Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Living
- The Great Pittsburgh Hot Dog Tour: Don't rate, just celebrate
Wednesday - 07/18/2018 - 08:00 AMFriends and family wanted to know. Co-workers and customers demanded answers. Owners and managers got close, leaned in and softy whispered, as if about to share a national secret.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Casual interactions: Even 'weak ties' to others can boost your physical, emotional health
Tuesday - 07/17/2018 - 07:00 AMClose relationships with family and friends, we know, are important for our health and well-being. But what about the people who make up our broader social networks: the parents at school drop-off, the neighbor down the street or that colleague in another department who always makes you laugh?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Century Club: 3 centenarians made yarn, steel and mirrors
Monday - 07/16/2018 - 08:00 AMAfter working for years in yarn and fabric mills, Anne Krayniak Bucceri should have been tired of those materials. Instead, she excelled at knitting and other crafts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Build-A-Bear promotion draws such huge crowds, it's shut down, including in Pittsburgh
Thursday - 07/12/2018 - 04:51 PMNo, it wasn’t Black Friday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Century Club: British immigrant loves Pittsburgh from afar
Tuesday - 07/10/2018 - 10:47 AMElsie Able didn’t grow up rooting for the Pirates, Penguins and Steelers, but the 100-year-old adopted them when she moved here from England in the 1960s. She still roots for Pittsburgh sports teams now that she lives in the land of the Rays, Lightning, Dolphins and Jaguars.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Researchers renew ties with high schoolers they studied in 1960 to seek clues about Alzheimer's
Monday - 07/09/2018 - 07:00 AMEven 58 years later, Rich Morgan can recall some unusual testing that took place involving him and his fellow North Braddock Scott High School students, as well as 400,000 others across the country.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Anthrocon convention suits furries just fine
Saturday - 07/07/2018 - 07:01 PMIn a drafty beige conference room at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, a few Anthrocon attendees fiddle with an unusual device — a network of tubes connected to a large fan.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH the Anthrocon 2018 parade
Saturday - 07/07/2018 - 04:47 PM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - She said yes, but who are they? Couple captures Point proposal
Thursday - 07/05/2018 - 04:58 PMIf you’re the mystery couple who got engaged on the Fourth of July in front of the fountain at the confluence of the rivers three, MaryKate Van Dusen of East Amherst, N.Y.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- What's happening in Pittsburgh this weekend, July 5-8
Thursday - 07/05/2018 - 12:00 AMALL WEEKEND
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- Andy CarnegieBot is live at the Carnegie Museums
Tuesday - 07/17/2018 - 11:19 AMNext time you explore one of the Carnegie Museums, you could be guided by the founder himself, Andrew Carnegie, in chatbot form.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Casual interactions: Even 'weak ties' to others can boost your physical, emotional health
Tuesday - 07/17/2018 - 08:47 AMClose relationships with family and friends, we know, are important for our health and well-being. But what about the people who make up our broader social networks: the parents at school drop-off, the neighbor down the street or that colleague in another department who always makes you laugh?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 200 Model Ts will roll through Western Pa.
Friday - 07/13/2018 - 08:00 AMWhen Simon Neubert was 9 years old, he helped his father restore his first Model T. By age 15, he had built his own speedster from donated parts. Since then, he has restored a third and driven the century-old automobile from Pikes Peak in Colorado to the Las Vegas Strip to Tennessee — even to his prom and graduation at Knoch High School and classes at Slippery Rock University.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What's happening in Pittsburgh this weekend, July 12-15
Thursday - 07/12/2018 - 05:00 AMTHURSDAY-FRIDAY
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Author ponders the Trump evangelical vote
Monday - 07/09/2018 - 07:00 AMAuthor John Fea recognizes those moments when a statistic contains the power of language. So he dedicated his new book “To the 19 percent.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - It's a 'Chicken Blast'
Monday - 07/09/2018 - 08:00 AMWEIRTON, W.Va. — At the Serbian Picnic Grounds near here, summer Wednesdays mean one thing: Chicken Blast.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH the Anthrocon 2018 parade
Saturday - 07/07/2018 - 02:42 PM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - At Anthrocon 2018, furries celebrate tradition and community
Thursday - 07/05/2018 - 09:05 PMThursday morning was hectic at the Westin Convention Center Pittsburgh hotel: Luggage carts were piled high with suitcases; concierges hurried to get visitors checked in; lines for the elevator snaked through the lobby; and many of the guests happened to be dressed in animal costumes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Stigma follows 'Furries' despite warm and fuzzy reception in Pittsburgh
Thursday - 07/05/2018 - 07:30 AMWhen the Furries came to Pittsburgh last year for the annual Anthrocon convention, reader Jay Poliziani of Greenfield wrote a letter to the editor stating, “I’m proud to live in a city that makes the members of this convention feel safe and welcome each year.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What's happening in Pittsburgh this weekend, July 5-8
Thursday - 07/05/2018 - 02:48 AMALL WEEKEND
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- The Great Pittsburgh Hot Dog Tour: Don't rate, just celebrate
Wednesday - 07/18/2018 - 10:47 AMFriends and family wanted to know. Co-workers and customers demanded answers. Owners and managers got close, leaned in and softy whispered, as if about to share a national secret.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Try scuba diving at the Pittsburgh Zoo
Monday - 07/16/2018 - 01:21 PMScuba diving in Pittsburgh? Yes, it’s possible.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Century Club: 3 centenarians made yarn, steel and mirrors
Monday - 07/16/2018 - 10:47 AMAfter working for years in yarn and fabric mills, Anne Krayniak Bucceri should have been tired of those materials. Instead, she excelled at knitting and other crafts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Century Club: British immigrant loves Pittsburgh from afar
Tuesday - 07/10/2018 - 08:00 AMElsie Able didn’t grow up rooting for the Pirates, Penguins and Steelers, but the 100-year-old adopted them when she moved here from England in the 1960s. She still roots for Pittsburgh sports teams now that she lives in the land of the Rays, Lightning, Dolphins and Jaguars.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rent a machine gun, if you dare: Washington County range provides 'thrill'
Monday - 07/09/2018 - 06:45 AMThe 99 signs he has posted throughout the region — each including a phone number, the silhouette of a Rambo-style M60 machine gun and an advertisement for “Washington County Machine Gun Rentals” — has generated many a phone call to Tredd Barton.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hillwood Estate in Washington, D.C., highlights French and Russian culture
Monday - 07/09/2018 - 08:00 AMWASHINGTON, D.C. — Marjorie Merriweather Post became the wealthiest woman in America when her father, cereal tycoon C.W. Post, died in 1914. Just 27, she wasn’t afraid to spend her inheritance.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Anthrocon convention suits furries just fine
Saturday - 07/07/2018 - 08:47 PMIn a drafty beige conference room at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, a few Anthrocon attendees fiddle with an unusual device — a network of tubes connected to a large fan.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - At Anthrocon 2018, furries celebrate tradition and community
Thursday - 07/05/2018 - 10:47 PMThursday morning was hectic at the Westin Convention Center Pittsburgh hotel: Luggage carts were piled high with suitcases; concierges hurried to get visitors checked in; lines for the elevator snaked through the lobby; and many of the guests happened to be dressed in animal costumes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - They're baaaaaack -- the furries are returning as Anthrocon takes over Downtown
Thursday - 07/05/2018 - 02:37 PMIt’s a sure sign of summer in Pittsburgh — people wearing furry costumes wandering around Downtown.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tiny competitors show off their talents at Big Butler Fair
Tuesday - 07/03/2018 - 03:21 PMSome pint-sized participants showcased their beloved animals at the Big Butler Fair on Tuesday.
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