- Gothamist was reminded that the rent is TOO DAMN HIGH and that the prepared food-next-to-garbage in the Whole Foods elevator isn't supposed to be normal.
- DCist featured amazing video footage of a man leaping across the Metro tracks to help someone who had fallen off the platform, while continuing to keep a close eye on developments in the highly divisive DC9 case.
Week Around the Ists
Week Around the Ists
Week Around the Ists
- Chicagoist marveled at movie magic as downtown was turned into a war zone for filming of the upcoming let-down Transformers 3 (even if it did snarl traffic).
- Gothamist was shocked to hear that 400 Canada geese were euthanized in Prospect Park, apparently to keep geese numbers down, lest they fly into planes.
Week Around the Ists
- Torontoist continued its coverage of the G20 with a look at the 14 essential videos to come from it, and even tracked down the guy who was captured on video politely tackling one looter.
- DCist said hello to a new editor-in-chief and got excited about Spike Mendelsohn's new pizzeria.
Week Around the Ists
Weekly Ist-averse roundup.
Week Around the Ists
Week Around the Ists
Week Around the Ists
- Gothamist found out Banksy was in town on Monday, only to see his pieces dissed by Tuesday. However, this tourist sidewalk lane might be his work. Gothamist also created this primer on what's not a Banksy.
- SFist survived another Bay to Breakers race, the city's annual costumed marathon of pomp and hilarity, but held its nose after participants used Tehama Street as a toilet.
- Seattlest examined what Sarah Palin's endorsement of Redskins tight end turned knuckle dragging, tea bagging, alfalfa farming GOP Senate candidate Clint Didier means for the Washington state Senate race.
Week Around the Ists
- Torontoist introduced the internet to a video of a pigeon riding the subway, just like a human! The internet took it from there.
Week Around the Ists
Week Around the Ists
Week Around the Ists
Seattlest reminded us that we don't watch Mariners baseball for the game, we watch it for the player-on-player bromance.
Week Around the Ists
Seattlest talked about gay marriage, performing, and the sexiness of the Pacific Northwest with Rufus Wainwright.
Week Around the Ists
Gothamist learned that Vespa owners are resorting to illegal measures (okay, scraping off their vehicle ID numbers) to keep their scooters on the street, not that it'll help.
Week Around the Ists
Gothamist looked at how some local stores seem to be encouraging little girls to dress in slutty Halloween costumes.
Week Around the Ists
Gothamist asked its readers if bicyclists should ride with the cars on the roadway—not the walkway—of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Week Around the Ists
Shanghaiist found out that somebody (possibly government related) is sending journalists in China targeted malware ridden emails, though we haven't figured out why yet.
Week Around the Ists
Chicagoist played tourist in its own city by spending half an hour on the famed Michigan Ave (with magical results) and then scoped out the crumbling architecture of Gary and East Chicago, Indiana towns that stand in the shadow of Chicago.
Week Around the Ists
LAist rocked out hard at the Vans Warped Tour to a lineup of "new-age punkers."
Week Around the Ists
Gothamist was amazed that former Giants star Plaxico Burress pleaded guilty and will face 2 years in prison for charges related to the November incident where he brought an illegal gun into a Manhattan nightclub and accidentally shot himself because the gun was falling down his pants.
Week Around the Ists
Londonist witnessed unecessary tabloid shock at the languages spoken by some of London's children.
Week Around the Ists
DCist revisited the saga of Molly, the stolen and ultimately returned local dog, when aggressive animal rights group PETA decided to speak up on the issue of leaving your pets tied up alone on the sidewalk.

