As 2024 draws to a close, Pittsburgh City Paper‘s editorial staff members select their favorite stories from the year. Relive A&E editor Amanda Waltz’s 2024 highlights below:
Frownie Brownie is the Pittsburgh icon we need and deserve // Aug. 14, 2024
Smiley Cookies fear him, other brownies want to be him. Paid tribute to a Pittsburgh icon with a story about the Kings Family Restaurant Frownie Brownie. The response was heartwarming, with readers sharing their Frownie memories in social media comments.
What the hell is happening with the 2024 Regatta and why is a guy named Giuseppe involved? // July 25, 2024
What started as an investigation into two dubious-looking Three Rivers Regatta websites resulted in learning that the popular event, which hasn’t happened since 2018, would return. Still no word about Giuseppe, though. Some mysteries were never meant to be solved.
Under mounting allegations of sexual misconduct, Pittsburgh’s Anti-Flag has become a disappearing act // March 29, 2024
In July 2023, music fans and the Pittsburgh punk community were shocked when Anti-Flag suddenly broke up and all but vanished (from the internet, at least) over sexual misconduct allegations related to member Justin “Sane” Geever. Cut to nearly a year later, and we have a damning amended lawsuit, dozens of accusers, and Geever allegedly fleeing the country.
How do you fence a truckload of Jaromír Jágr bobbleheads? We asked the FBI // March 18, 2024
I called the FBI about bobbleheads and all I got was a bunch of interesting facts about cargo theft.
Pittsburgh says goodbye to the Penn Avenue “butthole window” // Feb. 29, 2024
Pour one out and blast Sarah McLachlan’s “I Will Remember You,” because Pittsburgh lost a real one. Farewell, butthole window, we hardly knew ye. May flights of bidets sing thee to thy rest.
This article appears in Dec 18-24, 2024.
