Holiday Nonprofit Guide - Pittsburgh Quarterly
Dec 16, 2024 · Editor’s note: We asked the leaders of key local nonprofits the following question: What is your organization’s mission and what are you most in need of as we approach the holidays and 2025? The answers follow. JANE WERNER, Children’s MuseumOur mission is to provide innovative and inclusive museum experiences that inspire kindness, creativity, curiosity and … Holiday Nonprofit Guide ...
Front Page - Pittsburgh Quarterly
To satisfy and to gratify are often used interchangeably, but they have totally different meanings. To satisfy, or to be satisfied, refers to a variety of human needs that periodically demand to be met and satiated in order to be eased.
Pittsburgh’s Future as a Climate Haven
Nov 5, 2024 · If you walked the streets of Pittsburgh’s Strip District in 1924 at noon, you may have needed a lamp to cut through the thick air pollution of the city once described as “hell with the lid off.” With air twice as polluted as bad air days in modern Beijing, Pittsburgh represented the worst of the … Pittsburgh’s Future as a Climate Haven Read More »
Novo Asian Food Hall - Pittsburgh Quarterly
Nov 26, 2024 · This story is part of “The New Americans” series, a project of Pittsburgh Tomorrow. While food halls were having a moment in Pittsburgh, Asian food halls were having a moment elsewhere. “In bigger cities like New York, they have food halls just focused on Asian food,” says Alex Tang, who started Mola restaurant in East … Novo Asian Food Hall Read More »
A Very Short History of Pittsburgh
Aug 25, 2008 · Geography comes first. Close upon the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, one gets a sense of westward flowing waters, but a map of Western Pennsylvania shows the Allegheny flowing south and the Monongahela north, almost at right angles to the Ohio. A fourth river, the Potomac, comes into play by bringing the coast … A Very Short History of Pittsburgh Read More »
CheapJunk - Pittsburgh Quarterly
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Demystifying Creative Nonfiction - Pittsburgh Quarterly
Nov 12, 2024 · For some, Pittsburgh is french fries on salads, rabid Steelers fans and Iron City beer. For others, it’s Andy Warhol, steel mills and pierogies. For Lee Gutkind, it’s the city where creative nonfiction, that nebulous, energetic literary genre he continues to champion, grew into prominence. In his latest book, aptly titled The Fine Art of …
Fiddling as Pittsburgh Burns - Pittsburgh Quarterly
Jan 2, 2025 · Today’s newsletter was going to be a round-up of all the noteworthy Pittsburgh citizens who passed away last year. Instead, it’s about trying to forestall a much more historic and devastating obituary – the death of US Steel in Pittsburgh. For the past six months, Pittsburgh’s “leaders” – civic, corporate, and governmental — have … Fiddling as Pittsburgh Burns Read More »
Dear Readers: What has Pittsburgh Contributed to the World?
Dec 18, 2024 · In our upcoming Spring issue, we’re going to examine the Pittsburgh region’s contributions to the world, and we need your help. We want to know what noteworthy contributions Pittsburgh and Pittsburghers have made – whether here or across the globe – to make the world a better and more interesting place. It could be (and … Dear Readers: What has Pittsburgh Contributed to the World ...
A Pilot Program Flies - Pittsburgh Quarterly
Dec 12, 2024 · Early this year, we wrote letters to the principals of all 88 high schools in Allegheny County asking them to nominate one sophomore and one junior (one boy, one girl) to the initial congress for the Allegheny Conservation Corps, an initiative for high school students to create community projects. The idea was threefold: physically …