The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on the stand and a video of a man being beaten up by teenage girls on a subway shocked the city. And we interviewed soon-to-be-leaving-Gawker editor Choire Sicha, who said,......

SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom mea culpa-ing over his Hawaiian getaway during the oil spill, and double-decker buses hitting the streets of San Francisco. Oh, and some baseball player named Barry Bonds is a liar whose pants, it seems, are totally on fire. LAist continues to cover the......

Seattlest watches as a S.L.U.T. is born and Seattle Flickr users go nuts over a local art installation. A restaurant critic demands a Diner's Bill of Rights over a gnat next to her drink, and, in lieu of a Portlandist, Seattlest debates with itself over the identity of the Northwest's crown jewel. Seattlest also joins the guys from Fantagraphics for an ill-fated gun party in the woods. Bostonist got a crash course in what not......

New Yorker Leona ("Queen of Mean") Helmsley seals her fate as a heartless biatch by leaving $12 million, the majority of her will, to her dog. Lindsay Lohan checklist: Coke possession. Check. Arrested. Check. Sex Scene? Check! With his last official day of work approaching this Friday, Karl Rove's car got Saran Wrapped and slapped with an I Heart Obama sticker. Straight out of the 18th century--drug dealer gets tarred, feathered while holding a......

Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist's faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt,......

This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too—two of them in -Ist cities. Sampaist was shocked when a passenger jet crashed into the center of Sao Paulo, killing at least 200 people. The airplane, an Airbus A320, skidded off the runway at the city's Congonhas......

Before we begin, we'd like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family of James Kim. We are not, by any means, trying to discount that tragedy by juxtaposing posts about the Kims with more light-hearted posts. It's the nature of doing a compilation such as this one: we're trying to give a full slice of the goings-on in the Ist-a-Verse: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Londonist wants you to know where to......

*Ed. Note: The opinions and thoughts expressed by Mr. Odam do not reflect those of Austinist or its staff. Or, for that matter, anyone else on this planet.* Ken Burns, you’ve been put on notice. There’s a new baseball historian in town. And he’s hot. Real hot. So, eat it, you pencil-necked dweeb. The Barry Bonds saga has, to some degree, captured the imagination of the American public. The mountain of circumstantial evidence surrounding......

The whole world is at your fingertips. Check it out... Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does too have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers. Bostonist sees Boston and Somerville each whip out......

A patient at South Austin Hospital started a fire in his room with a lighter yesterday. Charges may be filed if he survives the severe burn damage he suffered as a result of the fire. Our fair city is among those that the music industry is focusing on for their investigation into CD piracy. Public school students will have to find a new way to get their caffeine/sugar fix. The AP reports that coke/soda/pop......

There's a whole wide world out there, and here's the proof: DCist revels in The University of Maryland's basketball triumphs, marvels at Metro's security strategy, and applauds DC local Katie Couric's new gig. Bostonist has the best local papers! While The Globe reports on a baby shower gone bad, the 'Herald coins a gruesome new term. They put down the paper long enough to comment on an election that has gone to the dogs, and,......

"Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack..." The sports gods are smiling on us today. As we wrap up March Madness tonight with the men's basketball championship, we also celebrate the unofficial national holiday known as Opening Day for Major League Baseball. We Seamheads are in wide-eyed excitement in anticipation of six months of the best sport in the world. Lo siento, futbol. And we are even more excited than usual, as our beloved......

They way Prince sings, you know he's a good decorator. His landlord, Carlos Boozer (yes the NBA star) isn't going to hire him anytime soon, though. Boozer is suing Prince for bad taste...or something. Austinite Anna Ginsberg won the Pilsbury cookoff bringing home the $1 million bacon. The scene in Baghdad sounds worse than an exaggerated movie about crime in Detroit. Violence including bombings, drive-by shootings and murders are out of control, having killed......

Don't fret if you get pulled over this week; you may be rewarded with baseball tickets for your good driving. A police officer was dragged and run over by a car she had pulled over on Riverside early Tuesday morning. She has already been treated and released from the hospital. Two local companies are thinking green for their office interior space. DeLay won the Republican primary, so now we can only hope that Lampson......

For those of you who have missed our RW recaps, you can rest easy, they are back, well...kind of. As our expert on all-things-RW recuperates from a month-long battle with his Tivo, another of us has decided to take a swing for him, which is kinda like having to pinch hit for Barry Bonds. And for those of us who do not have a television-recording device and must rely on transcribing the events in......