As 2025 draws to a close, Pittsburgh City Paper’s editorial staff members select their favorite stories from the year. Relive staff writer Rachel Wilkinson’s 2025 highlights below: Got rats? The dogs ...

A massive model train show, a day of public domain films, a laser tribute to Stranger Things, and other great events in Pittsburgh this week.

During the cold, gray months of winter, get up get out, and enjoy some entertainment in Pittsburgh with events like Piratefest, the Black History Month Art Crawl, Father John Misty with Destroyer at ...

Christian radio stations are beginning to dominate the Pittsburgh FM scene, as scans are increasingly populated with praise music, broadcast masses and sermons, and religious talk radio.

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Every year, I love looking back at all the stellar work the editorial team at Pittsburgh City Paper has created, and then arguing with myself about which ones were the best. Each member of this staff ...

Head brewer Matt Moninger describes his encounter with a spirit at Church Brew Works. Credit: CP Photo: Mars Johnson / CP Illustration: Jeff Schreckengost Fall has arrived, and that means it’s spooky ...

You have probably noticed the T-shirts emblazoned with the word “yinz” being sold all over the city. Yes, it’s the Pittsburgh way to say “you all.” But please don’t start saying it. Please don’t say ...

The Steel City’s accent is a thing to behold. Words like “iron” aren’t pronounced “eye-urn” but instead like “arn.” The word “steel” is spoken like the word “still,” and sometimes Pittsburgh actually ...

One of the great pleasures of my work — as both a sex writer and a sex worker — has been the close proximity I’ve been granted to other peoples’ desires, things that I would have never thought to ...

Out of all of Pittsburgh’s reportedly haunted sites, the National Aviary might be the least known. One of my favorite places in the city, the Aviary is home to more than 500 birds representing 150 ...

The president pretty much yelled at us with his speech to the nation on the state of the economy. Trump talked no new proposals apart from what he called a $1,776 “warrior dividend” that will go to ...