Week Around the Ists

By Staff Last edited 185 months ago

Last Updated 30 November 2008

Week Around the Ists

Photograph of Kermit the Frog in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade by Jen Chung

  • Gothamist was horrified when an out-of-control crowd fatally trampled a Wal-Mart worker on Black Friday.
  • Shanghaiist looks at media reports of the supposed ban of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy.
  • Bostonist saw a lot of hats and a lot of legs while drinking a lot of booze at a pretend USO Show.
  • LAist joined Weezer's Rivers Cuomo for his latest hootenanny in Long Beach. As always, the jam session was a blast.
  • DCist followed the escapades of one of the city's dumbest criminals, who not only hailed a cab right after robbing a bank, but did so while not wearing any underpants.
  • Phillyist and its readers debated whether stuffing should be prepared inside the bird or out.
  • Chicagoist shared the SNL love for Rahm Emanuel, looked at the CTA's attempt to keep homeless people off the trains, and discussed the merits of protesting Black Friday.
  • SFist sparked a heated debate over congestion pricing, a plan that could hit the streets of San Francisco in 2009.
  • Seattlest had front-row seats for the thrilling Case of the Stolen Hitler Bookmark, and also divulged a recipe for fantastic pumpkin pancakes.
  • Torontoist checked out Google's new home in downtown Toronto.
  • Londonist gawped at archive images of a vanished London.