Elsewhere in the Ist-a-Verse

Torontoist featured the astonishing story (and equally astonishing photos) of more than 200 cyclists spontaneously taking over the westbound lanes of the city's downtown expressway for 7 kilometers late on a Friday afternoon.
Phillyist got to chat with singer/songwriter and internet phenomenon Eric Hutchinson as his major-label debut hit stores.
Shanghaiist was annoyed by Sharon Stone's suggestion that the Sichuan earthquake was China's karma for its treatment of Tibetans. She apologized soon after Dior China dropped her from all advertisements and cinemas vowed not to show any more of her movies.
Bostonist covered several local disasters, including a fire at Park Street and Rachael Ray's Dunkin Donuts commercial.
Chicagoist asked a member of the International Space Station Orbital Outhouse Team how space toilets are supposed to work.
Gothamist was stunned and upset that another construction crane collapsed, causing two fatalities.
With the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) in town, Seattlest has been up to their ears in independent films.
SFist giggled like a five-year-old kid after hearing the National Spelling Bee champion, Sameer Mishra, utter a filthy word during the competition.
LAist said goodbye to comedic legend Harvey Korman.

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By Staff in Miscellaneous on June 1, 2008 3:20 PM

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mattalexto

Sony, it was actually a straight bookstore that happens to sell a lot of books with homosexual themes. And their muffins are amazing.

sonyactivision

Being Toronto, that Critical Mass ride ended with a tea social at a gay bookstore.

tsol

NY Critical Mass took over the entire northbound side of the FDR, from the onramp near Bowling Green all the way up to just past the Brooklyn Bridge. This happened on the last Friday of July, 2004- a month before the RNC rides which brought the wrath of the NYPD down on Critical Mass riders from there on out.

Spirit of 76

This is the Sharon Stone who went to college at 15 and supposedly has an IQ of 154? That would make her smarter than 99.98% of the population. She doesn't sound that intelligent.

Now that's a good Critical Mass ride. If only NYPD could be as level-headed as Toronto police.

fakenewyorker

Sharon Stone might have been just indirectly citing the Mandate of Heaven concept of imperial China, which states that natural disasters indicate that the injustice or incompetence of rulers has repealed the divine right to govern the polity.

Dave Hogarty

When I heard what Sharon Stone said about people dying in Sichuan, China as karmic retribution for Tibet I almost laughed/puked. This is from the dried-up not-working-anymore actress with the self-proclaimed highest IQ of any woman in Hollywood? More like the village idiot. Suck it Stone.