July 11, 2016
If you Google fictional bars, a long list of watering holes comes up, ranging from The Sopranos’ The Bada Bing, Harry Potter’s The Hog’s Head, Archie […]
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July 8, 2016
Pittsburgh’s past is replete with colorful characters, spectacular sportsmen, and stellar geniuses, but George E. Smith was all three. Also known as “Pittsburgh Phil” George was […]
July 8, 2016
You get married in Vegas, you may expect a kitschy, glitzy type of wedding. However, for a wedding in New Orleans you would expect to strut […]
July 8, 2016
Diverse opinions, laws, and research, as well as the varying positions of politicians, physicians, advocates, activists, and governmental agencies, like a cloud of pot smoke in […]
July 8, 2016
The story of how Meadowcroft was discovered is the stuff that makes for good folktales. On November 12, 1955, Albert Miller, a farmer and history buff, […]
July 7, 2016
In the late 1890s, local legend has it, a young boy named James Westwood was playing with his friends on a large hill in the Flats […]
July 5, 2016
Very few people throughout history have had the title “emperor” bestowed upon them. There’s the Roman heads of state, Napoleon, and Chuck Noll. Although not a […]
June 24, 2016
One indicator of an environment’s health is a vibrant avian population. With the abundance of wooded areas in and around Pittsburgh, it’s no wonder that according […]
June 10, 2016
To borrow a saying from the late great Pirates broadcaster Bob Prince, the Pittsburgh Steelers franchise is a classic example of Prince’s sports maxim the “hidden […]