Alexandria native Sonya “Black Widow” Thomas again cleaned up against the competition at yesterday’s Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island.

Photo by Mark Avino/NASM Fun little tidbit to close out the week. The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum today acquired an 8-foot-high lighted star from New York’s Coney Island’s now closed space-age theme park, Astroland. They sent over the above image of them receiving the actual star this afternoon, which shows Curator Margaret Weitekamp and Exhibit Designer Rebekah Brokway supervising their staff as they measure the Star. The Astroland Star will be on display…

We don’t know about where you are, but it seems like spring can’t decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren’t sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still seems cold out there. Unless it’s not. Anyways, onto the -ists. Austinist happily anticipated fall’s Austin City Limits, even though they’re not fully recovered from South By Southwest. In…

The Roosevelt’s debut EP is a bit like the FDR Memorial: A lot of people out there will say, “There’s a Roosevelt memorial?” while others will keep trying to persuade their friends and family to check it out. The comparisons pretty much end there. Our 32nd president led the country through the Great Depression and most of World War II. The Roosevelt are just trying to make a name for themselves in the D.C. music…

Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word “Jackass” in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we’re going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For example, it looks like there are Toronto-area jackasses besides those who misuse the sidewalk: look at the crap on sale on Toronto’s craigslist. But it looks like Toronto doesn’t contain the kind of jackasses who pee in public…