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4-car crash snarls inbound traffic on Parkway West in Green Tree
State police are investigating a four-car crash on the Parkway West inbound near the building that houses WDVE on Friday afternoon. An Allegheny County emergency dispatcher said the crash took place around 4:50 p.m. by the Green Tree/Crafton exit. No injuries were reported. Traffic was backed up to the For...
Restless Road getting back on the road as opener for Kane Brown at PPG Paints ArenaVideo
As Nashville country music singer Kane Brown’s career was moving forward, he took some time to look back. Brown invited singers he met years before through “The X Factor” the U.S. version of a show created by British producer Simon Cowell that appeared on Fox, to perform a few songs....
PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh set to resume in October after pandemic pause
The PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh series will take up where it left off, after “The Band’s Visit” was forced to close halfway through its 2020 run due to the pandemic. The Tony Award-winning production will return to the Benedum Center for six performances Oct. 28-31, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announced....
Part of Fort Duquesne Boulevard to close for 5 months, host arts fest, markets
Part of Fort Duquesne Boulevard will close for five months to make room for more events in Downtown Pittsburgh, city officials said Thursday. The closure will begin Monday and run through Oct. 7. The boulevard’s westbound lane — the side closer to the river — will be blocked off from...
Fountain flows for the season at Point State Park
The fountain at Point State Park is flowing for the season. This is the 47th year for the fountain, which has become a landmark at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at Point State Park in Downtown Pittsburgh. An old friend in @DowntownPitt is back for its 47th...
Peduto announces $115 million in commitments from regional nonprofits for OnePGHVideo
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto released a plan Thursday that could result in $115 million from the region’s nonprofits to fund affordable housing, recreation and social service programs. The funds would go through a new standalone entity called OnePGH. “Today we are setting a new model for cities around the county...
Strike a pose: Yoga returns to Market Square
Take a deep breath. Yoga in the Square is returning. The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership will once again partner with a variety of local yoga studios for twice-weekly classes in Market Square. Each 60-minute outdoor session is free. Classes will be held at 10 a.m. Sundays starting May 2, and at...
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to reopen galleries in June
After being closed for more than a year because of the pandemic, the galleries and visual arts spaces of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust will reopen on June 4. The first installation, “We Are The Global Majority,” will appear in the Space Gallery on Liberty Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh. It will...
Giant Eagle’s GetGo opens market at PPG Paints Arena
A GetGo Cafe and Market opened inside PPG Paints Arena on Wednesday. “We are extremely excited to have a GetGo inside a sports venue,” said Rug Phatak, senior director of marketing and chief of staff for GetGo, a brand within the Giant Eagle family. The market will be located behind...
It’s your move: Pittsburgh police invite the public to play chess in Market SquareVideo
David Shifren carries a chess set in his car. It’s more than a childhood game that his late father Leonard, who died in October, taught him to play. “Chess puts everyone on an utterly equal playing field,” said Shifren, a Pittsburgh Police Community Resource Officer for Zone 4 in Squirrel...
Handmade Arcade hosting virtual spring event, other happenings in 2021
Adam Nelson grew up in nature. His father, Doyle Nelson, was a national park ranger in California, Wyoming and Pennsylvania. He was recently chief ranger of the Delaware Water Gap in Pennsylvania. “We spent a lot of time in the outdoors,” said Adam Nelson, of East Liberty, who came to...
Pittsburgh Opera offers free livestream of ‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’
Pittsburgh Opera will provide a taste of what in-person audiences are seeing with a free livestream of its current production, “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird.” The performance will stream at 7:30 p.m. Friday on the opera’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. “Yardbird” played to small, socially distanced live audiences on April 10...
Police: Man in stable condition after Uptown Pittsburgh shooting
A man is in stable condition after police say he was shot in the leg in Pittsburgh’s Uptown section Monday night. Pittsburgh police responded to a Shotspotter alert in the 1400 block of Fifth Avenue around 10:50 p.m. where they found the victim who was conscious and alert, according to...
Georgia college president tapped to lead Point Park University
Point Park University’s board of trustees Monday announced the appointment of Donald J. Green as the school’s eighth president. Green, who is president of Georgia Highlands College, a multi-campus state college in the University System of Georgia, will take the helm at Point Park this summer, officials said. He succeeds...
Elderly man taken to hospital after vehicle-pedestrian crash in Downtown Pittsburgh
A man was taken to a local hospital following a vehicle-pedestrian accident Friday evening in Downtown Pittsburgh, according to a Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman. The crash was reported just after 8:15 p.m. on Liberty Avenue at Wood Street. Responding officers found an elderly man with a cut to his head....
Here are 5 must-see vehicles at Pittsburgh World of Wheels this weekendVideo
If it can be chopped, chromed or customized, some vehicle enthusiast will do it. And the results are likely to end up in the MAXMotive World of Wheels exhibition. The 60th annual premiere custom car show rolled into the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh on Friday for...
125 trees to be planted on Eliza Furnace Trail in Pittsburgh
The nonprofit Tree Pittsburgh will plant 125 trees and shrubs along the Eliza Furnace Trail on Tuesday, as part of the organization’s goal of replacing lost tree canopy. Tree Pittsburgh staff will partner with the Arbor Day Foundation and the Target Corporation for the event. Planting will start at 10...
World of Wheels returns to Pittsburgh and it’s ‘pretty much business as usual’
The vehicles and celebrities aren’t the only stars of the show when Max Motive World of Wheels Custom Car and Hot Rod Show comes to Pittsburgh. The venue is pretty special too, said Larry Way, public relations director for the exhibition presented by NAPA. “It’s a gorgeous building,” Way said...
Pizzaiolo Primo to reopen in Market Square
A popular Downtown Pittsburgh restaurant that closed during the pandemic is reopening. Pizzaiolo Primo, an Italian eatery in Market Square, will reopen with takeout food available by mid-April. In-house dining is scheduled to begin May 1. The restaurant, which closed last December, has been purchased by the Ron Sofranko Group....
Pandemic increased pace of I-579 cap project in Pittsburgh, officials say
Building a cap on top of a highway in Downtown Pittsburgh presented its own set of challenges, PennDOT officials said Wednesday. But the $30 million cap project over Interstate 579, commonly called the Crosstown Expressway, that will link the Hill District to Downtown Pittsburgh actually benefited from the decreased traffic...
‘Open Air’ arts performances set for May in Pittsburgh park
Flagstaff Hill, a popular gathering spot in Oakland, will be the site for two weeks of dance, music and arts programming in May. More than 20 local performing arts organizations will perform on Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s mobile stage in the Schenley Park location during “Open Air: A Series in Celebration...
This week’s Giant Eagle Heinz Field vaccination clinics are full
As of Tuesday afternoon, Giant Eagle’s mass vaccination clinics at Heinz Field on Thursday and Friday are full. Giant Eagle spokesperson Dick Roberts said that while additional clinics will take place, he cannot comment on how many more there will be. Appointments are required. Only those eligible under Pennsylvania’s Phase...
The Eagle lands in Pittsburgh: Fried chicken restaurant set to open
Fried chicken is the specialty at Downtown Pittsburgh’s newest restaurant. The Eagle Food & Beer Hall calls its main dish “cage-free all-natural chicken.” “Our focus is fried chicken,” said co-founder Joe Lanni. His Cincinnati-based Thunderdome Restaurant Group owns The Eagle. The restaurant is located on Penn Avenue. The name comes...
4 charged with animal cruelty in connection with poisoning of pigeons in Pittsburgh
A woman’s grim discovery on the streets of Downtown Pittsburgh on Thanksgiving Day culminated in felony animal cruelty charges against four people, including two managers of Downtown’s Frick Building, according to police. Allen Zimmerman, owner of Bird Control Services in Eastern Pennsylvania, his employee, Randall Hoffmaster, and Colleen Derbish and...
Court records: Box cutter used in attack on child in Downtown Pittsburgh McDonald’s
Court documents paint a chaotic scene inside a Downtown Pittsburgh fast food restaurant over the weekend where a man is accused of stabbing a child in the neck seemingly at random. The incident happened Saturday afternoon at the McDonald’s on Liberty Avenue, where the 12-year-old boy and his family had...
