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Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas's only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did...

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For our parents, it was the assassination of JFK. Ask any of them and they can remember exactly what they were doing at the time they found out JFK had been killed. I never understood that until September 11, 2001. Our generation can remember it like it was yesterday. For us, that moment, frozen in time, is and will always be 9/11.

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Mecurio was hilarious. His sharp riffs on the audience members were like the comic version of freestyle. He pulled an old guy out of the audience who was wearing nuthuggers and tried to convince the guy to hold up his leg so everyone could see his balls. If you've read any of our posts, you'll know that this humor is right up our alley. We couldn't breathe by the end of his set. At times the racial humor made us a bit uncomfortable, but maybe we're just too PC these days.

Pretty much all the news today is about the six arrests made yesterday in an alleged plot to attack Fort Dix. ABCNEWS.com reveals to us that the terrorist attack was to involve Super Mario's pizza. No lie! The father of one of the attackers owns Super Mario's Restaurant near the base, which often makes deliveries there, and consequently has a map of the place "used by pizza delivery men to find their way around the base." The attackers would have pretended to be delivery men. Although the man who owns the restaurant says he loves this country and can't believe his son is involved, the chef at the restaurant has quit because he doesn't want to be associated with terrorists. More on the restaurant part of the story can be found here.

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Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We're exhausted just thinking about it.

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As our parent site, Gothamist, reported yesterday in a detailed and oft-updated news post, former Phillies pitcher (and more recently, Yankee player) Cory Lidle crashed his single-engine private plane into the 30th floor of a high-rise on East 72nd Street in New York yesterday afternoon. Lidle and his passenger - apparently flying instructor Tyler Stanger - both died in the crash. Thankfully the only other injuries - sustained by firefighters and some people within the building - were not serious.

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The only problem with a three day weekend is that on the fourth day, it's even harder to get back to work than it usually is. We're sure our sister -ists would agree with us.

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To make up for not having Elite -ist yesterday, we decided to bring you an action-packed one today. How can you tell it's action-packed? Action verbs, of course!

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...Anarchy: Apparently, the Clash were really just advocating terrorist attacks. (Via The BBC)

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Chief Inspector Joseph O'Connor (Philly's top counter-terrorism guy) tells the Philadelphia Daily News that our fair town is "'notorious for fund-raising and recruitment' for terrorist organizations. The city is also a popular place for hiding out."

I couldn't make sense of things Thursday morning. I had been running late (as usual) and barely had a chance to glance at the news which was insistent that terrorist attacks had rocked London. Saddened and confused, I tried to convince myself that couldn't be right. Live 8 had just rocked London...and Wednesday's news that they won the 2012 Olympic bid had probably done it's fair share of rocking. But not bombs. Not London. Not now. No. Scratch that. Not Anywhere. Not Ever. These were my thoughts as I sat on my bus Thursday morning, juggling my coffee in one hand, texting and emailing everyone I knew who might be directly affected by the attacks with the other. It didn't occur to me for a second to be nervous about my own public transit commute until my bus passed 30th Street Station, which was surrounded by news vans, all of them with their broadcasting atennas high in the air.