4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1566+ words) PITTSBURGH — We have had a pretty crummy summer in Western Pennsylvania this year. If the intense heat wasn’t unbearable enough, we also our fair share of drenching thunderstorms and nearly 30 tornadoes. Yet it’s still hard to believe fall is almost…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (719+ words) Undercaffeinated visitors to the Minnesota State Fair will find no shortage of cheap drip coffee, but the Fairgrounds have long offered far too few options for fairgoers seeking more creative coffee and espresso drinks. Slowly but surely, that’s changing. In…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (429+ words) It’s practically impossible to turn up your nose at boiled sweet corn, juicy tomato slices and salted, grilled chicken slathered in barbecue sauce. These are all pure, fleeting pleasures to soak up, fully, while they’re here. To squeeze even more…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1024+ words) But when I see ads for sneakers and computers and pencils and backpacks in June — before I’ve even unearthed my flip-flops from the back of the closet — I want to bury my head in the proverbial sand. Alas, dear reader,…...