By: Justin Stewart Oakland can be a busy area during week day afternoons and weekends. While there are no shortage of restaurants, museums, college campuses, and shopping venues, there is only one comic book store: Phantom of the Attic. Located on the 2nd floor of 411 South Craig Street, the comic book specialty chain has…
By: Michelangelo Pellis At first glance when you walk by it on Forbes Avenue, Café Momentum may seem like any other Downtown eatery. It’s not. “Café Momentum is an award-winning culinary facility,” states the newsletter found on the company’s website (No Café Momentum staff were able to give a quote for this article). “We aim…
By: Cassandra Harris Around 12 a.m. Monday, January 28, in the Chatham Building in a twelfth-floor apartment, 20-year-old Sandamini Sinley, Director of Operations for Pioneer Records and third-year broadcasting student, decided to take a nap. Little did she know that she would wake up with folded contacts, a shattered window and a bullet underneath her…
By: Caitlyn Scott If you’d asked Kelly Sanders in 2016 what she would have envisioned herself doing in the next seven years, she probably wouldn’t have expected to be co-owner of a Pittsburgh-based gift shop. Upon a chance meeting, Sanders would soon take her passion for art and expand it on a hyper-local scale, giving…
By: Luke Mongelli Pastor Brian Evans began his sermon on a cold mid-January morning the same way as he did hundreds of others: with an anecdote from his own life that would pull his congregation towards a deeper connection with the message of his church and the word of God. The 42-year-old New Kensington native has been…
By Virginia Garner From the age of two, Melina Kennelly spent her childhood days in a Carnegie dance studio learning strict ballet technique; but now she’s overcoming conforming to rigid boundaries and letting herself go in music. As the audience settled in at the Mr. Roboto Project in Friendship after being in the frigid January…
