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Guitarist Selwyn Birchwood, nominated for 4 Blues Music Awards, heading to PittsburghVideo
Guitarist Selwyn Birchwood said he felt like calling his music blues wasn’t specific enough, so he invented the description of “electric swamp funkin’ blues” instead. “I think if you just say blues it doesn’t quite cover it,” Birchwood said earlier this month from St. Augustine, Florida. “But we do a...
Records show Usher and longtime partner Jenn Goicoechea got married after Super Bowl
LAS VEGAS — Usher and longtime partner Jenn Goicoechea married in Las Vegas just hours after the R&B superstar’s headline appearance at the Super Bowl halftime show, according to officials and documents. The officiant who wed the pair is known to dress as an Elvis Presley impersonator. The couple married...
Super Bowl creates social media meme frenzy with Taylor, Kelce, Reid, Usher
Though the Super Bowl is over, the memes and commentary on social media haven’t stopped. By opening X, formerly known as Twitter, users will come across a flood of various posts. The Super Bowl game went into overtime between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers. The Chiefs emerged...
PLCB opens lotteries to purchase nearly 1,900 bottles of rare whiskeys
Pennsylvania’s Liquor Control Board, through its limited-release lottery, is awarding those who register the opportunity to buy 1,896 bottles of rare whiskeys. The LCB on Monday announced that state residents and licensees have until 5 p.m. Friday to opt in to the lotteries or drawings for whiskeys from the Pappy...
Trib Lunch Box: Super Bowl ads, Mayor of Kingstown and is more snow coming?
Here are some noon headlines from TribLive, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024: Best/worst Super Bowl ads Pittsburgh native Jeff Goldblum not only starred in one ad but he also had a cameo in another and could be briefly glimpsed in a third spot. Is more snow coming? The biggest...
Less is more? Consumers have fewer choices as brands prune their offerings to focus on best sellers
NEW YORK — How much choice is too much? Apparently for Coca-Cola, it’s about 400 different types of drinks. That’s why the beverage company recently decided to discontinue half of them, shedding brands like Tab, Zico coconut water, Diet Coke Feisty Cherry and Odwalla juices but still leaving about 200...
Penguins host 2 children through Make-A-Wish Foundation
The Pittsburgh Penguins “signed” two children to one-day contracts at the team’s facility in Cranberry on Monday Jayden Flick and Kent Kennedy were hosted by the team through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. A press conference was staged in which president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas signed contracts with Flick and Kennedy....
‘Mayor of Kingstown’ films in Millvale
Millvale residents saw an increase in police activity on Monday, but not because of crime. According to a Facebook post from the Millvale Police Department, the television show “Mayor of Kingstown” is filming in the area. Police cars with “Kingstown Police” written on the side could be seen parked in...
Taylor Swift chugs beer, cuddles Blake Lively and gets mobbed as Chiefs beat 49ers in Super Bowl
LAS VEGAS — With t he run she’s having, how could Taylor Swift be on anything other than the winning side? Swift was smothered by her celebrity suite-mates at Allegiant Stadium when her significant other Travis Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs c linched an overtime win over the San Francisco 49ers....
TV Talk: Best/worst Super Bowl ads; Pittsburgh native Jeff Goldblum appears in 3
Advertisers largely avoided weird, non-sequitur ads in favor of celebrity-starring commercials during Super Bowl LVIII. And often the spots didn’t feature just one star — additional bold-name folks made cameos. Pittsburgh native Jeff Goldblum not only starred in an Apartments.com ad but he also had a cameo in a Homes.com...
TV Talk: WPXI-TV back on DirecTV; Jon Burnett and CTE
A little more than a week after Cox Media Group stations, including Pittsburgh’s WPXI-TV, went dark on DirecTV, the two companies reached a deal. Channel 11 is now back on DirecTV. The retransmission dispute began on Feb. 3 and was resolved just in time for Cox-owned CBS stations in other...
Poet Terrance Hayes reads at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in celebration of Black History Month
The light beamed down on Terrance Hayes on Saturday afternoon as he stood center stage in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s lecture hall. The award-winning poet and South Carolina native read several poems from his selections “So to Speak,” “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin” and others, as...
Iconic Three Rivers Stadium implosion anniversary falls on Super Bowl SundayVideo
It was a beautiful day for the end of a sporting era on this day 23 years ago in Pittsburgh. Three Rivers Stadium was imploded under cold temps and sunny blue skies on Feb. 11, 2001 to make way for two newer sporting venues — PNC Park and Heinz Field...
This small New York village made guns for 200 years. What happens when Remington leaves?
ILION, N.Y. — Remington began here two centuries ago and generations of workers have turned out rifles and shotguns at the massive firearms factory in the middle of this blue-collar village in the heart of New York’s Mohawk Valley. Now residents of Ilion are bracing for Remington’s exit, ending an...
TV Talk at TCA: ‘Percy Jackson’ and its Pa. teen star plot 2nd season; ‘Ghosts’ returnsVideo
PASADENA, Calif. – Last week, Disney+ renewed “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” for a second season that will be based on the novel “Sea of Monsters” and on Saturday, the show’s three young lead actors described how their lives have changed since the show’s premiere. “Mostly it’s been with my...
Allegheny Valley Hospital art exhibit showcases tales behind the scrubs
In her nearly 40 years of nursing at Allegheny Valley Hospital in Harrison, Becky Podobnik says her scrubs have seen it all. “I’ve watched people recover, and I’ve watched people die,” she said. “I’ve comforted families, and I’ve sat with that person who is scared in the middle of the...
Audubon Society wants eyes to the skies for annual Great Backyard Bird Count
In the weeks leading up to Christmas, the Audubon Society held its annual Christmas Bird Count. This month, they’ll ask avid avian watchers to cast their eyes to the skies once again for the annual Great Backyard Bird Count from Feb. 16-19. In Monroeville, the local library will host a...
Soup was the star at annual American Legion ladies auxiliary fundraiser benefiting veterans in Brackenridge
Just call him ham man. Jodie Deiseroth of Harrison has a special cooking technique with ham, so he decided to try his luck at the annual Soup Cook-Off sponsored Saturday by Brackenridge American Legion Auxiliary. “It’s ginger ale,” Deiseroth whispered when asked which secret ingredient makes his soup so special....
Too warm: Plants, insects, people likely to pay the price for warm winters
The active milkweed bug Chris Kubiak found this week is not a good sign. The harmless-to-humans bug was out and about at Beechwood Farms Nature Preserve in Fox Chapel, where Kubiak is director of education. It, like most other insects native to the region, should be inactive, waiting out winter...
From doinks to SpongeBob, technology to play a huge role in the CBS presentation of Super Bowl
Inspiration sometimes happens, or in this case, drinks, at the most opportune times. CBS Sports’ Jason Cohen and Mike Francis had end zone seats during last year’s Super Bowl when Kansas City kicker Harrison Butker had a 42-yard field goal attempt that caromed off the left upright. Cohen, the division’s...
McKee Elementary counts Taylor Swift among its valentines, but it still needs one from Rhode Island
The mysterious package arrived at McKee Elementary School in Jeannette on Wednesday. The return address was Nashville. It contained a 7-foot-tall cardboard cutout of musician Taylor Swift. A Hallmark card inside was addressed to a student with the same first name. One more thing — a red scrawl in the...
Justin Timberlake extends Forget Tomorrow tour, including Pittsburgh concertVideo
Justin Timberlake added 15 more concerts to his Forget Tomorrow tour, including a Pittsburgh date. The “My Love” and “SexyBack” singer will visit PPG Paints Arena on Dec. 14. For his first tour in five years, he will be out in support of his upcoming album, “Everything I Thought It...
Squirrel Hill house in Murdoch Farms on the market for $1,399,000
Located in Squirrel Hill in the area of Murdoch Farms, once a nursery and dairy farm, a home that bas been in the same family since 1948 is on the market for $1,399,000. A two-story colonial, the residence has a 1201 Bennington Ave. address, but the entrance is on Fair...
Trib Lunch Box: Potholes, retirement, Monster Jam, Valentine’s Day
Here are some noon headlines from TribLive, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024: Potholes at Pittsburgh Mills are mall owners’ responsibility Drivers, watch out if you venture up to the Mills mall in Frazer. It’s a familiar concern, according to Frazer Supervisor Lori Ziencik. “We get constant complaints,” Ziencik said. “Calls come...
TV Talk: W.Pa. pups compete in ‘Puppy Bowl XX;’ area native hosts ‘Rescue Bowl’Video
Super Bowl Sunday has gone to the dogs — this time to some dogs with local ties. The annual pet-centric tradition of “Great American Rescue Bowl” (noon-2 p.m. today, Great American Family), hosted by Fox Chapel native Beth Ostrosky Stern, and “Puppy Bowl” (2 p.m. today, Animal Planet, Discovery, TBS,...
