Editor's Picks category, Page 150
Latrobe, Irwin churches plan Last Supper reenactments
Churches in Latrobe and Irwin will be performing reenactments of The Last Supper during Holy Week. A living tableau depicting the final supper and evening of Jesus Christ’s life on earth will be performed by 12 men of the Latrobe Presbyterian Church at 7:30 p.m. March 28 in the church...
Sunny snacks for once-in-a-blue-moon eclipse party
A solar eclipse doesn’t happen every day. For any given area, the “total” variety — the ones where the moon scoots between the Earth and the sun at just the right distance and the right time to leave a bright halo around it — is a once-in-a-few-centuries kind of event....
Alle-Kiski Realtors, Carnegie Mellon students volunteer to rehab 4 New Kensington houses for Habitat for Humanity
Wielding a pry bar, Nicole Tascarella knocked down the remains of the second-floor plaster wall. Shannon Doerr steered the mini circular saw through some foam board. And Sylvia Maxwell climbed a ladder to measure the wall for its insulation. The women, all part of the Greater Allegheny-Kiski Area Board of...
Indie pop/rock band Daisy the Great discusses their formation, going viral and sequel songsVideo
With one semester left at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Kelley Dugan and Mina Walker started writing a musical about a fake band for fun. That musical — with pop stars being struck by lightning, masked singers and much more — will never see the light of day, but...
Take the TribLive weekly news quiz: March 23, 2024
Here’s a new feature from TribLive: A weekly news quiz: 1. On Sunday, Duquesne won the Atlantic 10 Championship to make it to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1977. Who did the Dukes play 47 years ago? A/ The Citadel B/ William & Mary C/ Virginia Military...
With all the recent headlines about panels and tires falling off planes, is flying safe?
DALLAS — It has been 15 years since the last fatal crash of a U.S. airliner, but you would never know that by reading about a torrent of flight problems in the last three months. There was a time when things like cracked windshields and minor engine problems didn’t turn...
National Aviary welcomes new Eurasian eagle-owl chick
The National Aviary welcomed a new member of the family and is inviting guests to meet it. The Eurasian eagle-owl chick hatched on March 15. It is the 10th chick hatched by parents X and Dumbledore. “X and Dumbledore both came to the Aviary as juvenile owls and have spent...
Alma Speed Fox street naming ceremony happening Saturday in the Hill District
Alma Speed Fox Way will be unveiled on Saturday in the Hill District. The sign to be featured above the Kirkpatrick Street sign will pay homage to the enduring legacy of the woman of the same name known as the Civil Rights Mother of Pittsburgh. The honorary street-naming ceremony, taking...
Mitch Trubisky’s Edgeworth home on the market for $1.9M
Quarterback Mitch Trubisky is another former Pittsburgh Steeler with a house for sale. His Colonial-style home on Maple Lane in Edgeworth is on the market for $1.9 million, while Kenny Pickett’s house is also listed following his trade to the Philadelphia Eagles. Trubisky was released by the Steelers in February....
Washington, D.C.’s Origami Angel headlining Pittsburgh collective’s 17th birthday celebrationVideo
Origami Angel, a two-piece emo band out of Washington, D.C., is a strong supporter of local music scenes. They’ll be in Pittsburgh on Sunday to headline the 17th birthday bash for Don’t Let the Scene Go Down on Me, a music collective that’s been booking shows since 2007 and in...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: March 22-24
We’ve made it to the weekend. Here are some ways to spend it if you aren’t attending the NCAA men’s basketball tournament hosted by Duquesne at PPG Paints Arena, Uptown. Eggstravaganza The National Aviary on the North Side is hosting Eggstravaganza from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and...
5 things to do in Westmoreland County: March 22-24
With the temperature slowly creeping into the 50s, there are plenty of options for outdoor and indoor activities this weekend in Westmoreland County. Art installation On Saturday, the Westmoreland Cultural Trust is collaborating with Olde Towne Overhaul and New Ken Downtown Partnership to unveil its 13th pair of wings at...
LeBron James becomes No. 1 fan of Duquesne basketball
As the Duquesne men’s basketball team began celebrating a 71-67 win over No. 6 BYU at the CHI Health Center Arena in Omaha, Neb., and students and alumni reveled in ending a 55-year stretch without an NCAA Tournament victory, the Dukes’ No. 1 fan took to X to congratulate his...
Ben Folds, Los Lonely Boys among Three Rivers Arts Festival’s featured concerts
This year’s free featured concert lineup for the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival was announced Thursday. The festival, running May 31-June 9 in Pittsburgh’s Cultural District, will feature singer-songwriter Ben Folds, seminal hip-hop groups the Sugarhill Gang and the Furious Five, among others. The main stage is moving to...
TV Talk: ‘Game of Thrones’ showrunners launch ‘3 Body Problem;’ KDKA-TV adds reporterVideo
For their first series after showrunning HBO’s mammoth hit “Game of Thrones,” writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (with Alexander Woo, “The Terror,” “True Blood”) adapt Chinese sci-fi author Liu Cixin’s “3 Body Problem” for Netflix and the result is a show that begins semi-intriguing and by its fourth episode...
New game plan: Kenny Pickett’s Cranberry home on the market for $2.7M
Leaving the Pittsburgh Steelers isn’t the only move for Kenny Pickett. The team’s former quarterback is finding a new home off the field, too. Less than a week after being traded to the cross-state rival Philadelphia Eagles, Pickett has decided to part ways with his home on Spruce Lane in...
Andrea Bocelli interview: Famed Italian tenor on singing with his children, performing and faithVideo
Just weeks after a heartfelt father-son duet at the Academy Awards, famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will be performing in Pittsburgh. Bocelli, along with his son Matteo, performed an emotional version of “Time to Say Goodbye” at the Oscars, paying tribute to actors and musicians who died in 2023. That...
TV Talk: ‘American Rust’ season 2 set largely in PittsburghVideo
For its second season, the filmed-in-Pittsburgh drama “American Rust” moves from Showtime to Amazon’s Prime Video. The show’s setting also shifts. In its first season “American Rust” was set almost entirely in fictional Buell, Fayette County, but for the second season, the show splits its time between Buell and Pittsburgh,...
Verona brewery expands to waterfront location along Allegheny River
Brews with a view is a new reality for patrons of Acclamation Brewing, as the business settles in to a new riverside location in Verona. At 314 Arch St. at the 10.7 Marina site, co-owner Jason Yahnke of Oakmont created a business with friends and family that allows him to...
Hit Like A Girl teaches women how to golf
Golf courses are where the deals are made — it’s a business sport. Juanita Lomax, founder and CEO of Hit Like A Girl, found this to be the case during her 20-year tenure in corporate America. Being unskilled in a club-and-ball sport predominantly saturated with white men, Lomax knew she...
Country singer Jay Allen brings Night of Hope tour to Jergel’s in Warrendale
Country rock singer Jay Allen has seen the power of music first-hand. When the Iowa native’s mother was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s, he said one thing that could bring back the woman who raised him was country music. The genre was a constant fixture in her pickup truck when Allen...
Layne’s Chicken Fingers to open on Pittsburgh’s South Side
A second Layne’s Chicken Fingers is coming to Pittsburgh, this one on the South Side. Company signage is on the front of the building at 1210 E. Carson St. and City of Pittsburgh permit papers, issued in February, are on the door. The inside is not finished. On the window...
Trib Lunch Box: Fatal fire, love triangle, allergies, Mega Millions
Here are some noon headlines from TribLive, Wednesday, March 20, 2024: • Father, 4 children killed in Jeannette blaze Five bodies were recovered after two homes caught fire overnight on Guy Street in Jeannette. The body of a man, 27, and four children were recovered from the scene, according to...
Bethel Park mother, son continue to bring smiles through Easter basket project
Maria Rovers knows the feeling of caring for a child with health issues. There is intense worry and incredible fear, sleepless nights and unpredictable days. “I have been there,” the Bethel Park resident said. “It’s hard to understand unless you’ve lived it.” Rovers’ son Sean, 16, was diagnosed in 2017...
TV Q&A: Why are some stations’ digital subchannels on cable but not others?
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: Why are some of the local stations’ subchannels carried on cable (Comcast) but others are not? I can’t see any rhyme or reason and I...
