Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Every aspiring novelist who goes by the book follows that time-worn advice, "Write what you know." So, it seems, do the creators of television series. These people work in the...

Rock and Roll. Rolling Rock. Rock Bass. Rock of Ages. Rock Candy. Rocky Balboa. After scrambling, slipping, scraping, stumbling, spraining and stubbing my way through jagged gray-green quartzite shards ranging...

The American Society of Interior Designers sounds like a stuffy, la-de-dah group. Don't you envision perfectly coiffed women and Savile Row-tailored men quietly discussing the wood tones of a Biedermeier...

We were supposed to hike lily-bedecked valleys and rocky ridgetops with Earl Shaffer, but he never showed. A resident of York Springs, just a few miles from where we started...

If this Civil War shrine is Oz for wayfarers on the Appalachian Trail, and it is, then Jean Cashin must be Glenda. As hikers charge across the northern Virginia ridges...

Sodium receives so much bad press that people often forget it's an essential nutrient. In partnership with potassium, sodium regulates the body's fluid balance by controlling the flow of water...

When should a person consider consulting with a registered dietitian? You should consider it whenever you need help in changing your eating habits. This may be because you want to...

Katharine Hepburn By Barbara Leaming Crown, 549 pages, $27.50 Most star biographies are churned out like popcorn and forgotten quickly. This year, however, is happily different. First there was Barry...

How many times have you opened a can of tomato paste, measured out a tablespoon or two and then thrown away the rest of the can three weeks later? No...

The right way to eat some tricky foods: Pasta: Ribbon or string pastas are twirled, a few strands at a time, on the fork into neat bite-size bundles. Bracing the...