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From Mexico City to the Steel City
She was motivated to get involved locally and feels her time at Carnegie Mellon in the School of Architecture paved the way. “The city was my campus.”
Execution of an Innocent Man
One hundred years ago today, a Pittsburgh man was executed. He was likely innocent.
Hollowed Out
How Pittsburgh-based EQT’s expansion in West Virginia set four families reeling, while state regulators trusted the company to answer their complaints.
Growing West Virginia Drug Treatment Crisis
Amid record overdoses, lawmakers ignore calls to restore pandemic-era Medicaid policies expanding access to treatment. They used this session to debate ratcheting up penalties.
Podcast on Cold Case that Rocked Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ Community
It’s not overstating things to say that Jamie was a connector in Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ community and the entire community felt her loss.
Consider the Pawpaw
Not everyone knows what a pawpaw is. Until more recently, it has been discarded and forgotten, falling in and out of favor over the years. For some, it is a luscious dessert, a delightful treasure hiding in the woods. For others, it is, to say the least, an acquired taste (and texture). It is an enigma.
Bird in Kansas City
Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, globally considered one of music history’s geniuses, is under acknowledged in Kansas City, say fans. A renewed remembrance of Bird is pondered in a city overtaken by Mahomes magic.
Beyond Chicago’s Sustainable Square Mile
“The Sustainable Square Mile was born to be in Black communities everywhere. So, our vision at Blacks in Green is self-sustaining Black communities everywhere.
Psychedelia in the Burgh
The Psychedelic Club of Pittsburgh is an open-to-all monthly discussion group geared as a free-form way for anyone with an interest in psychedelic substances to trade experiences, tips and tricks.
H.H. Lewis, a Rebel Poet in the Bootheel
Lewis had a way with language that spoke to the unlettered and unread—the key of which lay in slang and vulgarity.
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