By: Robert Fornataro Photo by Tommy Speranza Hundreds of people gathered outside the City-County Building in Downtown Saturday afternoon as part of a coordinated national series of “No Kings” protests. The events, held in all 50 states, were organized by Indivisible Pittsburgh and other advocacy groups in opposition to what organizers describe as the rise…
Due to the frigid weather that the City of Pittsburgh faced this year, the CitiParks warming centers were activated several times to offer shelter to those living in the surrounding Pittsburgh neighborhoods. But in Downtown, no CitiParks warming center exists. There are six CitiParks warming centers located around the city in Beechview, Brighton Heights, Greenfield,…
By: Gavin Petrone Walking through Riverview Park on a cool, late-March afternoon, one would be hard pressed to see any obvious sign of white-tailed deer. No tracks, no visible buck rub on tree bark, no droppings; no deer. The deer’s meal of choice, sprouts and seedlings, litter the ground along Riverview’s trails. These plants were…
By: Cilia Catello Jon Engle caught a black eye in the tiny, overcrowded room as “Short Fictions” new album “Fates Worse Than Death” pulsated around the cement walls of the Mr. Roboto Project. Engle’s friends snuck him into the venue and despite the board members’ best efforts, fists were flying and people were suspended in…
