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Londonist witnessed unecessary tabloid shock at the languages spoken by some of London's children.

Torontoist was shocked to discover the mythical chupacabra! Actually, a raccoon with alopecia, it turned out.

Londonist, feeling distinctly peckish, enjoyed a gourmet breakfast, the "best pizza outside of Italy", a Brick Lane curry and some bathtub-cooked salmon.

Torontoist covered a multi-day protest by Toronto's Tamil community, a protest that blocked one of the city's busiest streets, all day and all night, for the majority of the week.

SFist reported on Hearst Corporation's plan to sell or shutdown the ailing San Francisco Chronicle.

Londonist followed in the footsteps of ambitious Victorian tourist James Patterson by completing the epic Patterson Challenge in 8 hours (and near-blizzard conditions).

Phillyist took a personal look at this year's Super Bowl—even though it will be Pennsylvania's other team playing.

• Torontoist scoured Toronto to find the city's finest punny business names.
• Gothamist was stunned when a plane with failed engines landed safely into the Hudson River. All passengers survived, thanks to the pilot, crew, and amazing rescue efforts from commuter ferries and authorities!
• Bostonist drank a cocktail named after Superman's Fortress of Solitude and got ready to swill some inaugural beer.
• DCist continued its full-court press on all things Inaugural; they were the first to report on the D.C. police having declared part of downtown Washington a "Prostitution Free Zone" during the Inauguration.
• Shanghaiist found out Obama's half-brother Mark Ndesandjo helped raise some money for Chinese orphans at a charity event in Shenzhen, China.
• LAist went through the stages of grief after finding out the closest thing to a real indie rock radio station couldn't make it without catering to corporate America and opted to yank themselves off the air and head to the internets.
• Phillyist really hates Arizona—this week. Next week, they may hate Baltimore or Pittsburgh (or they'll just keep hating Arizona).
• SFist found a map of local establishments that double as porn shoot locations.
• Chicagoist felt things heat up as Governor Blagojevich presided over the swearing in of the new state senate, which will serve as the jury in his impeachment trial, was re-impeached by a new state house with his sister-in-law casting the only "no" vote, and saw his controversial senate appointee, Roland Burris, become The Lord's Senator™.
• Londonist geeked out with an interactive map of V-2 rocket sites, charting the locations where Hitler's 'vengeance' rockets fell in the capital.

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New Year's comments to a heckler.)

• Chicagoist started the week with bitter cold, explored a video game based on its transit system, celebrated a fantastic year of local music and food & drink, and finished the week with warmth and flooding.
• Torontoist was supposed to shut down in the new year, but now not so much now. They prepared to ring in the new year by looking back at their city's Heroes and Villains of 2008.
• Gothamist readers had strong opinions about a video of carriage horses working in the wintry weather.

• Torontoist exposed infamous local fiend Dimitri the Lover's new protégé, Pavel the Lover—a man who approaches underage girls, calls them "elegant," and passes them business cards asking them if they'd like to "swing on a star."
• SFist was disheartened to hear that Equality California's executive director refused to attend next month's inauguration due to Barack Obama's regrettable decision to have anti-gay and prop-Prop 8 pastor Rick Warren deliver the invocation, but perked up when attorney general and former (and future?) CA Governor Jerry Brown said that same-sex marriage ban Prop 8 was invalid.
• Bostonist interviewed Jamie Sneider, a comedian who likes to be naked and checked out the action at Fenway's Cask'n Flagon, where fists flew at a charity ball.
• Phillyist revealed the ten names rejected by the Campbell family before they settled on naming their son for the Fuhrer.
• Chicagoist watched Governor Rod Blagojevich's quick speech and marveled at a local artist's interpretation of Blago in the nude, toasted Drew Peterson for getting engaged while his fourth wife remains missing and his third wife remains murdered, and talked about not much plowing and calling dibs on parking during a snowy week.
• DCist commenters had a lot to say about whether MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski was really mugged outside the Georgetown Ritz Carlton or just fell prey to an aggressive panhandler.
• Seattlest's coverage of Snowmageddon 2008 started off fun, with visiting reindeer and snowbound drink suggestions, but then two charter buses nearly took a 30-foot header off Capitol Hill onto I-5.
• Houstonist started scheming to turn a Space Shuttle into a taco truck, a teaching lab or an arts center if they could get their hands on $42M to buy one when they are decommissioned in 2010.
• LAist wondered if Obama choosing evangelical minster Rick Warren to speak at the inauguration would pick at the Prop 8 wound; to prove Prop 8 was still a priority, protests were organized this weekend, as supporters of the Prop filed a lawsuit to nullify the 18,000 gay marriages that took place in California this year.
• Shanghaiist was amused by this video of a Canadian guy singing The Star Spangled Banner in Chinese.
• Londonist salivated over space shuttles and skating Santas.
• Gothamist got to see Governor Paterson (1) get spoofed on Saturday Night Live, (2) express him anger about it, and then (3) refer it the spoof again when he introduced a bevy of new taxes, including an "iPod tax" and "non-diet soda tax."

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• Chicagoist was in such a tizzy over the arrest of their Governor, Rod Blagojevich, - looking at the federal complaint, examining fellow arrestee John Harris, enjoying artists' interpretations, and comparing him to a Lego man - that they almost didn't notice that Mayor Daley wasn't bothering to have the streets plowed.
• Seattlest had visions of monkey smugglers and frozen custard dancing in their heads, and lots of shopping locally left to do before the holidays.
• Shanghaiist was surprised to hear that the US may not have a pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.

• LAist wined and dined on some of the city's best international food. The Korean BBQ truck had the edge of a street taco and the Imagawa-Yaki Japanese pastries were fulfilling.
• Seattlest turned investigative reporter for a story on a major transit funding giveback and then ate some clam chowder and gourmet popcorn.
• Bostonist pondered the Missed Connections implications of removing seats from one of our major subway lines and listed the things that Harvard could have bought with the $8 billion its endowment has lost this year.

• Gothamist was horrified when an out-of-control crowd fatally trampled a Wal-Mart worker on Black Friday.
• Shanghaiist looks at media reports of the supposed ban of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy.
• Bostonist saw a lot of hats and a lot of legs while drinking a lot of booze at a pretend USO Show.

• SFist looked into the future of San Francisco by worrying about the taco intake of its youth; hailing its first-ever bicycle traffic light, installed at an infamously dangerous intersection; and questioning Mayor Newsom's plan to turn the Civic Center, a notably violent neighborhood, into the "Sustainable Resource District" of tomorrow.
• Gothamist was horrified to watch a video of the police using a Taser on an emotional disturbed man, who fell to his death. The NYPD later admitted it looked like the Taser use violated rules.
• Phillyist was worried this week: worried that a Philadelphia neighborhood was misrepresented in Business Week, and even more worried about a city-issued request for proposals that could result in the "disposal" of 30,000 domestic animals annually.

• Shanghaiist can't wait to meet the tattooed Louis Vuitton pigs that are coming to town.
• Phillyist commenters spent the early part of the week debating whether Barack Obama is an asshole. Phillyist concluded that the political assholes were, however, the St. Paul police for their treatment of a local photographer covering the RNC.
• Bostonist mapped out the city for newcomers.