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Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network." It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by...

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA...

Happy Easter, Chicago. Eat up all your chocolate eggs so we won't be tempted!

In March of 2006 the National Organization on Disability announced its finalists for the Accessibly America Awards. The announcement of the winners came on Thursday. Coming in first place was Berkeley, CA and our fair city came in second. Receiving a $10,000 award from Wal-Mart, our city was recognized for incorporating and continuing to promote the assimilation of the disabled into community life.

Chicagoist was intrigued by the discovery of an extinct race of hobbit-like people in modern-day Indonesia. The name defines a species of three-and-a-half-foot-tall hominids. Scientists from UIC, U of C, and the Field Museum want to spoil the fun by disproving this claim of a new species. The hobbits may actually just be the fossilized remains of some very short people, one of whom had a genetic condition known as microcephaly, which describes people with very small heads.

Take a gander at that picture of the Damen Blue Line stop. Nice photo, right? Wrong. That's a painting created entirely on the computer by Berkeley, California artist Bert Monroy, using nothing but Photoshop, Illustrator, and 2,000 hours of squinting, tongue-squiggling, and pixel-tweaking. Average CTA fans and art lovers can appreciate the realism and detail, but Photoshop nerds can also marvel over the 15,000 layers, 500 alpha channels, and 250,000 paths used to create...

There's a longstanding quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin that states, "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Although Chicagoist's belief in a higher power is suspect, we agree with the rest of Big Ben's wisdom. Beer - and other malt beverages - is also a much discussed subject among the Chicagoist staff. One staffer is obsessed with the alcoholic energy drink known as "Sparks"; just can't get enough of...

So imagine you’re a rock guy. You’re born in Detroit (and have been known to hang out with Jack White) so you’ve got a quality rock pedigree but you’ve also been spending a lot of time in Berkeley, CA so you’ve got that pop stuff going from all those flowers in your hair. You’ve opened for Keane so you’re riding a nice buzz but you’re a little concerned about keeping your rocker cred. So what...

Chicagoist is a red-blooded, law abiding American, we take our hat off at baseball games, and never jaywalk. But a new law in Naperville criminalizing the mere proximity to underage drinking for people under 21 demonstrates that it is possible for governments to violate civil rights and have a stick up their collective butt at the same time.