Head brewer Matt Moninger describes his encounter with a spirit at Church Brew Works. Credit: CP Photo: Mars Johnson / CP Illustration: Jeff Schreckengost Fall has arrived, and that means it’s spooky ...

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One of the great pleasures of my work — as both a sex writer and a sex worker — has been the close proximity I’ve been granted to other peoples’ desires, things that I would have never thought to ...

A portrait of the first president of the Spigno Saturnia Italo-American Society, Paul Pampena Credit: CP Photo: Mars Johnson There are few cultural institutions that connect Pittsburgh’s present to ...

The Steel City’s accent is a thing to behold. Words like “iron” aren’t pronounced “eye-urn” but instead like “arn.” The word “steel” is spoken like the word “still,” and sometimes Pittsburgh actually ...

One night in the mid-1980s, Scott* tells me, his roommate went to the Fruit Loop — a secluded stretch of roadway in the southwest corner of Schenley Park — hoping to catch some dick. When the roommate ...

A deforested area Big Pocono, in Monroe County, in 1922 Credit: Photo courtesy of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Look out the window while driving the turnpike, or ...

Out of all of Pittsburgh’s reportedly haunted sites, the National Aviary might be the least known. One of my favorite places in the city, the Aviary is home to more than 500 birds representing 150 ...

Technically speaking, Saleem Ghubril has two children, but in his mind, there is a third child he takes pride in acknowledging in the form of a three-story building on the North Side: The Pittsburgh ...

Manchester neighborhood area in 1957 and 1993 Credit: Photo: Courtesy of Historic Pittsburgh Buying a home in the Manchester neighborhood of Pittsburgh during the 1960s posed particular challenges to ...

I wasn’t expecting to nearly step in bedazzled dog doo on my way to Le Gourmandine. It was a bizarre sight: nearly fresh canine excrement with little flags donning the phrases “TRUMP DUMP” and ...

In 2020-21, after losing my full-time job and facing the pandemic mid-divorce, my family needed SNAP assistance to survive. While I continued working a part-time freelancing gig while searching ...