By: Luke Mongelli Senior journalism student Luke Mongelli sits down with his boss Chris Copen, owner of Bottlerocket Social Hall in Allentown, Pa., which is run by “unemployable film students, creative dropouts, and comedy nerds.” Copen details his roots of theater and event planning to his journey of taking over the bar that has been…
By: Alexis Wary Student Alexis Wary sits down Aime Downs to talk about her journey from working on her high school and college newspaper to becoming the Communications Director of Allegheny County. Downs has been the director since 2012 and has over 25 years of experience in municipal, county and state government serving in both…
By: Caitlyn Scott Piano was always Nancy Xiao’s style, or, at least that’s what she thought. Despite her playing for over 10 years, a meeting with her mother’s friend, Jin Yang, changed the course of Xiao’s musical path, causing her focus to shift towards an instrument that many Westerners would mistake as a regular guitar. …
Pittsburgh’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade takes place in the heart of downtown,and you don’t have to be Irish to celebrate this tradition. More on why thistradition is important to the City of Pittsburgh. By: Jessica Harvey Pittsburgh’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade is a tradition that has been going on since the mid-1800s. The path of…
By: Justin Stewart Oakland can be a busy area during week day afternoons and weekends. While there are no shortage of restaurants, museums, college campuses, and shopping venues, there is only one comic book store: Phantom of the Attic. Located on the 2nd floor of 411 South Craig Street, the comic book specialty chain has…
By: Michelangelo Pellis At first glance when you walk by it on Forbes Avenue, Café Momentum may seem like any other Downtown eatery. It’s not. “Café Momentum is an award-winning culinary facility,” states the newsletter found on the company’s website (No Café Momentum staff were able to give a quote for this article). “We aim…
By: Cassandra Harris Around 12 a.m. Monday, January 28, in the Chatham Building in a twelfth-floor apartment, 20-year-old Sandamini Sinley, Director of Operations for Pioneer Records and third-year broadcasting student, decided to take a nap. Little did she know that she would wake up with folded contacts, a shattered window and a bullet underneath her…
By: Caitlyn Scott If you’d asked Kelly Sanders in 2016 what she would have envisioned herself doing in the next seven years, she probably wouldn’t have expected to be co-owner of a Pittsburgh-based gift shop. Upon a chance meeting, Sanders would soon take her passion for art and expand it on a hyper-local scale, giving…
By: Luke Mongelli Pastor Brian Evans began his sermon on a cold mid-January morning the same way as he did hundreds of others: with an anecdote from his own life that would pull his congregation towards a deeper connection with the message of his church and the word of God. The 42-year-old New Kensington native has been…
