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Kamin Science Center to unveil climate change exhibit
The Kamin Science Center is reopening its doors following the NFL Draft and unveiling its first exhibit as part of the Rapid Science Engagement Initiative, designed to get people talking about science topics that tend to be considered more controversial. On Saturday, guests will get their first look at the...
TV Talk: WTAE’s Sheldon Ingram exits TV news to pursue acting
Back in 2022 when Channel 4 reporter Sheldon Ingram guest starred as the deputy mayor of New York on NBC’s “Law Order: SVU,” we should have guessed this day would come. Ingram will put down his microphone and reporter’s notebook and retire from WTAE after his May 29 broadcast to...
Foster the People to play Citizens Live at the Wylie in October
Highly anticipated new venue Citizens Live at the Wylie added another show to its initial slate of events with “Pumped Up Kicks” artist Foster the People, Live Nation announced on Wednesday. The group will make the Pittsburgh stop on their Good Mourning Sunshine Tour on Oct. 4, slotting in just...
Club Cafe launches GoFundMe after costly repairs, unexpected closures
Club Cafe launched a GoFundMe campaign Tuesday to preserve the historic music venue. Owner Danielle Mashuda said donations will help recoup major repair costs incurred over the past year. The venue on Pittsburgh’s South Side required HVAC and freezer repairs and fixes for Club Cafe’s signature neon sign, which was...
TV Q&A: When will KDKA-TV’s Jessica Guay return?
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Saturday Tribune-Review. Q: Whatever happened to Jessica Guay? She went out on maternity leave some time ago and has not returned. Any news? — Dominic, via email Rob:...
TV Talk: FCC targets ABC after another Kimmel joke
Here we go again. Seven months after Disney-owned ABC pulled “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air because of a joke about right-wing reactions to the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the Federal Communications Commission is now targeting ABC on the heels of another Kimmel joke. The FCC directed Disney...
It’s National Superhero Day — let’s not take them seriously at allVideo
It’s National Superhero Day, just in case you’re not yet tired of the constant avalanche of comic-book properties cascading down the mountain of American entertainment. Even as many superhero movies — looking at you, Marvel — have begun to get a bit formulaic in their approach, it’s important to remember...
Country/pop star LeAnn Rimes to perform as part of Palace Theatre’s centennial galaVideo
Country/pop star LeAnn Rimes will perform a pair of concerts in Greensburg in September, one for Palace Theatre donors and another open to the public. A two-time Grammy Award winner and the youngest solo artist to win a Grammy, Rimes will be in Greensburg for the Palace Theatre’s centennial gala...
Man pleads guilty to plotting attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, Austrian media report
WIENER NEUSTADT, Austria — A man accused of pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and plotting to attack one of superstar singer Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna nearly two years ago pleaded guilty as his trial began on Tuesday, his lawyer said. The plot was thwarted, but Austrian authorities...
TV Talk: Summer streaming/cable TV options aboundVideo
It’s not officially summer in TV land until the end of the 2025-26 TV season arrives later this month, but that won’t stop streaming services and cable outlets from beginning their rollout of new scripted shows for the warmest months of the year, including: “Lord of the Flies” (May 4,...
HBO drops teaser trailer for 3rd season of ‘House of the Dragon’Video
The trailer for the upcoming third season of HBO’s “House of the Dragon” ends with a sound very similar to one in trailers for the most recent round of Hollywood “Godzilla” movies. This is only...
The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis return sharper, freer on ‘Deface the Currency’ ahead of Pittsburgh showVideo
It’s been 10 years since the Messthetics first formed, with the rhythm section of influential post-hardcore band Fugazi (bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty) joined by versatile guitarist Anthony Pirog to create several albums fusing punk and jazz. Saxophonist/composer James Brandon Lewis, who had previously worked with Pirog, had...
Nedra Talley Ross, last surviving member of the 1960s bee-hived pop band the Ronettes, dies
NEW YORK — Nedra Talley Ross, the last surviving member of the 1960s bee-hived pop band the Ronettes, who sang the enduring hits “Be My Baby,” “Baby I Love You” and “Walking in the Rain” alongside her cousins, has died. She was 80. Ross died at home Sunday, according to...
Summer movie preview: Nolan, Spider-Man and ‘Toy Story’ light up the cinemas
The movies always feel bigger in the summer. The budgets. The ambition. The names. The stakes. This summer, Hollywood has many of the regulars on the lineup: “Spider-Man,” “Minions,” “Star Wars” and “Toy Story.” But the most eagerly anticipated is not a superhero, toy, or franchise: It’s a 3,000-year-old epic...
Pittsburgh local music spotlight: Ruth E. ToothlessVideo
Pittsburgh screamo band Ruth E. Toothless will celebrate the release of a split EP with a May 1 show at Hippo House, an underground basement venue, on the North Side. “More Like a Warm Morgue,” a split release with The Hague from Portland, Oregon, has been streaming since December but...
Celebrate August Wilson’s birthday with some of his best-written scenesVideo
Today marks what would have been August Wilson’s 81st birthday. Born Frederick August Kittel on April 27, 1945, in Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood, he was the son of Daisy Wilson, an African-American cleaning woman, and Frederick Kittel, a German immigrant and baker who was mostly absent from Wilson’s life. Over...
TV Talk: NFL Draft TV coverage focuses on players over host city
While Pittsburgh may have gotten itself wound up in knots about reddin’ up for the NFL Draft, TV coverage was less about Pittsburgh and more about the players vying to land their initial NFL gigs. That’s to be expected. To the NFL and most of the NFL Draft audience, the...
‘Michael’ moonwalks to $97 million opening, shattering record for music biopics
NEW YORK — “Michael,” the big-budget Michael Jackson spectacle, shrugged off bad reviews and a troubled production to launch with $97 million in U.S. and Canada theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday, shattering a record debut for music biopics. A highly authorized portrayal of the King of Pop, co-produced by...
Review: Kane Brown turns the closing of the NFL Draft into a triumphant party
At just after 7 p.m. Saturday, the event that Pittsburgh spent years anticipating came to an end when the final pick of the 2026 NFL Draft was announced. Three days of excitement, fun and Pittsburgh pride were in the books as the torch — or, rather, football — was passed...
Review: Bret Michaels and Wiz Khalifa show their city some love at the 2nd night of the NFL Draft
As Bret Michaels said onstage Friday evening, the NFL Draft brings all football fans together as one big family. But night two of the three-day event opened with some decidedly Pittsburgh flavor, with a performance from hometown heroes Bret Michaels and Wiz Khalifa. Right on time at 5:15 p.m. Friday,...
Michael Tilson Thomas, renowned conductor and composer, dies at 81
Michael Tilson Thomas, a leading American conductor for a half-century who headed orchestras in Buffalo, Miami, London and San Francisco while also composing, died Wednesday. He was 81. Tilson Thomas had surgery for a brain tumor in 2021 and resumed his career, then said in February 2025 the tumor had...
Here are 5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: April 24-26
Most Pittsburghers will fall into one of two camps this weekend: those excited to attend the NFL Draft and those on “snowstorm protocol,” staying home with lots of snacks. But never fear — there is a happy medium. Here are some events to check out if you don’t want to...
Warner Bros. shareholders approve Paramount’s $81 billion takeover of the Hollywood giant
NEW YORK — An $81 billion Warner-Paramount mega merger has received shareholders’ stamp of approval, propelling a deal that could vastly reshape Hollywood and the wider media landscape closer to the finish line. Per a preliminary vote count on Thursday, the overwhelming majority of Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders voted in...
Rapper Nelly headlines Draft Opening Night Party with concert at Plaza at North Shore
After years of preparation, it’s finally time for the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh. As spectators poured into the city Wednesday night, the best destination to get hyped up was The Plaza at North Shore, where the official Opening Night Party packed the new venue. Headlining the celebration was rapper Nelly,...
TV Talk: Locations trail debuts, locally filmed thriller streams; ‘The Pitt’ ratesVideo
Just in time for all the visitors coming to town for this week’s NFL Draft, the Pittsburgh Film Office launched a film locations way finder on an app and a Pittsburgh filmmaking timeline display in Downtown Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Film Trails App offers a digital guide to where various movies...
