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 caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with…

FRIDAY: >> Attention all nerds: This is like our Lollapalooza or something. First Person: Stories from the Edge of the World is an event being held tonight by National Geographic Live, which features some sort of “collaboration” between NPR’s Neal Conan and Liane Hansen, the Celtic/early music crossover group Ensemble Galilei, and actor Bill Pullman. Together this crew will narrate excerpts from the journals of great explorers such as Jacques Cousteau, George Mallory, and Charles…

Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end with seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get to the bottom of it they interview the writer Jonathan Raban. Bostonist has its first birthday party and investigates how to attach more gambling dollars to the Red Sox. Benjamin Franklin is celebrated and Johnny Damon is not. DCist reports that the…

Last night marked the second time in the last few months that I attended a Stellastarr* show at the 9:30 Club and didn’t stick around for the headliners. Last October I caught great sets by Cedars and Giant Drag and last night I went solely to see the English quartet Editors. Despite spending most of the set with my ears pinned to the front speakers in order to snap these photos, I thought their…

Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah’s Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival and geeky gets taken to a whole new galaxy when they talk with the Dragon Queen of the Dark Kingdom. Shanghaiist gets all excited this week over a new nightclub in the city unfortunately named “Snatch” and Mike Tyson is scheduled to…

Truth be told, we’re still coming down off our high from Sunday’s Arcade Fire show. And if you are, too, make sure to set your Tivo tonight – they’ll be playing on the Conan O’Brien show. In other news, February’s actually got a rather great line up of shows to see. As always, we don’t know jack about anything beyond annoying shoegazing indie pop rock, so make sure to check out the Post’s recommendations for…

The folks at Gothamist recently dropped us a line urging us to check out New York comedian Todd Barry who will be performing at the D.C. Improv tomorrow through Sunday. To get to know Mr. Barry a bit better, check out his Gothamist interview, where you can read about an experience he had with a psycho cabbie and how he once saw Monica Lewinsky in Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Barry is a veteran of Comedy…