The Red Sox has permeated nearly every facet of Bostonist's lives. When they're not live-blogging the games, waxing poetic about the games, thanking Curt Schilling for his splendid work, or telling Dane Cook to watch his hair, they're watching certain presidential candidates hop on the Red Sox bandwagon (sorry, Gothamist). The Sox are so branded on the local brain that people are using the Series to spice up their sex lives. Speaking of spice, Bostonist......

Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come back and manage the Bronx Bombers. At least the city's attempt to give some direction to subway riders was interesting, pranksters went shirtless at the Fifth Avenue Abercrombie & Fitch and the I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendars came out. And just......

We'd heard Matt Duke's name before (like when Phillyist Meghan's sister covered him for us), but this Phillyist's first encounter with the young Jersey-bred singer-songwriter was a few months ago at the WXPN-hosted Philly Local Lonely Hearts Club Band. Duke, in a pair of crazy patchwork-embellished stovepipe pants (each leg was probably wider than his whole body – you can kind of see them here), completely stole the stage with his performance of "When......

Still riding the good vibes of their 2006 releases, Girl Talk and Dan Deacon come to town this evening for an R5 show at Club Polaris (AKA the Starlight Ballroom). Girl Talk -- stage name for Pittsburgh's Greg Gillis -- released, in this writer's opinion, the best album of 2006. Night Ripper took the mash-up to another level. Instead of pitting one song against another, Gillis' remixes replaced traditional musical notes with sample upon sample.......

With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-A-Verse. Luckily, even with all the things we have to do, we still managed to get together to let you know what we've all been up to. After cooling down from a hot weekend of many badass Sunset Junction Street Fair photo dispatches, LAist asked......

Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Guess what the Irredeemable Ant-Man is doing. (Via) Yay! It sounds like Congress is going to uphold the ban on further taxing of internet access. (Via Jill) Are you the kind of person who likes all kinds of beverages, and so can't decide which flavor to get? Then Anything and Whatever are the soft drinks for you. Anything is a cola that comes......

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with......

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. Torontoist Special Report: Rosie to Trump: "Fire 300 Bicyclists for Fraud!" On DCist: Students Go Wild for Slogans, Secrets and Sexual Harassment The action was thick......

Every so often I might wander over to CNN. But just to glance the top headlines. To catch up if I've been out of touch - I don't own a TV. Mostly though, even that duty has been relegated to MSN and even, the BBC. Besides CNN.com's systematic dumbing down in the last year - continued reporting on all things inane, ranging from Suri Cruise to Lindsay Lohan, as well as the introduction of Cliff's......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. As promised, the 300 trailer. Cool. Sam Raimi is likely to direct a film featuring at least three classic pulp characters created by Street and Smith: The Shadow, Doc Savage, and The Avenger. We're one of those crazy people that thinks Raimi is pretty hit-or-miss as a director, so we'll wait and see on this one. But it sounds like it could be......

The security updates to City Hall promised in November 2001 - which include security cameras, turnstiles, and swipe cards with photo ID for employees - are finally almost done and in place. The updates come with restrictions, of course: soon you won't be able to just walk into City Hall anymore, like it's a public building or something. Another security restriction being considered for the city is a curfew for those naughty teens. The Eagles......

- Philly voters are mad as hell about violence and corruption in our city (ed- ah, James, you're not alone!) - at least mad enough to voice their opinion in a survey. Opinion polls are all well and good, but the voting polls are what count. (via) - Last week it was identity theft, this week's crime - dealing illicit prescription drugs. - And speaking of drug-dealing - what's worse than getting picked up by......

...Betrothal: Titty McTitterson and that White Trash guy who once sang a song about --cowboys, was it? -- are tying the knot. May god have mercy on their offspring. (Via People.) ...Heterosexuality: Oprah is straight. Straight straight straight. But, mind you, not narrow. (Via Reuters.) ...Snap! Looks like war between Kevin Smith and the critics. Or one critic. Either way, we know who wins this one. And it ain't the critic. (Via The Superficial.)......

Not since chocolate had its little run in with peanut butter have two things which seem so disparate gone so well together. That's right - we're talking Zombie Prom. Zombie. Prom. Zommmbiieeee Prommmm. Zombrraaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis. Ahem. Prom. Sure, the premise: an evening of burlesque and zombie costumes hosted by a singing Skeletor - sounds like it may have been devised by a gaggle of fourteen year-old boys. But too bad for them - it's a twenty-one......

Ah, our Philly heart swells with pride: a local Fishtown dog is in competition for the World's Ugliest Dog! His name is Pee Wee Martini (AKA "Mr. Peepers," AKA "Son of Sam") and he's a hairless, crooked-nosed Chinese-crested, Japanese Chin mix with no teeth on one side of his mouth (see picture, right). One man's reaction upon seeing Pee Wee for the first time: "I was confused. I thought I just witnessed a horrible accident."......

...Medical Drama: Keith Richards is recovering just fine from the brain surgery he had to remove a blood clot from his brain. Of course, Keith Richards would survive a nuclear holocaust, so nobody should be particularly surprised. (Via People) ...Surprise: Nobody likes Tom Cruise anymore. (Via The Chicago Tribune) ...Masturbation: Halle Berry and Bruce Willis are making a movie together that requires a sex scene between their two characters. But good ol' Brucie has been......

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......

...Anarchy: Apparently, the Clash were really just advocating terrorist attacks. (Via The BBC) ...Skank: Lindsay Lohan. Just look at the (possibly NSFW) pictures, and see why we don't feel any commentary is necessary. (Via The Superficial) ...Fan Base Betrayal: Katie Couric is leaving NBC's Today Show for the anchor seat at CBS's Evening News. Soccer moms everywhere plan protest. (Via CNN.com) ...Surprise! Eminem and his wife are getting divorced again. Gee, we saw that coming......

...Causes: Sharon Stone was in Israel on a trip funded by the Peres Center for Peace, which strives to improve Arab-Israeli relations. While there, she talked about the fact that she'd be naked in the upcoming Basic Instinct 2, offered to kiss anyone she had to in order to get peace in the Middle East, and delivered (in earnest) a "some of my best friends are..." line. Oh yeah, she also prayed at the Wailing......

Our former mayor, now Reverend, W. Wilson Goode is trying to bring to Philly the faith-based sexual abstinence program called "The Silver Ring Thing." The lovely title of the program comes from the fact that teens who vow to avoid sex until marriage in the first three-hour session get a silver ring to recognize the fact (hopefully to put on their fingers, and not...elsewhere). The program includes music and video; Phillyist can only imagine......

This week, we’re starting something new. You see, we’ve just about run out of generic quotes about theatre to use for headlines, and the few times we’ve used less common quotes, we’ve had a few people contact us in rather a lot of confusion. So, we’re going to begin explaining the more, er, “in-quotes,” right here. If you’ve got any theatre-related quotes you’d like us to use, e-mail the quote, play/song, and context to us......

One of the joys of the Summer garden is the overload of produce, particularly zucchini. There are rumors that some gardeners get so bogged down with squash, they leave extras on neighbors' doorsteps in the middle of the night. Phillyist knows the joy of zucchini growing, and we know the pain of not having the space to grow it in the city. Zucchini plants are unruly and massive, taking up insane amounts of space. We......

When the Kaiser Chiefs kicked off Live 8 with their hit single, "I Precidt a Riot," we'll admit that we thought the event was doomed. We imagined obvious newspaper writers across the country kicking back Saturday evening and writing headlines like "Kaiser Chiefs: Prophets" or "Kaiser Chiefs See Into Future." Fortuantely, we live in a better world, a world where where web writers can kick back on a Wednesday morning and write about things that......

Enjoy PBS's Colonial Life, but wish it wasn't so...educational? Have a hard time watching people try to live in another era, when those people aren't models, and that era was oh-so-long ago? MTV may have the solution for you: The 70s House premiered tonight at 10:30. But wait, you might be saying, why did MTV pick this random decade, anyway? Two answers immediately come to mind: (1) To make use of the super-tight clothing, and......

Curt Schilling has become the Larry Brown of Baseball. Moving from town to town, Curt often contradicts himself in order to look out for, well, himself. Curt made headlines again on Tuesday morning. As reported on Blinq, he called into WEEI, Boston's sports talk radio station, to criticize Philadelphia radio hosts who criticized former Phils manager and current Red Sox manager Terry Francona. "They are some of the biggest pieces of trash," Schilling said of......