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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.

77-year-old fortune teller Sophie Evon was arrested in Calgary this week for conning—excuse us, allegedly conning—a Seattle woman out of $220,000 in 1999. Evon was arrested while working in Toronto last year, but fled to Calgary just before she was to be extradited.

It's Labour Day, so a special shout-out to all the sweatshop workers who won't be reading this because they're working today and can't afford a computer on 21 cents an hour anyway. Thanks for all the cheap clothes, guys.

Let's be real, folks. It might be a while until we host the actual Olympics. So clear your calendars August 24–26 and join an estimated 50,000 guests that will be attending the next best thing: the World Cyber Games Canada Championships being held right here in our very own Toronto. Two hundred professional gamers will compete for cash prizes and the chance to represent Team Canada in the WCG Grand Final in Seattle next October. The Grand Final is apparently known as "the video gaming equivalent of the Olympics," which would make the Canada Championships kind of a big deal.

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 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 up to...

We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur, the new graffiti king in town, Bill Cosby's adorable dog, and the disturbing tale of a yoga instructor who was found guilty of killing his girlfriend, a dancer from Ohio who stripped to make ends meet.

Depressed by the current deep freeze? Here’s something to make you feel warmer – next week, the boys of summer (or at least the pitchers and catchers) report for spring training for the Blue Jays’ 30th anniversary season.

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to.

Torontoist visits the site of a new Frank Gehry structure, stalks "the elusive Bahamas streetcar", and watches Tom Green get surgery.

As we sat down to write this week's Best of the -ists post, a car blaring "21 Questions'" passed by our house. And that started us thinking about how some of the best -ist posts out there have at their hearts questions, some of which are answered, and some of which are left open. Check out the Best of the -ists from this week, and see if you agree.

It seems like that the TIFF has raised more questions than it answers. The most pressing one is just how do you pronounce the titles of two much talked about films Volver and Babel.

You know who's going to be upset about those Bikini Bandits? The Houston school system. Houstonist also reports on some redevelopment shenanigans over a landmark theater.

If it weren't for our life as an -ist, we're not sure we'd ever leave our apartment. Fortunately, to fully -ist, one must seek out the new, the fresh, and the unknown. Brand new, or just new to us, that's what we're all about this week.

Yes we know that our headline sounds like something out of X-Men IV but it's not. Unless you went to bed at 9pm, you probably saw that really bad summer storm kick the snot out of the heatwave. You're not so tough now are you heatwave. Sadly about 150,000 Ontarians are without power because of the storm.

We -ists are an eclectic bunch, but there's a couple of things we all love: famous people, social causes, and wacky local facts. Join us as we starf**k, get virtuous, and learn across the -ist network!

Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word "Jackass" in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we're going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For example, it looks like there are Toronto-area jackasses besides those who misuse the sidewalk: look at the crap on sale on Toronto's craigslist. But it looks like Toronto doesn't contain the kind of jackasses who pee in public pools, as the issue never came up when they interviewed the creators of art installations in their public wading pools.

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddy for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bids Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has some suggestions to fix that. They're also throwing Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash.

Sampaist is on the scene in São Paulo beginning this week to become the only ist south of the Equator. Editor Leandro M. Pinto leads the paulistanos down there. You can protest someone at his office, sure, but when the whistle blows at the end of the day can you follow him home? D.C. has sports fans, apparently, and elephants aren't really cut out for zoos. There's this trick where you can read information from a .PDF file if it hasn't been redacted properly. Kinda like this one leaked from a court case in San Francisco. SFist brings you an update on "How to Get the Guy" and explains why it was a bad week for bonfires on the beach. The woman who took the pictures of a Texas teacher that are causing a lot of fuss is interviewed this week by Austinist. A three-year-old eats nine hits of acid and "Don't Mess With Texas" is up for a Favorite Slogan award. Chicagoist released a great FAQ for download this week called "Act Like You've Been Here Before: The Chicagoist Guide to Chicago." Ozzie Guillen's in the news again and the universal rip off is examined. The "12th Man" is not a phrase that's used in relation to the World Cup, and if you try it Texas A&M will sue your ass. Seattle may not have the legal rights to any catchy sports phrases, but it does have the world's largest bass drum. Seattlest also ponders funding for national parks. Bowling alleys around the country have a bad habit of closing, but in philadelphia a new one is actually opening. The Zombie Prom is coming and Phillyist talks to the Unholy Sideshow. Someone in Miami was selling those tiny fashion accessory dogs as pure-breds when they actually bought them randomly off the internet. Miamist checks into Eminent Domain and celebrates an NBA title Jeff Skilling can't get himself out of the news - This week we get to hear about his fragile little psyche before the trial. Is Lex Luthor from the new Superman based on him? Houstonist also talks about ninjas. This Boston man had a little trouble finding his Hanover hotel after a match, much the same as the U.S. team had trouble finding the goal during the game. Bostonist also found this video of Boston College kids trying the Mentos and Diet Coke thing and the swan boats. Two groups in London are locked in a bitter turf war over who gets to feed the pigeons in Trafalgar Square. Londonist is somewhat less than excited about new television advertising technology. They're also stalking Doctor Who around the city. You can only get a decent soy dog from a few Major League so it's news when Dodger Stadium mysteriously stops selling them. LAist has nothing good to say about the Mighty Ducks new marketing, but a living roof could keep the South Central Farm in business. Protesters, including a beauty queen, shut down a cat meatball restaurant in L.A. this week. Ok, Shenzhen. A Shanghaiist photographer comes across a tragic scene and Chinese Bishops, the Vatican and Stephen Hawking are all thrown into the mixer here. Don't just give up on it if you lose your Sidekick. Call it. A few times. Call the cops. Document everything on your website. NYC cops crack down on subway pervs and New York is somehow the world's most polite city. Third most polite city in the world is Toronto. Some of the comments in that post might give a clue as to why they didn't score higher. A kickball team is raising funds for a trip down to NYC and it's Pride week in Toronto.

San Francisco is proud host of a new reality show called "How to Get the Guy" that's unfortunately not a descendant of Will and Grace, Queer Eye, The L Word, American Idol etc. Also a biodefence lab is coming to the East Bay and SFist teaches wine pairing.

DCist is screwed in the event of an oil crisis. Not that we're not all screwed in the event of an oil crisis, just D.C. is more screwed. Don't sell your car yet, District resident, a cabbie can kick you to the curb if he doesn't like your address. Not even Metro can save you now.

The weeks starts out right when a sucker punch on the field lands Chicagoist in the middle of a Sox/Cubs throwdown and the fists continue to fly in the comments. Despite suburban resident Ms. Pinney's best little try no books will be banned anytime soon and the El is really really gross.

Mayor Miller and Toronto get it right according to Vanity Fair, he gets it so right that the mag saw fit to include him in their Green Issue portfolio. He shares the page with the mayors of San Francisco, Seattle, Baltimore, Chicago and Miami. The spread also means that Miller shares the pages of VF with celebrities like Edward Norton, Bette Midler and cover boys and girls George Clooney and Julia Roberts.

Let's just whip around the world to see what the other -ists are up to...

A quick look around our sister sites brings back some ISTeresting stories.

Torontoist loves this idea that the fine people of Seattle have already started up. They're planning on replacing the muzak you hear while waiting on hold with music from local artists. We immediately got in a tizzy thinking about what would make up the typical track list. Personally we'd love to sit on the phone and listen to Feist (pictured here) or K-OS while waiting to lodge a complaint about the potholes multiplying on our streets.

Kerry Carter can do it all. Not only can he find a hole in the defense, but this NFL running back can help to fill the hole in your heart. The twenty-five year old former Toronto resident has recently added Published Author to his already impressive resume. After attending high school at Father Henry Carr in Etobicoke where he received the Harry Jerome award as the top student athlete in Canada in 1997/98, Carter completed a four year cultural and social anthropology degree at Stanford University before signing with the Seattle Seahawks in 2003. His new book "Fiery Scenes of Seduction" is a collection of poems that he hopes will create an irresistible passion and kindle the seduction in every lover's heart. Fittingly the launch of his first published collection will be held in his former hometown, seven days from today - Valentine's Day.