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 ›

Also, LA bans foot trucks from ArtWalk events, San Francisco's Slut Walk Drew as many men as women and Austin protests Rick Perry's presidential campaign announcement. 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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

Yesterday, Gothamist formally launched the new, full "pretty" design mode for Chicago, Washington, DC, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Gothamist has already had this mode for a couple of weeks and Publisher Jake Dobkin explained the method to the madness to his readers that generated some spirited discussion. 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 ›

So what else happened around the Gothamist websites this week? Boston reveled in Marathon week. A Seattle landmark reached a milestone. Someone was stabbed in the head with a pen in New York after telling another to stop smoking a blunt on the subway. 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: 'Bama visits Boston, Seattle combined Mad Men with high-speed rail, Bicycle wars in Brooklyn, and 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 ›

From around the -ists: DCist got Thundersnow and Ice Cream man photoshops, Gothamist's year of monster snow continued, Shanghaiist peeked at Beijing's oldest bathhouse, Bostonist was amazed that a man with a machete stole $54 from a kid shoveling snow and more. more ›

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

Morning, all. One note about the comment gremlins that have been affecting the entire Gothamist network the past few days. As you've probably seen by now, we are no longer accepting comments using an Ist-a-verse login. Our tech crew thought that this would probably be the best way to keep the system stable and secure. more ›

• Shanghaiist asked the workers at the USA Pavilion to document what it was like to deal with Chinese rush crowds at the Shanghai World Expo during China's National Week holiday.
• DCist was shocked when the death of a man near the popular DC9 nightclub led to five DC9 employees being arrested on allegations that they beat him to death after he threw a brick through the club's front window.
• Chicagoist had a busy week as they sat down for a chat with Community star Danny Pudi, asked why a bowling lane chain has a dress code and offered its readers etiquette tips for attending the orchestra.

Having attended the Printers Ball in the past, we knew that the free-to-all-comers event would attract more than its fair share of people. We also hoped that having Bridgeport's Zhou B Center host this year's model would allow for more accommodation of guests. We had intended to show up as the Zhou B Center is practically in our backyard, but decided to first pay our respects to the recently departed. Unfortunately, as we were making... more ›

Anheuser-Busch is taking heat for an ad they ran during Super Bowl XLI. For laughs, the 30-second spot glorifies interracial and intergenerational violence, not to mention violence against cute women, Asian American food service workers, and pretty much everyone. But the real issue is that ad agency DDB Chicago may have stolen the idea from NYC sketch comedy troupe Whitest Kids U’Know, who smack each other around in their video The New Thing. The Bud... more ›