CyberConXion: Reinventing the arcade

By: Shannon Farr

Sitting at a cybercafe with his laptop on a Saturday night, William Breslove, 52, a professor at Point Park University, momentarily looks away from his work to see his son gaming with his peers in front of 40 Local Area Network (LAN) machines.
“This is more than just a modern arcade on steroids,” Breslove [...]

Ravenstahl plans to walk the South Side

By: Jodi Weigand

Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl soon will be out with the South Side bar crowd.
He’ll be getting his fill of the chaos residents say ensues each weekend as intoxicated bar patrons turn East Carson Street into a Pittsburgh version of New Orleans’ busiest party street.
“What’s happening is that we have become, either by default [...]

Finding some quiet time at the Mattress Factory

 By: Margie Franceschi

Thin is no longer in: Model agencies search for healthy bodies

By: Jodi Weigand and Shannon Farr

After strutting down a runway in 2002, model Michele Lowe received a callback from one of the biggest modeling agencies in the world, which had a strange request.
“At that time the trend was the big eyebrows,” Lowe, 23, of North Hills, said.  “So they told me to grow my eyebrows [...]

Popularity of organic clothing soaring

By: Elizabeth Waickman

Bridgette Baux wears organic underwear.
The sales associate at The E-House Company in South Side chooses “green” products whenever she shops – for food, clothing, household products, even toilet paper and underwear.
“So many Americans are uneducated about organics,” said Baux, 27, of Polish Hill. “If you want to be healthy, you have to be [...]

Eating on the run

By: Heather Abernethy

Planning to eat at Finnigan’s Wake on a recent Tuesday night, Albert DiPietro took a six-mile detour from the North Side restaurant’s front door to his table.
He’s among some 50 people who gather at a Pittsburgh area restaurant each week to first run and then sit down for dinner. The group, People Who [...]

Pets get ‘bling’ treatment at high–end resorts

By: Elizabeth Waickman

Gracie splashes and relaxes in the heated Jacuzzi, while Tyler enjoys a massage nearby and eats hand-fed cookies. 
Both are borders at Cozy Inn Pet Resort in Monroeville: Gracie, a black Labrador retriever, has come in for hydrotherapy after surgery, and Tyler, a golden Labrador retriever, needed a place to stay while his owners [...]

Knitting hobby attracting more men and younger devotees

By: Elizabeth Waickman

If it had not been for knitting, Steven Gailey might have never met his wife.
Gailey, a 29-year-old Salvation Army employee and part-time knitting teacher, was a volunteer responder to the Shanksville, Pa., crash site after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. While taking a break from feeding volunteers, Gailey picked up his knitting [...]

Female fans flocking to hockey games

By: Brendan Purves and Daveen Rae Kurutz

She might squee like a hockey fangirl when Marc-Andre Fleury skates onto the ice, but Kendra Anick follows the sport for more than the pretty faces.
“Yeah, Marc-Andre’s cute, but there’s more to it than that,” said Anick, 14, of Avalon.  “It gets pretty intense out there on the ice, [...]

Nursing shortage affects schools, hospitals

By: Margie Franceschi

Out of 800 applicants, junior Amanda Thomas was one of just five students accepted into her class at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Nursing.
And yet she finds it’s still sometimes hard to get all the attention she needs.
“Sometimes it’s frustrating because you work so hard to get in and you want to [...]

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