If you've never heard Montreal's Patrick Watson, you'd likely assume that he's a solo artist. You'd be partially correct, however, Patrick Watson is also a band. It can be a bit confusing. What's not confusing, though, is that this band is on it's way up in the music world and are beginning to turn heads. Their debut label release Close To Paradise (Secret City Records) has been drawing all kinds of attention, from a Juno......

As is traditional for Christmas Day, most of the news is bad. Starting off: James Brown dead at 73. Quick summary of tasteless jokes: He no longer feels good. He is no longer living in America. God has delivered the big payback. The sex machine has broken down forever. Papa's brand new bag burst. Super bad? Super dead. And so on and so forth, et cetera. One dead after shooting on King Street early......

A quick look around our sister sites brings back some ISTeresting stories. --- After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team is hard at work determining the GoogleCenter of the Ist-a-verse as you read this... Austinist read a book about Olympian......

'Ladies and Gentlemen, live at the Apollo, all the way from Torontoooo, Canada, it's....Torontoist!' Wouldn't we love to hear that. But wouldn't anyone? Here's your chance: On Saturday, December 3, the Drake Hotel Underground offers the chance at a much-coveted Apollo Theatre spot. Apollo judges will host auditions starting at 11 am till 2 pm. The live spot would be a part of the 71st year of obviously Apollo amateur night. The Harlem theatre is......