This spring, there is a brief and spectacular sight to see right in the urban areas of Pittsburgh. The Western Pennsylvania ...

The weather in Pittsburgh was rather bleak during March 1896. Snow and sub-freezing temperatures were the norm. Nicer weather ...

There’s a delicious sense of duality that runs through the lead characters in Bill Gaythwaite’s debut story collection, A ...

The values of the organization are set at the top. The entire organization looks up to see what the CEO is doing—not what he ...

We asked Pittsburgh leaders to give their prescriptions for Mayor Corey O’Connor on how to build a bright future for ...

Jean Jacques Audubon was born in 1785 to a naval officer and a maid in what became Haiti. Raised in his father’s native France, he came of age interested in fencing, music, dance, riding, and, ...

My mother died in late November at the age of 95. She was the last surviving member of her Irish American Catholic family. Her passing closed the century-long story of a Pittsburgh archetype, once ...

Editor’s note: The Pittsburgh Quarterly team has interviewed many of the most interesting and noteworthy people in our “city-state of Pittsburgh” as my old editor and friend John Craig used to call ...

Editor’s Note: This article is based on the upcoming book published by Lyons Press: “From Swampoodle to Mellon Bank CEO; An Irish American’s Journey, the Autobiography of Martin G. McGuinn Jr.” When I ...

We tend to view “bohemia” through a hagiographic lens, but its inception, as depicted by the French writer Henri Murger in a series of vignettes entitled Scenes of Bohemian Life (1851), was hardly ...