Week Around the -Ists

• Torontoist discovered their city's most ridiculous holiday lights setup, with 80,000 lights and two––two!––synchronized music routines. Naturally, they snagged a video.
• Chicago tragically loses one of its most recognizable neighborhood icons, the pigeon man of Lincoln Square.
• LAPD leaves body in car at crash scene, then tows it.
• Massachusetts plus mullet equals PR mayhem.
• Londonist sleeps in a Haunted plague pit.
• UC Berkeley students strip naked and race through campus, NSFW floppiness ensues.
• Phillyist continued counting down to 2008 this week with a mind-boggling list of 2007's most ridiculous local news stories.
• A towering bench mysteriously appears in Manhattan and New York City officials are baffled.
• Live the sweet life, if you can afford it, in Seattle's historic "grunge" district.
• Houstinist talks with playwright Crystal Jackson.
• The top 15 records of 2007 as chosen by Austinist.
• Just like the states, the District of Columbia will receive its own shiny quarter.
• Adidas Olympics ad makes big splash with Chinese folks...literally.

Photo by Daniel Kahn.