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Burghers Brewing and Murrysville pizzeria expand on South Side
The former site of Sly Fox Brewing’s South Side pub won’t sit vacant for long. Burghers Brewing Co. announced in a Facebook post on Monday it will partner with Murrysville pizzeria A Slice of New York to launch a new venture and expansion, saying it will create a “culinary corridor”...
An Oscar race that looked like a runaway may be a close call, after all
NEW YORK — Who says to beware the Ides of March? A March 15 Academy Awards may feel late. By then, it will be almost a year since “Sinners” sunk its teeth into moviegoers last April. Some nominees have been on the campaign trail since the Cannes Film Festival in...
Dutch museum makes ‘needle in a haystack’ confirmation of Rembrandt painting
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A painting that was once rejected as a work by Rembrandt van Rijn has now been acknowledged as a work by the Dutch master, thanks to two years of scrutiny in the city where the then-27-year-old artist painted it in 1633, a museum announced Monday. The...
Christina Applegate unleashes a raw, probing memoir: ‘You with the Sad Eyes’
NEW YORK — Christina Applegate’s memoir is not a safe, prim thing. It’s raw and angry, lyrical and funny, and more than a bit dangerous — a lot like Christina Applegate. “My words come out of my face hole the way they come out of my face hole and that’s...
Legendary musician and producer Jim Messina to perform at The Oaks Theater
Jim Messina has worn many hats in the music industry over the past half-century, and his career has intersected with lasting stars including Kenny Loggins and Buffalo Springfield. Now, he’s bringing new songs and classics to The Oaks Theater on March 17. The California native started playing music as a...
Journey, led by Neal Schon and singer Arnel Pineda, cruises through their hits on Pittsburgh stop at PPGVideo
The members of Journey seem set on going their separate ways after their farewell tour, but in the time left together, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers are revisiting the radio smashes that sold more than 100 million records over their career. This chapter of Journey will come to...
Watch the moon turn blood red during a total lunar eclipse
Early Tuesday morning, the moon will flush crimson as it creeps through Earth’s shadow during a total lunar eclipse. Lunar eclipses occur when our planet slides between the sun and moon, which temporarily prevents the sun’s light from falling on the lunar surface. A total lunar eclipse is the most...
Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame art appears in Washington park
A new art installation appeared Monday in Washington, D.C.’s Farragut Square — a “Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame.” Inspired by the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the art installation features replicas of the well-known stars, but instead of those who have impacted the entertainment industry, the stars features names of politicians,...
Mark Cuban joins Pittsburgh AI startup panel during NFL Draft week
More than $1.2 million in artificial intelligence startup funding will be awarded in Pittsburgh during NFL Draft week, with Mt. Lebanon native Mark Cuban serving as a judge. On April 22, Carnegie Mellon University in partnership with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the AI Strike Team will host Powering the Future...
Triceratops skeleton ‘Trey’ to hit the auction block as dinosaur market soars
A triceratops skeleton that stood in a Wyoming museum for decades will be auctioned off, a rare instance of a museum-exhibited dinosaur going to the auction block just as the market for the prehistoric giants has hit record highs. The fossil, dubbed “Trey,” will be open for bidding from March...
Fort Pitt Museum unveils ‘Pittsburgh’s Revolution’ exhibit ahead of America’s 250th anniversary
A new exhibition exploring Western Pennsylvania’s role in the Revolutionary War was unveiled Sunday at the Fort Pitt Museum. The museum, part of the Senator John Heinz History Center’s family of museums, had been closed since the start of the year as the new display was prepared. “Pittsburgh’s Revolution” uses...
TV Q&A: What happened to ‘The Rossen Report’ on WTAE?
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Saturday Tribune-Review. Q: What happened to “The Rossen Report” on WTAE? It was off for a while last year, came back for a few months and now it...
Pittsburgh local music spotlight: cello
Pittsburgh musician cello is hoping people will have an open mind about his new album, “Singing to Serpents.” “We’ve been calling what I’m doing alternative R&B, ” he said. “And it feels like breaking my own ground or carving my own space or niche in the musical space.” Marcello Valletta,...
WTAE’s Elena LaQuatra: How a cochlear implant helped new Pittsburgh morning anchor rise to the top
As the clock in the WTAE studio counted down, Elena LaQuatra’s bubbly personality turned serious. She scanned scripts behind the anchor desk and made quick adjustments to her hair and dress. With a hand signal from show control operator Taylor Jones, LaQuatra’s face was broadcast live on televisions around Pittsburgh....
‘The Pitt’ wins big, ‘Sinners’ takes home top prize at Actor Awards
Noah Wyle and “The Pitt” continue to rack up accolades this awards season. With his win for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series at Sunday night’s Actor Awards, presented by SAG-AFTRA, he made history by winning all five major acting awards in one season for his...
Sean Penn, Catherine O’Hara win at Actor Awards, formerly known as the Screen Actors Guild Awards
Sean Penn won best supporting male actor for his performance in “One Battle After Another” and Catherine O’Hara won a posthumous award at the 32nd Actor Awards. In the ceremony, streaming live Sunday on Netflix from the Shine Auditorium on Los Angeles, O’Hara won best female actor in a comedy...
Pittsburgh local music releases for March 2026
New EPs, albums and singles are on the way in March from a wide-ranging group of Pittsburgh area musicians. Here’s a quick look at those new local releases scheduled for the Pittsburgh region in March: Cello Genre-blurring singer-songwriter Cello will release a new album, “Singing to Serpents,” on...
Beloved Millvale French baker, Jean-Marc Chatellier, closes shop after more than 30 years
People from Millvale and beyond marked the end of an era in the borough Saturday when Jean-Marc Chatellier and his wife, Sandy, opened the doors of his French bakery to the public for the last time. After large buys contributed to them quickly selling out on their penultimate day Friday...
From box office bomb to media powerhouse: Skydance’s 20-year rise to overtake Paramount, Warner Bros
NEW YORK — In its debut film, Skydance Productions released a special effects-laden World War I drama about fighter pilots with a starring role for an unknown actor, the company’s founder, David Ellison. It was a box office bomb. Twenty years later, in a twist fit for Hollywood itself, the...
Lori Falce: Constitution Under Construction: 2nd Amendment a study in balanceVideo
Editor’s note: This is the third column in a series exploring the history and legacy of amendments to the U.S. Constitution. In architecture, a keystone is the wedge-shaped stone set at the top of an arch. It is placed last. The stones on either side lean inward, pressing against it....
Review: The Clarks are still rocking the stage after 4 decades
This year, The Clarks celebrate 40 years as a band — and they’re still selling out shows, as with their Friday night engagement at The Oaks Theater in Oakmont. For a certain strand of Southwestern Pennsylvanian, The Clarks have become a part of the fabric of the region, much like...
The IRS shut its direct file, but here are other free filing options
The federal government tested a free, direct online tax-filing program for two years but with the change in administrations shut it down. There are still ways, though, to file your return at no charge, using government or commercial options. Direct File, a program started in the Biden administration, was tested...
Neil Sedaka, the singer-songwriter behind dozens of hits of the 1960s and ’70s, dies at age 86
NEW YORK — Neil Sedaka, the hit-making singer-songwriter whose boyish soprano and bright melodies made him a top act in the early years of rock ‘n’ roll and led to a second run of success in the 1970s, has died. Sedaka, whose hits included “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do”...
How ‘The Pitt’ grosses you out
Producers of “The Pitt” insist the show doesn’t pick medical cases for shock value. But they are still often shocking. Throughout its run so far, the series, about a Pittsburgh emergency room, routinely presents cases that test viewers’ gag reflexes with protruding bones, visible organs and buckets of blood. (Season...
Grateful Dead meets contemporary dance in Attack Theatre’s ‘Once in a While’
Anyone familiar with the music and subculture of the Grateful Dead understands the innate physicality of a Dead show. A closely packed crowd flows in unison with the slow build of a jam, collectively exhaling as melodies resolve. The audience gives its energy to the band, and the band gives...
