From NYC: “Riders take a ‘No Pants Subway Ride,’ ” by Veronika Belenkaya

If the woman next to you on the subway wasn't wearing pants Saturday, you weren't dreaming, and you didn't suddenly develop X-ray vision. (Read more here.)

From New Orleans: “A Streetcar of Solace Is Back in New Orleans,” by Adam Nossiter

The return in recent weeks of the distinctly urban noise of grinding wheels and brakes to St. Charles Avenue, with the near completion of post-hurricane repairs, has been an occasion for joy and not because, as boosters would have it, one more tourism feather has been added to the city’s cap.

The St. Charles streetcar line is that most valued local commodity, an unbroken link to the past... (Read on here.)