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See what happened around the ist-a-verse last week with a brief summary of some of the top stories. Enjoy!
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DCist normally would have spent some time analyzing the Washington Redskins’ draft class, if only we hadn’t been so distracted by Redskins owner Dan Snyder’s continuing legal tantrum against the Washington City Paper or defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth’s claims that a woman he allegedly sexually abused “was just upset [he] had a white girlfriend.” (Who are we kidding? Any draft analysis would have just ended up taking a back seat to lion cub training photos and outdoor movie festival anticipation, anyway.)
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DCist was annoyed when the head of the city’s Metro system said that late night riders “should not be drunk”; meanwhile, its readers debated one Safeway store’s new policy of checking customers’ receipts before they leave.
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DCist and its contributors put their cameras to work this week -- a good thing, too: a total lunar eclipse, the National Zoo’s adorable lion cubs and D.C’s female roller derby league made for some inspired subjects.
Chicagoist was excited to hear that a television series was in the works based on the exploits of a couple of legendary mob bosses, shared a recipe for homemade eggnog with its readers and kicked off a new series featuring photographs from the archives of legendary photographer Art Shay.
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Bostonist got festive this week as Bostonians took to the streets in various states of undress for the 2010 SSRun, formerly known as the Santa Speedo Run. The 11th annual event speaks for itself. One gallery wasn't enough. Bostonist needed two.
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Philyist had a busy week, first celebrating its relaunch, complete with new look, and then finding a way to make 90210 Day relevant.
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Chicagoist survived another edition of Lollapalooza at which they were unimpressed by Lady Gaga, actually dug Green Day, were blown away by Arcade Fire and checked out a slew of other bands with 240,000 of their closest friends.
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SFist also covered the overturning of California's same-sex marriage ban.
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Chicagoist watched in amusement as former governor Rod Blagojevich interrupted a kickball game on the eve of his federal corruption trial which kicked off on Thursday.
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Torontoist has something for your architecture nerds: a look at the very best and very worst new buildings in their city, all of which are nominees up for public praising or shaming in this year's Pug Awards.
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Chicagoist saw the debate over Arizona's new controversial immigration law reach their front yard in the form of a boycott of the Cubs games against the Arizona Diamonbacks.
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Chicagoist marveled at local comic-book artist Chris Ware's rejected cover for magazine.
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DCist was stunned by a new video of Prince George's County police officers beating a Univ. of Maryland student during a post-game celebration that got out of hand in College Park.
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Torontoist tooka brief tour of a 300-square-foot house. Yours for only $179,000.
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- Chicagoist’s readers were introduced to a website that re-ignited the ages-old debate about winter parking dibs, and were later incensed that Wal-Mart signed an intent to lease space for a smaller neighborhood store in one of the more populous and affluent neighborhoods in the city.
- DCist officially announced its 2011 Exposed photography show -- and to celebrate the event’s fifth anniversary, informed the city about its plans to publish a special collection of the event’s best images.
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- Chicagoist braced itself for the biggest storm front to pass through in 70 years. Despite a lot of wind, however, media reports dubbing it the 'Great Lakes Cyclone' were overblown, which gave its readers more time to discuss a perceived war on foodies.
- SFist celebrated the Giants World Series performance during Games One and Two, but shook its finger at these ladies duking it out at a nearby McDonald's after the game.
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- Phillyist looked ahead to a possible World Series win, and was quite pleased to see that at least one player was doing everything possible to earn it.
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- LAist's Sports Editor wrote "A Plea for Empathy," after a week in which five stories about gay teens killing themselves after being taunted made headlines.
- Gothamist learned that a Rutgers University student killed himself by jumping off the George Washington Bridge—apparently his roommate was trying to secretly broadcast the victim's sexual encounter with another man.
- Shanghaiist, after reading the latest stats on the Chinese internet, wondered if it had turned into one giant 4chan.
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- SFist received this image from a nightclub owner frustrated his iPhone service, or lack thereof.
- Shanghaiist poo pooed people who praise our city's skyline way too much by showing off what may be one of the ugliest buildings in the world - the Ping An Insurance building, which not only boasts ionic column after column for 40-something-stories, but is topped off with a giant, shiny, Roman dome. Just the thing to be built smack dab in our bustling, Blade-Runner-like financial center.
- Gothamist got confirmation, by way of this map, that Manhattan is full of white people. Also, even babies like to block bike lanes.
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- LAist inspired a lively debate when they reported that gubernatorial candidate and millionaire Meg Whitman has now spent more of her own money on her campaign than any other politician in US history had. (By the way, that's $119 million out of her own pocket.)
- Londonist spotted some creative street art challenging the Pope's state visit to London.
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- SFist spent Thursday night covering the San Bruno natural gas explosion and fire. The inferno--which killed several residents, destroyed dozens of homes, and displaced many--sent flames hundreds of feet in the air.
- DCist kicked off a series of candid interviews with the District's political movers and shakers by chatting with education reformer Michelle Rhee.
- Seattlest caught up with the local author of a book on the Amanda Knox case.
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Gothamist is stuck in a vortex of stories involving alleged Islamophobia: A week that started with a heated rally and confrontation outside the not-at-Ground Zero mosque, there were incidents of a man peeing on prayer rugs at a Queens mosque and a taxi driver who was stabbed after being asked if he was Muslim.
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- Gothamist got a double dose of pop culture invading reality: A woman based her sex life on Sex and the City's Samantha Jones and Darth Vader robbed a Long Island bank.
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- Shanghaiist documented the opening of its first Apple Store, a giant cylindered affair in our central business district. We also took a sneak peek at their newish "Briefing Room" strategy for enticing business users, and posed with theirexclusiveShanghai products.
- LAist got caught up in the Lindsay Lohan courtroom saga and watched as the former teen starlet was handed a 90-day jail sentence for a pair of '07 DUIs.
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- LAist spoke to the Department of D.I.Y., a renegade group of do gooders who are postering the city with bicycle safety messages.
- Torontoist scoped out a big, illegal, flashing McDonald's ad parked on the property of a local museum, for some reason.
- Shanghaiist snuck into international pavilion grounds of the World Expo 2010 site and walked around for hours, documenting in pictures the entire damn thing—no small feat since the area it sits on covers about 2 square miles.
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- LAist introduced readers to The Entryway, a photojournalism website done by a pair of white reporters who embedded themselves with a family of eight undocumented Mexican residents in LA's MacArthur Park neighborhood.
- Gothamist was excited to learn that First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha were in town—and that FLOTUS said that Grimadli's pizza is basically better than Chicago-style pizza.
- Londonist drew a map of all the things that were invented in London, then learned how airport security are using scanners to ogle breasts.
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