Torontoist is one of fourteen cities in the worldwide Gothamist network. Once a week, the editors of each site—from LAist to Londonist—compile some of their most interesting posts into a brief blurb. It’s Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse, and it appears, across the network, every Sunday. Londonist got the big scoop of the week with what [...]

This week we’d like to congratulate the -ist network’s Mother Hen, Gothamist’s Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine’s Wired Rave Award. If that doesn’t sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that’s right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. [...]

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we’d cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news of so many dead coming out of Virginia Tech, and [...]

You silly meat puppets can talk and talk all you want about media mergers and newsroom amalgamations and we laugh from the electronic ether. You swiftly fell in love with our IBM clickety keyboards and Choplifter on the Commodore 64, but your worship of Usenet porn and aesthetic acceptance of MySpace proves the rabble can’t [...]