'Nickelodeon City' covers everything from the 1905 opening of the world’s first nickelodeon—the popular, eponymous nickelodeon in Pittsburgh’s downtown, which was actually where the name originated—to the collapse of the city’s prosperous film industry in 1929.
Adam Lazarus and Steve Schlossman spent years researching and interviewing the golf legends who were at the 1973 championship at Oakmont, and the pair does a thorough job of recreating the drama and retelling the four-day event from the perspective of all of the key players of that time.
'The Comet and the Tornado' is Donald Marinelli's personal memoir, cataloguing his nearly 30 years spent working in CMU's drama department. But more than that, it is his attempt to reflect on the time he spent working side-by-side with the late Randy Pausch.
Using his mother's unfinished memoir as his foundation and adding his own thoughts and memories, Michael Shaheen retells a familiar and touching immigrant's story.
'Rooney: A Sporting Life' is just barely big enough to contain The Chief's larger-than-life personality and gives fans of the sport, the Steelers, the Rooney family and the Pittsburgh region plenty to chew on.
