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After reports that 10 members of congress, including California Senator Dianne Feinstein, received letters and photos in the mail that possibly claimed responsibility for yesterday's bombing in Times Square, the FBI did the obvious thing: go to the man's house who was listed on the return address. Nothing turned up when they questioned the man. "We're continuing to investigate, but right now there is no evidence linking the individual being questioned to the incident in New York or the letters themselves," Eimiller said to KNBC.

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse.

... but there's not much Los Angeles in the latest issue of Plenty, a bi-monthly magazine on environmental news and commentary. There's a feature story on the negative environmental impact of surfing and good tips for going to the farmer's market (use it with the new Farmer's Market Google Map), but our dear home is not but a mere mention in a small, but fun brief. With the fact that "urban areas are responsible for...

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.

Can you eat 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes? Well, Joey Chestnut of Vallejo, CA can - he was this year's champion of the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest , beating out six-time winner Takeru Kobayashi for the Mustard Belt. Our good friends over at Gothamist liveblogged the whole affair, which took place yesterday at Coney Island (natch); even Mayor Bloomberg himself showed up to check out the dog-tastic proceedings.

This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us.

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs.

Metro Rider LA noticed a pattern in our "20 Under 30" series. They saw similarites in some of the answers to this question: “ If you could make one thing be different in LA for your 30th birthday, what would you change?“

”I’d probably like a comprehensive, convenient, and affordable public transportation system…” -Meghana Bhatt

Continue reading "LA Youth Dream of Public Transportation"

Whatever you're playing at Bloomberg, stop it now. We don't even watch The Tonight Show with Jay Leno but there's no reason why when Conan takes over the show at the end of the decade that the show should leave its cushy Burbank studio. We think Conan will do just fine out here on the left coast. In fact, the pasty talk show host could use some sun. And what does New York's Mayor Bloomberg care for anyway? He won't be in office in 2009 so there's no political capital in stealing the show away from Los Angeles.