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 said enough, so did the fans and city council.SFist was surprised to learn that chronic presidential candidate Ralph Nader picked......

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with......

It's pretty safe to say that Mike Vanderjagt is Canada's Best Football Player. Although, it may not be as safe to say that a kicker is a real football player. Nevertheless, the Oakville native and Indianapolis Colt was in the spotlight on Sunday afternoon. Vanderjagt, noted as the most accurate kicker in NFL history blew a 46 yard game-tying kick so far right that even Stephen Harper had to swing around to see where it......

Was Terrell Owens’ performance in this past Sunday’s Superbowl anymore more heroic than that of Deion Branch, Tom Brady, Tedy Bruschi or even Adam Vinatieri? Owens did exactly what a healthy Owens is expected to do. His healing ankle clearly didn’t bother him, yet his performance wasn’t enough to win his team the game. So what makes his nine receptions so heroic? How about not much? A hero is a difference maker. The only difference......

Peyton Manning, Doug Brien, Joshua Errett. All three neglected to show up while their reputations were on the line. All three were faced with daunting tasks and failed to come through when their teams put the game in their hands. All three possibly solidified their place in sporting history, not for triumph, but collapse. Reigning back-to-back MVP Peyton Manning completed another kind of back-to-back accomplishment Sunday afternoon. With fifty-three touchdowns going into yesterday’s game, Manning......