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Elsewhere in the Ist-a-Verse
Torontoist is one of thirteen cities in the worldwide Gothamist network. Each Sunday, the editors of every site—from LAist to Londonist—choose their most interesting article, a list that is compiled into the network-wide feature Elsewhere In The Ist-a-Verse.
Photo by Clayton Hauck.
- Chicagoist occupied itself with Twilight and pillow fights.
- Seattlest doesn’t watch Mariners baseball for the game; they watched it for the player-on-player bromance.
- Phillyist got personal this week, calling the man who stole a staffer’s purse their official asshole of the week.
- Austinist had a chat with John Krasinski (Jim on The Office) about adapting David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men for the big screen.
- Shanghaiist stopped making out in public after getting wind that there was a group of PDA police tasked with ensuring that our displays of affection stay off the streets.
- Gothamist was sad to hear that a dog which was brutally beaten and thrown off a building was, after being nursed back to health, euthanized by the ASPCA, which determined her to be too aggressive.
- SFist wondered who paid for Mayor Gavin Newsom’s life coach.
- LAist interviewed Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe, stirring up talk of still-hot topics like John McCain, Rev. Wright, political journalism, and the concept of change.
- DCist watched as a real life nature show unfolded at the National Zoo when a deer wandered in to the lion habitat on a busy Sunday afternoon.
- Londonist mourned (or celebrated) the demise of poor quality free evening newspapers and loved/hated bendy buses on busy routes.