Week Around The Ists

Photo courtesy of Posterchild.

Londonist is one of thirteen in the worldwide Gothamist network. Once a week, the editors of each site - from SFist to Shanghaiist - compile some of their most interesting posts into a neat digest. Check out what's been going on elsewhere in the ist-a-verse:

• Torontoist thought it was awwww-some that their street artist pal Posterchild asked his girlfriend to marry him by means of street art.

• Seattlest was thankful for all the ways that Washington sports doesn't suck.

• LAist was all about being thankful this week, and our editors gave much of their thanks to Los Angeles itself.
• DCist scratched their heads when a crazy guy stopped traffic downtown to demand $200 million while standing atop a U-Haul van, throwing Molotov cocktails.
• SFist questioned this footage showing a BART cop using (excessive?) force again.
• Bostonist's outing to a Sonic Youth show was ruined by bad sound, so we came up with a plan for better rock shows in 5 steps.
• Chicagoist gave thanks for being alerted to the newest epidemic sweeping schools in the Midwest: ball-tapping.
• Gothamist was stunned when a man was killed for a seat on the D train and wondered about being locked in a subway care with a murderer.
• Londonist had a preview of the clean and spacious new £800 million ticket hall at Kings Cross, before it inevitably becomes deluged and dirtied by hundreds of thousands of commuters.