After more than a month of renovations, the fourth floor space will reopen Saturday with a nature-themed exhibit designed for children 6 and under with new features and revamped favorites.
Musicians such as George Benson, Ahmad Jamal, Stanley Turrentine, Billy Strayhorn and Mary Lou Williams as well as Joe Negri and Roger Humphries, all Pittsburghers, are featured in a new film to be broadcast on WQED.
Writers for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have ended their byline strike to protest 12 years without raises and other cuts from the newspaper’s ownership. Whether the action will get them a new contract remains to be seen.
He created a nonprofit organization that collects used soap bars from guesthouses in impoverished countries, transforming waste in potentially life-saving sanitation products.
Pittsburgh's annual kickoff of the holiday season will include a VIP party and tour of the roof of the U.S. Steel Building, new Pop Ups and returning favorites.
PigPen Theatre Co., made up of seven Carnegie Mellon University graduates, returns to Pittsburgh this month for a run at City Theatre with its acclaimed show “The Old Man and The Old Moon.”
The show is particularly popular in the Pittsburgh area because many of its flashbacks are set in the city and characters Rebecca and Jack Pearson are card-carrying members of Steelers nation.
A restaurant that specializes in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Dance classes for toddlers and parents. A lending library for educational toys. Storytime at a nearly 90-year-old bookshop. A civic institution sailing the three rivers. In and around Pittsburgh, the offerings for families looking for food, fun and more go so much deeper than the expected family outings. From places to outfit and entertain to natural wonders and city treasures, here are some of our favorites.
Host an event in Pittsburgh’s urban sustainable homestead. Join a club for mushroom hunters. Tour a coal mine. Listen to some banjo music. We list our new favorite experiences, food, drink, personalities, stores, items and activities in the ’Burgh.
From a children's book about a Monongahela Mermaid to a place where women can give birth in a home-like environment –– our favorite things for kids and family.
The organization has fought since its founding to eliminate child-labor practices, establish a 40-hour work week with paid overtime and workers’ compensation for those injured on the job, ensure paid vacation time and protect pensions.
