Week Around the Ists

SFist celebrated the Giants’ first World Series win (in San Francisco) with a parade and by setting things on fire.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the ist-a-verse...

• Gothamist entered the 21st century by voting with electronic voting machines. If only the print weren’t TOO DAMN SMALL.
• Chicagoist analyzed the GOP’s success in Illinois on Election Night and had some fun with the beer summit of Senator-elect Mark Kirk and his opponent, Alexi Giannoulias.
• Londonist applauded a government investment to turn East London into the new Silicon Valley, which will be helped by a futuristic cable car over the River Thames.
• Phillyist wondered just how desperate the 76ers marketing office really is.
• Bostonist loves caffeine and booze--how else could we get through elections season--but maybe not together at the same time.
• Seattlest tells a college football fairy tale and wonders if it was our Senate race, our mail-in ballot system or the free vibrators that inspired our whopping 71 percent voter turnout.
• DCist wrapped up its Rally To Restore Sanity and/or Fear coverage with two enormous photo galleries.
• And WE broke the big news that the site was undergoing an exciting regime change.