A Mutual Fund for Hipsters called The GendeX™ Thrasher Funds? It just can't be real...except it is. Advertised through a "dedicated email" from Daily Candy this morning means they have some cash to advertise -- but to prove their hipster-cred we may need to see some MySpace profiles. And surprise, surprise -- it looks like they have one (John Mayer is in their "Top 12" friends! Ironic or do their parents also work there?). Their......

Spring is when we get busy here in the Ist-A-Verse. Very busy. But, after staying bundled-up indoors all winter, it's nice for us to be out, about, and collecting things to write about for you. Here's a glimpse at what's been keeping your favorite citybloggers busily away from home and out of bed. For LAist, strong winds attacked LA on the same day the Feds raided the Crips. Not to fear, though: the Japanese version......

When you have millions and millions to spend on your mayoral election campaign, apparently the thing to do is to have people at the direct mail company assign ethnicities to New Yorkers' last names. Because a journalist, Rafael Martinez-Alequin, received two hyper-targeted Bloomberg for Mayor mailings: One aimed at Hispanics and the other at Jews. Martinez-Alequin received the Jewish mailing (it's the mayor with a yarmulke with other Orthodox Jews - almost as Jewish......

Danny Gregory, one of Gothamist's favorite writer-illustrators, recently came out with a new book, Change Your Underwear Twice A week. Change Your Underwear (and we like writing that as well as saying that out loud) is a collection of old school filmstrips from the 40s-70s that helped many Baby Boombers and Gen X-ers understand how to live life. You can see some of the filmstrip at his site. And Gregory spoke to NPR about the......

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Take an old school district attorney and an upstart assistant D.A. with other ambitions, set them in the biggest borough of the country's biggest city, inflate egos accordingly, and you've got the best look inside what happens in a NYC DA's office since...yes, Law & Order! The case of former assistant district attorney and novelist Robert Reuland versus Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes (right) stems from Reuland's "forced" resignation in 2001, with Reuland claiming that his......