On Wednesday, Feb. 11, Pittsburgh Magazine hosted its annual Pittsburgher of the Year Celebration at the Greer Cabaret Theater in Downtown Pittsburgh. The event honored Jeremy Waldrup, President and CEO of the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership. Jeremy was selected as our 40th Pittsburgher of the Year for his leadership, creative vision and determination spearheading Downtown’s post-pandemic revitalization, major renovations in Market…
Up to 30 million gallons of water flooded the 600 block of Stanwix Street and Fort Duquesne Boulevard Downtown when a 36-inch water main ruptured on Aug. 17, 2005. The break dumped more water on that area of Gateway Center than the floods of 2004 and 1996, according to the Tribune-Review. Seven thousand people were evacuated from several office buildings,…
On Dec. 5 Pittsburgh Magazine honored the unsung heroes or the health care field at their third annual Excellence in Nursing Awards.
The Pirates’ last two World Series wins had a lot in common. Both wins happened on Oct. 17. Both wins were against the Baltimore Orioles. Both series went seven games. The final games were both in Baltimore, and, most importantly for the Pirates, their biggest stars finished as Most Valuable Players. In 1971, Roberto Clemente became the first Spanish-speaking ballplayer…
PHOTO © UNIVERSAL STUDIOS From the earliest days of the horror genre, sequels have always promised more — more mayhem, more blood, more complications. Innovation and deviation is for new properties; the further adventures of an established villain are typically about increased intensity, not change. “Halloween Kills,” the sequel to 2018’s mega-hit “Halloween,” is no exception. The previous chapter of…
1512 Abby Rose Ct., Franklin Park, PA 15237 Presented by Malini Jaganathan Howard Hanna Real Estate Services This five-bedroom home sits on a cul-de-sac with a large, usable lot. A grand two-story foyer entrance with Porcelain floors greets you. The kitchen features an oversized granite island, tall cabinetry, stainless steel Bosch appliances, a beverage station, a walk-in pantry and a breakfast nook…
PHOTO COURTESY 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS When trying to figure out who is telling the truth, it’s often important to remember: Everyone is. And, simultaneously, no one is even close. Without turning a review of the quite good drama “The Last Duel” into a treatise on memory, it’s relevant to say that our cloudy understanding of the human mind has advanced…
Ten years ago, Curt Wootton was living in Los Angeles with the hope of making it as an actor. But success found him closer to home instead; today, the Pennsylvania native is better known as Pittsburgh Dad, the titular blue-collar, “everyman” from the online sitcom he co-created with his friend Chris Preksta. The series, soaked in yinzer nostalgia and based…
PHOTO BY LAURA PETRILLA A taste of the Middle East is coming to the Hill District. Mayor Bill Peduto announced Monday that the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh will enter lease negotiations with locally owned and family-run Salem’s Market & Grill to open a grocery store at the Centre Heldman Plaza. The storefront was previously home to Shop ‘n Save,…
PHOTO COURTESY MGM STUDIOS If “No Time to Die” does mark the end of a 15-year movement in the endless James Bond series, it’s fitting. While the epic film is even more spectacular (and certainly longer) than the chapters that led to it, it bears the same albatross that has hung around Daniel Craig’s neck the whole way: An overly…
PHOTO COURTESY A24 Yes, it’s a movie about a half-human, half-lamb child. But it’s a touching, very sincere movie about a half-human, half-lamb child. The efficiently named “Lamb” is a movie that will either work for you or not, based on how willing you are to accept the premise — a lonely farm couple adopts the chimera offspring of one…
Until the first week of October 2013, post-season baseball had not existed in Pittsburgh for two decades. The Cincinnati Reds came to town for the National League Wild Card game, and the paid attendance that night was 40,487, the largest in PNC Park’s history at that time. The raucous crowd was engaged in every pitch. Attendees would later recount that…
PHOTOS COURTESY CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER Mount Vesuvius in southern Italy erupted nearly 2,000 years ago, leaving the city of Pompeii buried beneath a layer of ash and pumice. But as the Carnegie Science Center says, what nature destroyed, it also preserved; the pall of ash from the very volcano that leveled the town and killed its inhabitants also preserved the…
PHOTOS COURTESY SCAREHOUSE Let’s get one thing straight: I’m a wimp. The dark creeps me out, spiders are liable to ruin my day and my tolerance for horror movies starts and stops with Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline.” My fondness of autumn comes from sweater weather and apple orchards; as for creepy jack-o’-lanterns and haunted houses — no thank you. But with…
Struggling with injuries in the final days of the regular season in 1972, Roberto Clemente complained bitterly when he felt the official scorer deprived him of his 3,000th hit on Sept. 29. The next day, at Three Rivers Stadium, there was no dispute when Clemente smacked a double in the fourth inning off Jon Matlack of the New York Mets….
PHOTO BY ERIKA DOSS / UNIVERSAL PICTURES The movie isn’t the problem. The story is. “Dear Evan Hansen” is a massive Broadway hit and a vacuum for Tony Awards and tear-stained tissues. Perhaps in its original form, the magic of live theater (and the infectious nature of cloying, heart-on-the-sleeve ballads) covers up the inescapable, deeply troubling problems in its story….
PHOTO BY HOPPER STONE/NETFLIX I want to like “The Starling.” I genuinely do. But it’s not making it easy for me. It’s a movie piled high with sentimentality, overtopped with cloying emotion, like a nacho platter with endless toppings and no visible chips. Yet it is also a movie that acknowledges and respects the difficulties of mental health and grief;…
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PHOTO COURTESY FOCUS FEATURES Many films about social issues opt to depict a time when things went right. When dealing narratively with big societal problems — particularly those matters that are still unresolved in the real world — filmmakers like to show the way things could be, or the time when the underdog triumphed against an unfair system. Such cases…
PHOTO © RLJE FILMS The poster for “Prisoners of the Ghostland” has a quote above the credits, as many movie posters do. These quotations are usually words of approval from reviews — never mine — or testimonials from fellow filmmakers. What’s unusual in this case, though, is that the quote comes from the star of the movie. The quote reads:…
PHOTO BY CHUCK BEARD “Dawn of the Dead” (1978) “What are they doing? Why do they come here?” As a group of survivors lands on the roof of Monroeville Mall, Francine (Gaylen Ross) asks Stephen (David Emge) why zombies would bother with a shopping center. “Some kind of instinct,” he replies. “Memory of what they used to do. This was…
PHOTOS BY OLLIE GRATZINGER To mark the 20th anniversary of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Duquesne University’s Gumberg Library is hosting an educational 9/11 Memorial and Museum exhibit featuring personal stories of witnesses and survivors. By the time most undergraduate students were born, 9/11 was already a part of history, memorialized by the power of collective memory. As the…
PHOTO BY RON BATZDORFF / WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT It’s certainly different. Director James Wan built his reputation as a crafter of crowd-pleasing horror, delivering a series of hits including “The Conjuring,” “Insidious” and “Saw.” His style created a cottage industry — all three of those films became franchises — and launched Wan into the lucrative realm of franchise blockbusters, as…
PHOTOS BY TRAE PATTON | NBC This time next week, Victory Brinker, a 9-year-old opera singer from Latrobe, might be a millionaire. Or, something like that. After making it through the semifinals on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” Wednesday night, Victory is one step away from winning the show’s 16th season. If she does, she’ll go home with a prize of…
