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

For this round, we're looking for a feature that will be relevant to our complete network audience of over four million readers in large American cities. 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 ›

An acrobat takes her act to the Williamsburg Bridge. Los Angeles survives Carmageddon. A speeding cyclist faces the same repercussions as a driver for running over a pedestrian. And much, much more. 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 ›

DC cops roughed up a man in a wheelchair, the Rapture was rescheduled for October and the Boston Bruins reached the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in 20 years. more ›

It was all about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn perp walk in New York, SFist got a shot of Doomsday false prophet Harold Camping's home when the rapture passed us by, and Boston welcomed the Cubs as an impending sign of doom. more ›

What else happened across the Gothamist universe this week? In LA, Kobe Bryant had a "faker" moment, DC's politicians were arrested, Boston fretted about the Red Sox (still) and Seattle found comfort in animal dentistry after being denied one of the decommissioned space shuttles. 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 ›

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 ›

Last month we told you of some upcoming changes to the site's layout that will be happening throughout the Gothamist network. Any readers who may have moseyed over to Gothamist this week already know the redesign is a go. So when will Chicagoist undergo the redesign? Try March 14. That's the target date for the new design to roll out here and for LAist, SFist, and DCist. more ›

(Ed. Note: We know that the Disqus comment roll out and the decision to switch the RSS feeds to summary mode took some of you by surprise. So we wanted to keep you abreast of the next major change to how you'll be viewing the Ist-a-verse sites in the coming weeks. We'll turn the floor over to Jake Dobkin from here. Jake and Gothamist tech director Neil Epstein are also taking suggestions and answering questions in the comments to the original post at Gothamist. — CS) more ›

The big news at the other -Ist sites this week: Gothamist was dealing with a blizzard, Bostonist was all over the Sugarloaf chairlift crash; Seattlest wrapped up its jumbo-sized countdown to 2011 and Shanghaiist was aghast that CBS mistook Taipei for Hong Kong. more ›

Hey, all. We're having some problems posting photos to our publishing system this morning. It's a problem that's affecting the entire Gothamist network and our tech staff is currently working to remedy the situation as soon as possible. more ›

So what were the big stories in the Ist-a-verse last week? Read on. more ›

It may not be Chicago-related, exactly, but we'd be remiss in not mentioning today's eighth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Here are some stories of local interest in relation to the anniversary. more ›

In case you were following it, our sister (mother?) site Gothamist has been exploring the controversy over yesterday's editorial cartoon by the NY Post's Sean Delonas which many have claimed is racist and makes allusions to shooting the President. It's not the first time Delonas has gotten himself in hot water, either. more ›

The FAA is saying all 150+ people onboard the US Airways flight that crashed into the Hudson River are alive and okay. Head over to our sister site Gothamist for more coverage on the crash. more ›

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