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Interactive crime map: March 23 – March 30

By The Pitt News Staff April 2, 2017

March 23 12:10 p.m. Ruskin Hall 120 Ruskin Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213: Pitt police cited two students for marijuana/disorderly conduct. 11:43 a.m. Music Building 4337 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213:...

Forbes Digital Plaza is a common target of @NihilistOakland

@NihilistOakland finds meaning in Oakland life

By Annabelle Hanflig / Staff Writer February 25, 2016

Forbes Digital Plaza is every bit as mysterious as it is flashy. The square’s meagerly lit screens, oddly placed Top 40 hits coming from nowhere and seemingly defunct, blank screens — despite opening...

Amazing Books and Records opened up a new store on Meyran Avenue in Oakland.  Mason Lazarcheff | Staff Photographer

Vinyl meets vegan at Amazing Books & Records

By Rio Maropis / Staff Writer January 20, 2016

Oakland’s newest commodity won’t be the first in the neighborhood to house books and records under the same roof — but it will be the first to add a vegan cafe.  It’s a quiet, rainy day, with...

Language aloud in library: Carnegie Library offers free language lessons

Language aloud in library: Carnegie Library offers free language lessons

By Rio Maropis / Staff Writer December 9, 2015

Every first and third Tuesday of the month, Oakland’s Carnegie Library encourages its visitors to get chatty. That’s when the Japanese Conversation Club meets, in the library’s large print room....

Love Yogurt's yogurt stations allow customers to fill their own cups.  Chang Zuo | Staff Writer

Sweet dreams: Love Yogurt not just dessert

By Chang Zuo / Staff Writer November 30, 2015

Winter’s coming, but frozen yogurt is already here. Love Yogurt opened at the corner of Atwood and Sennott streets two weeks before Thanksgiving, becoming the third froyo shop in Oakland, but the first...

Editorial: City makes landlords accountable, renters more powerful

By The Pitt News Editorial Board November 18, 2015

In the housing market of South Oakland, basic supply and demand theory is somewhat in flux. Landlords are supplying a limited product, rentable houses and apartments, to a consistent and high demand,...

Two employees prepare drinks at Fuku Tea.  Valkyrie Speaker | Staff Photographer

Budding communi-tea in Oakland

By Chang Zao / Staff Writer November 2, 2015

Roll it, bowl it and bubble it. The week before Halloween, Fuku Tea, located on the corner of Oakland and Forbes Avenues, hung its “soft opening” sign in the window and unveiled the bubbling magic...

Valkyrie Speaker / Staff Photographer

Patties Stack’d high

By Eric Acosta / for The Pitt News September 21, 2015

Heads up Five Guys, your reign as the face of Oakland’s hamburger scene is coming to an end. Three days ago, Pittsburgh’s own Stack’d moved into the corner of Forbes Avenue and Oakland Avenue, expanding...

Get inked: a rundown of Pittsburgh's tattoo options

Get inked: a rundown of Pittsburgh’s tattoo options

By Kat Prosachik / Staff Writer November 17, 2014

Years ago, tattoos signaled nonconformity and originality. Body art, now a very mainstream trend, is considered socially acceptable by most, especially the millennial generation.The first evidence of tattoos...

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