Walking down Jacksonia Street in Pittsburgh’s Northside, a bright yellow house greets visitors from the corner of Arch Street. Sporting giant artificial butterflies, larger-than-life Coca-Cola bottle...
Leigh White is looking forward to the “ginormous” floating pickle that will be attached to the Rachel Carson Bridge later this month.
“We were noticing the cool, innovative restaurants around town...
Pittsburghers got a taste of the wild side this weekend as ferocious tigers, playful puppies and fox-tailed fursuiters flocked Downtown. The costumed company left behind a layer of fur and dumbstruck awe...
“Everything I Never Told You”
By: Celeste Ng
Grade: A
“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.”
These powerful opening lines begin Celeste Ng’s poignant debut fiction...
“Station Eleven”
By: Emily St. John Mandel
Grade: B+
What if an incurable, fast-acting and extremely contagious virus began infecting everyone and only gave patients two days to live, at most? What...
“Just Mercy”
By: Bryan Stevenson
Grade: A+
Imagine this: you’re a lawyer representing a black man in Alabama, and you’re walking into a courthouse with a Confederate flag glaring at you...
Fans of Netflix’s hit original series “Orange Is The New Black” were imprisoned by the desire to binge-watch all 13 episodes of the new season before the finale on June 11.Binge-watching has changed...
Carrie Nardini, a Pitt alum, couldn’t find a place to promote her own art — so she made her own.“I was making jewelry and couldn’t find a lot of outlets at the time to sell my work,” Nardini...
Not all artists start off with a brush and canvas — for Pittsburgh artist Elizabeth Rudnick, the 1990s version of Microsoft Paint was enough to get started.“At six, I was tying up my parents’ computer...
Ace Yilma wanted to make a movie that started a dialogue about abortion.“There are a lot of stereotypes that males are pretty much OK with abortion, [but] sometimes they’re not,” Yilma, an Ethiopian...