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......

A new website is launching next week to help New Yorkers share cabs to and from area airports. The hitchsters.com press release notes how cabs are the most convenient - and expensive - way to get to airports. Here are details on how things would work:After a user enters in some date, time and other travel information, the patent pending matching system begins looking for a suitable co-rider who matches the user’s criteria. Once......

Because as of 5:43:20 there's no line there. That's what we can see from Shake Shack's webcam which has finally gone live. The camera, which refreshes every 5 seconds, has been a long time coming since it was first announced way back in April when they first told Gothamist that they were buying one. No news on what the long delay was, but over the weekend, we were able to figure out how to set......

- Sharp barbs at the top of Ms. Schrambling’s site. Now if we only had the decoder ring. - An amusing article about someone replicating in real life one of our favorite works from the SNL Digital Short crew – TACO TOWN - Lucy’s Greenmarket Report is an indispensable blog for the thoughtful eater during warm months. Saturday's report is the big fat green light Gothamist awaits every spring – Ramps are here ! -......

A couple of weeks back, we talked about how you could use Google SMS to find out all sorts of good NYC information using your mobile phone. Google recently bought Dodgeball, our favorite NYC mososo service, which lets you tell your friends where you are. (And yes, we said "mososo"-- that's what the cool-kids huge nerds call mobile social software.) Yesterday, Dodgeball head honcho Dens emailed to let us know about another cool feature: we......

If you are forgetful, constantly curious, or gifted with a craptastic sense of direction, you should definitely check out Google SMS. The service is simple-- send an SMS from your phone to 46645 (that's GOOGL on the keypad.) For instance: 1. Yellow pages: "Radio Shack 10007", "Gray's Papaya 10013" 2. White pages: "Michael Bloomberg, New York, NY" 3. Directions: "JFK to 345 Chambers Street, NY NY" 4. Movies: "Rent 10013", "movie: theaters 10065" 5.......