With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it’s a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-a-verse. Luckily, even with all the things we have to do, we still managed to get together to let you know what we’ve all been up to. After cooling down from a hot weekend of many badass Sunset Junction Street Fair photo dispatches, LAist asked…

While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton’s San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan’s cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a…

MONDAY Eliot Spitzer, current New York Attorney General and likely Democratic nominee for governor, is known to have a “quick temper” and a “passion for reform,” but he just might be the only state attorney general in the history of the United States to share a stage with Yo La Tengo. And to at least two dozen East Village record store clerks, that means a whole lot. Brooke Masters will tell you a lot…

Next month at Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University, the Future Music Coalition will host the fifth annual Future of Music Policy Summit. The Summit, a three day event taking place on Sept. 11-13, will be attended by representatives from the music, law and technology (yes, even us lowly bloggers) sectors and focuses on the critical issues facing the music industry as it tries to incorporate new technologies into it’s traditional business structure. Over…

WTOP is reporting that D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams has not decided whether he will sign the “First Amendment Rights and Police Standards Act of 2004” which was passed by a 12-1 vote in the D.C. Council last year. Art Spitzer of the American Civil Liberties Union said, “It’s not unusual for the mayor to take full time with a bill. I understand he’s been ill — maybe that stuff’s been pushed back on his…