Editor's Picks category, Page 173

Alexandra Todd, a 2009 graduate of Seneca Valley High School in Harmony who most recently worked for two years as a morning anchor in Sioux Falls, S.D., will join KDKA-TV next week as a reporter. Technically she’ll be a MMJ (multimedia journalist), meaning she’ll be a one-woman band who reports...

It’s impossible to pigeonhole singer Poppy into just one genre of music. And that was on display Wednesday night at the Roxian Theatre in McKees Rocks, where Poppy and Pvris co-headlined their Godless/Goddess tour. Bouncing between heavy metal, industrial bubblegum, dark wave, pop punk and more, Poppy took command of...

Legendary Jeannette and Greensburg Central Catholic coach Joe Mucci is among 50 nominees — players, coaches and teams included — for the second National High School Football Hall of Fame class. Another former Jayhawks headliner, the late John Crowell, was enshrined this year in the inaugural class. Lamont “Showboat” Robinson,...

Technically, summer isn’t over yet. So, that means it’s time to get out and enjoy the last summer weekend of the year. Here are some fun options. Picture This at the library A collaboration between the Greensburg Art Center and the Greensburg-Hempfield Library brings Jackie Moreno’s “Tuesday Art Enthusiasts” to...

Pittsburgh Steelers fans without a game to watch on Sunday can hear a talk about the team and its former owner, Dan Rooney, at 2:30 p.m. at Saint Vincent College near Latrobe. Jim Rooney, one of Dan and Patricia Rooney’s nine children, will discuss his 2019 book, “A Different Way...

LOS ANGELES — This week the United States’ biggest newspaper chain posted to its site two unusual job listings: a Taylor Swift reporter and a Beyoncé Knowles-Carter reporter. Gannett, which owns more than 200 daily papers, will employ these new hires through USA Today and The Tennessean, the company’s Nashville-based...

More than 100 vendors, selling everything from honey to homemade dog treats, are expected to attend Leechburg’s 12th annual Pink Day on Saturday. It’s the most they’ve ever had for the event, which has raised about $217,000 for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation since the first one in 2011, according...

Brooke Smith hasn’t been back to the unassuming house on Circle Street in Perryopolis since her “rescue” there by the FBI in the early ’90s. OK, technically it was the fictional Catherine Martin rescued from a well in the horrifying basement of serial killer Buffalo Bill, during the seminal 1991...

It’ll keep you on the edge of your seat. Monster Jam is coming back to Pittsburgh next year. The venerable monster truck tour will tear up PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh for four shows between Friday, Feb. 9 through Sunday, Feb. 11. The 12,000-pound monster trucks and their drivers, or...

LONDON — Bye, Lightning cable. Hello, USB-C. Apple is ditching its in-house iPhone charging plug and falling in line with the rest of the tech industry by adopting a more widely used connection standard. A big part of the reason is a European Union common charging rule that’s coming soon...

Instead of cake and ice cream it will be turkey and stuffing for this birthday celebration. Big Burrito Restaurant Group’s Mad Mex is turning 30, and the annual return of the Gobblerito kicks off the party on Monday. The Thanksgiving dinner in a burrito has house-roasted turkey, black bean mashed...

Taylor Swift took home the top prize at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards for her “Anti-Hero” music video on a night full of surprises. “This is unbelievable. The fact that this is a fan-voted award means so much to me,” Swift said in her acceptance speech. “I can’t believe...

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: Your recent updates on Erica Mokay and Jim Lokay make me wish KDKA would lure Lokay back to Pittsburgh. Then the two could be teamed...

NEW YORK — Say goodbye to refilling that Coke. McDonald’s is getting rid of self-served soda. The Chicago-based fast food chain plans to eliminate self-service soda machines at its U.S. restaurants by 2032, McDonald’s confirmed this week. It’s unclear if locations outside the U.S. will follow suit. In an email...

The phone call had Roberto Clemente Jr. in tears when his brother Luis shared how powerful the experience was to see never-published images of their father, Pittsburgh Pirates legend Roberto Clemente. The black-and-white shots will be on display through the Roberto Clemente 3000 Photographic Exhibit outside PNC Park this week,...

Kura Sushi USA, a revolving sushi bar, is preparing to open at noon on Sunday in Pittsburgh’s SouthSide Works. The concept is also known as Kaiten sushi, where plates of sushi are moved along a conveyer belt. It’s extremely popular in Japan and has been around for decades there. It...

If you haven’t uttered them yourself, you’ve probably heard them spew from the mouths of co-workers or your boss. They are the most annoying business buzzwords for 2023. So what’s the most fingernail-on-blackboard phrase for workers? “New normal,” according to a survey conducted by Preply Business, a language learning platform...

GLASTONBURY, Conn. — A Connecticut couple’s scuba diving trip in Rhode Island on Monday turned into a mission to rescue a baby shark. Deb and Steve Dauphinais, of Glastonbury, Conn., were diving on the sand flats off Jamestown, R.I., when Deb Dauphinais spotted the 16-inch juvenile shark with its head...

Debt, divorce and spray tanning — actress, comedian and impressionist Nicole Travolta pulls no punches in her one-woman show “Doing Alright,” where she recounts her journey through the ups and downs of her life inspired by a bizarre, real-life journey through the world of spray tanning. Fresh off a 12-show...

There are no known natural enemies able to control the growing population of spotted lanternflies from destroying fruit and landscape trees, grapevines and woody ornamental plants. Native to Asia, the spotted lanternfly was first detected in Pennsylvania in 2014. Since their discovery in Berks County, the tree-hopping pests have spread...

In this episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen discuss Pittsburgh pop culture news of the moment, including the revival of WPXI-TV’s “Chiller Theater”, WTAE-TV going off DISH Network, the possibility of the Pirates ending up on SportsNet Pittsburgh after all and...

As we remember the losses felt on Sept. 11, 2001, TribLive published a story in 2021 about how the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville in Somerset County teaches the history and lessons from that day. For those who were alive on Sept. 11, 2001, the memories are often vivid....