In the 1979 cult classic The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, a down-on-their-luck basketball team called the Pittsburgh Pythons is desperate for a change of fortune. They lose constantly, despite being led by the legendary Julius “Dr. J” Erving, and in a strange twist they turn to an astrologer (Stockard Channing) for help…
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The stories we tell ourselves about the free market shatter in a Cleveland hospital.
Stan Thangaraj on the city and the communities he loves, in an ocean of tragedy.
The pillars that once divided Barrio Logan are now the foundation that shapes this rich Chicanx landscape.
Mindfulness can help one develop a more robustly intersectional politics, argues historian Daniel Wortel-London.
Georgia State’s Kell Hall was a mystifying yet charmingly awful symbol of the university’s long ramp from the swamps to the stars.
Goldberger’s book unintentionally reveals that baseball is a representation of America — in its everyday realities of discrimination, exclusion, and inequality.
By adopting a fine-grained, street-level perspective, we can see how everyday individuals have helped to shape the history of our city, says historian Marni Davis.