Sentences with phrase «steel town»

The town we live near was a booming steel town back in the 1970s.

In the old steel town of Pittsburgh, Janice DeCarlo of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services recalls the uphill battle of getting other practitioners to bring buyers into her own neighborhood of Friendship.

«From executive producer Eli Roth and based on Brian McGreevy's novel of the same name, Hemlock Grove is a riveting one - hour murder mystery that revolves around the residents of a former Pennsylvania steel town.

In addition to Dongtan, Arup is involved in planning at least four more eco-cities in China, including the revitalization of the old steel town Wanzhuang in Hebei Province between Beijing and the port city of Tianjin.

The former steel town of Corby is ringed by beautiful, picturesque villages, giving the seat a complicated political personality.

On the course his stampede of fans, dubbed Arnie's Army, rallied around their working - class hero, who hailed from a small steel town near Pittsburgh.

Walter Salles and Jose Rivera will direct and adapt, respectively, the story about «two longtime friends from an economically depressed steel town in Pennsylvania whose dreams of escaping to California are dashed when they're implicated in a crime.»

Cooper directs and co-writes this story set in depressed steel town Braddock, Pennsylvania.

-- In June 2008, this small steel town, tucked between the swing states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, was grappling with the local consequences of Sen. Barack Obama's historic victory in locking up the Democratic presidential nomination.

The narrative swings between Braddock, Pa., the struggling steel town where the Baze family lives, and New Jersey hill country, where life is defined by entrenched poverty, drugs, alcohol, bare - knuckle fighting and Degroat.

At a public wake, in the historic steel town where he was raised, Bednarik lay in an extra-long casket.

«I grew up in a dirty little steel town called Steubenville, Ohio.

Born in Engis, Dardenne grew up in the Belgian steel town Seraing.

Mark grew up with his parents and two brothers in the blue - collar steel town of Lackawanna.

Frazier's images — consciously retro in their gelatin silver and photolithographic prints — can not exist apart from a community: her family and neighbors from her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a devastated steel town outside Pittsburgh.

Almost every resident who endorsed the tariffs said they were doubtful of Trump's assertions that they would revive faded steel towns and substantially boost steel employment.

He has watched his Pennsylvania steel town decay into its current state of dilapidated emptiness.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau toured Canadian mills and steel towns last week in an attempt to take credit for influencing Trump.

He was born in Sheffield, the famous steel town.

This Susquehanna River steel town has been hard hit by the recession.

• During college, Revis almost got shot in a drive - by in his hometown of Aliquippa, Pa., an old steel town along the Ohio River north of Pittsburgh.

«Rediscovering Steel Town» (18 mins.)

A day earlier and 10 miles away, a very different conversation unfolded at Sto - Rox High School, nestled in the heart of the once - bustling steel town of McKees Rocks.

In an old steel town just outside Philadelphia, Preston McKnight knew it was time for a change.

LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER A social documentary photographer and video artist, LaToya Ruby Frazier «s family and hometown of Braddock, Pa., a decimated steel town near Pittsburgh, have been central to her work.

A MacArthur genius grant winner and professor of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, LaToya Ruby Frazier is known for her incisive black - and - white photo and film work that documents structural inequalities of small towns across the U.S., including Braddock, Pennsylvania, an industrial steel town ravaged by industrial decline.

His projects include starting a radio station in an abandoned steel town that only plays the sound of an extinct bird, developing a hypnotized human robot army, running an autonomous nomadic art school, and operating a working restaurant that produces a live talk show with its customers.

She creates visual narratives inspired by the experience of growing up caught between a collapsing conservative steel town and the rural escapism of her grandparent's farm in the coal mountains of central PA..

The crumbling landscape of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a once - thriving steel town, forms the backdrop of her images, which make manifest both the environmental and infrastructural decay caused by postindustrial decline and the lives of those who continue — largely by necessity — to live amongst it.

Frazier's best - known body of work, The Notion of Family (2001 - 2014), is an exploration into her family, her hometown, and her own experiences through landscape and portraiture in the deindustrialized steel town of Braddock, PA..

September 3, 2014 • If the GOP is going to try to make inroads with Latinos in swing states, they might take a look at the former steel town of Pueblo, Colo., where Republicans say their pitch is starting to resonate.

He said he would impose steel tariffs to revitalize America's struggling steel towns and has found the legal mechanism to do so.

Meyer's tale reminds us there's so much more below the surface of what we see — more to the smart kid, the jock, the parents who raised them, the good cop and the little steel town.

Nevertheless, the K - 12 school has flourished in the once booming steel town, which has produced such celebrities as the Jackson family entertainers, Karl Malden and Richard Hatcher.

The Dardenne brothers» The Child is a heartbreakingly realistic account of a young couple living in an eastern Belgian steel town.

In this depressed Pennsylvania steel town, Trump's tariffs meet deep skepticism — and almost no one wants to hit Canada

Instead, Trump is playing to his constituency of steel towns in the same way he panders to anti-immigration voters.

An unpretentious old steel town - cum - developing Northern powerhouse, Sheffield becomes a cultural hub for six days each year.

As in many of China's steel towns, the workers were older and lacked skills to compete for other jobs.

Local Democratic leaders in this old steel town have struggled to deal with their views on race and integrate their operations with the many minorities flooding the party in support of Barack Obama.

The groups have started running a television, print and online ad campaign in nine states and the District of Columbia that features Braddock, Pa., Mayor John Fetterman, who describes how the former steel town has been decimated by job losses and could recover with increased development of components for alternative energy technologies.

I play someone named Olivia and it's all set in this steel town in Pennsylvania.

And even when the writing is unexceptional, Cooper maintains a sympathetic eye for those hardscrabble lives lived amid the peeling paint, rusting metal and faded dreams of the steel town's post-industrial decay.

Part Deer Hunter, part Winter's Bone, Scott Cooper's new film casts a haunted image of ugliness scarring natural beauty, whether it's the steel town petering out and leaving a rusted carcass in a Pennsylvania valley, or the human nastiness up in the hills on the Jersey border.

Willem Dafoe delivers a finely drawn performance as a small town bookie in Out of the Furnace, Scott Cooper's dark and gritty drama set in a struggling blue - collar Pennsylvania steel town.

by Walter Chaw Seedy in that ineffable Eighties way, Michael Chapman's All the Right Moves is a star vehicle for a young Tom Cruise, following up his leading role in Risky Business with what is essentially a feature - length Steve Earle song about a downtrodden Pennsylvania steel town.

Viola Davis («The Help,» «Doubt») and Maggie Gyllenhaal recently wrapped filming of the educational drama «Steel Town» on -LSB-...]

Set in a depressed Pennsylvania steel town, Scott Cooper's (Crazy Heart) blue - collar thriller is intimately lensed but never more than predictable in its depiction of fraternal ties and male power struggles.

From hands - on circuitry projects for kindergartners to «maker spaces» inside local museums, this former steel town has quietly emerged as a national model for supporting fresh approaches to technology - infused education, especially for young children.

Carla Jean Whitley writes from Birmingham, Alabama, a steel town that has adapted to include new industries.