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…

We mentioned before that some Republicans in Congress were trying to prevent the free Live Earth concert from happening on the Mall. Turns out they were successful: it’s going to be at Giants Stadium in New York New Jersey instead. With a reunion of The Police. Thanks guys. We don’t need a vote in Congress or a free concert. You’re really looking out for us. Republicans James Inhofe and Mitch McConnell led the charge against…

The Washington Post reports today that Congress is set to vote on a landmark resolution to allow the likes of Snoop, Green Day, Kylie Minogue, and scores of other popular musicians to perform on the Capitol grounds for Live Earth, Al Gore’s series of global-warming awareness concerts. Concurrent Resolution 17 was introduced in the Senate yesterday by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). Live Earth, which is scheduled for July 7th,…

(From DCist contributor Kristin Kovner) We remember Ari Hest when he was just another NYU student with killer pipes and a guitar. We remember when he played at virtually every indie venue around the country. After all, how could we forget? It was only a couple of years ago. And then, he signed with Columbia. So with great interest (and a dash of anxiety that he’d become just another John Mayer-type), we trekked out to…