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: 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: 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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

• Creativity strikes again! Wallyhood reports of a gold papier-mâché sculpture found in Gas Works Park with a note, saying it was gifted to the citizens of Seattle. It's the type of guerilla art that just warms the heart.
• In an international six degrees of separation kind of way, a reader from Seattlest's sister site Shanghaiist helped identify the mysterious mustache man with amnesia. All of which goes to prove that you should never, ever underestimate the power of the Ists.

• Gothamist found that an explosive set off outside the Times Square army recruiting center may be similar to five past bombings in New York City.
• Seattlest worried when severed right feet and bottles of rat poison started washing up on local beaches.
• Shanghaiist was surprised by Bjork's rooting for Tibetan independence at her concert (see video), and the political fallout has only just begun.
• SFist debated the merits of new bronze plaques that will be placed in locations where San Francisco's homeless have died.
• DCist was obliged to respond to the worst Washington Post Outlook column ever published, in which conservative writer Charlotte Allen tried to make the case that women are dumb.
• LAist found Satan's ice cream truck trolling the streets, and they recorded the music.
• Some crafty Torontoist readers didn't like the dearth of ski hills in downtown Toronto, so they just built one of their own on their deck and (of course) recorded a video of them all taking turns on it.
• Bostonist knows the city's subway and bus system, the MBTA, has problems. So does this 17-year-old who submitted a report and told the MBTA brass how to fix it.
• Phillyist explored the possibility of an Ivy League prostitute, while their commenters debated the most ethical approach to proving or debunking the story.
• Londonist spent a little too much time looking at airbrushed operatic private parts, and enjoyed an enlightening comment from someone who was there. more ›

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Seattlest watches as a S.L.U.T. is born and Seattle Flickr users go nuts over a local art installation. A restaurant critic demands a Diner's Bill of Rights over a gnat next to her drink, and, in lieu of a Portlandist, Seattlest debates with itself over the identity of the Northwest's crown jewel. Seattlest also joins the guys from Fantagraphics for an ill-fated gun party in the woods. more ›

Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist's faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt, who has completely covered her house in mosaic tiles. more ›

It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by poop. Finally D.C. contemplated taking Vermont's place as a state and marveled at the GOP lessons learned from the "Macaca Moment." more ›

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. more ›

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All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! more ›

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 ›

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. more ›

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... more ›

With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing-- what's going on in the World of the -ist's? more ›

Spring appears to have, er, sprung, at least temporarily, in most of the Ist-A-Verse, so naturally, we're all feeling pretty good. (Yes, we know that spring doesn't start till later this month. Just let us enjoy our weather!) And that makes us that much more eager to share all of the nifty things we're up to... more ›