Head brewer Matt Moninger describes his encounter with a spirit at Church Brew Works. Credit: CP Photo: Mars Johnson / CP Illustration: Jeff Schreckengost Fall has arrived, and that means it’s spooky ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jeffrey Epstein’s “black book” and the federal government’s investigative files on the convicted sex offender have dominated headlines for years since the convicted sex offender died in 2019. The ...

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 ...

A Callery Pear tree outside of The Pittsburgh Oratory and Catholic Newman Center Credit: CP PHOTO: Mars Johnson Pittsburgh has long been a bastion of Catholicism. The metro area ranks among the top ...

I wasn’t expecting to nearly step in bedazzled dog doo on my way to Le Gourmandine. It was a bizarre sight: nearly fresh canine excrement with little flags donning the phrases “TRUMP DUMP” and ...

I’ve got some good news and some bad news this Transit Talk Tuesday. As constructed, Allegheny station is basically pointed at Pa. Route 65, the elevated highway that essentially severed these two ...

Your average voter probably doesn’t have the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas primary election on their radar, and what makes the situation tougher this cycle is that there are 22 candidates from ...

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 ...