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Need a break? Brush up on your New Orleans history

By Mary Staes | September 17, 2021

In between bagging garbage that’s been sitting out for weeks, separating building materials, and crossing your fingers that the WiFi and electricity doesn’t go out again, we thought you might want to brush up on a little New Orleans history.

"Drinking Partners" - Ed Bailey (left) and Day Bracey, (Photos courtesy of Epicast Network)

🎧 The best Pittsburgh podcasts to check out

By Adam Earnheardt | September 13, 2021

There’s a smorgasbord of Pittsburgh entertainment and culture on podcast apps like Audible, Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, and TuneIn Radio. From business and health to entertainment and sports (and even more sports), you’ll find a PGH podcast to fit just about every genre.

Photos courtesy of Buffalo Bill’s House.

For a real scream, rent Buffalo Bill’s House from “The Silence of the Lambs”

By Kristy Locklin | September 13, 2021

Buffalo Bill’s House in “The Silence of the Lambs” is the stuff of nightmares, but for diehard fans of the film, staying there is a dream come true. You can now rent the fictional serial killer’s abode in Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, which is 30 miles outside of Pittsburgh. Parties of up to eight people can relax in the fully furnished, 112-year-old home, watch the iconic movie and enjoy liver, fava beans and a nice Chianti in the kitchen.

Pittsburgh Oktoberfest beers

🍻 Prost! Guide to Oktoberfest beers from Pittsburgh Breweries

By Aadam Soorma | September 10, 2021

A look at Oktoberfest beers from Pittsburgh breweries.

Street flooded? Here’s how to check if your catch basin is clean, and how to DIY

By Mary Staes | August 26, 2021

Here’s how to clean your catch basins ahead of potential flooding.

backyard chickens

🐓 City Chicken: More Pittsburghers are raising backyard hens

By Kristy Locklin | August 26, 2021

Urban chickens are hatching up all over Pittsburgh. We talked to residents in Avalon and the surrounding neighborhoods about the foundations of fowl-keeping.

You can find generations of Pittsburgh black history at The Crystal Barber

By David Rotenstein | August 26, 2021

The Crystal Barbershop might have been Pittsburgh’s best-known tonsorium. Its owner, William “Woogie” Harris, was a legendary gambling baron and one of the city’s wealthiest Black entrepreneurs. Harold Slater was his friend, son-in-law, and successor in the iconic Hill District establishment. Slater’s story begins more than a century ago in rural Virginia and it continues today with his daughter’s Bloomfield barbering business.

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Haunted NOLA: How the ghost of a heartbroken Bourbon Street Showgirl killed her lover

By Michael DeMocker | August 25, 2021

Hear now the tragic tale of one Marguerite O’Donnell, a Bourbon Street showgirl whose love triangle life reads like the pages of a dramatic play. Her heartbroken ghost is said to have killed her younger lover in a fiery rage, quite literally.

Somerset, PA

A quick trip: 5 stops to make in Somerset, PA 

By Cody McDevitt | August 14, 2021

If you are looking for a day trip or a weekend getaway, Somerset is just 90 minutes from Downtown Pittsburgh. 

How one local man is opening the door for accessibility in New Orleans

By Beth D'Addono | August 13, 2021

Jesse Bascle wanted to do something about the issue of accessibility in New Orleans. So a few years ago he started Nola Rolla, a guide to wheelchair accessible New Orleans bars, hotels, restaurants and attractions.