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Easter egg decorating ideas: Shaving cream, rice and moreVideo
You don’t have to rely on the same old boxed kits to dye your Easter eggs this year. Not when there are several other creative ways to add flair and unusual color combos. A concoction of shaving cream and food dyes is one possibility for a swirly look: Read more:...
Check out what Pittsburgh’s South Side has to offer
From old-fashioned saloons and greasy spoons to tattoo parlors, sports stadiums and a shop that sells only instruments you can pick, the South Side has edgy entertainment and enough history to call itself iconic. The neighborhood was once populated by steelworkers coming off their shifts and looking for a place...
5 things to do in Westmoreland County: April 15-17
After-hours art Fiber artist Kari Roslund will be the special guest at Art After Hours from 6 to 8 p.m. today at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, 221 N. Main St., Greensburg. Roslund’s one-of-a-kind, hand-felted art pieces made from materials including wool, silk, wire, wood and paper are available in...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: April 15-17
It is Easter weekend. Here are some ways to spend it. Spring Flower Show This is the final weekend for “Sunshine and Rainbows,” the spring flower show at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Oakland. The display includes thousands of blooms, including New Guinea impatiens, kalanchoe, nemesia, muscari and lobelia....
A native son: Faith and family are the foundation for the priesthood
Deacon Christopher James Pujol stood near the fifth row of pews from the back at Mount St. Peter Roman Catholic Church on Monday morning. He was replaying the memory of him as a 7-year-old making his First Holy Communion. “I was sitting right here,” he said, as he smiled recalling...
Dates for the 2023 National Senior Games in Pittsburgh announced
Next year’s National Senior Games will be held in Pittsburgh on July 7-18, 2023, the National Senior Games Association announced Thursday. The games, presented by Humana, are a multi-sport championship event for adults 50 and older. There will be everything from 3-on-3 basketball to swimming, tennis, shuffleboard, golf and pickleball....
Don’t mess with momma: Hays bald eagle defends nest against intruderVideo
Dining on a meal of Monongahela fish just after 6 p.m., the Pittsburgh Hays bald eagle mom fed her three eaglets. Then — bam! A large predatory bird swooped the nest and the Hays’ mom sprang into action. She outstretched her wings, which can span six feet or more, over...
Several couples get engaged at Steel City Con
Steel City Con at the Monroeville Convention Center is known for providing people an opportunity to meet celebrities, get autographs and find comic and pop culture memorabilia of all sorts. Within the past year, it has been a place for something else for at least three couples: romance. Shawn Savage,...
New August Wilson Center exhibition reveals playwright’s work, life
The August Wilson African American Cultural Center finally has a permanent exhibition dedicated to the life and work of its Pulitzer Prize-winning namesake. “August Wilson: The Writer’s Landscape” opens to the public at noon Saturday. Covering 3,600 square feet of gallery space in the downtown Pittsburgh facility at 980 Liberty...
TV Q&A: Is there a Pittsburgh connection on ‘NCIS: Hawaii’?
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: In two recent episodes of “NCIS: Hawaii” Pittsburgh was mentioned. Both were in relation to someone’s history that was connected to the crime being solved....
Gus & Yiayia’s opens for the season on Pittsburgh’s North Side
The Pittsburgh Pirates aren’t the only ones celebrating an opening day on the North Side. Gus & Yiayia’s ice ball stand opened on Tuesday for the season. Ice balls were served from the bright orange cart under the rainbow-colored umbrella near West Park, a few blocks away from PNC Park....
TV Talk: Season 2 of ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ to film in Pittsburgh
Steeltown will become Kingstown when season two of Paramount+’s “Mayor of Kingstown” films in Western Pennsylvania later this year. The show’s first season, set in Michigan, was shot in Hamilton, Burlington, and Kingston, Ontario. “Mayor of Kingstown” executive producer Hugh Dillon posted images of the shuttered SCI Pittsburgh (aka Western...
‘American Pickers’ returning to Pennsylvania for new episodes
The popular television reality series “American Pickers” wants you. And your antiques. The History Channel’s hit series is returning to Pennsylvania in June to record new episodes and its staff is putting out the word that it’s in search of unique collections of relics. “American Pickers” is a documentary series...
Week in pictures: April 4-10
A selection of the best photos from Tribune-Review photographers from around the Pittsburgh region from the week of April 4-10....
Kiski Area winter guard team captures gold medal at world championships
A Kiski Area School District color guard team struck gold during a recent international competition last weekend in Ohio. The 18-member Kiski Area Scholastic Open Winter Guard made history, winning a gold medal in the 2022 WGI (Winter Guard International) World Championships. “We could not be more proud of the...
Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band returns to Pittsburgh in JuneVideo
Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band will play PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on June 18, as part of the second leg of tour dates initially planned for 2020. The former Beatle and his supergroup originally were scheduled for a June 20, 2020, date in Pittsburgh that was canceled because...
TV Talk: Conventional wisdom said ‘Ghosts’ was too much of an outlier; now it’s a hit
With all the attention on streaming series and viewers’ migration to Netflix, Disney+ and other direct-to-consumer services, it’s somewhat remarkable that the 2021-22 TV season produced two comedy hits — CBS’s “Ghosts” and ABC’s “Abbott Elementary.” “Abbott,” already renewed for a second season, has its first-season finale at 9 p.m....
‘Year of the Cat’ singer-songwriter Al Stewart performs Saturday at the Palace Theatre
Folk rock singer and guitarist Al Stewart remembers driving down Sunset Strip decades ago in the bright sunshine of West Hollywood, Calif., in a yellow Karmann Ghia. The year was 1976 and Stewart had a hit song called “Year of the Cat” — but he wasn’t fully aware of just...
New dinosaur species named for Indiana University of Pennsylvania alumnus
An Indiana University of Pennsylvania graduate now shares his name with a new species of dinosaur, discovered in 2017 in China’s Yunnan province. Molecular biologist John J. Kopchick is now the namesake of Yuxisaurus kopchicki, an armored dinosaur that is a distant cousin of the Stegosaurus. It lived between 174...
Clairton High, Pitt and Bengals football star Tyler Boyd attends fundraiser at South Allegheny High School
Anthony Isaac “Tony” Cook loved basketball. He was working on his game so he could try out for the South Allegheny High School boys’ basketball team this past winter. As a child, he always had to put in extra time to be able to dribble and shoot because of weakness...
Greensburg Salem High’s Critter Cruise helps kids get to know diverse speciesVideo
An albino axolotl piqued the curiosity of many a fourth-grader Friday as it rested enigmatically in its tank at Greensburg Salem High School. A type of salamander that originated in Mexico, it was among 20 species of amphibians, reptiles, arachnids, insects, birds, fish and mammals displayed for fourth-graders from adjacent...
Latrobe banana split fest set to return to 3-day format; pageant contestants sought
Organizers of Latrobe’s Great American Banana Split Celebration plan to return to a three-day format this year as they seek entrants for the annual Banana Split Princess Pageant. “We want to bring back everything we had from 2019,” said Briana Tomack, president of the Greater Latrobe-Laurel Valley Regional Chamber of...
5 things to do in Westmoreland County: April 8-10
Get your Kix The hard-rock, glam-metal band Kix will take the stage at 8 p.m. Friday at The Lamp Theatre, 222 Main St., Irwin. The band’s 1988 release, “Blow My Fuse,” went platinum, with the power ballad “Don’t Close Your Eyes” peaking at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100....
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: April 8-10
It’s the weekend. Here are some ways to spend it. Spring carnival Carnegie Mellon University’s annual Spring Carnival is back after being held virtually the past two years because of the pandemic. The event on the Oakland campus continues Friday through Sunday. A committee of students coordinates with other groups...
Unique art installation ‘People We Love’ opens in Downtown Pittsburgh
Imagine sitting at the opposite end of a video camera lens as an image of someone you love is reflected on a piece of glass in front of the lens. As you stare at the photo of your loved one, you’re given various prompts by a recorded voice and your...
