Bears

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant – it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

Happy first weekend of September – and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let’s take a look at what’s been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston’s firefighters bent over backwards all week long – …

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The Saturday Strangeness

4. Animal Apparitions: Bears To continue from last week’s feature on spectral animals around the capital, did you know that bears, of differing colours, mainly black, brown and white have been sighted around Glebe Place, Chelsea? These ursine manifestations are perhaps connected to bear baiting …

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Sporting Weekend – Superbowl Parties

Given the interest generated here by the news that the NFL is coming to town later this year we feel there’ll be lots of you wanting to satisfy your curiosity by catching this year’s American Football showpiece, the Superbowl, live from Miami starting very late …

News From Around The Ist-A-Verse

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to. In Austin, bands are beginning to confirm for SXSW and the rumor …

News From Around The Ist-a-verse

The -ists this week had politics on the brain. And what goes better with politics? Partying– that’s two great tastes in one. Oh, and Kevin Federline…can’t forget about Kevin Federline. That’s three great tastes in one. -Chicagoist celebrated the election news but cried in their …

News From Around The ist-a-verse

Let’s take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for? Austinist was in an entertainment state of mind as they covered the dickens out of the …

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FA Cup Final News

Hacks across the nation were gearing up today to shout a group “Ha Ha!” in a Nelson from the Simpsons stylee, as they anticpated the announcement from Multiplex, Australian constructors of the new Wembley, that the stadium was NOT going to be ready for the …

Watchmen Unwound

Alas, we had high hopes for the Watchmen adaptation as it was the last chance for someone to do Alan Moore’s work justice on the big screen after the upcoming V for Vendetta movie disappeared up it’s own arse (and you can see some London …