Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city’s future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas’s only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did…

Somehow, the world of -ists managed to make it through the week despite news that Jen & Vince broke up. -Chicagoist had fall on their mind as they made squash and fudge, read “House of Leaves” and “>tried to figure out what’s next for the Cubs. Not fall related, but still of utmost concern, the whole skinny black pants thing. -Torontoist fought off an evil scourge of raccoons and went to go see who…

Torontoist visits the site of a new Frank Gehry structure, stalks “the elusive Bahamas streetcar”, and watches Tom Green get surgery. Phillyist rejoices in the Phillies’ wild card chances, mourns the injuries sustained by Eagles defensive end Jevon Kearse, and goes pirate on our asses. SFist notes that Guns and Roses were in town, that San Franciscans are taking over reality TV, and that the San Francisco Chronicle’s skills of original nomenclature could use some…

For all their symbolic power and grand civic functions, D.C. buildings built in the last half century have hardly created much buzz in terms of architecture, due in part to Washington’s reputation for staid and conservative design tastes. On the occasion that a renowned contemporary designer finds a willing local patron, their scheme rarely makes it through National Capital Planning Commission review without serious revision or delay, as with Norman Foster’s glass canopy finally under…

Houstonist reports on cross-dressing thieves and undressing educators this week. A Peeping Tom defends himself with a papaya and an outraged onlooker asks Ken Lay, “TATER TOTS OR FRIES?” Also, FEMA wants it’s money back. LAist are a bug bunch of geeks. They’re Star Trek geeks, David Duchovny geeks and Frank Gehry geeks. During their Cochella preview their readers reveal themselves to be Depeche Mode geeks. Seattlest saw their basketball team preparing to leave for…

Today’s Opinionist comes to DCist from local art blogger Kriston Capps. For all this time, D.C. Mayor Williams has billed himself as a supporter of big boxes in the District. During yesterday’s town hall meeting to discuss the fate of the city’s public library system, the Mayor revealed himself to be no friend to our most notorious big box—the Mies Van der Rohe-designed Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. And he made no new friends…

You Dada See It: DCist finally spent a day exploring Dada at the National Gallery, and it’s really the sort of exhibition that grows on you as you move through it. The first room, detailing the Dada movement as it emerged in Zurich, is a tough nut to crack — a few too many photo collages that aren’t terribly stimulating clutter the landscape. But as you move through Berlin and Hannover, eventually reaching Paris and…

Love or hate the idea of a new ballpark in Southeast, the design process is moving full steam ahead. Today’s Post featured stadium architect Joseph Spear of HOK Sport, outlining his vision and sketches for the stadium. Spear’s plan calls for a V-shaped facade, with one face constructed of stone and glass, and the other a steel and glass facade. The ballpark incorporates a view of the Anacostia, pays homage to D.C.’s monumental core, and…

(Editor’s Note: In DCist’s pursuit of trying out new features, we’re going to introduce something we call Weekend Reading — essentially we’re going to point you to what papers are featuring in their Sunday editions, or in case of The Financial Times, their Saturday/Sunday edition. There isn’t necessarily anything local here, but considering reading the Sunday papers can be a recreational activity to some in this city, we think it could be of use. Editors…

There’s more trouble at the Corcoran. OK there always seems to be trouble at the troubled art museum. But this is big. The Post reports that the cash-strapped and lackluster institution may be forced to scrap its plans to give the museum’s New York Avenue facade some luster: Frank Gehry’s shiny metal addition (seen here). And then there’s more trouble: It appears that David Levy, the president and director of the Corcoran, is being forced…