You thought we were dead and gone, didn’t you? So did I. But to be honest, only very, very briefly. When it was announced ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Housing is the hottest topic in Pittsburgh. It helped define the May mayoral primary and remains a buzzy topic on social media. Home prices locally continue to rise — bucking a nationwide trend — and ...

Fifteen years ago, comedian and sex worker Lane Kwederis was with a client who casually mentioned that after the session, they should stop by the ATM. At first, she didn’t know what he meant, and then ...

Late last spring, during my first afternoon at Pittsburgh City Paper, a soft gong rang out from the corner of the office. “Nine-banger,” declared a co-worker, as several others amassed around the ...

Inside an igloo at Bella Terra Vineyards Credit: Photo by Joanna Bell ...

The Pennsylvania wilderness boasts creatures great and small, from wild turkeys to black bears to the occasional river gator. There are those, however, who believe a more mysterious creature roams the ...