From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here’s what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the White Stripes’ exciting new release, watched in awe as their new tallest …
What happens when a nice 76 year old woman lets a stranger into her garden, thinking he’s there to cut down trees in a neighbour’s yard? He sneaks back the next day, and steals her four tortoises, that’s what. Shirley Scott raised two of the …
Happy Father’s Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one’s for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge …
Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore,
When we finally get around to learning about life from the movies then perhaps the residents of Osterly wouldn’t be so much scared, as they are now, as utterly shitting themselves. Somewhere down in a secluded part of Osterley Park men in ski masks and …
Protestors and police never seem to be bosom buddies, especially when there is an anarchic flavour to their activity. London is no exception, where the Met police really aren’t fond of the capital’s monthly ‘Critical Mass’ bike protest rides. Each one starts off at Waterloo, …
The Dean of Southwark, The Very Revd Colin Slee, seems to have gotten a taste for being in hot water. In December he stoutly defended his allegedly drunk bishop who somehow staggered across London from an Irish Embassy Christmas bash to clamber into someone’s car, …
Bus passengers can be quite rude. Buses themselves have a tendency to be a bit offensive and they don’t work in reverse which can be a little irritating. However, it’s the jaw-dropping bastardness of this story that drove us to add to our store of …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 14th May 1842: The first fully illustrated weekly newspaper, the Illustrated London News is launched, costing sixpence. It was still being published weekly as recently as 1971, but its publication frequency has since declined. Tuesday – 15th May …
Who is Pete Doherty? Get ready for a shock: Pete Doherty has had his wrist slapped again. What for this time? Assault? Possession of a dangerous weapon? No… surely not drugs again? Does anybody really care? Was anyone surprised? Will it happen again? Of course. …
There’s so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it’s almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don’t have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist’s London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also …
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