Yesterday, both the municipal governments of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County passed bills that would ban discrimination based on hairstyle in employment, housing, real estate, and public accommodation. Both chambers, Pittsburgh City Council and Allegheny County Council, voted unanimously to pass these changes...

Odds are, you have already voted in the 2020 General Election. Allegheny County voters have already returned well over 200,000 mail-in ballots...

Katie and Rachel Saul Rearick share much of their life together, both as a married couple and as arts professionals. Now the two have opened KURATEDpgh, a new gallery in Aspinwall created to increase the visibility of Pittsburgh artists...

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A comedic take on a popular soap opera, a double-feature horror fest, and more events this week in Pittsburgh

Thu., Oct. 22 ARTS TALK Public Art and Communities Symposium: Creative Placemaking to Address Community Public Health, a two-day virtual event presented by the Office of Public Art in collaboration with Neighborhood Allies, will address innovative ways artists can help their neighbors respond to public health issues. The Zoom event will feature national speakers including actress Anu Yadav, Lead Fellow Faith Bartley from Philadelphia’s The Village and the People’s Paper Co-op; and Pittsburgh artists including Alisha Wormsley, Njaimeh Njie, John Peña, and Molly Rice...

Live tunes from a backyard, back alley, and more this week in Pittsburgh

Thu., Oct. 22 (IRL) Backyard Music Makers. 5-6 p.m...

The State Auditor General is the chief fiscal watchdog for the commonwealth, using audits to ensure the legal and responsible spending of state taxpayer dollars. There is no incumbent in this race as the current Auditor General, Eugene DePasquale, is term-limited...

Pennsylvania's 28th State House District covers the North Hills communities of Bradford Woods, Franklin Park, Marshall, McCandless, and Pine. There is no current incumbent, as the last representative to sit here, former House Speaker Mike Turzai (R-Marshall), retired this summer...

Pennsylvania's 30th Congressional District includes Hampton Township, Richland Township, Allison Park, Glenshaw, Shaler, O'Hara Township, and Fox Chapel. State Rep. Lori Mizgorski is the incumbent in this race...

Pennsylvania's 44th State House District includes Sewickley, Edgeworth, Osborne, Aleppo, Ohio Township, Crescent, North Fayette, and Findlay. State Rep. Valerie Gaydos is the incumbent in this race...

Pennsylvania's 37th State Senate District covers Mt. Lebanon, Whitehall, Jefferson Hills, South Park, Bethel Park, Upper St. Clair, Peters, Sewickley, Leetsdale, Aleppo, Thornburg, Rosslyn Farms, and Western Allegheny County, excluding Coraopolis. State Sen. Pam Iovino is the incumbent...

You know these candidates, and you are probably sick of hearing about them. The 2020 presidential race has dominated the news cycle for basically the last four years...

Pennsylvania's 17th Congressional District includes all of Beaver County, parts of Cranberry in Butler County, Mt. Lebanon, Dormont, Castle Shannon, Carnegie, Crafton, Ingram, all of Western Allegheny County, Oakmont, Verona, most of Penn Hills, and all Allegheny County municipalities north of the Allegheny River, with the exception of Pittsburgh’s North Side. Rep. Conor Lamb is the incumbent...

If you were thinking ahead about voting this cycle, you might have already applied for and received a mail-in ballot for the Pennsylvania General Election. However, just because you received a mail-in ballot, that doesn’t mean you are locked into voting that way...

I’ve never looked at a can of SPAM and thought, “Wow. That looks appetizing.” There’s something about the phrase “canned meat” that brings the same feeling of disgust as Jell-O salads; they’re two words that shouldn’t — and can’t — be made into something I want to eat...

In my mid-teens, when I went out to trick or treat with gusto, my costume was “hobo,” which is probably a poor term to use. But the idea was a 1920s person riding trains and living off the land, misrepresented and romanticized in movies like Sullivan’s Travels...

Halloween may, for the most part, be canceled by the pandemic. But even if costume parties and trick-or-treating are no longer options, there are still ways to celebrate this festive time of year...

Since becoming a US citizen in 2000, Moroccan native Laila Lalami has been grilled about assimilation by a man sitting next to her on a plane. When her father became ill right after 9/11, Lalami feared she wouldn’t be able to fly home to see him in Morocco...

Without direct federal aid from a stimulus bill, Pittsburgh’s budget is in big trouble. Mayor Bill Peduto has warned against the shortfall the city would have without money from the federal government ever since the coronavirus pandemic started, and those worries haven’t lessened...

Openings and Reopenings Adda Bazaar This weekend, Adda Coffee & Tea is opening their third location, Adda Bazaar, in Garfield...