This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. more ›

Torontoist visits the site of a new Frank Gehry structure, stalks "the elusive Bahamas streetcar", and watches Tom Green get surgery. more ›

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 pools, as the issue never came up when they interviewed the creators of art installations in their public wading pools. more ›

We're very proud of our parentals over at Gothamist today. We're very proud of them every day, of course, but today we have reasons above and beyond how very cool they are. Today they are the rightful holders of the 2005 Bloggie for Best Non-Weblog Content of a Weblog Site, uh, whatever that means. Jen Chung at Gothamist guesses, "We figured that non-weblog content meant our Happy Hours, Movable Hype concerts, contests and movie screenings." more ›

Gothamist has some words on the statements being released in connection with the murder of Seattle actor and playwright Nicole duFresne in NYC. There's actually some decent reading in the comments of that post (as opposed to the comments under most Gothamist posts relating to duFresne). more ›