Even before the coronavirus pandemic, operating a restaurant or bar was hard work. The margins are low, rent can be high, and long hours are the norm...

UPDATE —  5:00 p.m., Fri., Aug. 14: Number of today's new confirmed positive cases in Allegheny County: 90* Number of today's new hospitalizations in Allegheny County: 11 Number of today's new confirmed coronavirus deaths in Allegheny County: 5 Number of today's total coronavirus tests in Allegheny County: 1,237...

Pittsburgh City Photos: An exploration of the city through photographs

This week's Pittsburgh City Photos took inspiration from a few people. A college photojournalism professor once asked me to "pick a seat" and photograph what I saw for a period of time...

Yesterday, a post from the owner of a popular Braddock restaurant apparently compared Gov. Tom Wolf to Hitler and Pa. Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine to a Nazi. Levine is Jewish...

In a ceremony just outside Downtown Pittsburgh yesterday, President Donald Trump’s top environmental official formally put an end to Obama-era rules cutting down methane emissions from natural-gas wells, aka fracking wells. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler said the change, which also applies to storage facilities, pipelines, and processing sites, will save natural-gas companies more than $100 million a year in compliance costs...

A new initiative from Riverlife and the Office of Public Art hopes to gather and hire local artists to develop temporary COVID-19-related public resource projects in outdoor spaces. The program, dubbed Pittsburgh Creative Corps, will consist of several different projects, the first being a cohort of handwashing stations located Downtown and at the riverfront...

The Pittsburgh Left, the city's longtime unwritten rule of the road, continues to be a hot topic between the new and old guard of the Steel City. For some, it's simply a kind gesture — "You go ahead and go first!" — allowing their neighbor to avoid waiting for a long line of cars before turning left...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has launched a critical relief fund campaign aimed at sustaining the many Downtown Pittsburgh arts and cultural venues that it champions. The campaign, called Art Connects Us, is seeking financial support after five months of canceled events has left the Trust in a dire situation...

In July, Pittsburgh City Paper and PA Beef Council started a search for the best burger in the ‘Burgh. What normally would be a restaurant-hosted competition, Burger Month, became Burgher Battle, a citywide contest to be named Pittsburgh’s top burger...

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What does medical marijuana look like in Pennsylvania? Find out through the Healing Hearts Podcast, put on by local dispensary The Healing Center...

In 2016, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ceased all printing in the city of Pittsburgh and many had assumed the start of a serious decline for Pittsburgh’s second biggest newspaper. For decades prior, thanks to the wealth of Richard Mellon Scaife, the paper had been a true competitor to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and its columns and investigations were legendary in right-wing circles...

An Allegheny County judge is facing formal charges on six counts of judicial misconduct, according to a statement released Wednesday from the Judicial Conduct Board of Pennsylvania. In the complaint, the board alleges that Fifth District Judge Mark V. Tranquilli undermined “both public confidence in the judiciary and its reputation” and called for Tranquilli’s interim suspension during the case...

Audio & Video Archive

Video Archive Lynn is talking about one of her favorite shows - Jeopardy!.

Today is the 10th anniversary of Mac Miller's mixtape, K.I.D.S., and to commemorate the occasion, Rostrum Records has released a deluxe edition of the late musician's breakout debut at midnight. It features two previously unreleased tracks, "Ayye" and "Back In The Day."

When Olivia Enders tried to log into her University of Pittsburgh email account, something odd happened. Instead of the usual login page, she was met with a statement containing two online forms: a Pitt Community Compact and a Return to Campus Student Acknowledgment...

Russ Broman, an Allegheny County assistant district attorney, died yesterday due to complications from COVID-19. He had been hospitalized for over a month, and was placed on a ventilator for the last several days before his death...

Update: 5:46 p.m. on Wed., Aug. 12: Port Authority announced this week that two more employees have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total of Port Authority employees that have tested positive since March to 39. A press release stated that both employees that tested positive on Aug. 6 work at a facility in Manchester, and they both last worked on July 31...

This year, the NFL rolled back its rule saying it would fine players who knelt during the national anthem after widespread Black Lives Matter protests broke out following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. The NFL even issued an apology to former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who started kneeling in protest of police brutality against Black people, and the league encouraged teams to sign him...

Pittsburgh’s popular smash burger joint and brewery, Burgh’ers Brewing, has released its first two canned beers. The first can debuts the brewery’s version of Black is Beautiful, a nationwide collaboration brew designed to bring awareness to the daily injustices faced by people of color and to raise funds for police reform and legal defenses...

Opening Bakluva If you've been craving baklava in quarantine, then this is explicitly for you...