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).

UPDATE — 1:00 p.m., Sat., July 4: Number of today's new confirmed positive cases in Allegheny County: 150 Total number of confirmed positive cases in Allegheny County: 3,430 Total number of hospitalized cases in Allegheny County: 408 Number of today's new confirmed positive cases in Pennsylvania: 634 Total number of confirmed positive cases in Pennsylvania: 89,375Total number of confirmed deaths from coronavirus in Allegheny County: 187 Total number of confirmed deaths from coronavirus in Pennsylvania: 6,749 Total number of Pennsylvania patients who have tested negative: 725,448 The above graphic was provided by our media partners PublicSource.org. Sign up for their email newsletter here...

Name: Baiyinah Brookins, founder of Frank and Myrhh Etsy: etsy.com/shop/FrankandMyrhhShop Twitter: @frankmyrhh Facebook: Fb.me/frankandmyrhh Instagram: @frankandmyrhh Neighborhood: Highland Park What led you to start making masks?

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 starrin g 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...

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...

UPDATE: Thu., July 2, 12:00 p.m. Yesterday, a restaurant in Pittsburgh’s East End that has recently been struggling to figure out how to operate while some of its employees have tested positive for COVID-19, has decided to close indefinitely...

Name: Daniel Gurwin Business: Daniel Gurwin Design Instagram: @danielgurwin www.danielgurwin.com Neighborhood: Lawrenceville What led you to create the mask designs?

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Video Archive Steve Mendelson,owner of Mendelson Gallery, is joining Lynn today to remember David Lewis, the pioneer of urban design architecture, artist, and professor who recently died at the age of 98...

Stuff can be complicated, especially when trying to get rid of it. The process reminds us that our things can have worth that's hard to put a dollar amount on; they can call to mind people from our lives; they can bring up memories of what they were (or weren't) used for...

Last month, after posting a news story about a public official who is trans on Pittsburgh City Paper's official Facebook page, our feed was soon filled with transphobic comments. Dozens of them in a short time span...

As new COVID-19 infections across Allegheny County reach an all-time high, Gov. Tom Wolf announced today a new order requiring all Pennsylvanians to wear masks any time they leave the house to enter public space. Signed by Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine under the Disease Prevention and Control Act, the order expands on a previous business safety ordinance issued in April that mandated businesses to require mask-wearing inside of stores and for patrons and employees to follow social distancing and safety measures...

Update: 3:30 p.m. on Wed., July 1: Port Authority announced that a 17th employee has tested positive for COVID-19. It is the third case within Port Authority since June 25, which was the first case Port Authority reported since early May...