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And Michael Bauer's Top 10 Restaurants Of 2011 Are...
Well, they're good. No, they're great. That's for certain. Tastiness abounded in 2011. But the selection, it seems, wasn't as nearly as difficult to choose from compared to 2010. Not that 2011 sucked, but... well, you know: A lot of shit opened up on 2010, acclaimed and divine shit that made foodies take to Twitter and never shut the fuck up about it. That, in a gastronomic nutshell, was 2010.
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Palin artwork: Eddie Colla; photo credit: Brian Reynard SFist discussed these anti-Sarah Palin posters that, shortly after the Arizona shooting rampage, appeared in San Francisco. Chicagoist’s readers were not happy with a 67 percent increase in the state income tax. The staff, meanwhile, interviewed the director of a new Stephin Merrit documentary; asked author Ted McClelland why he likes winter in Chicago; chatted with the creator of Vladimir Putin Action Comics; got a behind-the-scenes...
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Image via Tommy6unz on Flickr Chicagoist dived head first into 2011. They interviewed former Fall Out Boy vocalist Patrick Stump; watched in amazement as former Senator Carol Moseley Braun’s mayoral campaign self-imploded, ran previously unseen photographs from an unknown street photographer whose work is gaining a wide, posthumous audience; published Art Shay’s story a chance encounter with Elizabeth Taylor 50 years ago; and had some fun looking at reader photographs of the New Year’s...
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DCist and its contributors put their cameras to work this week -- a good thing, too: a total lunar eclipse, the National Zoo’s adorable lion cubs and D.C’s female roller derby league made for some inspired subjects.
Chicagoist was excited to hear that a television series was in the works based on the exploits of a couple of legendary mob bosses, shared a recipe for homemade eggnog with its readers and kicked off a new series featuring photographs from the archives of legendary photographer Art Shay.
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Photo by calvinfleming via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr LAist thought it was a-ok to be gay for America. Bostonist got festive this week as Bostonians took to the streets in various states of undress for the 2010 SSRun, formerly known as the Santa Speedo Run. The 11th annual event speaks for itself. One gallery wasn't enough. Bostonist needed two. DCist talked to local politicians to hash out solutions to the city’s massive...
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Chicagoist braced itself for the biggest storm front to pass through in 70 years. Despite a lot of wind, however, media reports dubbing it the 'Great Lakes Cyclone' were overblown, which gave its readers more time to discuss a perceived war on foodies.
SFist celebrated the Giants World Series performance during Games One and Two, but shook its finger at these ladies duking it out at a nearby McDonald's after the game.
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Gothamist was reminded that the rent is TOO DAMN HIGH and that the prepared food-next-to-garbage in the Whole Foods elevator isn't supposed to be normal.
DCist featured amazing video footage of a man leaping across the Metro tracks to help someone who had fallen off the platform, while continuing to keep a close eye on developments in the highly divisive DC9 case.
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Paladino with supporters at the Karlsburg Rabbinical College in the Borough Park (AP) Gothamist's week was full of Tea Party/Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino's various positions on homosexuality: It's not valid or successful; it's totally fine, except gay marriage; its pride parades are too sexy; it's cool to take rent money from gay clubs; and it's awesome when it's girl-on-girl porn. DCist was shocked when the death of a man near the popular DC9...
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Phillyist looked ahead to a possible World Series win, and was quite pleased to see that at least one player was doing everything possible to earn it.
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SFist received this image from a nightclub owner frustrated his iPhone service, or lack thereof.
Shanghaiist poo pooed people who praise our city's skyline way too much by showing off what may be one of the ugliest buildings in the world - the Ping An Insurance building, which not only boasts ionic column after column for 40-something-stories, but is topped off with a giant, shiny, Roman dome. Just the thing to be built smack dab in our bustling, Blade-Runner-like financial center.
Gothamist got confirmation, by way of this map, that Manhattan is full of white people. Also, even babies like to block bike lanes.
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LAist inspired a lively debate when they reported that gubernatorial candidate and millionaire Meg Whitman has now spent more of her own money on her campaign than any other politician in US history had. (By the way, that's $119 million out of her own pocket.)
Londonist spotted some creative street art challenging the Pope's state visit to London.
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SFist spent Thursday night covering the San Bruno natural gas explosion and fire. The inferno--which killed several residents, destroyed dozens of homes, and displaced many--sent flames hundreds of feet in the air.
DCist kicked off a series of candid interviews with the District's political movers and shakers by chatting with education reformer Michelle Rhee.
Seattlest caught up with the local author of a book on the Amanda Knox case.
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Gothamist is stuck in a vortex of stories involving alleged Islamophobia: A week that started with a heated rally and confrontation outside the not-at-Ground Zero mosque, there were incidents of a man peeing on prayer rugs at a Queens mosque and a taxi driver who was stabbed after being asked if he was Muslim.
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AP Photo/M. Spencer Green Gothamist is awaiting the presence of cops at all Starbucks locations, because cops ejected one customer who refused to use their lingo during her bagel order. SFist asked about the practicality of the SF-to-LA high-speed rail. Seattlest urged President Obama to stay a while and have some fun, then got some fashion advice from Mad Men's assistant costume designer. Shanghaiist found out that some Chinese colleges are now explicitly forbidding...
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Gothamist was stunned when a JetBlue flight attendant apparently had a meltdown and then exited the plane via emergency slide. It's unclear whether Steven Slater is a working man's hero for telling off a bad passenger or was actually drunk, but it's an amazing story, none the less. Chicagoist survived another edition of Lollapalooza at which they were unimpressed by Lady Gaga, actually dug Green Day, were blown away by Arcade Fire and checked...
