Ross and I were invited down to Atlantic City this past weekend for a mini blogger meetup sponsored by the four Harrah's casinos there. I'll write more about that in this week's Return to Sender, but for now, I'm only mentioning it to set the scene. In all, there were ten of us in attendance. The two of us from Philly, two others from Chicago, and the balance from New York City. During dinner,......

Note: Almost all of the content in this post was stolen with permission from Gothamist editor Jake Dobkin. Hey Everyone-- as part of our continuing efforts to make Phillyist a friendly and reasonably polite place, we've eliminated "guest" comments on our posts. This means that to comment on the site, all users will need to complete a short registration process. We've decided to do this because the vast majority of bad behavior (trolling, spamming, incivility,......

By Jake Dobkin Hey everyone: you may have noticed that we've made a few small changes to our commenting and feedback systems: 1. Commenters now have profile pages with a bit of information about them, and links to their recent comments, along with comments other people have left in response. If the commenter is also a Gothamist network author, the page will include a list of their recent posts. Here's mine. You can register here......

Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word "Jackass" in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we're going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For example, it looks like there are Toronto-area jackasses besides those who misuse the sidewalk: look at the crap on sale on Toronto's craigslist. But it looks like Toronto doesn't contain the kind of jackasses who pee in public......