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Somehow, the world of -ists managed to make it through the week despite news that Jen & Vince broke up. - Chicagoist had fall on their mind as they made squash and fudge, read "House of Leaves," and tried to figure out what's next for the Cubs. Not fall-related, but still of utmost concern, the whole skinny black pants thing. - Torontoist fought off an evil scourge of raccoons and went to go see...

Torontoist visits the site of a new Frank Gehry structure, stalks "the elusive Bahamas streetcar", and watches Tom Green get surgery. Phillyist rejoices in the Phillies' wild card chances, mourns the injuries sustained by Eagles defensive end Jevon Kearse, and goes pirate on our asses. SFist notes that Guns and Roses were in town, that San Franciscans are taking over reality TV, and that the San Francisco Chronicle's skills of original nomenclature could use some...

Houstonist reports on cross-dressing thieves and undressing educators this week. A Peeping Tom defends himself with a papaya and an outraged onlooker asks Ken Lay, "TATER TOTS OR FRIES?" Also, FEMA wants it's money back. LAist are a bug bunch of geeks. They're Star Trek geeks, David Duchovny geeks and Frank Gehry geeks. During their Cochella preview their readers reveal themselves to be Depeche Mode geeks. Seattlest saw their basketball team preparing to leave for...

Chicagoist knows you dig architecture. And we also know that, sometimes, one heavyweight architectural event just isn't enough to scratch your architectural itches. Lucky for you, Millennium Park will be double-fisting it this evening with two high-profile architectural goings on: the awarding of the 2005 Pritzker Prize and the unveiling of the plans for the Art Institute of Chicago's new wing. We've told you a couple times about the Pritzker Prize, the architectural world's...

Chicago's unfortunate architectural lull, which bored us all into oblivion with a spate of new, lifeless residential highrises during the late '90s, finally seems to be coming to an end. First we got our Frank Gehry bandshell and our Rem Koolhaas campus center, and now this: it looks like superstar Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava may be bringing his genius to a residential development on North Lake Shore Drive.

Chicagoist told you a while back that this year's Pritzker Prize would be awarded in Chicago, under the lattice of Frank Gehry's Millennium Park masterpiece, and now we can tell you the name of this year's recipient: L.A.-based architect Thom Mayne. Non-architects among us now likely scratching their heads and wondering who the hell Thom Mayne is. However, the architecture and design communities know him as the founder and creative force behind legendary firm Morphosis,...

During the last few years, this aesthetically-inclined Chicagoist has wondered more than once just what this city, renowned the world over for its architecture, was doing with its bad self. Every new building seemed to be either a ubiquitous 3- or 6-flat with a red brick front, limestone detailing and sterile concrete block sides, or monolithic and uninteresting residential tower. Blah blah bah…

Best know for designing major civic projects such as Chicago's Millennium Park; Bilbao, Spain's Guggenheim Museum and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, a suburban library seems like an odd project for perhaps the world's best known living architect.

If the Frank Gehry-designed pavillion and footbridge in Millennium Park aren't enough Gehry for you (they're not enough for us!), you can go see a birdhouse he designed for an exhibition at the Clarke House Museum. Chicago's oldest house, the Clarke House, is celebrating the summer with a display of over 100 bird and bat houses designed by both Chicago artists and renowned architects.

At least one more thing is complete in Millennium Park.. In a closed ceremony on Saturday, Master Architect Frank Gehry and Mayor Richard Daley cut the ribbon and opened the new Gehry-designed, 935-foot-long footbridge. The bridge begins in Grant Park, goes over Columbus Drive and winds down into the gardens of Millenium Park. Passing pedestrians described the bridge as "snakelike" or looking like a space ship. Gehry, himself, said he think it looks like a river. This is Gehry's first attempt at a bridge. And because everything these days has to have a corporate sponsor, the bridge is officially known as BP Bridge, after the oil company that was its primary funding source.