SFist saw Christmas Day turn tragic after a Siberian tiger escaped from her pen at the San Francisco Zoo, killing a visitor and mauling two others. Phillyist counted down the top ten items on Philadelphia's New Year's wish list. Gothamist looked at the wooden bikes being offered for NYC's first bike share program on Governors Island. LAist received a Christmas present in the form of a drunk Santa Claus in a g-string. Bostonist launched......

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......

Giant crack in the Tate Modern. Half of those living near Heathrow would quite fancy a new runway. A pretty grim account of the Menezes shooting emerges in court. Newts get evicted from Olympic site. Croydon branches of Greggs are employing bouncers, claims local news site. Crumbs, that half-baked idea really takes the biscuit, etc. etc. Image courtesy of Dartar, who gets picked again for visiting one our favourite pubs. Image via the Londonist......

We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We're not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual -Ist lightheartedness – we just wanted to take a moment and recognize those affected last week. After the Minneapolis bridge collapse, Bostonist did a little research and found that Massachusetts......

Edgware Road shisha cafe's and the ban on smoking. Something's gotta give. Boxing postman and the campaign against binge drinking. We love local news. London Marathon and a solution to its litter problem. Lorry drivers and the campaign to kill fewer cyclists. And UK immigration crack down on dangerous Doggs. Image courtesy of buckaroo kid via the Londonist flickr group.......

That was the headline that greeted readers of Tom Duncan's column in the Newham Recorder last week. His comparison of watching a football team under perform to watching a loved one gang raped is undoubtedly the crassest and most offensive local news headline we've ever seen. The story was picked up on a Leyton Orient FC message board where fans showed their disgust at the article and rallied a bevy of complaints to the......

Themanwhofellasleep is on an outing this month - a virtual book tour in which he'll spend twenty days jumping around the blogosphere doing interviews and talking to people about his book. Thinking we'd leave the Q&A's and reviews for other legs of the trip we asked Themanwhofellasleep instead to talk a little about what's been going on in the press of late... Hello, this is Greg aka Themanwhofellasleep. You may know me from my......

Great local news headline in the Hillingdon Times: 'Bollywood Reservoir Dogs' to be filmed in Harrow "Counterfeit", set in London's criminal underworld, will, according to its makers, be an Asian film to rival western crime movies such as Reservoir Dogs... Sounds cool. Who have we got to rival Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth and Steve Buscemi in the acting stakes then? It will star Stephen Rahman-Hughes. Who? the star of West End musical Bollywood Dreams......

We only ask because earlier today we saw Alice Cooper on the local news speaking of his love for golf (?!) followed by a group of demons talking about their Eurovisionary music near the Thames. We figured maybe that the balance of power had shifted and Iron Maiden backpatches were now back in vogue? No? Ok... back in the Londonist wardrobe it goes. But while we're on the subject we should probably mention Earache......

You know what Londonist loves? Londonist loves those free newspapers that appear unbidden through our letter slot every now and then. Although most of the pages are filled with real estate ads, the half-dozen pages of local news thrown in to make the publication look respectable can sometimes be pure poetry. Case in point: the Tottenham and Wood Green Independent that arrived on the desks of Londonist's high-tech command centre last week. On the......

People swimming in ice cold English waters is one of those items that habitually pop up on local news bulletins in the deep midwinter. A smug reporter will have a few quick words with a local (and slighty crazed) individual who is usually wearing an inappropriate swimming costume and covered in lard, before standing back and watching with an amused air as said enthusiast launches themselves into the sea/lake/river. Meanwhile, you the viewer can......

Obviously as the election race hots up (and there's your first 'election cliche' of 2005!) Londonist will eb bringing you all the local news, gossip and other information you need to make an informed and sensible decision at the ballot box (possibly). But for now, let us point you in the direction of the BBC London news site which has a page dedicated to all the London MPs who are too scared busy to......

Londonist is seriously worried about its health. According to reports in today's papers we are going to end up childless and miserable...and all because of this blog! The first story details research from the State University of New York at Stonybrook which suggests that using a laptop computer literally (i.e. on your lap) may lead to a damaged sperm count: "The heat generated by the computers and the position of the thighs needed to balance......