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...

UPDATE —  12:35 p.m., Wed., Aug. 12: Number of today's new confirmed positive cases in Allegheny County: 70* Number of today's new hospitalizations in Allegheny County: 1 Number of today's new confirmed coronavirus deaths in Allegheny County: 13 Number of today's total coronavirus tests in Allegheny County: 1,775...

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Video Archive The big story of the morning is Joe Biden picking Kamala Harris as his vice presidential running mate...

When Anthony Saba and Edward Alo moved to Crafton three years ago, they knew they wanted to settle down there. The two, a married couple living in the small borough just west of Pittsburgh, both wanted to be an integral part of the community, so they ran for borough council in 2019 and won...

Pinball, bad drag, summer jazz, and flower power

Thu., Aug. 13 Pinball party If you're bored of playing games with your housemates, head over to Kickback Pinball Cafe for Flip Out Thursday, a two-hour pinball tournament. Masks are required and pinball machines will be wiped down in between each game...

Music at the drive-in, Pittsburgh Opera teams up with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and more

Thu., Aug. 13 (IRL) Subtronics, Buku. 6 p.m...

After five months in quarantine, anyone has the right to be annoyed by their family, partner, or roommates. That much time together can drive a rift into even a healthy relationship...

Todd Porter is unapologetically frozen in time. As the frontman of Pittsburgh punk rock band The Cheats, Porter (a.k.a. “Todd Cheat”) is the quintessential old-school musician leftover from the heyday of the ’80s punk scene...

In 2017, sushi was an Instagram celebrity and top food trend, taking the form of anything but the classic maki roll; there were sushi donuts, sushi pizza, sushi burritos, the list goes on. When I saw a sushi sandwich listed on the menu at Diners 2 + 1 in Squirrel Hill, I assumed it would look similar to other sushi-fied foods, more like a sandwich than actual sushi...

The most peaceful place in Pittsburgh is wherever Dannielle Brown is at the moment. At this moment, she is on Forbes Avenue at the entrance to Duquesne University...

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the dictionary, the first definition of "magic" is "the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand and deceptive devices." A far more interesting definition, which is my slight adjustment of an idea by occultist Aleister Crowley, doesn't appear in most dictionaries...

The U.S. Census deadline is coming up soon. After a move by the Trump administration, census data collection will end on Sept. 30, a month earlier than expected...

In a time when live performances have been put on hold or moved online, Pearlann Porter of The Pillow Project realized her modern dance company could still bring one work to the public — Thought Pockets. “It was socially distant to begin with,” says Porter of Thought Pockets, a pop-up performance that spreads dancers out along alleyways, streets, and other corners of Downtown Pittsburgh...

Sure, it seems like every day is national "something or other" day, but National Vinyl Record Day on Wednesday is a good excuse as any to cut loose halfway through your week and spend some time with some of your favorite tunes. Here are 5 ways to help you celebrate...

Any conversation around natural-gas drilling, aka fracking, in Pennsylvania and politics is a tinderbox. Many pundits have proclaimed that opposition to fracking is a political taboo in the commonwealth, and some candidates even try to project that an opponent is opposed to fracking for political gain...

It's been a long and hot summer under quarantine, but there are still ripe and juicy watermelons to enjoy. And I recently discovered even more ways to enjoy them...