When I call someone in a distant city, I like to have some clue of what's going on there. If I were calling someone in Denver today, for example, I'd be prepared to ask how they were affected by the early snow. Weather's easy to find (and I have a weather map on my dashboard), and talking about it is cliché. How would you like to know what was on the front page of their newspaper this morning?
Sure, you can look at the paper's web site—if you know what it is. You could search for newspaper and the city name if you don't. Or, you could visit the Newseum's interactive map of newspapers' front pages, find a dot in central Colorado, and click on it to see today's paper. Oh, look, it snowed.
Now, I don't need a map to find the Denver Post, but what's the local paper in Chattanooga or Boise? How about Mumbai? Or Budapest? The Newseum's directory includes more than 550 newspapers from 52 countries, which you can find with the map or from a list. In addition to the front page images, you also get a link to the newspaper's web site, so you can read the stories, too.
If you're really serious about moving to a city, you might even look for RSS feeds from the paper (in the US, you could also subscribe to Business Journal feeds to keep up with local business news).
Whether you're interviewing for a job or making a connection for a business deal, it's easy to know a little of what's going on in other cities. It's one more way to make an impression by being clued in.
