Our city (Covington, Ky.) is actually peddling AI slop neighborhood posters for $20 each. What a wasted opportunity considering the number of talented & creative people living here.

Looks like Pittsburgh Magazine hasn't been reading the latest histories about the city's Negro Leagues ballparks. If they had, they'd know that the Hill District's Central Amusement Park, not Greenlee Field, was the nation's first Black-owned professional sports stadium.

Kudos to Lucky's owner Nancy Pribich for not selling out to the developer with big talk who turned the historic Federal Cold Storage Co. building (Wholey's Fish) into rubble & then what may be Pittsburgh's most expensive surface parking lot.

Is this a statement about current events?

This museum could have used an editor …

My source insisted that he take my picture while holding the Bowie knife. What was I going to do, decline?

I visited the site where 6 generations of “Veronica’s” family lived in Pittsburgh’s East End. All that’s left of the 2.5-story home is some demolition debris. I’ll be picking up Veronica’s story next month. Read the first part here: nextpittsburgh.com/housing/tang...

I'm spending some time in very old urban lagering vaults. This morning I descended into the basement of a former brewery building where I photographed lagering vaults & tunnels running beneath streets connecting the long-demolished complex. I even got a shot of a long-flooded lower level.

Not the Mall.

I’ve heard of Walt Whitman High School …

Thanks to this post, I now know there's a "conservative weather station." I jumped on over & the first ad I saw was for Pulte Homes. Keep moving along. No corruption to see here, folks.

I suppose this is a hoax, too.

Some politicians will do anything to get their pictures taken.

I even met with Marc Elrich (when he was on county council) for an hour back in 2016 to discuss the racist ghouls at the Silver Spring Historical Society. What a wasted effort.

Why did Montgomery County (Md.) Executive Marc Elrich attend this event celebrating the whitewashed history of a sundown suburb's long-segregated railroad station? For background, see ncph.org/history-at-w... 🗃️

Just for shits-n-giggles, I uploaded the bark spud photo to Google. Here's the brilliant reply I received.

I was really disappointed to learn that a NYT story about SpudCell wasn't about bark spuds.

How is your day going? If it’s half as good as these two, you’re doing great.

Has Newport, Kentucky’s, Brass Ass had its last T&A show? Reports are circulating that the historic club, with past mob ties & Larry Flynt ownership, has closed. If officials didn’t impose a morals test on historic landmark designations, this site would have been landmarked long ago. 🗃️

My first hands-on experience with heirs' property & gentrification unfolded 15 years ago in Decatur, Ga. I've since researched them in Maryland, DC, and Pa. I have a new story coming out next week that takes a deep dive into heirs' property & how it cuts across urban/suburban/rural & race lines.

Isn’t the US Capitol a great monument? I wonder what distinguishes the folks who desecrated it Jan. 6, 2021, from the folks allegedly vandalizing the Reflecting Pool?

What a great name for a heroic villain: Charles “Leather Britches” Smith. New Orleans Times-Picayune, Sept. 26, 1912.

It’s just not the same. The building that once housed an 1890s-1906 poolroom (think horse racing casino) is now a popular bar/restaurant with horse racing playing on TV.

A Cincinnati History Museum exhibit designer has a twisted sense of humor. Can you spot it?

Timely.

We have the absolute coolest cat, Crews. Turn up the volume and wait for the delivery.

Make a will. Don't let your intergenerational wealth become Exhibit F4.

Posted as an appreciation for copy editors.

While researching my Pittsburgh City Paper toasted garbage story, I encountered a curious research niche in the field of geography: smellscapes. It got me thinking: What are the smellscapes in NKY and Cincinnati? Where would our noses take us on a "smellwalk" or bike ride through city neighborhoods?

Pittsburgh's Hill District barbershops are a lot like Northern Kentucky gambling joints: Interviews/research about the most unrelated topics possible (housing, nuns, bars and restaurants) frequently end up in a Hill District barbershop. It happened again today.