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A group of teens ressed as their favorite fictional characters for participating in PhenomeCON.

Celebrate Your Fandom at PhenomeCON!

Are you itching to dress up as your favorite character? Do you want to show off your Smash Bros skills or make new friends to discuss your latest fanfiction and fanart? Then check out PhenomeCON– Pittsburgh’s free, city-wide, teens-only fandom convention!


A Dungeons & Dragons Primer

How do you slay an Owlbear? What is an Owlbear? If you’ve heard of Dungeons & Dragons, but never played, it, you might find yourself asking these questions. Have no fear. I’m here to help with a quick primer on D&D. An Owlbear is exactly what it sounds like, by the way, and it’s far from the weirdest creature a player might encounter.



Four teens in various costumes attending the annual Teenspace PhenomeCON event at CLP - Main.

PhenomeCON

There are currently no PhenomeCON events scheduled. Keep an eye on the Library’s Events Calendar for future programs. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s PhenomeCON is a free, city-wide teens only fandom … Continued


Lovecraft!

I find that readers either like HP Lovecraft or hate him, or have never heard of him before.  Not many are ambivalent.  The man wrote wonderfully creepy and demented books, … Continued


Chaotic Good

“Chaotic Good” tackles the very real issue of internet trolling and how dangerously far it can go.


Cover art of The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Epic Fantasy: The Ancestor of Fantasy

Epic Fantasy: the genre that promises quests, long books, probably long series, and possibly the death of the author before they are finished writing.  That last one is annoying, but … Continued


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