SFist saw Christmas Day turn tragic after a Siberian tiger escaped from her pen at the San Francisco Zoo, killing a visitor and mauling two others. Phillyist counted down the top ten items on Philadelphia's New Year's wish list. Gothamist looked at the wooden bikes being offered for NYC's first bike share program on Governors Island. LAist received a Christmas present in the form of a drunk Santa Claus in a g-string. Bostonist launched......

Anthony Bourdain has repeatedly professed his undying affection for Fergus Henderson’s roasted marrow bones with parsley salad, and even considers the British chef to be his “favorite food person.” For eaters who willingly choose seared squab hearts over heart-healthy turkey burgers, Henderson’s offal-heavy cookbook The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating is considered a classic. It contains recipes such as Blood Cake with Fried Eggs, Tripe Gratin, and Crispy Pig’s Tail. Stuff like that. This......

Lately we've had tacos on the brain, particularly those that involve organ meats and creepy crawlies some folks consider to be Fear Factor fare. Given our taste for the bizarre, it may be hard believe that there are times when we crave nothing more than a simple pork or beef tongue taco. Last night at about 1:30 a.m., we found ourselves in such a mood. As luck would have it we also found ourselves......

Everyone is still wondering how a woman fell through a sidewalk grate and into a electrical power vault on West 51st Street yesterday morning. The Daily News reports the victim, 26-year-old Jessica Hinksmon, could have been electrocuted by the 13,000 volts of electricity from the transformer. Hinksmon cried for help before firefighters used a "confined space stretcher and tripod" to lift her out. One of the firefighters who rescued Hinksmon, Lit. Tom Donnelly of......

The Roosevelt Island tram continues to sit still as the NY State Department of Labor investigates what Tuesday night when it just stopped working...and the two backups systems didn't work. And the culprit for the problems that caused people to be stuck midair for hours? The air brakes didn't work properly, according to DoL sources, though Roosevelt Island officials disagree. The AP reports DoL will check out the first backup system - a diesel......

Last night's Fear Factor featured a stunt at a Southern California power plant, leading Con Ed to issue a statement warning people that substations "are not playgrounds." Apparently, the stunt had contestants "running through web of wires attached to a 10,000-volt substation, suffering stinging shocks while grabbing flags." Well, Gothamist wants to tell you something, Con Ed: We feel most New Yorkers know substations are dangerous since your various faulty wiring has made just walking......

The NY Post reports on a Bronx woman who received $65,000 in a settlement after her bathroom roof collapsed while she was showering. Now, that sounds good, $65,000 for a roof collapse, but when the roof collapsed, RATS fell down too. - maybe a half dozen rats. For the love of everything that is pure and good in this world, we do not wish this upon anyone. Maybe if Gothamist were in Fear Factor, we......

Gothamist would like to say that we're above TV's November sweeps stunts, but then who would we be kidding? We're excited and really disgusted by the 100th episode of Fear Factor" href="http://www.nbc.com/Fear_Factor/index.shtml">Fear Factor because it's a special New York City edition of the show. From the hyperbolic NBC press release: The landmark 100th episode of this hit reality series starts spreading the fear with a road trip to America's most fearless metropolis: New York......

- Period duel reenactment in NJ - Fear comes to New York - Fear Factor, that is - The crimes city college kids commit - Barry Diller wants New Yorkers to leave the city during the convention - Cool new Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Nogushi stamps; yes, stamps - Go see O Changgun's Toenail at the Cherry Lane Theatre - Is making a cat fall 50 feet into a pillow cruel? - Times Square anti-war......

When Joe Rogan walks the streets of New York City, it's not going to be accompanying Dave Chappelle for a sketch, it's going to be for Fear Factor's 100th episode, which will be set in the Big Apple, though for Fear Factor it'll have to be a decaying apple with a million mini worms in it, wading in a puddle near a curbcut. The NY Times' Randy Kennedy New York Region > A New York......

In the Saturday Night Live spoof of Fear Factor, Fear Factor Junior, the SNL crew made a point of making fun of NBC's tendency to blurb and blurb with ellipses, much to the delight of many. Now Variety looks at how NBC will "break through the promotional clutter by any ... means ... necessary." The pattern breaks down like this: Three words, each separated by three periods - easy! Examples include "Best ... Boardroom .........

With the penultimate episode of The Apprentice tonight with TWO firings, there's a ton of news floating around. Like how the runnerup gets to work at KFC as the CSO for a week (salary: $25,000 for the week) and the whole Ereka-Omarosa fight (check out how Carolyn says Omarosa has "bad management skills" - sigh, Carolyn, you rule, even if you do work for Donald Trump). There's a "You're Fired Funny! Salute to the Apprentice"......

How much money would you have to be paid to agree to smuggle eight dangerous snakes into the country? And would you be strapping the snakes to your legs? According to Reuters, a Swedish man was http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20030924/od_nm/environment_australia_snakes_dc">charged after smuggling snakes - strapped to his legs - to Australia. Four of the snakes were deadly king cobras, who were dead by the time the man got to Australia. Ew, but they were "found dead in......