They say you can't
break news in a quarterly magazine.Well,
I’d
like to give you two little news flashes that I suspect you
haven’t read anywhere else.
The first has to do
with a new partnership we have with the Pittsburgh Cultural
Trust. I’m pleased to
announce that we’ll be publishing the quarterly
calendar of events for the Cultural District. Starting
with this issue, you’ll find out what’s going on
in one
of America’s best cultural districts in the pages of
Pittsburgh Quarterly. This includes the events of the
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Ballet
Theatre, Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Public Theater,
Civic Light Opera, PNC Broadway Series, Pittsburgh
Dance Council, Trust Presents and the openings and
gallery crawls in the Cultural District. I hope you’ll
consider it to be another reason to keep PQ on your
bedside or coffee table for the next three months.
The second
news flash concerns magazines in this
region, their growing numbers and quality.
Each year, the Press
Club ofWestern Pennsylvania
holds the Golden Quill Awards, in which out-of-town
journalists judge entries from the 29 counties of
Western Pennsylvania. The awards evening was held
May 12, just after we went to press. It’s the Academy
Awards of local journalism (if such total opposites can
be compared). The finalists are announced and then
the winner. There are no teary “You really like me!”
speeches, but for the journalism community here it’s
a big deal.
Perhaps you’ve
noticed the proliferation of magazines inWestern Pennsylvania
in the past several
years—there are well over 30 of them now. In this
year’s Golden Quills, these magazines had 30 finalists
in 13 categories. Pittsburgh Quarterly led the field with
13 of those finalists.
Pittsburgh Quarterly
is what it is because of the
writers, photographers and illustrators whose work
appears in these pages. As a magazine and as a region,
we’re fortunate to have them. As there’s always an
element of luck in life and awards, some of our best
writers didn’t become finalists in this year’s Quills.
To see a list of the ones who did, click here.
Thanks for reading
Pittsburgh Quarterly, and have a
great summer.
Douglas Heuck
Editor/Publisher |
