Torontoist discovered their city's most ridiculous holiday lights setup, with 80,000 lights and two––two!––synchronized music routines. Naturally, they snagged a video. Chicago tragically loses one of its most recognizable neighborhood icons, the pigeon man of Lincoln Square. LAPD leaves body in car at crash scene, then tows it. Massachusetts plus mullet equals PR mayhem. Londonist sleeps in a Haunted plague pit. UC Berkeley students strip naked and race through campus, NSFW floppiness ensues. Phillyist......

Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by......

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......

Intricate costumes, beautiful chorus girls, large casts and extravagant dance numbers are all techniques that Busby Berkeley employed in his 1930's musicals. Berkeley, a director/choreographer for numerous movie musicals, reached huge success during the Depression when audiences were seeking lighthearted and hopeful entertainment. His career spanned over 40 years with most notable successes: 42nd Street, Babes in Arm, Girl Crazy, Take Me Out to the Ballgame and No, No Nanette. Dames at Sea, a......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Did you know whiny, insecure kids tend to grow up to be rigid, traditional conservatives, and confident kids tend to grow up to be bright non-conformist liberals? Before you accuse us of having that liberal media bias we've heard so much about, we'd like to assure you it's not us saying this, it's science! A professor at UC Berkeley got these......

By Jen A. Miller Check out World Cafe Live on Wednesday, November 30 for a potpourri the Delaware Valley's best local performers. Bruce Torres , who you might know as the super cool guy who hosts WCL's Monday night open mike, is headlining downstairs -- and rightfully so. He's a dynamo singer songwriter and was recently named "one to watch" by Hooters magazine (and yes, they do have a magazine, and yes, you can......

So, Philadelphia is the eighteenth-most liberal city in the United States, eh? Well, it could be worse. Philly might have made the top ten. The Cranky Cocktail finds it very interesting that there are very few fundamentally American spirits of prominence out there. Off the top of his head, he can come up with two: Bourbon and applejack. It used to be three, until The Great Drought put paid to most domestic rye production. Rye......