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• Chicagoist occupied itself with Twilight and pillow fights.
• Seattlest reminded us that we don't watch Mariners baseball for the game, we watch it for the player-on-player bromance.
• Phillyist got personal this week, calling the man who stole a staffer's purse their official asshole of the week.

       

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• Gothamist had a week of big stories unfold—Mayor Bloomberg narrowly won his controversial third term while the Yankees won their 27th World Series Championship (yes, suck it, Philly) and celebrated with a ticker tape parade.
• Seattlest talked about gay marriage, performing, and the sexiness of the Pacific Northwest with Rufus Wainwright.
• Bostonist saw a near death experience on the subway.

       

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• Phillyist was all about the World Series this week: hating on the opposing team; waxing nostalgic; and generally getting psyched. Although the Phillies trail the Yankees one game to two in the Series, Phillyist remains optimistic: they have God on their side.
• Gothamist learned that Vespa owners are resorting to illegal measures (okay, scraping off their vehicle ID numbers) to keep their scooters on the street, not that it'll help.
• Seattlest indulged in some Washington State-sponsored earthquake disaster porn.

• Gothamist was struck by this photograph of a rat stuck while trying to emerge from under a sidewalk. And Gothamist readers let their imaginations go wild, offering various scenarios for the rat.
• Phillyist watched MLB.com call it too soon before celebrating the Phillies' second consecutive trip to the World Series. Sorry, LAist—but at least you still have one hometown team in contention.
• Torontoist took a look at their city hall's new green roof; when it's finished in the spring, it'll be the whole city's largest publicly accessible one.

       

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• Torontoist checked out the weird and wonderful sights on their city's newly launched version of Google Street View, including this keeper.
• Gothamist was part amazed and part horrified by this crazed fight between a taxi driver and pedicab driver.
• Shanghaiist rolled their eyes as Jackie Chan put his foot in his mouth yet again, insinuating during an interview that the heavens cleared themselves for China's national day parade (no, Jackie, an anti-rain airforce squad did), that he would've been shot dead if he shook President Hu Jintao's hand, and that Chinese from overseas are traitors (Jackie has an American passport).

       

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• Chicagoist was stunned when the city's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, widely expected to be in the final two with Rio's bid, was eliminated in the first round of IOC voting.
• Gothamist asked its readers if bicyclists should ride with the cars on the roadway—not the walkway—of the Brooklyn Bridge.
• Seattlest discovered someone worse than Glenn Beck was stopping by the Northwest to spread some craziness.

       

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• Torontoist gawked at photos of all the celebrities who made it to this year's Toronto International Film Festival: George Clooney! Megan Fox! Ewan McGregor! Natalie Portman! And co-star of the smash hit White Chicks, Marlon Wayans!
• Shanghaiist found out that somebody (possibly government related) is sending journalists in China targeted malware ridden emails, though we haven't figured out why yet.
• Seattlest enjoyed the songs and F-bombs of the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia live show.

       

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• Gothamist had a crazy week: First Kanye disses Taylor, then the city health department suggests banning smoking in parks and beaches...and then a local news anchor said, "Keep fucking that chicken."
• Torontoist interviewed
  Dan Zinman, a man aiming to offer the province of
  Alberta—sorry, that'll soon be Colberta—to Stephen
  Colbert.
• Seattlest got
  angry about the environmental impact of the cruise ships that dock
  in downtown Seattle.

       

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• Chicagoist scoped out the spectacle, the crowds, and the madness surrounding Oprah's 24th season premiere, which shut down a stretch of the famed Magnificent Mile (aka Michigan Ave) and sent some residents and city officials into a tizzy.
• Gothamist had mixed feelings about a video showing a would-be bicycle thief getting a serious beatdown from the bike's owner and his friends—the lesson is: Do not steal bikes, bro!
• DCist captured images of the 22 "ghost bikes," bicycles that are painted white as a memorial to cyclists who have been killed while riding, that were placed by an activist around the same intersection where a previous "ghost bike" was recently removed by the city.

       

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• Bostonist mourned the passing of our senior U.S. Senator with a slideshow of the memorial at the JFK Library, a look at the Boston history of the Kennedys, and a report from the memorial services.
• LAist rocked out hard at the Vans Warped Tour to a lineup of "new-age punkers."
• Phillyist got John Oliver to go Shakespearean on Philly cheesesteaks and then tried to convince a tourist that there's more to do in Philly than grab one of those eponymous sandwiches.

• SFist was sent back to the halcyon days of childhood after Lombard Street was transformed into a Candy Land game board.
• Gothamist was amazed that former Giants star Plaxico Burress pleaded guilty and will face 2 years in prison for charges related to the November incident where he brought an illegal gun into a Manhattan nightclub and accidentally shot himself because the gun was falling down his pants.
• Toronto was unexpectedly besieged by tornadoes, but marveled at the strange beauty of their aftermath.

       

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• Phillyist headed down the shore for the Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival, where they got to hang out with Ted Allen and Guy Fieri.
• DCist revisited the saga of Molly, the stolen and ultimately returned local dog, when aggressive animal rights group PETA decided to speak up on the issue of leaving your pets tied up alone on the sidewalk.
• Gothamist was stunned when a sightseeing helicopter crashed with a small plane over the Hudson River yesterday, presumably killing all nine passengers.

       

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• Chicagoist saw controversy erupt when a youth-painted pro-immigration mural was defaced with racist graffiti.
• Torontoist was shocked to discover the mythical chupacabra! Actually, a raccoon with alopecia, it turned out.
• Houstonist was surprised at President Obama's selection for the "beer summit" and suggested that the president stock the White House fridge with Texas beer.

       

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• Torontoist spent an early Sunday morning with two street artists, Eric Cheung and Sean Martindale, who make rogue planters out of carved-up posters.
• DCist went to the official launch of Google Moon and geeked out over astronauts while celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing.
• Londonist wondered if "enough is enough" is a good argument against the right to free speech.

       

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• Chicagoist visited The Ledge at the Sears Tower, the building's newest attraction that allows visitors to step out into glass boxes that jut out from the Tower's west side, allowing you to look straight down. All 1,353 feet.
• Phillyist nominated the administrators of the suburban pool club that allegedly kicked out a number of urban youth on basis of their race as its assholes of the week.
• Shanghaiist took a in-depth look at the machinations behind the Xinjiang riots, from its beginning to the second day of violence to when everything finally started to calm down.