Photograph of memorial outside Heath Ledger's NYC apartment Gothamist learned that actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his SoHo apartment, cause of death unknown so far (but apparently the masseuse who found him called Mary-Kate Olsen before 911).Bostonist considered sending a link about the Super Bowl, but damn! The New Kids are reuniting!Although Sylvester Stallone is a native of New York City, his Rocky character lets many Philadelphians consider him a native son......

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......

We -ists are an eclectic bunch, but there's a couple of things we all love: famous people, social causes, and wacky local facts. Join us as we starf**k, get virtuous, and learn across the -ist network! Austinist starts us off right by filling the famous person quota by interviewing Lewis Black, covers the social cause with a non-profit car sharing company, and gives us more wacky local facts than we can handle with Austin by......

While milling about the Shanghai Streets forum, we discovered Shanghai Viva, a Chinese photography forum dedicated to "street style" in Shanghai and elsewhere. Here is how the site describes itself: 本网站正在向世界传播着穿行在上海，东京最时尚街区、尽情享受着时尚的人们的着装信息。协助拍摄的本人在接受拍摄时，已同意本网站刊登其照片等事宜。 街头时尚的最新流行趋势信息 (Rough translation: The site says that its main purpose is to share information about fashion and fashionable people in Shanghai and Tokyo. The second part says that the people involved in the photos allow the publication of their photos on the website.) Basically......

In Shenzhen, 2,000 people commit suicide each year. Anyone know Shanghai's number?Hey, look! Beijing has a "SoHo", too.Remember when organizers of the 2010 World Expo said they expected the event to earn a profit? No? Good, because now they don't even think it will break even. Wonder what the thousands of people being relocated for the project think about that."China's answer to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida" is slated to be built in Minhang......

According to this post in the Shanghai section of Baidu's "posts" pages, the following are the numbers for Shanghai's GDP and per capita income starting in 2004 and assuming a 14 percent growth rate until 2010-2011, when the World Expo will boost the GDP growth to a whopping 35 percent! The first figure is in "100 millions", so the first number is 702.92 billion. The last sentence indicates the corresponding figures for New York City,......

We just came across an interesting New York Times article about art, design and architecture in China. Much of it deals with the work of Ai Weiwei, an artist and designer (and son of famed poet Ai Qing), who has created a number of interesting living spaces, such as loft complexes, where the living space is near to or combined with gallery space: Mr. Ai designed a voluminous gallery on the first floor of Mr.......