In March, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto introduced a bill that would change the Pittsburgh city zoning code to end the current requirement that new single-family attached dwellings have at least one off-street parking space per unit. The proposal is meant to decrease the amount of row houses being built with a parking garage and a driveway across the city...

UPDATE — 1:55 p.m., Tue., July 7: Number of today's new confirmed positive cases in Allegheny County: 204 Total number of confirmed positive cases in Allegheny County: 3,979 Total number of hospitalized cases in Allegheny County: 423 Number of today's new confirmed positive cases in Pennsylvania: 995 Total number of confirmed positive cases in Pennsylvania: 91,299Total number of confirmed deaths from coronavirus in Allegheny County: 194 Total number of confirmed deaths from coronavirus in Pennsylvania: 6,787 Total number of Pennsylvania patients who have tested negative: 758,803 The above graphic was provided by our media partners PublicSource.org. Sign up for their email newsletter here...

Openings 2 Sisters 2 Sons Jamaican food comes to Sharpsburg with 2 Sisters 2 Sons, which opened on June 25. They serve traditional dishes like jerk chicken, oxtail, fried plantains, and rice and peas, as well as vegan options...

Curbside pickup and returns have been available at select Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) locations since June 23, and over the next two weeks, CLP is expanding that service. Pittsburgh's public libraries are adding a few more contactless curbside service options as part of its phased reopening plan during the coronavirus pandemic...

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Video Archive Picking up on a topic from last week Lynn and Susan are once again talking about flying snakes, and other interesting facts of nature...

The pandemic has spurred a housing-payment crisis across Pennsylvania, and the entire country, with many people out of work and unable to pay rent and mortgages as unemployment as risen to historic levels. Gov. Tom Wolf (D-York) placed a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures in Pennsylvania at the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, and already extended it once, but it's set to expire on Fri., July 10...

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Video Archive The rise in Covid-19 in Western PA is startling...

Teaching was something “girls were supposed to do” when Shannon Reed was growing up in Johnstown in the mid-’90s. The idea of teaching, though, seemed foreign to her — she wanted a career in theater...

Anti-Trump protesters finally came face-to-face with a MAGA rally on the North Side on Saturday afternoon, leading to a heated shouting match nearly two hours after kicking off their demonstration against the group on the South Side that morning. Organizers of the Fourth of July boat parade and rally for President Trump claimed more than 10,000 people had registered online to attend Saturday's event in Pittsburgh...

Police donned riot gear and held out batons and pepper spray to a line of protesters during a Black Lives Matter demonstration Saturday afternoon in Downtown Pittsburgh, but the event ended without incident after protesters marched for nearly four hours. Downtown’s protest was the fifth consecutive Civil Saturdays, organized by Pittsburgh’s Black, Young, & Educated, a youth-led protest held every Saturday, calling for the amendment of PA Section 508 (use of force in law enforcement).

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Today, protesters held a demonstration that started in Freedom Corner in the Hill District and eventually marched down Centre Avenue towards Downtown Pittsburgh. Eventually, one person was arrested by police when they were kneeling in front of officers during a somewhat chaotic scene where traffic and marchers were intermingling at an intersection near the I-579 on-ramp...

In 2018, a film crew descended on Pittsburgh to film An American Pickle, a movie starring Seth Rogen as a European Jewish immigrant who falls into a vat of pickles, preserving him for 100 years, and waking up in a modern, trendy New York he doesn't recognize. The story is based on "Sell Out," a multi-part short story by Simon Rich, published in the New Yorker in 2013...

Every important historical event inevitably changes how writers view the world. Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage and Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were created in the aftermath of the Civil War...

Thanks to your feedback, there are now 10 new categories to vote for in Pittsburgh City Paper's Best of Pittsburgh readers' poll: •  Best Local Farm •  Best Tanning Salon...

Last week Pittsburgh City Paper posted an article with tips on how to deal with anxious pets and fireworks. In Pittsburgh, and around the U.S., fireworks have been going off much more frequently than normal...

Only a few weeks after it opened back up, restaurant dining is shutting down again, along with bars, who were ordered to stop serving on-site alcohol last week, and casinos. After an alarmingly quick rise in cases this week, Allegheny County has issued an order for the closures, as well as the cancellation of all events over 25 people...

More than 40 people protested today in front of the City-County Building in Downtown Pittsburgh, against the recently announced bar closures and ban on on-site alcohol consumption at restaurants. The protesters stood on the sidewalk holding signs that read, “PA Service Industry Against PA and Allegheny County Government.” There were no speeches, and just a handful of very brief chants...

The boys in Alex North's sophomore novel, The Shadows, are what nightmares are made of (literally). Broken into two timelines, The Shadows follows a group of teenagers - Charlie, Billy, Paul, and James - as they start to dabble in lucid dreaming, and alternately an adult Paul 25 years later as he returns to the town where he grew up...

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's venues may be dark, but that doesn't mean we can't still enjoy their creative programming. With the new Trust @ Home program, exciting digital content can be devoured anywhere...