Rick Sebak
Despite drawing a sell-out crowd for the group's September 1964 concert, no local hotels welcomed The Fab Four to stay overnight.
Rick Sebak recounts the time the singer played a free show in the Steel City.
Rick Sebak catalogues the Microsoft founder’s trips to the Steel City.
The roving reporter's travels brought him to Pittsburgh in the 1930s, allowing him to observe mill activity and take in our rolling hills and gritty features.
Recounting the 90-year-old tale of Eleonora Duse, once the most famed actress in the world, who spent her final days in an Oakland hotel.
When the Prince of Wales paid us a visit in the late '80s, he proposed changes and made a crowd laugh with his plan for seeing the view of the city.
A look back at our nation’s first president’s many visits. Don’t worry — we’ll save the best (and first) for last.
A look back at Charles Lindbergh's visit to the Steel City while on a whirlwind tour.
The time Mister Rogers welcomed the Wicked Witch of the West with open arms.
Before he became one of America's most influential musicians, Philip Glass was a composer-in-residence for the Pittsburgh Public Schools.
Sebak recounts tales of Kennywood’s tendency to book big-name acts and celebs, including The Lone Ranger.
How the singer’s life was saved at a Pittsburgh hospital after a bizarre health scare in 1963.
In the late 1870s, John Philip Sousa’s vaudeville orchestra caused a Beatlemania-style moral panic in Pittsburgh.
Take a trip back to 1964, when the Rolling Stones made their maiden voyage to Pittsburgh and played in front of a crowd of 400.
A brief history of Pittsburgh's most memorable (and unusual) mayors.
During his month-long stay in Pittsburgh, author Rudyard Kipling still dressed as if he were in India.
During his brief visit to the Steel City, Honest Abe advised secessionists to “keep cool.”
Remember the time Elvis came to the Civic Arena? We do.
The great English novelist Charles Dickens came to the very young city of Pittsburgh 170 years ago.
How the brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla left his mark on Pittsburgh.
Find out what the Soviet leader had to say about Pittsburgh when he visited in autumn 1959.
How Amelia Earhart crash-landed in the 'Burgh.
Did you know that Albert Einstein's first major speech in the U.S. happened at Carnegie Tech?
Trace the well-known chewing tobacco brand Copenhagen to its Pittsburgh origins.
