The previous post about Ed Levine's top pizza picks drew some emailed and IMed responses that the choices were mostly all coastal and that there were no Chicago joints on it whatsoever. Well, here's a list that ran earlier this month in USA Today. In it, Jeff Ruby, coauthor of Everybody Loves Pizza (along with Penny Pollack), gives the paper his and Ms. Pollack's top spots: Metro Pizza [four locations, Las Vegas NV; metropizza.com] "The pizza menu at this gourmet oasis in the desert reads like a map of regional flavors. With grilled shrimp on the New Orleans, barbecued chicken... More

Pity poor Ed Levine. When his workday doesn't involve ordering one of each doughnut at a well-regarded New York City doughnuttery, he gets to eat pizza from some of the country's best pizzerias and write about it for Details magazine. His findings cover some familiar ground to readers of Slice and of Mr. Levine's 2005 book PIzza: A Slice of Heaven, but there are some new entries to be savored. Pizzeria Bianco [623 East Adams Street, Phoenix AZ 85004; map] "The sauce tastes like a distillation of the ripest tomatoes."Di Fara[1424 Avenue J, Brooklyn NY 11230; map] "... a Di... More

Pizza Hut is starting an online fundraiser for Toua Xiong, the delivery driver who was shot to death on Aug. 6th. Eighty stores across the Minnesota are donating part of their profits to Xiong's family for his memorial fund. A full page in Friday's Minneapolis Star Tribune advertises the event. For a week starting on Monday, Pizza Hut will donate 20 percent of its online sales to Xiong's family. Click here for more information: pizzahutmn.com Pizza Hut starts fundraiser for slain pizza driver [KSTP-TV 5]... More