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Week Around the -Ists

The cold weather – and holiday festivities – descended upon Gothamist. The Rockefeller Christmas tree was lit, Broadway stagehand finally ended their strike, and NASCAR decided to run their victory lap through Times Square. There were disturbing photographs revealing the working conditions in which many …

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London Yanks Offer Thanks (And Cash)

Living thousands of miles away from the White House doesn’t mean you can’t have a say in who’s going to be living there come 2009. According to a report in The Times, London-based Americans have raised 40% of a $1 million overseas war chest for …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week’s “Segway Mom” and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It’s not West Side Story, but about as close as they’ll get. They’re also still waiting on some …

Zero Tolerance London

Ken Livingstone’s crusade to turn London into a kind of New York looky-likey continued today with a speech in which he called for a zero tolerance approach to crimes such as spitting and littering. Ok, nobody likes messy pavements or hawking in public, but is …