Lots of Occupy movement news from across the ist-a-verse this week.
Elsewhere in the Ist-a-Verse: The Occupy Movement Spreads
Seattlest Takes It On the Chin Like A Trooper
I won that little wager on yesterday's Bears-Seahawks game I had with Seattlest editor Allecia Vermillion and, just as we pinky swore, Allecia honored the bet and gave me space on Seattlest to talk trash to the Emerald City. No hard feelings, Allecia?
Civic Pride: A Seattlest-Chicagoist Wager
While we're taking a wait-and-see approach to tomorrow's Bears-Seahawks playoff game at Soldier Field, our comrades in the Emerald City are already imagining a Seahawks victory. They've even gone so far as to imagine some of the things His Elective Majesty and Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn should wager.
Elsewhere in the Ist-A-Verse
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.
Elsewhere in the Ist-A-Verse
John Barleycorn: World Class Beer Bar?
All About Beer magazine (via) listed their "top 125 places to have a beer before you die" (a nice arbitrary number, by the way). Five local taverns made the cut: Hopleaf (#24), Clark Street Ale House (#43), Map Room (#47), Goose Island (#84) and John Barleycorn, which makes the cut ten spots from the bottom at #115.

