Week Around the Ists

By Staff Last edited 186 months ago

Last Updated 20 October 2008

Week Around the Ists

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Image: AP Photo/Mary Schwalm

  • Bostonist was at Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox win a pretty awesome baseball game.
  • Chicagoist watched the city rock the early vote, chatted about the third debate, and got pumped for the Muppets.
  • Phillyist is positively euphoric about their home team.
  • DCist reported on the "no candy" signs Maryland sex offenders must display on Halloween night.
  • Torontoist featured photos of a huge game of Capture the Flag that went down in the city's financial district, a game that featured some 1700 glowstick-decorated participants—100 or so more than last year.
  • Gothamist got a glimpse of an abandoned island with a rotting castle sitting just north of New York City.
  • SFist watched as Angel Island went up in flames.
  • Seattlest took a photo tour of its river of industry, the Duwamish, and spoke with Mike Daisey about his new cosmonaut miracle play, The Moon Is a Dead World.
  • Shanghaiist was taken aback by CCTV footage of a student picking a fight with six policemen, and subsequently getting beaten to death.
  • LAist chatted with Elmo and Abby Cadabby of Sesame Street.