Perhaps as a response to the recent heat wave, when NYC’s normally odoriferous subways must have risen to a whole new level of rankness, the Gawker crew are asking their readers to submit info about the particular smells of subway stations.

Yesterday’s Guardian had a piece about David Rockwell’s interior design for the new JetBlue terminal at JFK, which will replace Eero Saarinen’s abandoned TWA hub as the airport’s fifth.

The NYT asks “Is Qatar the Next Dubai?�- they’ve got man-made resort islands too! It seems like mere weeks ago, Dubai was the next Dubai. And the cannibalizing cycle of the “Next Big Thing� spirals on…

In this edition: the SF Chronicle stumbles upon the Holy Grail (just the cup this time) in Valencia, while the Washington Post visits Brangelina’s compound in Namibia, according to Us Weekly, the site of the second coming.

This weekend the the LA Times, like the good industry-town rag that it is, runs its coverage of Da Vinci Code-inspired advertising opportunities — I mean travel — as close to the opening date of the film as possible.

This clip has been circulating around the Web for awhile, but it cropped up as a recent post while I was searching YouTube’s travel pickings today, and I was reminded how great it is.

Here’s one more way your iPod can help you travel below the radar on your next urban vacation, this time while traveling underground.

If, like the writers of New York magazine’s recent “why-bother-with-anywhere-else?�? travel issue, you believe that cities really don’t get any better than NYC, Gotham’s other hometown rag has a video archive of city tours designed just for you.

Turn Here joined the user-created-content fray last spring as a venue for locals around the globe to submit video guides to their favorite neighborhoods, scenes and events.