal themselves to be Depeche Mode geeks. Seattlest saw their basketball team preparing to leave for......

Proving yet again that life is very, very, very unusual, here is a photograph of the SFist softball team...on a gigantic General Electric billboard in Times Square...making an obscene gesture. The story behind it is this: back in February, GE was soliciting Flickr users to submit pictures of themselves doing "healthy" things for use in a GE ad campaign. We didn't care what the product was; we only cared that their marketing people had requested......

We've been wondering when, if ever, we'd see a "CSI: San Francisco". Now, before one of you clever commenters points out that part of the "CSI" formula involes cops actually solving crimes (seriously, do our cops ever do that?), we'd like to point out another drawback: not enough neon. After all, what is an episode of one of the three "CSI"s without an establishing shot of the noble gas lit Vegas strip, Times Square,......