Even with all the delays, single-tracking nightmares and bum escalators, our own Metro is among the world’s coolest subway systems, according to a lifestyle website that keeps track of cool things.

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant – it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market…

Former Editor-in-Chief Ryan Avent writes a weekly column about neighborhood and development issues. I got a kick out of New York’s reaction to a report released back in April, showing that carbon emissions in the city had increased by about 8 percent since 1997. The news stories were alarmist and the leaders angry, promising to do whatever it took to reverse the trend and reduce emissions within 25 years. Admirable sentiments, but it made me…

Nobody likes traffic, and here at DCist, we have long been a proponent of ditching Chevys for Schwinns to fight the beast. The fairly extensive network of biking trails that winds through the District, Northern Virginia, and Maryland offers residents plenty of options to avoid clogged highways on a weekday or take a lazy ride on a weekend. However, the Washington Post reports today that, just like our highways and subways, our bike trails are…