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Photographing Mid-Century Detroit
This riveting father-son collaboration is at the Library of Michigan in Lansing closes tomorrow.
Reclaiming Pennsylvania’s Religious Anarchy
As I reflect on Pennsylvania today, however, I must conclude that this commonwealth in which I reside has gotten much too far away from its origins as a sanctuary for the oppressed.
A Sunday Resident
By Taylor Kovach I never watch sports teams, But the Lions were in the playoffs, [...]
The Elements of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is one city made of hundreds of distinct enclaves. Variation is richness, diversity is beauty. - A photo essay by Karen Lillis.
Cleveland in the Kremlin
It should be of some interest—perhaps not only in a sentimental sense—that the lands that birthed so many of the drivers of neoliberalism and contemporary fascism were also the birthplace of the left-wing movements like the founders of the Communist Party of the United States of America.
Below the Renaissance Towers
A poem by Cal Freeman.
Jan Beatty – Poet. Madwoman. Ally.
Write the poem you’re afraid to write. That’s the mantra-like advice Jan Beatty has been prescribing to budding poets of all stripes for over three decades, as the now-retired professor has seemingly had a guiding hand in the education of every writer in Pittsburgh.
To Catch a Craw
While scientifically correct, few West Virginians call them crayfish. Unless you’ve got a PhD, calling them crayfish around here marks you as someone out of place.
OPEN
A poem by Jen Frantz.
Pittsburgh’s Thriving Indigenous Legacy
Native culture is not static — it’s a living, evolving part of everyday life for Pittsburgh’s “urban Natives.”
Shaft in Cleveland
Tidyman may have taken a dim view of his hometown (an anonymous former co-worker said, “He talked about Cleveland like it was a birth defect”), but even he could appreciate its dramatic possibilities.

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