Joann Cantrell

Oct 26, 2023 | pittsburghquarterly.com | Fred Shaw |Alan Paul |Stuart Sheppard |Joann Cantrell

There’s a scene in season one of “the Sopranos” when teen daughter Meadow asks, “Who invented the Mafia?” The question leaves Tony to consider how to respond with a mouthful of mu shu pork. That she then names those five New York City families with ease exemplifies the way La Cosa Nostra has become ingrained in our cultural history. Writer and FBI intelligence analyst Paul N.

Oct 16, 2023 | pittsburghquarterly.com | Alan Paul |Fred Shaw |Stuart Sheppard |Joann Cantrell

The road may go on forever, but it began in my brother’s bedroom on Inverness Avenue, where he handed me a copy of the Allman Brothers Band’s Eat A Peach and told me to listen to it, when I was in seventh grade. I put on some headphones, lay down on the yellow shag carpet, dropped the needle and got swept away by both the music and the gatefold’s psychedelic artwork.

Oct 9, 2023 | pittsburghquarterly.com | Stuart Sheppard |Fred Shaw |Alan Paul |Joann Cantrell

Some historical events seem so fantastical that they sound like myths when retold, while others are so intrinsic to our nature that they could be today’s news, and actually help us understand our contemporaneous existence more deeply. After reading The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis by Brady J. Crytzer, I would argue that to understand Pittsburgh is to understand the Whiskey Rebellion, and to understand the Whiskey Rebellion is to understand America.

Jul 24, 2023 | pittsburghquarterly.com | Alan Paul |Fred Shaw |Joann Cantrell |Jan Elizabeth Watson

The road may go on forever, but it began in my brother’s bedroom on Inverness Avenue, where he handed me a copy of the Allman Brothers Band’s Eat A Peach and told me to listen to it, when I was in seventh grade. I put on some headphones, lay down on the yellow shag carpet, dropped the needle and got swept away by both the music and the gatefold’s psychedelic artwork.