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 ...

Code Orange was the biggest band in Pittsburgh — until they weren’t. In 2023, the Grammy-nominated hardcore band made an alt-rocky record, The Above, that they hoped would launch them out of the ...

Almost 50 years after his presumed death in Idi Amin’s Uganda, Pittsburgh basketball icon John Brisker remains a legend for his fiery character on and off the court. Brisker’s willingness to take ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Oakland institution has closed up shop, with no plans of reopening after the coronavirus closures are lifted. The Original Hot Dog Shop, known affectionately as “The O,” has cleared out the ...

It’s early afternoon on the last frigid Monday in January, and the parking lot of Modern Adult 711 in McKeesport is packed. New-model pickup trucks are waxed to a high shine against the crust of road ...

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 ...

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 ...

Authorities often frame big projects — or cuts to essential services — as necessary for economic development. It happens all the time in education when prioritizing, say, a $700 million stadium ...

Update: The ordinance passed Pittsburgh City Council unanimously on July 8. City Council is considering an ordinance that would reduce the minimum penalty for individuals convicted of engaging in sex ...