From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here’s what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the White Stripes’ exciting new release, watched in awe as their new tallest skyscraper was finally completed, found a cheaper way to get to Gothamist, invented a tasty new dessert, and brought back their Craigslist Round-Up feature with a bang. Bostonist watches…

By DCist contributor W Jacarl Melton At the time when Jaguar Wright’s 2002 album, Denials, Delusions and Decisions, was released, the industry term du jour, “neo-soul,” was used to describe any singer who presented themselves as part of the vanguard who shunned the trappings of mainstream urban music. But the Philadelphia-based Wright resisted this categorization, and wound up standing out from those who were being viewed as artistic oddballs. Tonight she’ll be supported by the…

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we’d cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news of so many dead coming out of Virginia Tech, and with so many of the victims and their relatives from the D.C. area, we felt it important to pay…

Wow. Just after the -ist family expanded to Asia and the City of Brotherly Love, our bosses up at Gothamist let us know that Parisist, the first -ist site in a city to use the Euro and the first to be in a different language (French, natch), is open for business. We’re excited to have them aboard, though our decidedly elementary French can only parse out that they’re writing about a big festival with kebabs…

Todd Kliman was the only winner from D.C. at this year’s Beard Awards. Last night at the Beard Award’s Restaurant Gala (a separate event from the Journalism Gala Sunday evening), Marc Vetri of the eponymous Vetri in Philadelphia won the award for Best Chef, Mid-Atlantic region, despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that the category was dominated by the D.C. area. Michael Flynn, nominated for best wine service at Kinkead’s, lost out to wine…

DCist thought that when we saw this truck speeding down a Philadelphia-area freeway this past weekend, it was just a highly motivated anti-gay marriage activist from the City of Brotherly Love driving around advertising a defense of marriage rally on the National Mall. But we see that Ambivalent Images snapped a photo of the same truck earlier this month near the White House. If you read the fine print on the driving advertisement, there is…