- Chicagoist and its readers discussed the discovery of a suspicious briefcase that shut down a train line for a spell and Illinois making a play for Wisconsin’s high-speed rail funding.
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Shanghaiist took on , aka soup dumplings, this week, pointing out numerous great non-touristy locations to try Shanghai’s most well known snack. Gothamist found out that police busted drug dealers via Google Street View.
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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.
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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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Phillyist continued to advocate for Philadelphia's four-footed friends, this time after a year-old pit bull puppy was found hanged in a local playground and the city's animal awareness and rescue groups responded.
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Phillyist followed up on the story regarding a controversial play about a pedophile by posting a review. Verdict: no child abusers were glorified in the making of this production.
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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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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.
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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 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 scoped out a big, illegal, flashing McDonald's ad parked on the property of a local museum, for some reason.
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Torontoist took a brief tour of a 300-square-foot house. Yours for only $179,000.
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Gothamist was excited to learn that First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha were in town—and that FLOTUS said that Grimaldi's pizza is basically better than Chicago-style pizza.
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Gothamist heard more about Governor Paterson's many multiplying problems while dolphins frolicked in the East River.
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Chicagoist looked at the case of a student suspended from school for creating a Facebook page criticizing one of his teachers.
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LAist was at anything but a loss for words when two politicians should have chosen theirs more carefully: Ms. Palin and your "snake oil science" and our local "proud racist" we're talking about you!
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Phillyist took another listen to their favorite songs of 2009.
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Gothamist was shocked at allegations that two EMTs refused to help a dying pregnant woman, by claiming they were only dispatchers.
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Seattlest got what they wanted from modern corporate rock.
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Results tagged “weekaroundtheists”
Bostonist followed the Massachusetts Senate race, from the preemptive call for Coakley to Scott Brown's win, then looked ahead to 2012.
- Gothamist watched the State Senate reject gay marraige legislation supported by the Governor and State Assembly. The small silver lining was State Senator Diane Savino's impassioned speech -- "We have nothing to fear from love and commitment."
Seattlest was thankful for all the ways that Washington sports doesn't suck.
- Gothamist was saddened after seeing why Sad Panda is so so sad.
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Seattlest reminded us that we don't watch Mariners baseball for the game, we watch it for the player-on-player bromance.
Seattlest talked about gay marriage, performing, and the sexiness of the Pacific Northwest with Rufus Wainwright.
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.
Gothamist looked at how some local stores seem to be encouraging little girls to dress in slutty Halloween costumes.
Gothamist was part amazed and part horrified by this crazed fight between a taxi driver and pedicab driver.