PA Press Club with Jennifer Storm, PA Victim Advocate. Watch more PA Politics and Policy on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.

In April 2003, Jim O’Brien was the first Pittsburgher inducted into the U.S. Basketball Writers Hall of Fame. This book is a celebration of 60th anniversary of a career as a professional sports writer. O’Brien was the founding editor of Street & Smith’s Basketball Yearbook in 1970 and continued to be associated with the magazine […]

When Prohibition hit the Steel City, it created a level of violence and corruption residents had never witnessed. Illegal producers ran stills in kitchens, basements, bathroom tubs, warehouses and even abandoned distilleries. War between gangs of bootleggers resulted in a number of murders and bombings that placed Pittsburgh on the same level as New York […]

In The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who demanded the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. Mocked and scorned by his contemporaries, Lay was unflinching in his opposition to slavery, often performing colorful guerrilla theater to shame […]

PA Press Club with Laura Ellsworth, Republican for Governor Watch more PA Politics and Policy on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.

PA Press Club with Scott Wagner, Republican Candidate for Governor. Watch more PA Politics and Policy on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.

“The Whiskey Rebellion and the Rebirth of Rye” takes readers on a tour of the spirit’s founding, floundering, and current flourishing. Authors Mark Meyer and Meredith Meyer Grelli explore rye whiskey’s revolutionary origins in Western Pennsylvania, the role of Gilded Age robber barons in developing the rye industry and the reemergence of craft distilling in […]

Philadelphia native Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) is recognized as one of the founding figures of American modernism. Initially trained in impressionist landscape painting, he experimented early in his career with compositions inspired by European modernism before developing a linear, hard-edge style now known as Precisionism. Sheeler is best known for his powerful and compelling images of […]

PA Press Club with Paul Mango, Republican for Governor Watch more PA Politics and Policy on cable and the PCN Select Streaming Service.

“Inside My Life Outdoors” is the story of one man’s love affair with Mother Nature. It might or might not help to make you a better hunter or angler, but it will make you laugh in some places and think quietly in others. Mostly it’s about all the things that aren’t supposed to happen out […]