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The doors were open and music was playing as Vanessa German installed her latest works of art. “I could hear people asking about what was going on in the museum,” said German, of Homewood, who has been invited to collaborate with the Frick Pittsburgh museum. “Being around for the beauty...

Comfort food, Asian cuisine, fresh pasta and burgers will be cooked up at the new Bakery Square food hall, slated to open in May. Galley Bakery Square is being developed by the same company that launched Smallman Galley in Pittsburgh’s Strip District in 2015. The new East End location has...

Tree Pittsburgh is asking for donations of garden-related tools — particularly shovels and wheelbarrows — for a massive pine cone sculpture. The sculpture, expected to be 8 feet high, will commemorate the nonprofit’s 15th anniversary. Tree Pittsburgh is an environmental group dedicated to restoring and protecting urban forests in the...

As the fire was burning on Valentine’s Day, Vanessa German walked toward the house. Firefighters stopped her. “They said, ‘You can’t go in there,’ ” said German this week, standing outside the house — the ArtHouse on Hamilton Avenue in Homewood. This was the place she founded. The place for...

Pittsburgh public safety officials have created a tip line to crack down on people riding off-road vehicles on city streets and sidewalks. Authorities said the increase in so-called “flash mobs” and “ride-outs” that involve groups of people riding all-terrain vehicles, dirt bikes and other off-road vehicles on city streets and...

While live theater has struggled in the shifting landscape of the pandemic, always-experimental Quantum Theatre has taken the difficulties in stride and created a digital season. Its current production, “Far Away,” which is available for at-home streaming until March 7, flourishes within the video medium, showing a bleak, abstract portrait...

Pittsburgh police are investigating a pair of armed robberies that occurred early Monday morning in the city’s East End. The first incident occurred at the 1:25 a.m. at the Marathon gas station in the 4000 block of Penn Avenue, which is in the city’s Lower Lawrenceville section, according to police....

Pittsburgh police have found a missing Homewood woman. Police confirmed about 8:40 p.m. that she was located and safe. Prior to being found, she was last seen Friday in Oakland....

The lights in the Regent Square Theater are back on. The movies are not. Concept Art Gallery, a next-door neighbor on South Braddock Avenue, has purchased the former theater. The gallery plans to use the additional space to expand operations, including two project spaces for emerging and established artists. The...

A Pittsburgh woman was jailed on federal drug charges after a drug bust by city police Thursday in Homewood North. Monique Mathews, 25, is charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine, according to court documents. City detectives arrested Matthews and seized more than 800 grams of cocaine, as well...

The former Regent Square restaurateur, whose trial two years ago ended in a partial acquittal on stalking and assault charges, will stand trial on the remaining counts against him in August. Adnan Pehlivan, 49, the former owner of Istanbul Sofra, still faces counts of burglary, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and...

A 25-year-old woman from Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood was arrested Friday on charges she conspired with a Rankin man to commit sex crimes against children. Sidney Brooks was taken into custody by Pittsburgh police. Allegheny County police have charged Brooks with 38 felony counts for conspiring with Devaughante Law Sr. of...

The latest beer from East End Brewing Co. is a gin and tonic. Yes, really. The Larimer brewery just released G&T Hard Seltzer. It’s been more than year in the making. “It was a new flavor profile for us,” said Scott Smith, owner of East End. “It does have a...

A fire damaged the Art House in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood on Sunday. Artist Vanessa German wrote in an Instagram post Sunday that no one was injured. “Everyone is OK,” she wrote. “The Art House caught on fire last night. There is a lot of damage, but everyone is OK.” She...

Pittsburgh police have located a missing man last seen in Homewood on Feb. 6. George Booker, 51, of Pittsburgh, is considered at-risk, according to a Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesperson. Police annnounced that Booker had been safely located shortly after 7:30 a.m. on Sunday morning....

A man wanted in connection with a fatal shooting last month in Aliquippa is in custody, state police said. Rico Ramone Rodgers, 21, of Aliquippa is charged with homicide and firearms violations. He was arrested without incident around 2 p.m. Saturday in Homewood by Allegheny County, Pittsburgh and state police...

A man was hospitalized Saturday after Pittsburgh police said he was hit by a vehicle in Homewood. Police were called to the intersection of Frankstown Avenue and McCombs Street around 12:30 a.m. The man was taken by ambulance to a local hospital in critical condition, police said. The suspect vehicle...

“Please come out and join me in my quest to make this a better planet 1 square mile at a time!!” Those are more than the words of Val Pennington, Bellevue borough council president and its first Black council member. “Bellevue is 1-square mile so that thought popped into my...

Pittsburgh Public School Board members voted on Tuesday to table discussions on closing or reconfiguring several district buildings. Officials had proposed major changes to the district’s footprint Monday evening. District officials said the changes, which consisted of closing seven schools and six buildings, as well as opening two new schools...

Pittsburgh Public Schools announced Monday that it is recommending the closure of seven schools and six buildings, along with the creation of two new schools. The schools that could close are: Miller PreK-5 in the Hill District, Fulton PreK-5 in Highland Park, Woolslair PreK-5 and Arsenal 6-8 in Lawrenceville and...

An Indianapolis man is suing Hotel Indigo in East Liberty after he claimed he got bedbugs when he stayed there on a work trip. Christopher Carlson filed the complaint against the hotel in Allegheny County Court on Monday. It also names as defendants the former general manager of the North...