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‘Perseverance’ tells story of Squirrel Hill jeweler’s journey from Holocaust camps to U.S.
During his nearly four decades at the G&S Jewelry Store in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, Melvin Goldman created custom jewelry. But the shiny pieces belied Goldman’s much-darker journey to reach the United States. His story will be told onstage Saturday and Sunday at the New Hazlett Theater, when “Perseverance” opens....
117-unit Shadyside apartment building clears zoning board
A contentious multi-family apartment project in Pittsburgh’s Shadyside neighborhood received approval after months of negotiations. The 117-unit development from Mozart Management was approved Monday by Pittsburgh’s Zoning Board of Adjustments. The 10-story apartment building proposed at 525 South Aiken Street in Shadyside is a slightly smaller version than was initially...
Police: Man shot in Pittsburgh parking lot
A man was hospitalized Monday morning after being shot in a Pittsburgh gas station parking lot. Pittsburgh police responded the gas station in the 4900 block of Baum Boulevard on the Bloomfield/Shadyside border at 9:08 a.m. Monday. Tribune-Review news partner WPXI identified the location as a GetGo. First responders found...
Mellon Park Tennis Center reopens after months of renovations
The Mellon Park Tennis Center reopened this weekend after being closed for renovations for seven months. The Department of Public Works replaced the dome over the five tennis courts at the tennis center in Mellon Park in Pittsburgh’s Shadyside and Point Breeze neighborhoods. The dome was at the end of...
Boil water advisory affects thousands of households in multiple Pittsburgh neighborhoods
The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority has extended a precautionary boil-water advisory for Pittsburgh’s Bloomfield, East Liberty, Friendship, Garfield, Highland Park, Homewood North, Morningside, North Point Breeze, Point Breeze, Shadyside, South Oakland and Swisshelm Park neighborhoods after an electrical outage Sunday at an undisclosed pump station. More than 6,100 households...
Pittsburgh dancer Maria Caruso’s one-woman show to be available on Broadway on Demand
Maria Caruso has never watched herself perform. On Jan. 20, that will all change. She plans to sit down in her Los Angeles, Calif., home with her husband, Alan Russell, and view her one-woman show “Metamorphosis” streaming on Broadway on Demand. And you can, too. For $3.99, the hour performance...
Heinz History Center opens digital archive documenting 2018 Tree of Life attack
A website displaying archival materials collected in the aftermath of the Oct. 27, 2018, attack against three congregations at the Tree of Life synagogue was set in motion Tuesday by the Senator John Heinz History Center’s Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives. The October 27 Archive website (october27archive.org) is a...
Defense requests 2 phases of sentencing if Tree of Life suspect is found guilty
Attorneys for the man charged in connection with the killings of 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill believe that his sentencing proceeding should be separated into two phases so that jurors in the potential death-penalty case are not improperly influenced by victim impact testimony. The...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Dec. 9-11
Pop culture, vinyl records, artisan gift wares and holiday music take the stage this weekend in the Pittsburgh area. Comics and more Doors open at 10 a.m. Friday for Steel City Con, Pittsburgh’s premier comic book and pop culture convention, at the Monroeville Convention Center, 209 Mall Blvd. The convention...
Giant Eagle Market District, apartments, additional retail coming to Shadyside
A proposal to develop a Giant Eagle Market District, along with more than 200 apartments, additional stores and restaurants and a small park, in Pittsburgh’s Shadyside has earned Planning Commission approval. The development from O’Hara-based ECHO Realty will sit on a Penn Avenue site that previously was home to a...
Police: Driver impaled inside vehicle after fleeing traffic stop, crashing in Squirrel Hill
The driver of a car that fled from police in Squirrel Hill was critically injured when he crashed into a fence and a light pole and was impaled by a piece of metal, according to investigators. A Pittsburgh police officer on patrol at around 9:40 p.m. on Saturday saw a...
Penn Hills paramedic dies after crashing ambulance, suffering medical emergency
Pittsburgh Public Safety officials have identified the first responder who died after the Penn Hills ambulance he was driving collided with another vehicle in Shadyside, according to authorities. Paramedic Nicholas A. Theofilis, 23, of Penn Hills was driving along 5th and Morewood avenues shortly after 11 p.m. when the collision...
State police seek wrong-way driver who struck pedestrian, vehicle in Squirrel Hill
State police have secured a warrant for a Homestead man they say drove the wrong way up a Parkway East ramp Friday morning, hitting both a vehicle and pedestrian before fleeing on foot. Police said troopers were monitoring traffic at the Forward Avenue on-ramp to I-376 around 9:40 a.m. Friday...
South Negley Avenue bridge sidewalk to close for repairs
Pittsburgh officials on Wednesday said they are closing the east sidewalk on the South Negley Avenue bridge in Shadyside. The bridge, which spans the East Busway and Norfolk Southern railroad tracks, had sparked concerns about its safety earlier this year, as many residents grew alarmed about the state of the...
Plans unveiled for shuttered Shadyside Giant Eagle property
A proposed development would bring an updated Giant Eagle store, additional retailers and restaurants and over 200 new housing units to Pittsburgh’s Shadyside neighborhood. The development, owned by O’Hara Township-based ECHO Realty, is proposed for a site on Penn Avenue and Shakespeare Street that had previously housed a Giant Eagle....
Tree of Life names Zawatsky inaugural CEO of new re-imagined building
The new national institution dedicated to ending antisemitism housed at the site of the worst antisemitic attack on U.S. soil has named Carole Zawatsky its first chief executive officer. Zawatsky is tasked with leading a re-imagined facility designed to be part memorial, part museum and part worship space, according to...
About 680 Pittsburgh customers remain without power
About 680 Duquesne Light customers in the Pittsburgh area were without power around 2 p.m. Friday. Over 2,200 customers had been without power earlier Friday afternoon. Impacted neighborhoods included Bloomfield, East Liberty, Garfield, Green Tree, McKeesport, Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, Stanton Heights, Westwood and Wilkins. The utility company expects all service...
1 Democrat, 1 Republican, 2 independents running to replace Corey O’Connor on Pittsburgh City Council
Four candidates will appear on the ballot in a special election race to determine who will fill a vacant seat in Pittsburgh City Council’s 5th District. Democrat Barb Warwick, Republican Eugene Bokor and independent candidates Matthew Mahoney and Robert McClune are looking to replace Corey O’Connor on City Council after...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Oct. 28-29
Natural wonders — like dinosaurs and other spooky specimens, talented teens and musical geniuses — are in the spotlight this weekend in Pittsburgh. Tyrannosaurus time Dinosaurs roam the earth again in the Jurassic World Live Tour, coming this weekend to PPG Paints Arena, 1001 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh. Show times are...
Antisemitism decried 4 years after Tree of Life attack
PITTSBURGH — In what has become an annual ritual, Pittsburgh’s Jewish community Thursday honored the memory of the 11 Jews who were murdered on this date in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. For many community leaders, their grief is mixed with dismay over the continued and growing incidents...
TV Talk: Shaler grad directs ‘A Tree of Life’ documentary for HBO
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Pittsburgh native and New York-based director Trish Adlesic has made films in Western Pennsylvania before — she was a producer on HBO’s 2010 fracking documentary “Gasland” and 2013’s “Gasland Part II” — but she didn’t...
Squirrel Hill residents concerned about intersection near Fern Hollow Bridge
Some Squirrel Hill residents are petitioning Pittsburgh officials to temporarily hold off on reconfiguring a dangerous intersection in their neighborhood. City officials, however, claim the proposed work needs to be done quickly because money for it is included in the $25.3 million of federal funding being used to pay for...
TV Talk: HBO to debut ‘A Tree of Life’ documentary executive produced by Michael Keaton, Billy Porter, Mark Cuban
“A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting,” executive produced by Pittsburgh natives Michael Keaton, Billy Porter and Mark Cuban, will premiere on HBO and HBO Max at 9 p.m. Oct. 26. Directed by Trish Adlesic (“Gasland,” “I Am Evidence”), the 80-minute film re-tells the story of the 2018 shooting...
3rd carjacking in a week reported in Shadyside
Pittsburgh Police responded to an armed carjacking and robbery in Shadyside on Tuesday night, marking the third carjacking reported in the neighborhood within the last seven days. At 10:35 p.m. on Tuesday, police officers responded to the 5900 block of South Alder Street, according to the Department of Public Safety....
Police investigate 2nd Shadyside area carjacking in 24 hours
For the second time in 24 hours, Pittsburgh police are investigating a reported carjacking near Shadyside. Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman Amanda Mueller officers were called about 11:20 p.m. Thursday to the 700 block of College Street for the latest incident. Police said a driver told them three males approached, showed...
