Week Around the Ists

Published Aug 29, 2010 12:00 AM

Gothamist is stuck in a vortex of stories involving alleged Islamophobia: A week that started with a heated rally and confrontation outside the not-at-Ground Zero mosque, there were incidents of a man peeing on prayer rugs at a Queens mosque and a taxi driver who was stabbed after being asked if he was Muslim.
Chicagoist watched a Lego version of the city come under attack by Lego Star Wars villains and then talked to the Lego Master Builder behind the chaos.
Seattlest celebrated its WNBA team making the playoffs and solved a puzzle to score an invite to Facebook's housewarming party.
Londonist hauled a couple of local papers over the coals as the Evening Standard nicked one of our photos and News Shopper rewarded an anti-gay letter with their star prize.
DCist prepared for Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally on the National Mall by sharing one Tea Partier's guide to D.C. and publishing a handy map based on the skewed advice within.
Shanghaiist was pounded by lighting and thunder storms, which unfortunately also caused the complete wreckage of one of its most historic, but neglected, historical landmarks - one that we had just visited earlier in the week.
SFist prepared for Burning Man and questioned whether or not the event had any wind left in its counterculture sails.
LAist discovered a messy "intersection" between the City of Santa Monica and a cancer research company where the business deal depends on building a bicycle lane.