Sherrie Flick, who teaches in Chatham University’s Creative Writing and Food Studies masters programs, is a virtuoso of pocket-sized fiction, and her new story collection, Whiskey, Etc., makes that abundantly clear.
After winning six Grammy Awards as a record engineer working in Los Angeles, Jimmy Hoyson has been spending more time in his home city working with Pittsburgh bands.
Long before the accomplished cyclist’s cheating was exposed, he triumphed in Pittsburgh — but, as Rick Sebak explains, Armstrong’s local achievements aren’t without controversy.
For Sidney Crosby and for the Penguins, happy days are here again. But the emotion of the moment won’t mean much if Crosby and the Penguins aren’t able to build upon it as the series progresses.
What’s delivered the Penguins into their first Eastern Conference Final since 2013 is the realization that imperfections need not be deal-breakers if you just keep coming.
The Bucs’ wild-card failures the last two seasons have cast a shadow of doubt if not impending doom over a season that otherwise ought to be ripe with promise.
“Concussion” is the story of neuropathologist Bennet Omalu who, while conducting an autopsy on former Pittsburgh Steeler Center Mike Webster, found something in Webster’s brain similar to Alzheimer’s disease that he christened Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.
