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Unbreakable: Glass in the Rust Belt

By |March 29, 2023|Features|

What’s left of domestic glass manufacturing in the U.S. remains concentrated in the Rust Belt–eight of the industry’s top ten employers are in Pennsylvania, New York, and the Midwest. But studio glassblowing is adding relevance to a material long forgotten by many communities shaped by it. Today, the Rust Belt is home to three of the United States’ top five hubs for glass studios.

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Dreaming at the Mattress Factory

By |March 1, 2023|Features, Pittsburgh|

Given that the Mattress Factory once made literal mattresses, the place where dreams most often form in our minds, it feels fitting that it’s now a site for collective dreaming.

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The New Stewards of Skateboarding

By |February 22, 2023|Features|

People like Sie and Scar and Dani and Frances are the future of skateboarding; they are part of a major sea change that will not only shift the demographics of skateboarding, it will also fundamentally alter its ethos. These are the new stewards of skateboarding.

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Hindsight and Regulation in East Palestine, Ohio

By |February 20, 2023|Features|

In the aftermath of the derailment, which released toxic chemicals into the streams and air around East Palestine, many are wondering how the country’s regulations around rail traffic could have allowed a train with 20 cars of hazardous material not to be considered a “high hazard.”

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Bow Before the Butter Cow

By |February 13, 2023|Features|

While visiting the cow in person, the level of engagement between fellow viewers and the cow was high... people stayed for much longer than the average person stares at a Rothko painting in a museum.

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Exiles Living in a Church

By |February 1, 2023|Features|

It certainly isn’t cool, or edgy, or funny–the things people say about what it must be like to live in a church. It’s relentless.

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