Gov. Tom Wolf has vetoed a bill that would have allowed anyone over the age of 18 who can legally own a firearm to carry a concealed weapon without a permit. It also would have repealed a state law that banned the open carrying of firearms in Philadelphia...
On Dec. 1, federal investigators for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division said a restaurant on Pittsburgh’s North Side violated the fair labor standards by illegally forcing workers to share tips to pay managers, supervisors, and other employees not usually tipped by customers. According to Wage and Hour Division District Director John DuMont, Provision PGH LLC, which is a restaurant housed inside the Federal Galley food hall, deceived employees by holding tips and not complying with the tip credit rules set in the Fair Labor Standards Act, and did so to the tune of $41,000 of the restaurant’s 12 employees...
Allegheny County COVID-19 information as of Dec. 2
Number of new positive cases in Allegheny County: 653 Number of today's new coronavirus deaths in Allegheny County: 0...
Acclaimed chef Kevin Sousa has had a tumultuous career in the Pittsburgh region, with several openings followed by several closings. His cuisine has regularly gotten high-level praise, but business troubles have regularly followed his endeavors...
Fri., Dec. 3
The CURE vs. The SMITHS vs. NEW ORDER vs. DEPECHE MODE
Belvedere’s Ultra-Dive
9 p.m.-2 a.m. Strangeways presents Friday Night Fights, featuring music for you sad, sexy goths...
SouthSide Works is currently undergoing some changes after developers decided on a major re-haul that shifted from the retail/restaurant focus of the past and into a development centered on office space and housing in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood. That new look just got its first completed overhaul as the former SouthSide Works movie theater has been converted into a new “Class-A” office space...
Video Archive “These same justices who are so concerned, in yesterday’s arguments, with the life of an unborn fetus, not so much concerned with the life of a grown viable woman...
Sunny and energetic, the new single “Gales of Worry” by String Machine is an impressive return by the band who released their last album in 2019. “Gales of Worry” can best be described as heartfelt, in its performance and in its lyrics...
As 2021 draws to a close, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has announced the many spectacular sights and sounds set to ring in the New Year for Highmark First Night Pittsburgh. The organization announced the programming for one of the city’s biggest, most anticipated events, set to take place over a 14-block radius of the Downtown Cultural District...
On Dec. 1, about 40 people gathered in Schenley Plaza in Oakland as part of a nationwide event to support the right to access abortions. The event was planned by Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates and was part of Bans Off Our Bodies Day of Action, a nationwide day of action in opposition to the U.S. Supreme Court considering a legal case involving a Mississippi abortion restriction law...
Klavon’s Ice Cream Parlor opened in 1923 as a soda fountain and apothecary shop and had a more than 50 year run before closing. It was revived in 1999 and has been going strong since, serving ice cream sundaes, scoops, and other classics to Pittsburghers at it's Strip District location...
Contemporary Craft presented a wide array of handmade bowls during the Prepping Pittsburgh: Art Sustaining Community exhibition at its BNY Mellon Satellite Gallery. The bowls, which were on display from August through Nov. 29, will now go up for sale during an event to benefit the efforts of Community Kitchen Pittsburgh...
Taking over for a staple in the Pittsburgh beer community is no easy task. But if there was anyone up for it, Trevor Greer and Caiti Sullivan are ready...
The once-bustling Ace Hotel in East Liberty has sat dormant for over a year. This is partly because of the pandemic, which put a stop to the kind of travel, dining, and events that kept the space open, as well as a legal dispute between the building owners and the company that owns the Ace brand...
Last month, two of the men convicted in the assassination of civil rights figure Malcolm X were exonerated by the New York Supreme Court. The exonerations were the end of a long journey of reports and investigations into the convictions of Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam, which were suspect from the moment they were handed down in the 1960s as both men had alibis that showed they were never present in the ballroom where Malcolm X was shot and killed, and their convictions rested on inconsistent eye-witness testimony...
The key word is “experience.” The Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit is not an exhibition of paintings, but a 35-minute “immersive digital art experience,” designed by Massimiliano Siccardi with a significant assist from Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890). In a repurposed warehouse on the North Side, visitors stand or sit in a darkened room while a steady stream of digitally projected images drawn from dozens of Van Gogh paintings unfold across a seamless four-walled screen and the floor...
Vegan and vegetarian menus are becoming more mainstream at restaurants across the country, but it still takes some boldness to pull them off. Con Alma recently undertook that step and has transitioned to a full vegetarian menu at their Shadyside location on Ellsworth Avenue...
Thu., Dec. 2
STAGE • IRL North Side’s New Hazlett Theater brings director, playwright, and CMU grad NaTasha Thompson’s Lavender Terrace to the stage as part of its Community Supported Art Performance Series. The original multimedia production explores Marita Boner’s 1928 one-act play The Purple Flower, a metaphor for racial issues in the U.S. Thompson says her goal is to “push Marita’s original allegory forward and to capture the essence of Black life in America over the past 100 years.” Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test required...
