By: Kaiya Russell Photo Courtesy of Kennywood Fog spills across the ground as shrieks echo from somewhere up ahead. The tunnel into Kennywood’s Phantom Fall Fest swallows you in with pulsing strobe lights and sinister laughter, a threshold that signals the summer park has shed its cheerful skin for something darker. What most visitors don’t…
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…
by Gavin Petrone Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) riders across the Downtown and Greater Pittsburgh area were invited to discuss the proposed Redesign of bus routes, which is set to be implemented in early 2026. “Draft 1.0” of the project proposes reducing the number of routes offered, rebalancing routes where rider demand has changed and making…
Kamala Harris addresses the crowd at “Get Out The Vote” rally at Carrie Blast Furnaces National Historic Landmark in Pittsburgh, PA. | Michelangelo Pellis Volunteer for Project 26 encourages students at Point Park University to vote. | Gavin Petrone Volunteer sets up for the day in front of polling place on Pittsburgh’s East End. |…
The City of Pittsburgh has become a focal point of the 2024 Presidential Election between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Whether free speech or women’s rights, voters had many strong motivators bringing them the polls. Cathy Gamble, 64, from Lawrenceville said voting is important because the results of the election affect…
by Gavin Petrone Point Park University’s full-time faculty union still has not reached a contract with the administration, with the two sides still failing to agree on a resolution. In the wake of the union mobilization during President Brussalis’s inauguration parade in mid-September, both the administration and negotiating faculty say that not much progress has…
Bicycle covered wrap dresses, cashmere cheetah-print overcoats and paper flower lapel pins beckoned the women of Pittsburgh to Boutique La Passarelle, a dream made into reality by Adele Morelli. Adele Morelli, owner of Boutique La Passerelle (BLP) on Wood Street, passed away from “complications of an unexpected illness while on a buying trip in Portugal…
