LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where do ist editors go when they hang up the ‘editorial we’? They take on MySpace, apparently. At least Ben Brown does. Austinist reminds of the just rewards of less savory careers this week and then they witness the Arctic Monkeys and We Are…

The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 is the sort of thing that just keeps spawning cool ideas. Not only did it spark the City Beautiful Movement — which heavily influenced the re-design of D.C.’s monumental core — it also saw the birth of Pabst Blue Ribbon, Wrigley’s Gum, and Cracker Jack’s. And, as we recently learned, the squished penny souvenir. Although we have spotted the machines around the country at a variety of tourist…

In a continuing attempt to improve WMATA’s image and customer relations reputation, Metro General Manager Richard White took to the Internet this afternoon and fielded questions, concerns, and complaints from commuters during his third hour-long online forum over the same number of months. Among the issues discussed were the following: Security: White admitted that the federal government had provided only $7 million in homeland security funding for the transit system over the last two years,…