Dear Travel + Leisure: If you're going to talk smack, get your story straight. Least attractive city? (Insert buzzer sound.) Have you seen the people who live on Staten Island? You said we were least stylish. Wrong , wrong, and wrong. You said we were the least active. Does any other city have this? You called us least friendly. Bullshit. If we've got to live with the ugly label, at least recognize that we are......

For our parents, it was the assassination of JFK. Ask any of them and they can remember exactly what they were doing at the time they found out JFK had been killed. I never understood that until September 11, 2001. Our generation can remember it like it was yesterday. For us, that moment, frozen in time, is and will always be 9/11. Back then I was in community journalism at a small paper in Bristol,......

Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by......

Speaking of outwardly directed, Philadelphia Weekly’s Jessica Pressler has nominated the city of Philadelphia as “The Next Borough” in The New York Times. It’s nice to see Philadelphia get some good press, although her contentions that 1) we’re the next borough and 2) we’re in “the first wave of what could be called Philadelphia’s Brooklynization” are a bit dubious. 8,000 commuters and Brooklyn transplants do not a borough make. And give thanks to whatever demons......