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Franktuary becomes latest Pittsburgh hot dog shop to close
There is one less option in Pittsburgh for folks seeking an A-list hot dog. First, it was The Original Hot Dog Shop in Oakland, closing early in the pandemic. Then D’s Six Pax and Dogz in Regent Square caught fire last August and closed for several months. (It just reopened...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend, Dec. 10-12
It’s the weekend. Here are some ways to spend it. Wintergarden event The 10th annual holiday show from 6 to 10 p.m. on Sunday by Jason Kendall Productions will include soul, gospel, rock, folk and blues. The event held inside the Wintergarden at PPG Place, Downtown, benefits the Greater Pittsburgh...
Sharpsburg, Etna, Lawrenceville, Bloomfield among those to benefit from state tax credits
Workforce training, flood prevention programs and community gardening will be among the initiatives supported by newly awarded state tax credits to Sharpsburg, Etna and Millvale. The Sharpsburg Neighborhood Organization (SNO) will receive $160,000 in tax credits from the Department of Community and Economic Development. It’s among several groups to split...
Part of Butler Street in Lawrenceville closed after building facade fell
Hundreds of bricks were piled up on Butler Street in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood Thursday morning as cleanup began after part of a building’s façade crumbled overnight. A majority of the bricks had been piled up by midmorning, but dozens more remained strewn along the sidewalk in the 4300 block of...
Celebration of dessert beers ‘Drink The Cookie Table’ coming to Pittsburgh
Just when you thought the concept of the cookie table couldn’t be improved upon, along comes a festival called “Drink the Cookie Table.” While cookie tables often show up at Western Pennsylvania weddings, this event features the marriage of local breweries and local dessert makers to create dessert beer for...
What’s brewing: Three Rivers Beer Week features Pittsburgh-Asheville, N.C. collaboration
A glass of craft beer is more than a drink. The best beer takes several ingredients – grain, hops, yeast, water — and a brewing community. It can bring people together to toast an achievement, drown a sorrow, watch a favorite sports team — or to celebrate a beer week....
Outdoor medical tent up at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has expanded its emergency department care capacity by setting up an outside medical tent. Officials said the Lawrenceville hospital plans to begin utilizing the space along 44th Street by Friday afternoon. “UPMC Children’s has set up a medical tent to expand care capability for those...
Charges pending after police remove 24 cats from Lawrenceville home
Charges are expected to be filed against a Lawrenceville resident after Pittsburgh police removed at least 24 cats and kittens from a home along Foster Street. A warrant was served Thursday after complaints of possible animal hoarding. Officers, along with Animal Care and Control, retrieved the animals from deplorable conditions,...
Lawrenceville’s Arsenal Bowl has a buyer, but real estate group mum on who
Pittsburgh’s iconic Arsenal Bowl has sold, according to the real estate firm marketing the bowling alley, though the buyer remains under wraps. Terri Sokoloff, of the commercial real estate firm Specialty Group, said only that the sale brought together two initially separate buyers. She said the group met with more...
Sharpsburg’s Alexander Sands draws national attention with Lawrenceville art gallery
Fox Chapel Area graduate Alexander Sands opened his Lawrenceville art gallery in February and has been blown away by the number of requests he gets from artists to display their work, from as far as Alaska and beyond. But Sands, a Sharpsburg resident, is staying true to his focus to...
Lawrenceville’s Row House Cinema to host drive-in movies at The Strip District Terminal
Make it a movie night. Row House Cinema announced Friday that its drive-in film experience is back, starting Oct. 1 in the Strip District. The theater is collaborating with The Terminal in the Strip District for a second year of outdoor viewing. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Films begin around...
Durand Jones & the Indications bring new, disco-inflected album to Lawrenceville concertVideo
Durand Jones & the Indications just keep getting smoother. The R&B group recently released its third album, “Private Space,” which takes its gritty soul sound and sands down the edges until it becomes something more akin the disco-inflected sound of late ’70s Curtis Mayfield. “One of the biggest things I’ve...
Pittsburgh police seek help finding girl missing from Lincoln Place
Pittsburgh police are asking the public for help in finding a missing 17-year-old girl. Police said Lisa Hoover was last seen July 26 in the city’s Lincoln Place neighborhood. Hoover is known to frequent the Lincoln Place, Swissvale and Lawrenceville areas. She is described as being 5 feet 2 inches...
Lawrenceville’s Walter is top dog in annual contest benefitting shelter pets
Walter is shy. On the street he walks by people without stopping to interact. But he might not be able to stay low-key anymore. His face is about to be recognizable. The 3-year-old American Staffordshire Terrier is the cover model for the 2022 Biggies Bullies calendar to be released in...
Lawrenceville’s indie Row House Cinema set to reopen with themed film series
Lawrenceville’s indie movie theater, Row House Cinema, will reopen Sept. 3 after an 18-month, pandemic-driven closure. “Our whole staff is basically relearning how to run a movie theater this summer, and we’ve got some fantastic programming lined up for the remainder of 2021,” owner Brian Mendelssohn said. Film club members...
Inclusionary zoning could be expanded to Bloomfield, Polish Hill, under proposed legislation
A requirement that 10% of new multi-unit housing be made affordable in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood may be tested in Bloomfield and Polish Hill, under legislation introduced Tuesday by Councilwoman Deb Gross. Residents and community leaders from Bloomfield and Polish Hill lobbied Gross for the legislation, she said. It would expand...
Pop into the Lawrenceville Pop-Up Market
When Rona Chang saw the impact that covid-19 had on fellow small businesses, she literally took to the street. Chang organized a pop-up market in September in Lawrenceville for vendors that relied upon in-person shopping as their primary income. Chang, who manages her business, Otto Finn, out of Radiant Hall...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: July 2-5
It’s the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Here are some ideas of how to spend it in Pittsburgh. Downtown Pittsburgh Pittsburgh’s Independence Day celebration returns this year. The traditional gathering at Point State Park will include patriotic music and food vendors from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., with the fireworks...
Lawrenceville boutique owner beats trivia legend, wins big on ABC’s ‘The Chase’
The dictionary definition of “trivia” is “pieces of information of little importance or value.” Try telling that to Liz Quesnelle of Lawrenceville. Her knowledge of facts both great and small recently won her a third of a $660,000 pot on the ABC quiz show “The Chase.” On the show’s June...
Boaters find body in the Allegheny River near 40th Street Bridge
Boaters found a man’s body floating in the Allegheny River near the 40th Street Bridge Sunday just after 1 p.m., according to City of Pittsburgh police. The city’s river rescue team and police were on scene to recover the body, according to an Allegheny County emergency official. The city’s major...
Residential, retail space to connect 4 Pittsburgh neighborhoods in Brewers Block
Pittsburgh’s Polish Hill, Lawrenceville, Strip District and Bloomfield neighborhoods are converging into a residential/retail development that will be known as Brewers Block. The development is located on Liberty Avenue between 32nd and 33rd streets, just down the street from the former Iron City brewery, as well as the Church Brew...
Zoning requirement to spur affordable housing made permanent in Lawrenceville
A requirement that 10% of multi-unit housing is made affordable in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood was made permanent Tuesday with approval from city council and support from Mayor Bill Peduto. The inclusionary zoning change codifies a program that started in 2019 that requires 10% of any housing project that includes 20...
RE2 Robotics prototype splashes into Rosedale Beach Club as part of naval research
Rosedale Beach Club near the Penn Hills/Verona border has another use besides recreation — naval research. Teams from Lawrenceville-based RE2 Robotics were at the facility off Third Street for a few weeks in May testing a prototype device for mine countermeasure missions. They combined VideoRay’s Defender robot with RE2’s dual-arm...
Violent night with rash of shootings, 2 involving kids, across Pittsburgh region
A 15-year-old boy was shot in Edgewood late Thursday, police said, in one of four shootings that happened across the region. He was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to Allegheny County police. Officers responded to a call at about 9:40 p.m. for a shooting in the...
Pittsburgh police: Man shot multiple times outside Children’s Hospital
A Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesman confirmed that a man was shot multiple times Thursday night outside UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He was reported to be in critical condition at another hospital. Correction. 4400 block of Penn Avenue Pgh Public Safety (@PghPublicSafety) June 11, 2021 An altercation apparently preceded...
