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TV Q&A: How did ‘Watson’ get a Pittsburgh bridge fact wrong?
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: I am watching “Watson” on CBS, which is set at a leading research hospital in Pittsburgh. In the Nov. 10 episode, they talked about the...
Flush with cash? Fully functional, solid gold toilet sells for $12.1M at auction
NEW YORK — A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 million. The toilet, by Maurizio Cattelan — the provocative Italian artist known for taping...
Final resting place set for the historic SS United States to become an artificial reef off Florida
A historic ocean liner will become the world’s largest artificial reef after it’s sunk off Florida’s Gulf Coast early next year. Okaloosa County officials announced Tuesday that they expect to sink the SS United States in early 2026 about 22 nautical miles southwest of Destin and 32 nautical miles southeast...
Mötley Crüe announces summer 2026 Pittsburgh area show
As they celebrate their 45th anniversary, metal band Mötley Crüe announced a massive Return of the Carnival of Sins Tour, which will traverse North America in 2026, including a stop at the Pavilion at Star Lake on July 17. The tour also marks the 20th anniversary of their landmark Carnival...
Three Dog Bakery in Sewickley offers treats and more for furry friends
The door opens and in walks Bentley. He goes directly behind the counter … and waits. “Bentley knows where the treats are,” said Lee Ann Carey, owner of Three Dog Bakery in Sewickley. “Dogs will be on the sidewalk a few stores away and they just know where this shop...
TV Talk: ‘This Is Us’ star films Apple series locally, uses Pittsburgh dialect
Starring in the hit NBC drama “This Is Us,” actress Chrissy Metz got to know Pittsburgh vicariously through her character, Pittsburgh native Kate Pearson. But it doesn’t take long talking to Metz before you realize she picked up more than just her character’s backstory. “If the Stillers are playing, I’m...
Gallery: End of an era for Pittsburgh’s old airport landside terminal
The brand new $1.7 billion landside terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport opened to travelers early Tuesday morning. On Monday evening and into the early morning hours of Tuesday, commuters flowed through the old landside terminal one last time — from the former airline check-in spaces to the TSA lanes to...
Aficionados fret as Trump moves to make pasta great againVideo
PHILADELPHIA — Steel: 50%. Copper: 50%. Cars: up to 25%. But an even bigger Trump-era levy looms: 107 % on Italian pasta. Mamma mia. It started with the U.S. Commerce Department launching what it says was a routine antidumping review, based on allegations Italian pasta makers sold product into the...
‘Stand By Me’ stars to appear at film’s 40th anniversary screening in PittsburghVideo
A generation-defining coming-of-age film is turning 40 in 2026, and its stars will be celebrating with a stop in Pittsburgh to reminisce. “Stand By Me” was released on Aug. 22, 1986, based on Stephen King’s novella “The Body” and directed by Rob Reiner. Actors Corey Feldman, Wil Wheaton and Jerry...
Pittsburgh local music spotlight: King Blue HeronVideo
Pittsburgh’s King Blue Heron released their “Salvation Sound” EP earlier this year, made with producer Billy Mannino. “We were so in love with the results,” vocalist/guitarist Emily Hardenberger said. “We actually just got back from recording some more songs with him. He made those tracks really sparkle.” The band recently...
Editorial: Budget vote doesn’t make funding flow
The state budget is passed. It’s been signed by the governor. Four months of confusion and belt-tightening is over. But does that mean a handle turns and state funding starts to pour toward all of the restricted agencies and programs like water from a faucet? Not at all. Counties and...
Artificial heart kept Collier man alive until he could get a transplant
When Landon Shaw was 16, a big, bulky machine sat by his bed. Twelve-foot hoses with attachments connected to both sides of his heart, pushing air to pump blood throughout his body, making a loud whooshing sound. For 17 days, the biventricular assist device, known as a BiVAD, an artificial...
O’Hara native travels the country collecting baseball-themed bobbleheads
Tom Iurlano was 5 when his late aunt Margaret Tomko treated him to a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game at Forbes Field in Oakland. He came home with a souvenir he still holds dear and keeps on display in his O’Hara home. “She bought me a L.A. Dodgers bobblehead,” said Iurlano...
Sharpsburg inducts new Sports Hall of Fame class
A beloved coach and center director, a cross-country champion turned district judge, a late basketball standout and business owner, and a youth athletic association became the latest members of the Sharpsburg Sports Hall of Fame. Officials inducted Gregory Domain, Matthew Rudzki, Alan Susi and the Sharpsburg Baseball/Softball Association as the...
Pitt students lose their hair in St. Baldrick’s fundraiser for childhood cancer research
If Allie Voss liked running her fingers through her boyfriend’s hair, she’s gonna be out of luck for a while. Her guy is Marko Rudek, 19, a 2024 Penn-Trafford graduate who’s now a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh. He was among those who got their hair buzzed Sunday in...
Editorial: What does selling naming rights buy a school?
If there’s one thing public schools understand, it’s how to apply math to a word problem. “Jimmy has five apples” and “a train leaves Philadelphia heading east at 30 miles per hour” are the kind of things that show up in homework, teaching kids that math problems don’t just come...
Making Thanksgiving happen: Filling the table despite high prices and tough times
Food insecurity has been an issue for many Americans since the covid pandemic and the inflation that followed. In 2025, it has escalated amid concerns about tariffs, program cuts, layoffs and the federal government shutdown. For those who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, uncertainty has deepened as a...
North Carolina resident stops in Pittsburgh advocating for lung cancer patients
For Dusty Donaldson, one journey led to another. After navigating the emotional path of a lung cancer diagnosis, operation, chemotherapy and recovery, Donaldson decided to travel down another road. She purchased a Ford Transit Connect van and drove across the country to create awareness for early detection of lung cancer....
Q&A: Queensryche guitarist Michael Wilton on latest album, riffs and more ahead of Greensburg showVideo
Other than some festival appearances and three shows back in the 1980s in California, progressive metal band Queensryche had never toured with the German metal band Accept. Until now, that is. With close to 100 years between the two bands, the veteran bands are out on the Volume and the...
Westmoreland railcars return for Toys for Tots collection, bring new traditions
Skip Flack of Latrobe started a new family tradition this year. Each year he and his wife, Kay, would participate in Toys for Tots drives. They would buy a couple hundred dollars worth of toys and drop them off at a donation site. But Flack grieved Kay’s passing in October....
Norwin alum Jake Bazala drafted by Savannah Bananas
Pitcher Jake Bazala’s phone was going bananas Friday night. “I have been getting hammered with messages,” Bazala said. The Norwin grad took the next step in his baseball career when he was drafted by the Savannah Bananas, the high-energy barnstorming team that sold out two games last summer in Pittsburgh....
Toby Keith’s daughter to perform national anthem and at halftime of Steelers gameVideo
Singer-songwriter Krystal Keith will sing the national anthem ahead of Sunday’s game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals at Acrisure Stadium. Keith, the daughter of the late country singer Toby Keith, will also sing two of her father’s songs at halftime, honoring the U.S. military as part of the...
‘Step into the painting’: Italian producers bring immersive, winter-themed exhibit to Westmoreland museum
If visitors lose themselves in the Westmoreland Museum of American Art’s latest exhibit, Italian video producers Max De Ponti and Andrea Corti will know they have done their job. De Ponti and Corti launched a video production company, OLO Creative Farm, in Como, Italy, 20 years ago. It was their...
Q&A: Rick Schuler on John Denver, Rocky Mountain High ExperienceVideo
The spirit of John Denver’s music — and Christmas — is evident in the Rocky Mountain High Experience: A John Denver Christmas show. Starring Rick Schuler, the show pays tribute to Denver, who died in 1997, with a nostalgic look back at the country/folk singer known for songs like “Rocky...
Historic Hotel Saxonburg set for sheriff’s sale
The fate of the once thriving and longest continually operating restaurant, bar and hotel in Saxonburg remains unclear. Hotel Saxonburg closed abruptly after the owners posted the news in a social media post March 5. An online sheriff’s sale for the property is scheduled for 11 a.m. Jan. 16, according...
