The first thing I do when I go to a city is buy a copy of the local newspaper, or look at it on the web. The Globe is still the best I have seen. 
Once I was chatting with a fellow about all the writers who got killed in war zones. 
He said, "why the heck would anyone want to do that?" 
I said, "They need to to tell the people what happened." That's what the Globe does.