The great grape suit against Marks & Spencer is now over. Alexander Martin-Sklan, who slipped in the parking lot of his local store in Golders Green in June 2004, ostensibly on a grape that was stuck in his sandal, which may or may not have been acquired in the store or in its parking lot, has lost his case against the chain. Though the judge was sympathetic to the 55-year-old man's plight -- he had......

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market......

...get the hell out of Gordon Ramsay’s effing-and-blinding kitchen. Former restaurant manager Martin Hyde of Dillons, an Indian eatery in Manhattan, is suing the British chef in an attempt to stop footage of Ramsay’s “Kitchen Nightmares” being shown on television in the US. The show’s premise is for Ramsay to enter a failing restaurant and turn it around in one week. Accusations have been put forth that "Kitchen Nightmares" hired actors to patronize the......

Last week we asked the question 'What is going on with Madame Tussauds?', and now it seems there a few other people asking the same question. We're thinking specifically of Switzerland-based toy manufacturer Living Picture, who are preparing to launch a £20 million lawsuit against the waxwork empire for "alleged misrepresentation and breach of contract". Basically, Living Picture are claiming that Tussauds gave them the go-ahead to produce a range of "character-based products" (you......