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? Bostonist dug deep to uncover Barack Obama's unpaid parking tickets, their Governor's latest ethical lapse, and a plagarizing sports writer. Chicagoist had everything in twos: two views on having the Olympics, losing two members of their Super Bowl team, and two music festivals. DCist put their noses in legal books as......

Now that we're into November, awards season kicks off in earnest with big new releases such as Chicken Little. Wait. Sorry. Our mistake. After what seems like more than a year of trailers, the sky is finally falling for Disney's big animation experiment, but we actually meant Jarhead. Somehow, even arriving with an amazing pedigree that includes Oscar winning American Beauty director Sam Mendes, a best selling memoir as source material, and stars such as......

The New Yorker has a great piece about a news barker who works a corner near the Port Authority. If Carlos were digital rather than analog, he'd be a great news-in-one-line blog to rival The Drudge Report, as he distills tidbits to about what's in the newspapers into great soundbites. Here's how he picks stories to hopefully attract people to buy his papers without resorting to the Post or Daily News headlines:Carlos picked up the......