Pride Month in Pittsburgh is one of the most important times for the city’s LGBTQ+ community, a time to show strength in the importance of love and unity throughout the region. 2021 was an especially big year for Pride, with events all over the city, and an estimated 200,000 people that attended the PGH Pride Revolution March on Saturday, June 5...
Carnegie Mellon University recently launched its first online exhibition in The Robotics Project, an archival presentation that preserves and promotes the University’s contributions in the field of robotics. CMU’s first digital exhibition open to the public is “Building the Robot Archive,” which is a historical presentation of CMU’s projects in the field of robotics that included artifacts and materials that roboticists have produced since the beginning in the 1970s...
Allegheny County COVID-19 information as of July 23
Number of new positive cases in Allegheny County: 90 (two-day total) Number of today's new coronavirus deaths in Allegheny County: 8...
Recent visitors to the Carnegie Museum of Art may have noticed closed-off sections with signs promising a new exhibit. Those areas will reopen when the museum unveils Extraordinary Ordinary Things, a showcase for the decorative arts...
On July 12, a new Pittsburgh-focused Instagram page popped up and quickly garnered attention. Titled Pittsburgh Fatties Social Club, the first post stated it was “here for a fat-friendly Pittsburgh.” What that means might be confusing for some, so Pittsburgh City Paper talked with one of the people behind it, Emily Anderson of All Bodies Welcome Yoga, to see just what PFSC is all about...
One popular street festival making its return to Pittsburgh after the city saw a year of pandemic absences. Open Streets, which closes down public streets to car traffic to allow pedestrians, cyclists, skateboarders, and more to enjoy the road, will return on Sun., July 25 in Hazelwood, for its first — and only — festival in 2021...
You’ve probably heard by now about the Delta variant of COVID-19, a highly transmissible strain that’s been rampaging across the country. If you haven’t, here’s what you need to know in a nutshell:
Thu., July 22
Inside Out - Kinselland Radio
Carnegie Museum of Art
4-8 p.m. Stop by CMOA this week for another installment of Inside Out, this time featuring Kinselland Radio...
Video Archive Lynn is discussing the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about leadership changes at Sewickley Academy after a parental groups letter to the school community...
At midnight on July 21, Sierra Sellers dropped a new song titled “Need You Bad,” a beautiful, vibrant R&B track that you’ll love singing along to. “Need You Bad” is smooth and balanced, the kind of song you can get lost listening to, and eventually end up with it on a loop...
The popular Pittsburgh party that promises dancers will be home at a decent hour has returned after a pandemic break. In Bed by Ten events return after over a year of in-person absence and there are five outdoor events scheduled for a summer tour across the city...
Like many arts organizations, the Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media had to pivot during the pandemic. Its classes became virtual, and its studio membership closed until Pennsylvania moved into the green phase in 2020...
One scene from Disney and Pixar's most recent film Luca has ignited a bit of a social media storm of people craving pesto. The father in the animated film cooks his famous ‘Trenette al Pesto’ — a creamy basil-based pesto blanketing trenette pasta, topped with green beans and sliced potato — and social media users recently have been filming themselves cooking their own versions of the pesto pasta dish...
Christmas in July is not a new concept, especially to anyone who has spent more than five minutes watching the Hallmark Channel and its endless supply of midsummer snowy romance movies. But since COVID-19 ruined the holidays last year, the unofficial halfway mark to magical winter fun has reached new heights, even in Pittsburgh...
In baseball lore, people usually associate home runs with Babe Ruth. But they probably should be thinking of Josh Gibson, the Pittsburgher and Hall of Fame baseball player who played in the Negro Leagues and tragically died before the color barrier was broken in Major League Baseball...
For many, jewelry is the most important part of an outfit. The sparkle of diamonds, silver, or gold, the pop of color on a beaded necklace or bracelet, all of it adds something to an ensemble that clothes can’t quite duplicate...
In what appears to be a seismic shift in policy, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has said he would be supportive of legislation containing “reasonable” voter ID requirements, including requiring ID for mail voting, from the General Assembly. The revelation was part of an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer published Tuesday, in which Wolf said he had previously drawn a line in the sand on bills containing voter ID language...
Transit proposals in Pittsburgh are a dime a dozen, with many never coming to fruition — like SkyBus and a high-speed Maglev train. Port Authority of Allegheny County is hoping to have better luck than those other plans, and has proposed more than a dozen transit projects, in which it is seeking public input...
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