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......

We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur,......

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......

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......