SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom mea culpa-ing over his Hawaiian getaway during the oil spill, and double-decker buses hitting the streets of San Francisco. Oh, and some baseball player named Barry Bonds is a liar whose pants, it seems, are totally on fire. LAist continues to cover the…
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 Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market…
There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren’t many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and…
If you walk past a theater marquee and the sign displays something ridiculous, like Beverly Hills: 90210: The Musical, three little words should make you put your reservations aside and rush to the auditorium: “Starring Carolee Carmello.” The overwhelmingly talented musical theater star, known for her Broadway work in such vehicles as Parade and Urinetown, could sell just about anything. Unfortunately, she’s got her work cut out with her in Kathie Lee Gifford’s stab at…
Spring appears to have, er, sprung, at least temporarily, in most of the Ist-A-Verse, so naturally, we’re all feeling pretty good. (Yes, we know that spring doesn’t officially start till later this month. Just let us enjoy our weather!) And that makes us that much more eager to share all of the nifty things we’re up to… Over at Sampaist, spring has more than sprung: it’s sweltering! But, as everyone knows, museums are an ideal…
Deep in the incestuous (professionally speaking) world of indie rock, there is Rilo Kiley. Based out of Los Angeles, it isn’t that much of a surprise that the band was founded by two former child stars, Jenny Lewis of Troop Beverly Hills fame, and Blake Sennett, aka Salute Your Shorts’ Ronnie Pinksy, aka Joseph ‘Joey the Rat’ Epstein from Boy Meets World. More interesting is the number of popular side projects on which these…
How many times have you spent weeks searching for just the right sneaker, only to realize with horror that your perfect shoe is on the feet of at least seven other people at the [insert indie rock band of choice] show? It’s worse than that episode of “Beverly Hills 90210” when Brenda and Kelly showed up to the spring dance wearing the same dress. Banish your conformity complex by designing your own shoe. During Puma’s…
à ê î õ û Don’t get us wrong. DCist loves our vegetables. We love our vegetarian friends. We even went to an all-veggie dinner at the new hotness in Shaw, Vegetate, this last weekend. Sometimes, though, all you need is a huge slab of roasted meat. Brazil to the rescue! As usual. D.C. is nary a month away from the opening of Fogo de Chão, a “southern Brazilian-style” churrascaria (Portuguese for “meatatorium”) downtown. What…
