In late June, pharmaceutical company Gilead set its price for remdesivir, an antiviral drug that has been shown to diminish the recovery time of patients hospitalized due to COVID-19. For Americans with private insurance, remdesivir costs $520 per dose, and $390 per dose for those with government-subsidized insurance...

Openings Pita My Shawarma The popular Mediterannean food truck, voted Pittsburgh's best new food truck in 2019 by Pittsburgh City Paper readers, has finally opened its brick-and-mortar in Lawrenceville...

The above video is the second in a four-part non-partisan webinar community training series aiming to help Pennsylvania nonprofits, community groups, and organizations ensure their hard-to-reach neighbors vote in the upcoming general election. The first video, a training on Tools, Key Dates, & Voter Registration Day, can be seen here: ELECTION 2020 VIDEO TRAINING - SEPT. 9...

UPDATE — 2:30 p.m., Thu., Sept. 17: Number of today's new confirmed positive cases in Allegheny County: 79* Number of today's new confirmed coronavirus deaths in Allegheny County: 3...

It’s been said that football is the moral equivalent of war — with, likely, electoral politics finishing a close second. So perhaps it’s only appropriate that a new ad from Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential campaign throws both into the blender to make broad points about leadership...

Yesterday, Allegheny County officials opened a new drive-up COVID testing site in McKeesport that is free to the public. Private and nonprofit health-care facilities have been undertaking most of the testing since the coronavirus pandemic started, but now the county has its own drive-up facility...

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Video Archive Lynn is sharing some of the six word memoirs you sent her after yesterday's show...

According to public salary information for the City of Pittsburgh, Paul Abel Jr., a police officer currently under investigation for potential misconduct for an aggressive arrest he conducted near the Squirrel Hill farmers' market, made $156,106 in total compensation last year. That makes him among the most highly-compensated city employees last year...

Turn up the bass for this one.

Pittsburgh's Slicky Williams doesn't leave the house without praying to God. Or, at least that's what he claims in his latest single, "Pray to God."

For eight years, Imbibe Magazine and Campari have hosted Negroni Week, a global, weeklong celebration of the traditional Italian cocktail. Typically, restaurants across Pittsburgh honor the classic drink, composed of sweet vermouth, Campari, and gin, with special menus, events, and more, donating a portion of the proceeds to a charity of their choice...

A state environmental review board gave the green light to a statewide cap-and-trade program Tuesday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The Environmental Quality Board voted 13-6 Tuesday to let Pennsylvania enter the multi-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative...

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Video Archive Lynn has been trying to create her six word pandemic memoir...

The United Steelworkers is making a superhero-sized statement about voting with a new campaign in Pennsylvania and other battleground states. Last week, the United Steelworkers (USW) launched a nighttime campaign to project giant messages in support of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his vice-presidential pick, Kamala Harris...

Across the country, historic statues glorifying white men who have mistreated Black and Indigenous Americans are being taken down in light of Black Lives Matter protests. Discussions about what should happen with the Christopher “Let’s Get Lost” Columbus monument here in Pittsburgh tend to center around the thoughts and feelings of white Americans and Italian-Americans, specifically...

Hot dog carts aren’t known for their culinary prowess. If I’ve learned anything from romantic comedies and their infamous New York City hot dog stands, it’s that most carts operate with a two-ingredient formula: a hot dog and a bun...

Mr. Smalls Café Street Series, outdoor jazz, spooky tunes, and more

Thu., Sept. 17 (Livestream & IRL) Rich Zabinski Quartet. 6-9 p.m. 1700 Penn Ave., Strip District...

Live theater, an art gallery reopens, and more events this week in Pittsburgh

Thu., Sept. 17 Outdoor Theatre There’s no mystery in guessing who the killers are in South Park Theatre’s newest production. In Murderers, performed on South Park’s outdoor stage, the actors fess up right at the beginning...

When the pandemic first began taking effect in March, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto’s office hoped to include an overview of how Pittsburgh responded to a previous pandemic, the 1918 flu, but found that any documentation of the response was lost or not preserved, except in newspapers. "If other City records were created, there doesn’t appear to have been an awareness to preserve them from one administration to the next," Nick Hartley, the City of Pittsburgh’s archivist, told Pittsburgh City Paper in March...

Welcome to the first installment of Soulshowmike’s Album Picks. While combing through R&B, jazz, hip hop, and associated cross-fertilizations to create The Soul Show’s weekly playlist, I often post discoveries on social media to give heads-ups to listeners...

2020 has been the year of quarantine and isolation, and Kahone Concept’s Ben Orrvick has been utilizing the alone time to discover more of himself as both an individual and an artist. Orrvick, a Pittsburgh musician who writes, records, and produces all of his own work, is a recent college graduate trying to navigate the transition into post-college life during an ongoing pandemic...