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Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to reopen galleries in June
After being closed for more than a year because of the pandemic, the galleries and visual arts spaces of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust will reopen on June 4. The first installation, “We Are The Global Majority,” will appear in the Space Gallery on Liberty Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh. It will...
Giant Eagle’s GetGo opens market at PPG Paints Arena
A GetGo Cafe and Market opened inside PPG Paints Arena on Wednesday. “We are extremely excited to have a GetGo inside a sports venue,” said Rug Phatak, senior director of marketing and chief of staff for GetGo, a brand within the Giant Eagle family. The market will be located behind...
It’s your move: Pittsburgh police invite the public to play chess in Market SquareVideo
David Shifren carries a chess set in his car. It’s more than a childhood game that his late father Leonard, who died in October, taught him to play. “Chess puts everyone on an utterly equal playing field,” said Shifren, a Pittsburgh Police Community Resource Officer for Zone 4 in Squirrel...
Handmade Arcade hosting virtual spring event, other happenings in 2021
Adam Nelson grew up in nature. His father, Doyle Nelson, was a national park ranger in California, Wyoming and Pennsylvania. He was recently chief ranger of the Delaware Water Gap in Pennsylvania. “We spent a lot of time in the outdoors,” said Adam Nelson, of East Liberty, who came to...
Pittsburgh Opera offers free livestream of ‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’
Pittsburgh Opera will provide a taste of what in-person audiences are seeing with a free livestream of its current production, “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird.” The performance will stream at 7:30 p.m. Friday on the opera’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. “Yardbird” played to small, socially distanced live audiences on April 10...
Police: Man in stable condition after Uptown Pittsburgh shooting
A man is in stable condition after police say he was shot in the leg in Pittsburgh’s Uptown section Monday night. Pittsburgh police responded to a Shotspotter alert in the 1400 block of Fifth Avenue around 10:50 p.m. where they found the victim who was conscious and alert, according to...
Georgia college president tapped to lead Point Park University
Point Park University’s board of trustees Monday announced the appointment of Donald J. Green as the school’s eighth president. Green, who is president of Georgia Highlands College, a multi-campus state college in the University System of Georgia, will take the helm at Point Park this summer, officials said. He succeeds...
Elderly man taken to hospital after vehicle-pedestrian crash in Downtown Pittsburgh
A man was taken to a local hospital following a vehicle-pedestrian accident Friday evening in Downtown Pittsburgh, according to a Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman. The crash was reported just after 8:15 p.m. on Liberty Avenue at Wood Street. Responding officers found an elderly man with a cut to his head....
Here are 5 must-see vehicles at Pittsburgh World of Wheels this weekendVideo
If it can be chopped, chromed or customized, some vehicle enthusiast will do it. And the results are likely to end up in the MAXMotive World of Wheels exhibition. The 60th annual premiere custom car show rolled into the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh on Friday for...
125 trees to be planted on Eliza Furnace Trail in Pittsburgh
The nonprofit Tree Pittsburgh will plant 125 trees and shrubs along the Eliza Furnace Trail on Tuesday, as part of the organization’s goal of replacing lost tree canopy. Tree Pittsburgh staff will partner with the Arbor Day Foundation and the Target Corporation for the event. Planting will start at 10...
World of Wheels returns to Pittsburgh and it’s ‘pretty much business as usual’
The vehicles and celebrities aren’t the only stars of the show when Max Motive World of Wheels Custom Car and Hot Rod Show comes to Pittsburgh. The venue is pretty special too, said Larry Way, public relations director for the exhibition presented by NAPA. “It’s a gorgeous building,” Way said...
Pizzaiolo Primo to reopen in Market Square
A popular Downtown Pittsburgh restaurant that closed during the pandemic is reopening. Pizzaiolo Primo, an Italian eatery in Market Square, will reopen with takeout food available by mid-April. In-house dining is scheduled to begin May 1. The restaurant, which closed last December, has been purchased by the Ron Sofranko Group....
Pandemic increased pace of I-579 cap project in Pittsburgh, officials say
Building a cap on top of a highway in Downtown Pittsburgh presented its own set of challenges, PennDOT officials said Wednesday. But the $30 million cap project over Interstate 579, commonly called the Crosstown Expressway, that will link the Hill District to Downtown Pittsburgh actually benefited from the decreased traffic...
‘Open Air’ arts performances set for May in Pittsburgh park
Flagstaff Hill, a popular gathering spot in Oakland, will be the site for two weeks of dance, music and arts programming in May. More than 20 local performing arts organizations will perform on Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s mobile stage in the Schenley Park location during “Open Air: A Series in Celebration...
This week’s Giant Eagle Heinz Field vaccination clinics are full
As of Tuesday afternoon, Giant Eagle’s mass vaccination clinics at Heinz Field on Thursday and Friday are full. Giant Eagle spokesperson Dick Roberts said that while additional clinics will take place, he cannot comment on how many more there will be. Appointments are required. Only those eligible under Pennsylvania’s Phase...
The Eagle lands in Pittsburgh: Fried chicken restaurant set to open
Fried chicken is the specialty at Downtown Pittsburgh’s newest restaurant. The Eagle Food & Beer Hall calls its main dish “cage-free all-natural chicken.” “Our focus is fried chicken,” said co-founder Joe Lanni. His Cincinnati-based Thunderdome Restaurant Group owns The Eagle. The restaurant is located on Penn Avenue. The name comes...
4 charged with animal cruelty in connection with poisoning of pigeons in Pittsburgh
A woman’s grim discovery on the streets of Downtown Pittsburgh on Thanksgiving Day culminated in felony animal cruelty charges against four people, including two managers of Downtown’s Frick Building, according to police. Allen Zimmerman, owner of Bird Control Services in Eastern Pennsylvania, his employee, Randall Hoffmaster, and Colleen Derbish and...
Court records: Box cutter used in attack on child in Downtown Pittsburgh McDonald’s
Court documents paint a chaotic scene inside a Downtown Pittsburgh fast food restaurant over the weekend where a man is accused of stabbing a child in the neck seemingly at random. The incident happened Saturday afternoon at the McDonald’s on Liberty Avenue, where the 12-year-old boy and his family had...
Speakers discuss discrimination, violence and stereotypes at vigil for Atlanta victims
A large crowd gathered Sunday night on the portico of the City-County Building in Downtown Pittsburgh for a candlelight vigil remembering the victims of recent shootings around Atlanta. Eight people were killed in the March 16 shooting spree, six of whom were Asian American women. Police say the gunman had...
More colleges signal fall reopening as stimulus begins to flow
Two more Pittsburgh-based universities — Carlow and Point Park — plan to return to full in-person operations this fall. Friday’s announcements, the most recent in a series at local universities, came as the U.S. Department of Education announced an expanded list of areas new federal stimulus money can underwrite. Those...
Pittsburgh Opera explores 900 years of work by women composers
Pittsburgh Opera will explore 900 years of music by women composers in an upcoming free concert. Called “Women’s March,” the 55-minute program will stream on the opera’s YouTube channel at 7 p.m. March 26. “Certainly, the opera has performed music by women composers before, but this is the first time...
Agatha Christie’s iconic sleuth reborn for Pittsburgh Public Theater play
Imagine Hercule Poirot poking around Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh Public Theater’s new production, he does just that. The legendary literary sleuth Poirot is reincarnated to solve a Steel City murder. “North of Forbes,” a new commission by local playwright Tammy Ryan, is based on Agatha Christie’s first novel. It will stream...
Pedestrian struck, killed in Downtown Pittsburgh
A man was killed Saturday night after he was struck by a car in Downtown Pittsburgh, according to police. The incident happened about 9:30 p.m. near the intersection of Stanwix Street and Penn Avenue, said Pittsburgh police spokesman Chris Togneri. First responders arrived and found the man pinned under the...
You will find parking and shopping inside this Downtown Pittsburgh garage
Shoppers can buy items out of the trunk of someone’s car next month at a parking garage in Downtown Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership is hosting “Car Bazaar,” a flea market of makers, artists, retailers and people selling second-hand items. Vehicles will be parked on several floors of the Sixth...
Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership’s campaign GoodEat$ offers discounts to city diners
Tuesdays and Wednesdays are traditionally slower days in the restaurant business. The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership is trying to help change that a bit. It’s helping nearly 30 Downtown restaurants to offer 25% off food and drinks on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in March through the “GoodEat$” program. Restaurants will be reimbursed...
