SXSW Foursquare. Photo by Mark Rabo. SXSW Interactive often sets North American tech trends, and its influence will be seen quickly in a city like ours, filled with early adopters. For 2010, location-based applications were the big story with the two frontrunners being Gowalla and Foursquare. Although both debuted last year, it was this year [...]

Lucia Mancuso and Michael Dolan of The Blog Studio. Photo by Jaime Woo. Austin’s SXSW Interactive Festival has been in full swing for the past week with an estimated fifteen thousand registrants, a healthy 50% bump over the previous year. Interactive began as part of the SXSW Film Festival, but grew quickly enough to justify [...]

Photo courtesy of Audio Blood Media. When you’re an up-and-coming indie rock band, you have to do a lot with a little. For Dinosaur Bones, that meant making a run for the border. The Toronto-based indie rockers (called the city’s most promising young band by Ottawa XPress and nominees for the 2009 XM Verge Music [...]

Always a bridesmaid! Torontoist has been a finalist for Best Canadian Blog at the Bloggies—basically, the Oscars of the blogging world—for three of the last four years, but we haven’t yet won. That sad fact didn’t change today, when winners were announced down at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, and we were defeated by [...]

Torontoist is one of fourteen cities in the worldwide Gothamist network. Each Sunday, the editors of every site—from LAist to Londonist—choose their most interesting article, a list which is compiled into the network-wide feature Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse. A posthumous tribute wall dedicated to singer/songwriter Elliot Smith sat defaced by graffiti for months on end––LAist [...]

Torontoist is one of fourteen cities in the worldwide Gothamist network. Each Sunday, the editors of every site—from LAist to Londonist—choose their most interesting article, a list which is compiled into the network-wide feature Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse. LAist listed a top ten list of sorts: things they hope not to see in Los Angeles [...]

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend… Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he’s just a [...]

We’re guessing most of you are hungover from St. Patrick’s Day. Some of us are too. But still, we’re going to muddle on through our green haze and give you (drum roll please…) this Week In -ists. We start with SFist which broke the -ist record for comments with nearly 500 comments on a post [...]

Spring appears to have, er, sprung, at least temporarily, in most of the Ist-A-Verse, so naturally, we’re all feeling pretty good. (Yes, we know that spring doesn’t officially start till later this month. Just let us enjoy our weather!) And that makes us that much more eager to share all of the nifty things we’re [...]

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of “Friday Night Lights” production to New Mexico. Bostonist was happy they finally found an Anna Nicole Smith connection to their fair city and that an Apple Store was opening up. [...]

Valentine’s Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don’t let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things we love, you included. Just be glad you’re [...]

Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We’re exhausted just thinking about it. First up, SFist, who saw their little ‘ole site be the center of what was a nice little scandal (even getting their editor on TV) only to find their [...]