Week Around the Ists

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Week Around the Ists

Photograph of Kermit the Frog in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade by Jen Chung

  • Gothamist was horrified when an out-of-control crowd fatally trampled a Wal-Mart worker on Black Friday.
  • Shanghaiist looks at media reports of the supposed ban of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy.
  • Bostonist saw a lot of hats and a lot of legs while drinking a lot of booze at a pretend USO Show.
  • LAist joined Weezer's Rivers Cuomo for his latest hootenanny in Long Beach. As always, the jam session was a blast.
  • DCist followed the escapades of one of the city's dumbest criminals, who not only hailed a cab right after robbing a bank, but did so while not wearing any underpants.
  • Phillyist and its readers debated whether stuffing should be prepared inside the bird or out.
  • Chicagoist shared the SNL love for Rahm Emanuel, looked at the CTA's attempt to keep homeless people off the trains, and discussed the merits of protesting Black Friday.
  • SFist sparked a heated debate over congestion pricing, a plan that could hit the streets of San Francisco in 2009.
  • Seattlest had front-row seats for the thrilling Case of the Stolen Hitler Bookmark, and also divulged a recipe for fantastic pumpkin pancakes.
  • Torontoist checked out Google's new home in downtown Toronto.
  • Londonist gawped at archive images of a vanished London.
  • Last Updated 30 November 2008