Week Around the -Ists

Photograph of the Trump Soho by Riccardo Sinti

• Gothamist went to the scene of the Trump Soho construction collapse, which left one construction worker dead and others injured (an indirect culprit - Manhattan's hot real estate market, causing rushed construction jobs).
• Shanghaiist is confused by media reports as to whether Playboy will be available in China during the year of the Olympics.
• LAist got fugged in an interview with the Go Fug Yourself girls.
• Torontoist set hearts aflutter by featuring some fake information flyers being distributed around their transit system by street artist extraordinaire, Posterchild.
• SFist uncovered even more of SOMA district's recurring neo-Naziesque graffiti.
• Phillyist visited scantily-clad women giving out Tofurkey in honor of Philadelphia's favorite founding father.
• Londonist witnessed Amnesty International bringing Guantanamo Bay to the American embassy to raise the profile of the continuing campaign to close the detention center.
• Seattlest reviewed J.J. Abrams' new camcorder monster movie.
• DCist was relieved to hear that Stephen Colbert's portrait is finally hanging up in the National Portrait Gallery.
• Austin was in shock after hearing about an Arlington stepfather who sodomized his stepson who sodomized his daughter.
• Chicagoist healthily reported on week three of the smoking ban.
• Houstonist saw a recent Rice University scientific creation, touted as "the darkest substance known to man."