Week Around The Ists

SFist reported on Hearst Corporation’s plan to sell or shutdown the ailing San Francisco Chronicle.

Chicagoist had award show fever, first talking to Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon and then scoping out the International Kennel Club Dog Show.

Bostonist had a musical week, touring Weirdo Records, catching Antony and the Johnsons (along with Ben Kweller and two house shows), and even encountering the elusive banjo cat.

Seattlest was filled with hometown pride humble-pie at seeing both Jeff Bezos and Baconnaise appear on The Daily Show.

Phillyist staffer Miss Bee is trying out for the Eagles—their cheerleading squad, that is.

Londonist was all about happiness this week, with a smiley pink cloud over the Thames

and pancake races.

Gothamist was excited about Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to close parts of Times Square and Herald Square to vehicular traffic and create pedestrian malls.

Houstonist’s daily commute is improving, at least according to faster times clocked around the Houston metroplex—except perhaps along the stretch of Interstate 45 where rubberneckers eyeball the

new 170 foot tall mega-cross erected quickly by a local Christian church in response to a nearby rival church’s plans for a mega-cross.

LAist watched with the rest of the country when Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal responded to Obama’s big speech and among his fanciful yarns made an example of the “magnetic levitation” line from Las Vegas to Disneyland to sell his point of view.

Torontoist heralded the arrival of the country’s first Atheist Buses, after the advertising campaign was rejected across the rest of the God-fearing country.