While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton's San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan's cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a......

As part of an inspection for damage, some vaults have been opened - for the first time in a very long time - at Christ Church Burial Ground at Fifth and Arch Streets, "the resting place of more than 4,000 prominent Philadelphians, including Benjamin Franklin and four other signers of the Declaration of Independence." The vaults look quite a bit different than expected, and new sketches will have to be drawn. The PA budget......

What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly, freedom to blog. Here are a few things we're happy we've been free to blog about this week. Being the nation's capital, DCist felt especially proud to let freedom ring this week by exposing the really important issues, like how sad they......

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti......

Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but about as close as they'll get. They're also still waiting on some inbox relief after a spammer is arrested. As Chicagoist counts down the days to its third anniversary party, they found all-organic pizza to be underwhelming amidst the hoopla, tried......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Presented without comment. Well, we do have one comment: heh. We have it on good authority that the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets' new album, The Shadow Out of Tim, will be available for purchase at Amazon.com (and probably also at record stores, although maybe only ones in Canada) on the summer solstice, which is June 21st this year. Yay! List time! It's......

A Quirky Column about Dog Walking Adventures in the City of Dog-Owning Love Dancing Dogs?! Forget about all the hoopla surrounding Dancing with the Stars, according to PetPlace.com, dog lovers are signing up to learn how to dance with their dogs. Sound crazy? Not to a bunch of folks who want to participate in a sport called Canine Freestyle—an activity in which dog and owner move in tandem through a set of choreographed steps to......

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This Spring is the third anniversary of Lifeknot, online meeting place for people of all ages, based solely on interests and hobbies. The CEO and founder, Matt Muro, began Lifeknot after using online dating services that seemed to force an instant romantic relationship. “I felt that online dating sites rushed people into the relationship stage of a friendship and social networking sites linked you to so many people that the intimacy of establishing a......

Films: Monkey Warfare, Red Road, The Boss of It All, 12:08 East of Bucharest Future Screenings: None My second day out and sitting through that many movies can be an overload. After a while, I must admit, I wanted to get up and run! I got to speak to other movie goers and heard a lot of buzz about some other movies: Life Can Be So Wonderful, The Cats of Mikikitani and Day Night Day......

Films: Paprika, 12:08 East of Bucharest Future Screenings: Paprika, April 8, Prince at 9:45PM 12:08 East of Bucharest, April 8, Ritz Five at 9:30PM Stop me if you've heard this one before: "It's just a movie; you're not supposed to think about it. If I wanted to think, I'd read a book." Movies, in the popular conception, are either mindless entertainment or the sort of medicinal experience you wouldn't voluntarily seek out. Well, let me......

According to somebody on Craigslist, there's a guy around who likes to ride the Broad Street sub, sit across from female passengers, and masturbate. Click through for the description. (Via Editor Jill) There are 14 full-service passport agencies in the country, including one in Philadelphia, and all of them, including the one in Philadelphia, are seeing an incredible increase in business this year due to the fact that, since January 23rd, U.S. citizens are......

This week's quote comes from Frank Wedekind, who wrote, among other things, Spring Awakening, the show that EgoPo will be producing, beginning next week. It runs in full: “Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.” Now, on with the listings! Almost, Maine - You mean, like Canada? March 9-April 8. Ticket information online. Driving Miss Daisy - We remember loving the film based on this play, even......

Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don't let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things we love, you included. Just be glad you're not amongst the things we hate. SFist saw their beloved mayor enter rehab, and they loved the......

A new report says Pennsylvania does a bad job at helping people through the last stages of their lives, and suggests some possible improvements to end-of-life care in our state. Bees across the nation, including in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, have been dying at alarming rates and no one knows why - although possibilities include a virus, a fungal pathogen, or new pesticides that could be affecting the insects' ability to find their way home.......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Let us all agree right now: The Police were awesome. Or, we should say, are awesome, because they're *gasp* playing together again, at the opening of the Grammys. Which is the only good reason we think we've ever heard to watch the Grammys. Oh those wacky Hollywood people and their wacky remake/sequels. Turns out they're planning to do a sequel to The Departed,......

...You Go, Girl! Well that sure took long enough. (Via What Would Tyler Durden Do?) ...Ew: Of course, she might have tried to do it before this video came out. (Warning: very, very NSFW. Via FleshBot.) ...Bad Ideas: So we know who's not the smart Baldwin. (Via Canada.com.) ...Salt-and-pepper: We think it makes him look distinguished. (Via DListed.) ...Reasons for Eating Disorders: Kirstie Alley really doesn't look that bad, but bloggers are going to......

As fall settles in and another calendar page gets turned, thoughts turn from bbq's and vacations to holidays and the realization that '06 is coming to an end. With all that going on, with change in the air, we wonder what is it the -ists ponder? Phillyist is concerned that the war on Trans fats could affect its beloved cheese steak sandwiches, something for which we should all be concerned. They also seem to......

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Phillyist has been suffering through an extreme bout of insomnia lately, which we mentioned to you last week. That, combined with our currently heavy workload, makes us lament the mere two days we get every weekend and kind of think about moving to France and joining up with our Parisian sister site. If only we spoke the language... Austinist: Yikes! No thank you! Sampaist: A public park in Brazil may soon give park-goers the......

We just got back from seeing rock legend Neil Young! Wooo! Not at a concert, though, sadly. No, this morning Mr. Young was down at the Reading Terminal Market, not giving a concert, but announcing one: Farm Aid 2006, to be exact. Neil and his friends Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, and Dave Matthews will all be performing, along with plenty other bands yet to be announced, at the "Camden shed," as Neil described it......

Although this weekend probably won't be much fun (we have to finish unpacking all those boxes), Friday is still a day of promises. Our promise? Letting you know what our brothers and sisters in -ist land are up to! Austinist: Are tripping babies as fun as stoned housepets? Must be, because otherwise, the mother of this child is just a bad parent. Sampaist: Brazil is crazy for futból. (We inferred that much from cognates and......

We seem to have hurt our sister site to the north by not including them in Elite -ist these last few days. To show that it was nothing personal, we present this extra-special Elite -ist, dedicated to you, Torontoist! If you don't like it, readers? Well, blame Canada. Torontoist: Canadians rule at kickball. Kickball was invented in the Czech Republic, not Canada. Austinist: Austin's getting a new high-rise. The tallest building in Canada is......

San Francisco is proud host of a new reality show called "How to Get the Guy" that's unfortunately not a descendant of Will and Grace, Queer Eye, The L Word, American Idol etc. Also a biodefence lab is coming to the East Bay and SFist teaches wine pairing. Getting on the wrong train sucks. Getting on the wrong train and becoming the victim of what will later be described as a "stabbing spree" really sucks.......

Today marks Elite -ist's first official Friday as a working stiff. Which means, for the first time in Elite -ist's life, we can say "TGIF" without any sense of irony whatsoever. Rock on. Miamist: Pregnant? At a loss for names? Consider a tropical storm! Bostonist: Kids these days! SFist: Dreamboat (to some) reporter Anderson Cooper is in San Francisco today, but not, repeat not, for the LGBT Film Fest. Chicagoist: Yes, but where was Beavis?......

Sometimes, it goes without saying. But we -- and our sister sites -- tell you anyway. Austinist: Hollywood likes to shoot on college campuses. SFist: Members of the Green Party are hippies. Bostonist: The best part of any prom is getting dressed for it. (Unless you had one of those prom nights.) Seattlest: Art must be taught in schools, because a lack of art makes people violent. Chicagoist: It's hard being a cyclist! Torontoist:......

I have this friend, Katie. Katie works downtown at a Rittenhouse Row Retailer (try saying that three times fast). In the last week, Katie has been called useless (by a little old man), and told to fuck off (by a little old lady.) This is really no way to treat the person who's trying to wrap your purchases in tissue paper or get your credit card information. Which leads me to point number one: be......

Long before Robert Downey Senior made it the subject of a documentary film, and before and the Project for Public Spaces named it among the Top 12 Public Squares in the U.S. and Canada, I fell in love with Rittenhouse Square. It is, without question, one of my favorite spaces in the city. When high school friends and I would come to into the city for a Saturday escape from the pseudo-suburban wilds of Northeast......

Another week come and gone. As Phillyist prepares to spend the weekend in bed convalescing (we blame the cold on, well, the cold), we thought we'd leave you with a few final tidbits of -ist goodness. See you Monday! Gothamist: If Philadelphia had its own local-celeb anti-litter ad campaign, who would you want to see in it? Austinist: We wanted to go to SXSW too, but not this badly! Seattlest: There seems to be a......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. You didn't think Spider-Man had a spaceship called the Marveller that could transform into a giant robot and fight with a sword, or that he had a friend with a machine gun guitar, did you? Then clearly you haven't seen this fantastic clip from the Japanese Spider-Man TV show. God bless the Japanese! Is there nothing they can't......