What’s smart about A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is that it’s built for both lifelong fans of Fred Rogers and his show as much as it’s built for non-believers. You either grew up watching and loving Fred Rogers on TV, carrying an even stronger admiration into adulthood, or, like me, you never watched or really even heard of Rogers growing up, and felt dissociated from the appeal...
The eyes. It’s the eyes that capture one's attention when first flipping through the pages of photographer Mark Perrott’s newest book, Tattoo Witness...
Hearing music from your favorite artists in concert is incredible, but there's nothing like that feeling when the sounds of live unreleased tracks hit your eardrums for the first time. Below are four release shows happening in the city this weekend, so you can hear new music from Pittsburgh musicians/bands before anyone else...
When local sculptor Tim Kaulen and a group of fellow artists built a sculpture of a giant deer head at the former Carrie Furnace facility in Swissvale two decades ago, they had no idea how iconic it would become. “At the time it was made, it was not even considered public art,” says Kaulen of the now-famous Carrie Deer, a nearly 45-foot-tall structure made of found objects from the Carrie Furnace site...
Today, just before noon, Winghart's in Market Square caught on fire, with visible flames coming out of the roof and dark smoke billowing from the popular whiskey bar in Downtown Pittsburgh. The fire started at around 11:45 a.m., according to Pittsburgh public information officers, and Pittsburgh firefighters responded quickly...
Things don't always happen according to plan, and sometimes that works out for the better. In Pittsburgh-native Joy Ike's case, fallen communication led to the delayed release of her "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" cover and accompanying music video, which dropped Wed., Nov. 20, two days before the new Mister Rogers movie, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, hits theaters...
This week, two bills passed through Pennsylvania legislature that, if signed into law, would further restrict abortion and could create undue stress on families and providers. On Nov. 20, the Pennsylvania Senate passed a bill that would ban abortion procedures after a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis (HB 321).
Over the last couple decades, Pittsburgh has recovered economically from the collapse of the regional steel industry. Cities like Pittsburgh have moved out of financial bankruptcy, and the region has seen significant growth in the tech industry and corporate headquarter jobs...
This year is the 100th anniversary of the Miniature Railroad & Village at Carnegie Science Center. And to commemorate this milestone, County Executive of Allegheny County Rich Fitzgerald was in attendance for the unveiling of the model's newest edition to proclaim Nov. 20 Carnegie Science Center Miniature Railroad & Village Day — a day all Pittsburghers are sure to have off from work...
This musical could have been “one of the great ones,” but a predictable plotline and a lackluster soundtrack hold A Bronx Tale back from being as good as one would expect a touring Broadway show of its caliber to be. There is, however, a silver lining: There are plenty of great moments, which are just good enough to make purchasing a ticket worthwhile...
Module, a local housing startup, will move into one Pittsburgh neighborhood with a new four-unit mixed-income development. The company, which specializes in houses designed to “grow” with its buyers, closed on land and financing for a housing development in Garfield...
Next year, 20 Buck Spin, a Pittsburgh-based record label, along with Gilead Media, a label based in Oshkosh, Wisc., will host the third edition of Migration Fest, a biennial music festival focused on music in the darker/heavy spectrum and underground metal. The festival will take place over Aug. 1-2 at Mr. Smalls Theatre in Millvale, with 10 acts per day — most of which are from either 20 Buck Spin or Gilead Media's label...
Happy Holidays, Pittsburgh! Whether you celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, or New Year's Eve — or, if you just enjoy enjoy the sparkles and lights of the season — we've highlighted some of our favorite holiday shows, concerts, marketplaces, and more to help make the next few months a little easier to navigate...
The increasing number of streaming services feels like the battle scene in a movie where the gang defeats the first crop of soldiers and breathe a sigh of relief, only to turn around see an even bigger mass of soldiers coming over the hill. I thought I knew how to watch TV, but more just keeps coming...
Metaphysical Milkshake, Reza Aslan's podcast with actor Rainn Wilson, might seem like an unlikely outlet for a scholar of religious studies whose works include God: A Human History and Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. But as Varun Soni, dean of religious life at the University of Southern California, stated on a recent episode: kids between 18-22 are the loneliest generation because they talk “with their thumbs, not their tongues.” The podcast gives Aslan the opportunity to bring his world to that demographic in a medium they're already familiar with...
During the weekends at AK Valley Research Park in New Kensington, music can be heard floating up through the rafters at one of the massive campus’ three under-construction buildings. But it’s not a concert or a warehouse party, there is no audience or ticketed entry...
Two Pittsburgh writers focused on racism and xenophobia in America are receiving grants to help them complete their current projects, courtesy of the Carol R. Brown Achievement Awards. Adriana Ramirez, a writer, critic, and performance poet, is 2019's "established artist" and plans on using the $15,000 grant to explore the legacy of generational conflict in her Mexican-Colombian family...
