On Monday, two bills passed through Pennsylvania legislature that, if signed into law, would further restrict abortion and could create undue stress on families and providers. The Pennsylvania senate passed a bill that would ban abortion procedures after a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis (HB 321).

The concept of black holes is notoriously complicated, so when it comes to explaining them to laypeople or City Paper writers, it helps to have a handful of metaphors on deck. In this regard, Carles Badenes, an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh, has quite the arsenal...

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The city of Pittsburgh's financial watchdog is hoping for a promotion. Today, Pittsburgh City Controller Michael Lamb (D-Mount Washington) announced he is seeking the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania Auditor General in 2020...

Dear Bob Nutting: I am contacting you regarding your opening for “2020 Pierogie.” After reading the job description and requirements, I know I could be your next Sauerkraut Saul or Oliver Onion...

Stay up-to-date with your favorite artists and musicians coming to Pittsburgh. Each week, Pittsburgh City Paper will bring you the most recent concert announcements so you never miss a show...

UPDATE: The Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office has ruled the death of Elisha Chanel Stanley as an accidental drug overdose. According to the examiner's report, which was completed Nov. 1 and resent to media today, the cause of death was "Combined Drug Poisoning of Fentanyl, Cocaine, and Ethanol Manner."

Are you tired of tracking down food trucks? Welcome to the Pittsburgh City Paper food truck roundup, where we do the hard work for you...

"Colorism," a word first coined in 1982 by acclaimed African-American novelist Alice Walker (The Color Purple), is different than racism and defined as a “prejudicial or preferential treatment of same-race people based solely on their color.” The concept might not be discussed as openly as racism, but it's a significant and insidious issue, particularly among Black men and women dealing with the effects of European beauty standards. These issues of prejudice and identity are on full display in School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play running now through Dec. 8 at Pittsburgh Public Theater...

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The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh today voted to issue an official statement of “no confidence” against Pittsburgh Post-Gazette executive editor Keith Burris, publisher John Block, and the paper’s owner, Block Communications. In a press release, the guild, which represents 140 journalists who work at the P-G, said it was compelled to act in response to management’s “escalating and unconscionable treatment of employees, union members, and managers alike.”

Don't beat yourself up if you assumed the premise for One Night in Miami was a work of fiction, or at least, seriously embellished. It's the stuff of a heavy-handed historical novel: In February 1964, 22-year-old Cassius Clay celebrates a huge victory over Sonny Liston at a hotel room in Miami with his friends Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown...

The city’s public recycling program will get a boost from a new initiative between the Recycling Partnership and the City of Pittsburgh. Today, the City of Pittsburgh announced that it received a $500,000 grant offer from the Recycling Partnership, a national nonprofit organization that leverages corporate partner funding to improve recycling in communities across America...

Herbal, spicey, tea-like tones touch the tastebuds first, before giving way for a creamy aftertaste, channeling a forthy latte aspect.

The husband and wife team of Norraset (Nor) and Rujira Nareedokmai, owners of two beloved Squirrel Hill eateries Silk Elephant and Bangkok Balcony, are giving Pittsburghers their first taste of Laotian cuisine. KIIN Lao & Thai Eatery, located in the former home of Bangkok Balcony, explores the connection between Lao and Isan-style (a region of Thailand bordering both Laos and Cambodia) cuisine...

A lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) was settled  today, and as a result, the commonwealth is altering its confinement policies against inmates currently sentenced to death. The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh-based Abolitionist Law Center, and two other law firms brought a class action suit last year against Pennsylvania that claimed the DOC automatic policy of holding death row inmates in solitary confinement violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution...

Union members of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) formed a picket line in front of the Forest Hills offices of their employer, industrial equipment manufacturer ABB, on Thu., Nov. 14  to decry changes it made to worker benefits without consulting union leadership.  The picket line — comprised of members of the UE Locals 625 and 626 — is a response to ABB decreasing their wage proposal and revoking their offer to add money to the workers’ medical saving plans...

Skilled in verbose wordplay, you might think it took Lady Lamb, (real name Aly Spaltro) a great deal of time to write her latest album Even in the Tremor, released April 5 via Tugboat Records. But after wandering around Manhattan feeling lonely and sad, the singer/songwriter says the chords for the second track "Deep Love" just flowed out of her, solidifying the confidence she needed to put the album, which focuses on the anxieties and problems that come along with exiting your 20s...

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