Here's a round-up of Ist coverage of what has been going on at Occupy Wall Street and all the other satellite "Occupy" movements going on around the world in the last week or so. more ›

This week in the Istaverse: Occupy Wall Street continues to make an impact nationwide, particularly in NYC, Chicago and San Francisco; while in Los Angeles and Washington DC, the continuing struggles of bicyclists make headlines. more ›

This week in the Istaverse: Stressful West Coast cities; a Bush-family member is the focus of a protest; Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark's Paul Humphrey talks; a new haunted house in the Midwest; booze and brunch together at last; a horrendous example of human nature; and a plethora of Occupy Wall Street action from the movement's home city. more ›

This week in the Istaverse: Classist humor in action; mass transit rules of etiquette; civil unrest discomfits a police department; bicyclists behaving badly; more of the same for Occupy Wall Street protesters; and Texas students finally get the sex education they deserve. more ›

This week in the Istaverse: The Occupy Wall Street movement spreads across the nation, as the NYPD pulls an underhanded move to arrest over 500 protesters; our President becomes an unlikely fast food chain mascot; another instance of car against bicyclist violence; a public radio personality becomes heavily inebriated; and O, how the (baseball) mighty have fallen. more ›

This week in the Istaverse: gun toting men and the feces thrown at him; police arresting protesters on Wall Street in ever-growing numbers; new Hipstamatic lens packages; successful animal activists; doomed professional sports seasons; ineffective city councils; and, moving violations committed by bicyclists. more ›

This week in the Istaverse: Missing felines that turn up across the continent five years later; a sculptor with a nauseating animal abuse history; then end of red-light cameras; the creation of a civic minded Foursquare badge; the naming of baby red pandas; another loss in the Kennedy family; and some Asian NSFW artwork. more ›

This week in the Istaverse: Public nudity legislation, Southern California city pride, charges of institutional racism on the East Coast, a huge Texas fire, criminal aggression aimed at bicyclists, patriotic Pledges and the Republicans who love them, Mid-Western weather whiners, and Greenpeace studies on Chinese produce. more ›

Hurricane Irene recovery efforts, the high cost of pot consumption, proposals to protect the aesthetically displeasing by the use of law, BART protests turn the page to BART anti-protests, crossbows replacing handguns and more in this week journey through the Istaverse. more ›

This week across the Istaverse: Sad flash mobs, anger aimed at bicyclists, presidential poking of New England Republicans, maps of stereotypes, paroled texting drivers, Anonymous disrupts mass transit, noodle diplomacy, and the baffling case of Rick Perry; all this and more just a click away. more ›

Music related folderol, the beginning of a new Jimmy McMillan meme, a bike ride with a Tour de France legend, mass transit possible misnomers, the end of the food truck era in one major metropolitan area, the onset of male hussy pride, a bus driver becomes the bully for once, and a presidential candidate has a home-constituent problem; all this week in the Istaverse. more ›

Asian Hallmark holidays, Lollapalooza preparations, curious prejudices about sidewalk cafe culture, Red Sox hero worship, angry cabbies, terrible constitutional stances and an unexpected spotlight on A&E's Intervention, all this week in the Istaverse. more ›

What's happening elsewhere in the Ist-averse? Sports, mostly. And lots of same-sex marriages in New York. more ›

Rahm Emaunel's matriculation choices displeases his constituents; high-speed rail collision; sad panda bear news; and negligent subway parenting all in this week's journey through the Istaverse. more ›

Pitchfork Music Festival suggestions, illegal acrobatics off of the Williamsburg Bridge, graffiti artist arrests, pro-athletes' perjury trials, and the trend in softness found in America, all within this week's journey through the Istaverse. more ›

A shocking murder, LGBT history made official, curfews, shiny new mass transit vehicles, DEA stubbornness, dead or undead ex-presidents, kittens surviving nefarious human actions, and chefs who explode onto the scene: All in this week's trip through the Istaverse. more ›

Bostonist, this week: Transporting James "Whitey" Bulger to court on a Coast Guard helicopter: $14,000; Senator Scott Brown piling on to Massachusetts' top bad guy: priceless! Oh, gay marriage in Rhode Island, and possibly, Maine, too. more ›

This week in the Istaverse: Chicago was all about Pride Week, PETA protesters and Manhattan Expats occupied DC, the arrest of a fugitive that had been on the run for 16 years in Boston, NYC celebrated the legalization of gay marriage, a pot dispensary hold up ends badly for the perpetrator in LA, families are leaving San Francisco in droves, heat averse 'dillos were found in Austin, and in Shanghaii, a food blogger met an untimely end after trashing a local restaurant. more ›

This week brought us sartorial crimes in SF, slurs fired by Safeway employees in DC, continued improvements brought to the mass transit in Chicago, teachers teaching spicy language to young Chinese students in Shanghai, Houston complaining about Austin, the Bruins celebrating in Boston, and the breaching of cell phone etiquette in New York. more ›

A misappropriation of the term "flash mob" in Chicago, burgeoning Red Sox fever in Boston, happiness is the focus in Shanghai, Austin celebrates the cell-phone abuser that went viral, DC recovers from a hectic political week, LA glorifies puns and SF gets Russell Crowe's all important opinion on circumcisions. Just your average week in the Istaverse. more ›

Civil unions in Chicago, tornados in Boston, Weinergate in NYC, LA bans access to tanning salons to its teens, and more could be found around the Istaverse this week. more ›

This week brings us extreme culture clashes in New York, circumcision angst in LA, Rahm's inauguration in Chicago, festival prep in Austin, sexist commercialism in Shaghai and fun with the Rapture just about everywhere else. more ›

Recapping the week that was in Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Austin, Shanghai, Washington DC, New York City and Seattle. more ›

DCist was on the scene as Mayor Vince Gray, six D.C. Councilmembers and 34 others were arrested by Capitol Police as part of a demonstration in support of D.C. voting rights and autonomy. One of the issues the Mayor and company were protesting -- the controversial inclusion of a rider prohibiting D.C. from spending local funds to pay for abortions for low-income women -- also spurred heated debate among readers as it went into effect. more ›

DCist had a fine time poking fun at its neighbors to the north and south this week, as a non-descript group of large white letters spelling out "LOVE"; in Dupont Circle ended up being an advertisement for Virginia tourism, Fairfax County's Board of Supervisors came up with some truly unoriginal names for several new Metro stations, and Maryland's Preakness Stakes unveiled "Kegasus" -- a marketing abomination that might just signal the end of civilization as we know it. more ›

Now you can get your Seattlest fix when you're on the gogogo! We're happy to announce the launch of Istaverse, the new iPhone app from the Gothamist Network. The app is an aggregate of all the city blogs and their most recent posts. You can select Seattle (and it remembers on relaunch) and get the latest content, in addition to browsing what's new in all the ist cities across this big bad country. more ›

Yesterday, Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson was quoted on TechFlash as saying newspapers don't have a future: "And there isn't even a present, unfortunately." Which is not to say that the digital platform is all pixels and rainbows. While the Seattlepi.com is busy reinventing itself, the Post-Globe posse might take a cue from our sister site Torontoist, who have been reinstalling themselves since last December, when they almost went dark: Three investors are now backing the costs of Torontoist's local operations--as Canadians, they're more evolved than we are--though the site will remain affiliated with the Gothamist network. more ›

We like to think of sports as a microcosm of society. And our society loves its freedom. (In fact, we are about to get real free with a bottle of something within the hour.) Said freedom has its limitations, though. For instance, you can't choose who roots for your team. Anyone with half a brain is welcome to hitch up to your favorite team whenever they want. But this realization doesn't mean we aren't really, really troubled by the wrong-headed Seahawks fan who thought it was a good idea to stir up a rivalry with the New York Giants (who the 'Hawks play next week) by posting 9/11 jokes and photos on a Seahawks blog. Our apologies to our brothers and sisters over at Gothamist. Next time you are in the area, coffee is on us. Deadspin has the gory details. (Consider yourself warned.) more ›

• DCist reported live from the Democratic National Convention.
• Bostonist tasted the best heirloom tomatoes in the city.
• Torontoist featured some of their favorite photos of an extraordinary summer for the city's weather, with huge storm clouds, apocalyptic sunsets, double rainbows, and stunning lightning strikes the norm rather than the exception.

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