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.

Prop 8 protest, at Hollywood and Highland in Los Angeles. Photo by Tom Andrews/LAist.

• LAist had a whirlwind of a week regarding the upholding of Prop 8, prompting various protests and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to call the state “fundamentally broken.” Case in point: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed cutting all welfare and four-fifths of state parks from the budget after voters rejected a number of deficit solutions.
• SFist, as expected, also tried recovering from the shock of this week’s Prop. 8 ruling.
• Phillyist dined out with young’uns.
• Chicagoist made the most of the three-day weekend by checking out the annual Candy Expo, a new rooftop bar, and talking to Gothamist co-founder Jen Chung on the eve of their fifth anniversary.
• Shanghaiist saw a U.S. basketball player ignite a furious debate on the internet when he was pictured throwing money at high school students in Hunan Province.
• Bostonist tasted (two dollars worth of) two thousand dollar scotch.
• Londonist wheeled out some velocipede-inspired urban sights.
• Seattlest interrupted its coverage of Seattle’s Oprah-approved bacon salt empire to note there’s a new bacon-flavoured vodka in town.
• Gothamist watched as vehicular traffic was banned along five blocks of Broadway in Times Square, bringing out the fans and the haters.