Every weekday of December (except for December 25, that is), Phillyist will be counting down to 2008 with our highlights from the past year and our predictions for the next. If you have a list you'd like to submit, let us know! Twelve months and ten epochal collapses later, we're nearing 2008 and a fresh calendar year for career (or structural) decimation. Let's count 'em down from 10: 10. Pete Doherty (again) 2007 hasn’t been......

Happy Holidays! Chances are, you're reading this the day after Christmas, back at your day job after all-too-short a holiday, and the last thing you want from us is stuff about the holidays. But that's just too bad. Because, see, here in the Ist-A-Verse, we do things ahead of time. It might be December 26 for you, but that's what you get for not checking your Favorite Local Blog on Christmas Eve. Austinist is......

Exciting changes are coming to our fair town, friends, in the form of department stores, restaurants/concert halls, and maybe even a casino: The Lord and Taylor across from City Hall, as well as the Strawbridge's at 8th and Market, will close around June 1st. The Strawbridge's will then be gone for good, but the L&T will reopen as a Macy's in August. We could have two new House of Blues restaurants soon, one in the......