Virginia Montanez is a writer, author, essayist, and columnist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a history columnist at Pittsburgh Magazine and the author of Nothing. Everything.
Virginia Montanez is a writer, author, essayist, and columnist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a history columnist at Pittsburgh Magazine and the author of Nothing. Everything.
Montanez was born with profound hearing loss in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [1] She was raised in a Pittsburgh suburb in Westmoreland County where she attended Norwin High School.
In 2005, while employed as the communications director at a Pittsburgh nonprofit, Montanez created and anonymously authored (under the name PittGirl) a blog about Pittsburgh called The Burgh Blog where she became noted for her scathing portrayals of local politicians, particularly then-Pittsburgh-mayor Luke Ravenstahl. [2] In November 2008, she abruptly ended the blog, saying that someone had figured out her identity. [3]
She became an anonymous humor columnist at Pittsburgh Magazine in June of 2009. [4] When Montanez revealed her identity and created a new blog (That’s Church) in August of 2009, she was fired from her position at the nonprofit. [5] [6]
As a blogger, Montanez partnered with the Mario Lemieux Foundation, with support from Pittsburgh-area Microsoft employees, to create Make Room for Kids, a program that installed Xbox consoles in nearly every in-patient room at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, along with providing video games and movies. Montanez shuttered her blog and her magazine column in 2016 saying she wished to focus on writing novels and returning to school for a history degree. [7]
In March 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdowns, Montanez launched a Substack newsletter called Breathing Space where she continues to write (most often with a humorous bent) about the city of Pittsburgh and other passions, including space exploration and travel. In April 2022, she announced that she would be publishing her debut novel Nothing. Everything. in 2023 with Winding Road Stories. [8] In January 2023, she resumed writing for Pittsburgh Magazine, this time as a history columnist. [9]
In January 2023, Montanez launched Pittsburgh Remains to be Seen, a mapping project showing where remnants from long-gone structures can be found throughout the Pittsburgh area. [10]
Joseph Michael Manganiello is an American actor. His professional film career began when he played Flash Thompson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man. His breakout role was as werewolf Alcide Herveaux in five seasons of the HBO series True Blood.
Taylor Allderdice High School is a public high school in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It was established in 1927 and is part of the Pittsburgh Public Schools district. It was named for industrialist and Squirrel Hill resident Taylor Allderdice, who was a member of the city's first school board and president of National Tube Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel.
Jancee Dunn is a journalist, author and former VJ. She is now a contributing editor at O, The Oprah Magazine but is mostly known for her work at Rolling Stone, where she worked from 1989 to 2003.
The Miss Pennsylvania USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Pennsylvania in the Miss USA pageant. It has been previously known as Miss Pennsylvania Universe. This pageant is independently conducted and produced by Proctor Productions based in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was produced by Sanders & Associates, Inc., dba- Pageant Associates based in Buckhannon, West Virginia from 2001 to 2020.
The name of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has a complicated history. Pittsburgh is one of the few U.S. cities or towns to be spelled with an h at the end of a burg suffix, although the spelling Pittsburg was acceptable for many years and was even held as standard by the federal government from 1891 to 1911.
Brooke Magnanti is an American-born naturalised British former research scientist, blogger, and writer, who, until her identity was revealed in November 2009, was known by the pen name Belle de Jour. While completing her doctoral studies, between 2003 and 2004, Magnanti supplemented her income by working as a London call girl known by the working name Taro.
Sharon G. Flake is an American writer of children and young adult literature. She has lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her daughter for many years. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in English.
Lori Jakiela is an American author of memoirs and poetry.
Pittsburgh is home to the first commercial radio station in the United States, KDKA 1020AM; the first community-sponsored television station in the United States, WQED 13; the first "networked" television station and the first station in the country to broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, KDKA 2; and the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Until 2016 Pittsburgh was one of the few mid-sized metropolitan areas in the U.S. with two major daily papers; both the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review have histories of breaking in-depth investigative news stories on a national scale. In 2016, the Tribune-Review moved to an all-digital format. The Post-Gazette moved to publishing five print editions a week in 2018, three print editions a week in 2019, and two print editions a week in 2021. The alternative papers in the region include the Pittsburgh City Paper; Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle; The New People, published weekly by the Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Social Justice; the New Pittsburgh Courier, one of the larger ethnic publications in the region; and Zajedničar, the only Croatian-language newspaper currently published in the United States. The Pitt News, a financially independent student-written and -managed newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh, is closing in on its 100th year of publication. The University of Pittsburgh School of Law also hosts JURIST, the world's only university-based legal news service.
Kathleen Elizabeth George is an American professor and writer best known for her series of crime novels set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She teaches theatre arts at the University of Pittsburgh and fiction writing at the Chatham University Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing.
Gladys Leonore Schmitt was an American writer, editor, and professor.
Savannah Schroll Guz is an American mixed-media artist, art critic, and fiction writer. She is also author of three books of fiction, including the politically conscious fiction anthologies American Soma and In the Aftermath. She is one of 36 contributors to the national art project Her Flag, which celebrates the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Guz was named a West Virginia History Hero at the West Virginia Division of Arts, Culture and History in Charleston, West Virginia, on February 24, 2022.
Virginia Proctor Powell Florence was a trailblazer in both African-American history and the history of librarianship. In 1923 she became the first black woman in the United States to earn a degree in library science. This also made her the second African-American to be formally trained in librarianship, after Edward Christopher Williams.
The Sprout Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to funding various programs designed to increase civic engagement in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Cherrie Ann Mahan was an eight-year-old American girl who disappeared on February 22, 1985, after disembarking a school bus approximately fifty feet from the base of the driveway to her home in rural Winfield Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania. She was declared legally dead in November 1998. Mahan's abduction is strongly believed not to have been committed by a family member.
Frances Hesselbein was an American businesswoman and writer. She served as the CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA, from 1976 to 1990, and the president and CEO of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum, at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership.
Yappin' Yinzers is a line of talking plush dolls with exaggerated stereotypical Pittsburgh mannerisms and speech patterns, a personality type called Yinzer. They are designed to "represent the epitome of Yinzerdom"
Sara G. Innamorato is an American politician who was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2018 and is the Representative for the 21st district, which includes parts of Pittsburgh and the surrounding area. She has since championed progressive causes such new investments into environmental justice communities, increasing education funding, and Housing for All, leading to the historic passage of the Whole Home Repairs legislation in the 2022 budget.
Damon Young is an American writer and editor. He is the co-founder of the website Very Smart Brothas. Young released his first book, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker, in 2019 with HarperCollins.
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