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🇱🇹 Meet Kaunas, Pittsburgh’s Lithuanian doppelgänger

u/Strategy_Man Kaunas might look like the ’Burgh, but it has an interesting history all its own. What if I told you there was a city nearly the same size and shape as Pittsburgh complete with eerie parallels and its own interesting history? During the worst of the pandemic when we all had plenty of time […]

Good to know / October 18, 2022

🗣 Locals to Know: Meet Naomi Tannenbaum of PA Women Work

Today’s Locals to Know knows for herself — her focus at work is connecting Pennsylvania women with the opportunities they need to launch, reinvigorate or rethink their careers. When she’s not helping area workers, Naomi Tannenbaum is picking apples, taking care of her family and/or exploring local destinations. Let’s learn more about Naomi and what […]

Locals to know / October 11, 2022

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🍝 October 2022 Pittsburgh restaurant roundup

@bitesbrewsbridges Fall is here, and so are some new Pittsburgh restaurants! Even if life behind the scenes has been tough for restaurateurs, our food scene keeps diversifying. In the past weeks, ownership has changed in time-tested establishments and a favorite local brewery closed its doors. Read on for the latest in Pittsburgh eats. 👋 Welcome! […]

Food and drink / October 4, 2022

DS Kinsel, a skinny Black man with long dreadlocks, stands near a graffitied wall.

🗣 Locals to Know: Meet DS Kinsel, artist, agitator and family man

Courtesy of DS Kinsel This morning’s interviewee is an artist, community organizer, activist and then some who co-founded BOOM Concepts and has shown his art everywhere from the streets of our city to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. In addition to making vivid multimedia art, he funds other creatives and holds the powers that […]

Arts and culture / September 28, 2022

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🖼 A look inside the 58th Carnegie International

With a history dating to 1896, the Carnegie International is America’s oldest exhibition of contemporary art. This year’s edition is the 58th and features over 100 artists. In the four years since the last exhibition, much has changed — the pandemic shattered our sense of normalcy, protests over racial injustice rocked the nation and political upheaval called into […]

Uncategorized / September 27, 2022

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🗣 Locals to Know: Meet Catherine Raphael, author and feminist

Courtesy of Books Forward Today’s Local to Know is an author who wanted to buck the trend of male-dominated fantasy novels. Meet Catherine Raphael, a self-described feminist who helped found the Women and Girls Foundation of SWPA and whose debut novel, Journey to the Heart Stone, comes out next week. The book takes place in […]

Locals to know / September 21, 2022

Ja'Sonta Roberts, with voluminous dark hair and a small nosering.

🗣 Locals to Know: Meet Ja’Sonta Roberts, educator and rock star

Courtesy of Ja’Sonta Roberts. We’ve got lots of amazing out-of-school educators doing really important work here in Pittsburgh. One such Local to Know is Ja’Sonta Roberts, Assemble’s Off-Site Programs Manager and also a gifted vocalist who sings with Pittsburgh Black Rock act Royce. Without further ado, let’s meet Ja’Sonta and learn more about where she […]

Locals to know / September 13, 2022

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🏊 A definitive ranking of Pittsburgh’s public pools

I’m delighted to turn things over to a special guest and someone with whom I spend a large portion of my waking (and sleeping) hours. She spent countless hours this summer in Pittsburgh’s public pools to determine which one was the best overall. Along the way, we visited new neighborhoods, spent time with friends and […]

Good to know / September 7, 2022

A woman in a chambray dress eats ice cream from a paper bowl.

🍻 September 2022 Pittsburgh restaurant roundup

@burghnosh Fall is on its way, and with the new season come some restaurant openings (and closings), new locations of your favorite watering holes and lots of Strip District eateries coming soon to the Terminal. There are also lots of expansions afoot for Pittsburgh breweries — check out Pittsburgh Magazine’s list of the 20 breweries […]

Food and drink / September 1, 2022

🗣 Locals to Know: Meet Dana Bishop-Root, museum educator

Our Local Favorites: 2022 Arts & Culture Guide is here! See you who made the list, from your favorite museum on the North Shore to your favorite concert venue in Homestead. From the Pittsburgh Glass Center to Unblurred, your picks represent the bold, diverse and ever-innovative Pittsburgh arts scene. Apropos, this week’s Local to Know […]

Arts and culture / August 23, 2022