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5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: July 14-16
It’s the weekend. Here are some ways to spend it. Northside Music Festival The inaugural Northside Music Festival is Friday through Sunday. Previously known as the Deutschtown Music Festival, the free, three-day event will feature more than 70 musical acts, an artist market and more than 30 food trucks. On...
‘Pittsburgh’s Historic Ballparks’ exhibit opening at North Side’s Photo Antiquities
The Pirates aren’t playing until Friday night because it’s Major League Baseball‘s all-star break — but there is still a way to get your fill of a ballpark atmosphere. Photo Antiquities Museum of Photographic History on the North Side has a gallery exhibit titled “Pittsburgh’s Historic Ballparks.” It’s inspired by...
Boat sinks on Allegheny River off the North Shore
No one was injured when a boat sank and leaked fuel in the Allegheny River on Friday afternoon, according to Pittsburgh police. A Pittsburgh hazmat crew responded to the 500 block of North Shore Drive just after 5 p.m. to put up booms around the sinking boat and contain the...
Wilson’s Bar-B-Q in North Side’s Perry South neighborhood ‘opening soon’
As Ira Lewis talked about plans to reopen Wilson’s Bar-B-Q on Thursday, the phone kept ringing with people inquiring about when the eatery will open. “People have been waiting,” Lewis said. “When I come in every day, there are 60-plus calls. And there are Facebook messages and texts.” Lewis doesn’t...
Tickets still available for Ed Sheeran concert at Pittsburgh’s Acrisure Stadium
Pittsburgh’s summer of big concerts continues Saturday. British pop star Ed Sheeran will take the stage at Acrisure Stadium on the North Shore. Opening guests are expected to be Khalid and Rosa Linn. Khalid missed the past few shows because he was in a car accident and it is not...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: July 7-9
We’ve made it to the weekend. Here are some ways to spend it. Liberty Mile The Fleet Feet Liberty Mile is on Friday in Downtown. More than 1,500 runners are expected to participate in this evening race and compete for more than $23,000 in prize money. The first heat starts...
Cruiser crash sends Pittsburgh police officer to hospital
A Pittsburgh police officer was taken to a hospital after a city cruiser was involved in a crash Thursday evening in the East Allegheny neighborhood. A city Public Safety spokeswoman said the crash happened at about 7:30 p.m., at Madison and Spring Garden avenues, while the officer was responding to...
Inaugural Northside Music Festival will feature more than 70 bands
Music in the middle of July returns once again to Pittsburgh’s North Side, but with a new name. The inaugural Northside Music Festival is happening July 14-16 within the heart of Deutschtown. Previously known as the Deutschtown Music Festival, the free, three-day event will feature more than 70 musical acts,...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: June 30-July 2
It’s the first weekend of July. Some people will have a four-day weekend with the July 4 holiday on Tuesday. We know there will be fireworks and furries with the Anthrocon convention — but here are some other ways to spend it. Fridays at the Frick Monthly outdoor concerts return...
Warhol Museum, Citizens partnership boosts public art, artist development
June 27 was a red-letter day for The Andy Warhol Museum, with the unveiling of a large-scale piece in its public art installation, The Pop District, and the announcement of a partnership with Citizens Financial Group Inc. in support of that initiative. Pittsburgh artist Mikael Owunna’s “Anatomy of a Human”...
Battery suspected as cause of North Side fire
A fire in a Pittsburgh house last week may have been caused by lithium-ion batteries that ignited while being charged in a solar-powered, after-market charging system, the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire said Tuesday. Firefighters responded to a one-alarm fire on June 23 inside a bedroom at a home along the...
Pittsburgh woman guilty of involuntary manslaughter in stabbing death of husband
An Allegheny County Common Pleas judge found a Brighton Heights woman guilty but mentally ill on Monday for fatally stabbing her husband in December 2020 and wrapping his corpse in garbage bags and duct tape. Janet L. Winbush, 53, a North Side resident who grew up in Grove City, Mercer...
Police: Cyclist dies of injuries in North Side shooting
Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man riding his bicycle along Federal Street Sunday morning on Pittsburgh’s North Side. Police responded to Federal Street at West North Avenue around 7 a.m. and said they found a man who had been shot in the back. He was taken to...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: June 23-25
It’s the weekend. Here are some ways to spend it. Art appreciation The Ohringer gallery in Braddock will host an exhibition featuring the work of artist Cue Perry. It runs Saturday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 640 Braddock Ave. It will be Perry’s first solo exhibition. The works...
Pittsburgh woman says she stabbed husband in self-defense, doesn’t recall wrapping body in garbage bags
An attorney for Janet L. Winbush said the woman with a long and well-documented history of mental illness fatally stabbed her husband in self-defense in December 2020 after years of domestic abuse. Prosecutors argue that Winbush had planned to kill Deric Bryan Davis, 53, and then, after she did, she...
Talk to the Trib: Summer and snowballs at Carnegie Science Center
Summer officially began Wednesday, and the Carnegie Science Center brought back a little snow to the forecast. Families showed up to celebrate the annual Snowball Day at the Carnegie Science Center. Some had saved their snowballs to launch into the Ohio River with large slingshot devices. This past winter was...
boygenius fans camp out early in hopes of prime Stage AE spots
After the Taylor Swift pandemonium last weekend, more music lovers are going to extreme lengths to see their favorite performers on the North Shore. Fans were lined up outside of Stage AE early Tuesday morning in hopes of scoring a spot close to the stage to watch boygenius Tuesday evening....
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: June 16-19
We’ve reached the weekend. Father’s Day is Sunday, and for some it’s a long weekend with Juneteenth on Monday. Here are some ways to spend it if you aren’t attending one of the two sold-out Taylor Swift concerts. Juneteenth The annual Juneteenth celebration is Friday through Monday in Point State...
Old Western Penitentiary site in Pittsburgh up for sale
The state is looking for a buyer to transform the large site of a former prison in Pittsburgh into a mixed-use development on the banks of the Ohio River. The former State Correctional Institution-Pittsburgh site covers more than 21 acres in Pittsburgh’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood. It includes 42 buildings. SCI-Pittsburgh, historically...
Greensburg bakery helps celebrate 40th birthday of Children’s Museum
A really big birthday party calls for a really big cake. The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh on the North Side is celebrating 40 years on Monday. The upcoming milestone inspired the museum to reach out to Prantl’s Bakery in Greensburg to create a 6-tier white, chocolate and red velvet cake....
‘The Boxcar Children’ brings long-running children’s book series to Pittsburgh stage
Author Gertrude Chandler Warner wrote the first book in what would become her “Boxcar Children” series in 1924. It would go on to spawn more than 100 books with the plucky children typically solving mysteries. Prime Stage Theatre’s Sprouts program will bring the stories to life on stage as they...
Photo gallery: ‘Taking a stand against gun violence’ effort brings rally to Pittsburgh
More than 100 people gathered Friday in Pittsburgh to kick off Wear Orange Weekend, a national gun violence awareness effort. The gathering began in Allegheny Commons Park on Pittsburgh’s North Side and concluded with a peace march. Rabbi Jonathan Perlman of New Light Congregation was among the featured speakers.Perlman was...
Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic partners with Jeff Bezos company to build a lunar lander
The lunar road back to the moon “lies right here, through the Keystone State,” NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy said during a visit to Pittsburgh on Friday. Sixty-three Pennsylvania suppliers contributed to NASA’s Artemis mission, which aims to return humans to the moon and use that as a launching point...
Pittsburgh Pride celebrates 50 years
This is a milestone weekend for the Pittsburgh LGBTQ+ community. Fifty years ago, 50 members marched from Market Square to Schenley Park in commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Riots. The date was June 17, 1973. It will always be remembered as Pittsburgh’s first Pride Parade, according to QBurgh, a source...
‘A cancer on our society’: Gun violence awareness rally comes to Pittsburgh
The timing of Friday’s “Wear Orange” National Gun Violence Awareness event wasn’t meant to occur simultaneously with the Pittsburgh synagogue trial. That’s a coincidence. Josh Fleitman notes that it’s a common one these days. “I think the trial that’s happening right now, for so many people in the Squirrel Hill...
