A week's worth of local Craigslist hijinks... If you're going to use big words, at least use them correctly. And if your headline includes the word copulate, that's a good indication your posting should be somewhere other than the strictly platonic section. Are you pretentious and elitist enough to hang with this person? Also, do people actually still use the word yuppie? It's a sign! Or somebody accidentally dropped a Leonard Cohen tape. We think......

There is a new Queen of Soul. Sorry Mary, Alicia, and Jill, but there is a woman from Brooklyn who's reminding us all of how it's done. Her name is Sharon Jones, and she and her backing band, the Dap-Kings, will slay your ears and make you yearn for a time when people sang (and didn't sample), "Diamond in the back, sunroof top, diggin' the scene with a gangsta lean." Jones brings the soul while......

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They're biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That's right, Mapquest says "Houston had the......

Elite -ist took some time off this week to get a mock-diploma and see Jodie Foster give a speech. And now we're back with a special, expanded edition! LAist: Aww... We miss young Michael J. Fox... (Editor's Note: Btw, not to toot our own horn or anything, but we kind of had the jump on LAist on this story. Click here to see our blurb about it from February.) Gothamist: Who comes up with ideas......