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City Guide: Strip District

If you want visitors to love Pittsburgh, you take them to the Strip District, ideally early on a Saturday morning.

City Guide: South Side

South Side’s East Carson Street is bordered on one side by a river, houses a strip of industry and gives way to staggering hills. Can you get more Pittsburgh than that?

City Guide: Regent Square

Things have worked out well for the East End neighborhood called Regent Square. The solid middle-class homes built here have held up well.

City Guide: North Side

“History takes time. History makes memory,” observed writer Gertrude Stein, a native of the North Side. At the time of Stein’s birth in 1874, however, this area was known as Allegheny City.

City Guide: Mount Washington

This is a historic neighborhood, built for a generation of Pittsburgh steelworkers and home to real, blue-collar families for nearly 200 years.

City Guide: Downtown

Location, location, location. Those three essentials for assessing the value of real estate could have been invented with downtown Pittsburgh in mind.

Navigating an Impossibly Packed Weekend

Among the fantastic events taking place, I'll definitely check out the Three Rivers Arts Festival, the Oaks Theater's Moonlit Matinee series, and more. I also would love to, you know, find some time to eat.

2011 Delicious Design: Salt of the Earth

What became one of the most highly anticipated openings the Pittsburgh region has seen in years, Salt of the Earth—which looks and feels as if it were plopped onto Penn Avenue straight from a NYC side street—turned out to be well worth the wait.