By David Topping

Torontoist is one of thirteen cities in the worldwide Gothamist network. Each Sunday, the editors of every site—from LAist to Londonist—choose their most interesting article, a list that is compiled into the network-wide feature Elsewhere In The Ist-a-Verse.

Photo by Pete Souza/The White House.

• Chicagoist checked out their former-resident/now-president Barack Obama at his controversial commencement speech at Notre Dame and in some excellent behind-the-scenes photos from the White House.
• DCist kept track of the ongoing same-sex marriage debate in the District, including a number of heated Democratic party meetings, plus, of course, intervention by members of Congress.
• Shanghaiist saw a man in Hong Kong verbally berate and hit a toddler and his mother after the little boy coughed without covering his mouth.
• Bostonist celebrated five years of gay marriage in Massachusetts with some rainbow cocktails.
• Gothamist found New Yorkers hot and bothered about swine flu, ice cream truck jingles, and terror plots.
• LAist got up close and personal with the G4 Network’s sexy Anna David, who knows a lot about high-class hookers.
• Phillyist found a photo in their Flickr pool that seemed a bit of a zeitgeist.
• Londonist drooled over shameless sandwich porn.
• Seattlest’s first celebrity tourist of the season turned out to be a black bear on a see-all-the-sights quest for fame.
• SFist anticipated the California State Supreme Court’s ruling on prop. 8, the same-sex marriage ban, which will happen on Tuesday.