The NRA’s family division – surely you knew there was one? – has started updating classic fairy tales so that the real-world fears they were traditionally supposed to educate children about are magically all solved…
There’s a new fad in Pittsburgh, though if you’re old enough to know what a rotary phone is, you just might know what it is already. Called ‘The Theatre’, it was thought to have died…
The discovery of gravitational waves – the ripples in space-time long predicted by Einstein – is causing great excitement in the physics community and beyond, as it could herald a new golden age of punning….
The ultimate authority on the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, is to update the definition of the word ‘hero’ as part of an ongoing effort to reflect the contemporary use of words. The change…
Keen observer of human nature Malcolm Gladwell has become a household name pointing out the harbringers of irrevocable changes in our society. When asked about recent horrific incidents involving gun violence, he says it should…
(Imperial, PA) Local screenwriter Sean Tierney knows how to write a screenplay and is excited to have finally finished his first feature-length script after working on it for the past six years. He initially thought his…
The literary world is ablaze after Harper Lee’s new novel, ‘Go Set A Watchman’, shocked her many fans with its portrayal of Atticus Finch as a cranky old racist. This was especially the case for…
New York, New York – Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the nation’s largest retail bookseller, today announced that it is rereleasing a subset of its popular Barnes & Noble Classics under its new ‘Fifty…
Young entrepreneur Dimitri Pankov from Squirrel Hill knew from his earliest years that his dream was to one day own his own chain of highly lucrative bookstores. “When I was twelve and still in St. Petersburg,…