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......

Since 1990, Burma’s rightful Prime Minister – and only hope for democracy – has been a political prisoner under a military dictatorship built on a foundation of violence and intimidation. Thus, struggle is nothing new for the Burmese people as civil unrest has become analogous to the country for nearly half a century. For this, one can’t help but hope for better fortune for the people of Burma, be it in their native land or......

The First Family has put out another one of their cringe-worthy "BarneyCam" holiday videos, featuring stilted conversations between them and their dogs, Barney and Miss Beazley. This year's video features the two dogs sitting around with blank stares while the Bushes tell them that they want to be Junior Park Rangers. It doesn't make any more sense when you watch it. The White House has also posted a handy transcript of the video, in......

Good morning, Washington. International politics watchers will no doubt spend their day today assigning meaning to the resignation of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. They'll speculate about the future of the Labour party, and draw conclusions regarding the possible consequences to the war in Iraq. Here at DCist, we toil with no such weighty topics. Nay, we'll spend our day fantasizing about what it must be like to live in a country where a massively......

The aftermath of tragic events always bring stories of harrowing plight and exemplary heroism to the fore. Instinctively, one recoils at pointing up any one single story for the fear of diminishing others--and in the wake of yesterday's horrifying tragedy at Virginia Tech we're sure to hear many stories that will test the limits of what we can bear. But one story that has emerged today has stuck with us, all the same. It has......

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too, like......

Flickr user Jon-Miles lends a bit if pomp and circumstance to today's photo, as he apparently had a front row seat for Australian Prime Minister John Howard's visit to see President Bush. This shot was taken with a Nikon D50. The EXIF data can be found here.......

Various DCist contributors and readers have reported seeing police-escorted convoys of old, empty Greyhound buses noisily making their way through the city since Saturday. Sirens wailing and lights flashing, these convoys have been spotted on Connecticut Avenue just north of Dupont Circle, along U Street, and in the vicinity of Chinatown. Rumors have been quick in coming -- A foreign dignitary? A city-wide test of the civil emergency response system? A couple of cops and......

Calm down, you World Bank bureaucrats. We have not allowed the news of your new boss to pass us by. As President Bush positions his nominee to run the Bank and European governments brace for the coming change, it’s difficult to see who comes out ahead in the transfer of power. One early winner is definitely the guy who’ll change the office nameplate, as they’ll merely have to scrape the “-ensohn” off the door and......

British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party boasts that one of its many accomplishments is that 200,000 more workers are now in recognized trade unions than were in the past -- yet the 630 non-diplomatic employees at British embassies and consulates in the United States may soon be denied that very right. In the wake of cutbacks in sick leave and other such benefits in January, those employees voted to join the Silver Spring-based International......

With Lebanon so much in the news lately (Lebanon and Syria announced today that Syrian forces will pull back to the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon.) we thought it'd be good to walk up Massachusetts Avenue to the Kahlil Gibran memorial for this week's installment of DCist's monument feature. We wonder what the oft-quoted Gibran, the Lebanese poet and philosopher, would be thinking right now about what's going on in his home country ... the......

This morning, we took a quick stroll past the Lebanese Embassy on 28th Street NW just to see if anything was going on, considering the two weeks of protests following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, the resignation of the pro-Syrian government and the calls from the opposition that Syria remove its troops from the country. Jefferson Morley, in yesterday's World Opinion roundup, has quite a bit more of the recent developments. Really,......