The No Pants Subway Ride, classic commercials, and, yes, Tebow
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The A.V. Club has a smattering of local sites, and every day, writers in these locales are posting about music, films, and other events and news happening in their cities. Whether you live in one of these cities or elsewhere, there’s plenty of great local stuff that’s worth a look. Here’s a round-up of what caught our attention this week.
• Chicago re-examined the increasingly yawn-inducing No Pants Subway Ride and tried to find a way to make it interesting again.
• Denver Tebowed their Tebow on their way to Tebowing.
• Philly dug through the archives for some of their favorite classic local commercials, which include hair-metal troubadours in Cinderella shilling for chili dogs.
• The Twin Cities were bummed to hear that Salt Lake City is somehow gayer.
• Hey girl, Madison talked to Danielle Henderson, creator of the Feminist Ryan Gosling blog.
• Milwaukee was astounded to find that David Zucker (of Airplane! and The Naked Gun fame) filmed a Wisconsin tourism commercial.
• Toronto polled the city’s pop-culture experts on their predictions for 2012.
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