Lots of Occupy movement news from across the ist-a-verse this week. more ›

Protesters started to occupy Wall Street to protest corporate hegemony, so the NYPD used an antiquated law to arrest protesters, including grandmothers. The arrest total hit triple digits yesterday as police pepper-sprayed already-penned in protesters. more ›

Willow the cat went missing in Colorado five years ago... only to turn up in New York City this week! more ›

DCist featured videos of a car intentionally swerving into a cyclist, and of a thief stealing a bike in broad daylight as pedestrians walk by. more ›

The East Coast Earthquake and Hurricane Irene dominated the week. more ›

A judge rules a bike lane in Brooklyn can be built. Austin is baffled by Rick Perry... and Ron Paul supporters. DC got an early look at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. And more. more ›

Besides Lollapalooza fever here, Long Beach enacted a ban on plastic bags, people in DC thought sidewalk cafés would lead to violence 50 years ago and Shanghai celebrated Chinese Valentine's Day. more ›

New York rings in gay marriages. The Patriots get richer. Austin pondered a plastic bag ban. And much more. more ›

Washington, DC's zoo goes without panda cubs, Seattle's freaking out about security cameras in state forests, an LA-based milk campaign promises to cure PMS, and more. more ›

What else happened in the Ist-a-verse this week? LGBT history will be added to California textbooks and marijuana will soon be classified as dangerous as heroin. more ›

Seattlest was watching the Amanda Knox case. Gothamist saw Glenn Beck get a chilly reception. Austinist is bracing for confederate license plates. more ›

Gay marriage passes in New York. Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger nabbed by the feds. People are leaving San Francisco. A Taiwanese blogger jailed for panning a restaurant. And much more. more ›

Boston celebrated the Bruins' Stanley Cup championship. Austin took Houston's complaints about the Capital city in stride. An English teacher in Shanghai taught her students to chant "whore" with her students. And more. more ›

It was Weinermania at Gothamist. The LGBT flag won't fly over the Settle Space Needle. LA prepared for next month's two-day plus closure of the 405. And much more. more ›

Shanghaiist saw what happens when a guy dressed as Tigger goes to the zoo. more ›

The news of Osama bin Laden's death dominated the headlines throughout the Ist-a-verse. New York and DC celebrated Obama's death, Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown had to backtrack on saying he saw photos of a dead Osama and Cindy Sheehan told San Francisco she doesn't believe Osama is dead. more ›

What else happened across the Ist-a-verse this week? SFist looked at a war of words between a Catholic parody group and Andrew Sullivan, DCist had behind the scenes photos from the zoo, New York more ›

From across the -ists: Dodger Stadium gets a "zero-tolerance" policy for violence, DC can't spend money on abortions, the Red Sox won a baseball game, and more. more ›

From around the -ists: New York didn't learn anything from a 9/11 truther conference, he Red Sox' slow start already Boston acting fatalistic, DC welcomes a new art installation courtesy of Virginia tourism, and Seattlest says goodbye to its former editor. more ›

LAist reminded everyone to save the date for the end of the world, which, according to a California-based billboard campaign, is slated for May 21. Oh joy. Oh rapture. more ›

What else happened across the Gothamist universe this week? In San Francisco, a game publishing company publicity stunt went awry. Anti-gay Christians reared their heads in Shanghai. Some signs of life in the Prop 8 fight in Los Angeles. DC compared its local food scene to Philadelphia's. And much more. more ›

What else happened in the Gothamist universe this week? Seattle's mayor had his bike stolen. DC's Council chairman lied about buying some cars. Boston lamented the Celtics trade of Kendrick Perkins. Shanghai witnessed the fizzling out of the Jasmine Revolution. And much, much more. more ›

What else happened in the ist-a-verse this week? Shanghaiist showed that the Groupon ads weren't well received in China, either. LAist wondered about the karma of a man who died from wounds suffered by a cockfighting rooster. Bostonist welcomed its new "green" train. Gothamist looked at more problems between cops and cyclists. and SFist rubbed their good weather in midwesterners' faces. more ›

Here's what was big news throughout the Gothamist universe this week: DCist was all over the Dan Snyder/City Paper lawsuit; Shanghaiist rediscovered the power of microblogging, Seattlest was film crazy, and Gothamist watched as New York inched closer toward a complete ban on smokes. more ›

What else happened in the Gothamist universe this week? Read on. more ›

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