It was Brian Lampkin who initially opened Rust Belt Books in Allentown in 1996. Rust Belt’s current owner – Kristi Meal – started working at the book shop in 1998, and eventually took it over in 2004.

But that's not all. A 500-piece jigsaw puzzle commemorating the landmark 1990 Megadeth release — part of Zee Productions' "Rock Saws" series — is due out around the same time. Adjacent albums Peace ...

It’s been a couple of years since Rust Belt Books first started thinking about picking up from Allen Street in order to plant roots on Grant Street. Since that time, shop owner Kristi Meal has done a ...

James Hetfield has had quite the quarantine. He put his craftsman skills to the test and made two coffee tables in his garage in Colorado, which are currently being raffled off until the end of the ...

A book about rust? Sounds about as appealing as one about drying paint. Rust, journalist Jonathan Waldman admits, “is just not sexy.” People willing to tune in the high drama of the Weather Channel, ...

Top o’ the morning to you, Mr. Mustaine. I say “mister” because I’m also a taekwondo student. So I bow in your general direction, sir. I’ve got two black belts, in karate and taekwondo. I just started ...

She and Piiparinen were keen to assemble a Cleveland snapshot that felt more authentic to them: No mindless boosterism or "ruins porn," that artistic fetish for fallen-down manufacturing towns. "Rust ...