Photograph of the Trump Soho by Riccardo Sinti Gothamist went to the scene of the Trump Soho construction collapse, which left one construction worker dead and others injured (an indirect culprit - Manhattan's hot real estate market, causing rushed construction jobs).Shanghaiist is confused by media reports as to whether Playboy will be available in China during the year of the Olympics.LAist got fugged in an interview with the Go Fug Yourself girls.Torontoist set hearts......

In support of our international blogging brothers... On February 22, Kareem Amer, a twenty-two-year old Egyptian student and blogger, was sentenced without a trial to four years in jail for "contempt of religion" and "defaming the President of Egypt" because of writings on his blog. Growing up in a fundamentalist Muslim family, Amer began to rebel against what he perceived as religious extremism at his college, Al-Azhar University, through his blog writings, and was......

Whether you subscribe to a belief system (or sub-set thereof) that is trigger happy, enforces strict lex talionis, upholds the supreme sanctity of life, or is a little confused, it's inevitable that humans have and will continue to execute each other. An Amnesty International report shows that a minimum of 2,148 people were executed in 2005, and suspects the actual number around at least 20,000. For perspective, 2,403 people were killed in Pearl Harbor......

Arthur Magazine and the Spaceland folks — the people who brought us ArthurFest at summer's end — are presenting a winter fete. Tickets have just gone on sale for Arthur Ball, which will feature documentary films, speakers and of course dozens of live performances by the multiculti progressive psychedelic likes of Society of Rockets, Indian Jewelry, Afrobeatdown and Winter Flowers. There won't be any police there, that we know of. The title just made......

If you hate the winter holidays, now would be a good time to head for a cave. Weekends are filling up with Southland holiday rites and rituals. Pasadena's annual Doo Dah Parade is Sunday, November 21 at 11:30 AM. The parade takes place in the Old Pasadena district. It begins at Raymond and Holly Streets, goes south on Raymond to Colorado Boulevard, west on Colorado Blvd. to Pasadena Avenue. The event started out as......