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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
City of Asylum is a bookstore that specializes in translation and world literature but also hosts events like Jazz Poetry, which combines two art forms.

City of Asylum wraps 14th annual Jazz Poetry Month, welcomes new changes

By Frances Tirado, For The Pitt News • October 2, 2018
As Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum, closes out its Jazz Poetry season, the staff talks about the new changes within the organization.
Director Keith Reimink’s documentary — about the personal fallout of a U.S. nuclear test on March 1, 1954 — premiered at Row House Cinema over the weekend.

Japanese history evoked in new documentary from local filmmaker

By Kim Rooney, Contributing Editor • October 2, 2018
On Sept. 28, the Row House Cinema premiered the documentary “Day of the Western Sunrise,” which details the story of Japanese fishermen.
Brockhampton’s fourth album, “iridescence,” was released Sept. 21. (Image via Wikimedia Commons)

Brockhampton regroups in new album ‘iridescence’

By Maggie Medoff, Staff Writer • September 27, 2018
In the band’s fourth effort released on Sept 21, Brockhampton matures — openly addressing the hip-hop group's recent controversy.
Devon Osamu Tipp, a Pitt PhD student and winner of the 2018 Japanese Nationality Room scholarship, plays the Shakuhachi, a Japanese end-blown bamboo flute. (Image via University of Pittsburgh)

Silk Screen Film Festival celebrates Japanese culture

By Maya Best, For The Pitt News • September 27, 2018
The Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival kicked off its 13th year on Sunday with a Japanese music performance and film screening of Shuichi Okita’s 2018 film, “Mori, The Artist’s Habitat.”
First-years Lily McIntire (left) and Alden Paine paint “H2P” on Popeye’s door Monday for Paint the Town — an event hosted by Pitt Student Alumni Association — in preparation for Homecoming.

Pitt students paint the town

By Sarah Connor, Culture Editor • September 25, 2018
Members of Pitt’s Student Alumni Association and Blue and Gold Society painted their school’s colors on the windows of Fifth Avenue businesses to celebrate the upcoming homecoming week.
Models walk the runway in designs by Bernice Yu during Pittsburgh Fashion Week’s Thursday night runway event at Wintergarden at PPG Place.

Review: Pittsburgh Fashion Week rocks the runway

By Charlie Garcia-Weger, Staff Writer • September 24, 2018
The Pittsburgh Fashion Week occurred from Sept. 17 to Sept. 20 and brought three different events to the City — including a high-profile runway show.
Ensemble designed by Elaine Healy and King Reld

GALLERY: Pittsburgh Fashion Week—The Runway

By Knox Coulter, Staff Photographer • September 21, 2018

The Downtown Community Development Corporation hosted Pittsburgh Fashion Week for its third consecutive year this September. The week kicked off with a rooftop social Monday evening, continued with a panel...

VIDEO: Pittsburgh Fashion Week 2018

September 21, 2018

The “Act III. The Rising Tide” panel discusses the future of automation at Thrival’s Future of Work Symposium. (Photo by Elizabeth Donnelly | Contributing Writer)

Thrival Festival explores humans and technology

By Elizabeth Donnelly, Staff Writer • September 20, 2018
Thrival is an annual festival that explores the connections between people and important parts of their society — technology and music.
Gemma Sole, COO and co-founder of Nineteenth Amendment, discusses fashion designers and their access to wholesale connections at PGH Fashion Week “The Future of Fashion Panel” Wednesday night at the Union Trust Building. (Photo by Maria Heines | Staff Photographer)

Pittsburgh Fashion Week hosts panel

By Charlie Garcia-Weger, Staff Writer • September 20, 2018
The Pittsburgh fashion community crafted its own version Wednesday night with a discussion of fashion's future — including the integration of technology.
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