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Buon appetito: Ross woman wins recipe contest for pasta dish
You have to respect the ingredients — that’s the philosophy of Nina Mule Lyons when she steps into the kitchen to create an authentic Italian meal. One of those meals won the Parmigiano Reggiano Masterpiece Recipe Contest last year and earned the Ross resident a trip to dine in New...
Taste of Sewickley has a record-breaking year
Neill and Alex Simakas hosted more than 70 guests at their home for Taste of Sewickley on Sept. 9. The fundraiser for KidsVoice helps foster children in Allegheny County with everything from providing legal counsel in the courtroom to assistance with emotional support. The organization helps young people up to...
It’s time: Gobblerito returning to Mad Mex
Instead of cake and ice cream it will be turkey and stuffing for this birthday celebration. Big Burrito Restaurant Group’s Mad Mex is turning 30, and the annual return of the Gobblerito kicks off the party on Monday. The Thanksgiving dinner in a burrito has house-roasted turkey, black bean mashed...
Revolving sushi bar coming to Pittsburgh’s SouthSide Works
Kura Sushi USA, a revolving sushi bar, is preparing to open at noon on Sunday in Pittsburgh’s SouthSide Works. The concept is also known as Kaiten sushi, where plates of sushi are moved along a conveyer belt. It’s extremely popular in Japan and has been around for decades there. It...
Monroeville designer’s collection will be showcased in Pittsburgh Fashion Week
Monroeville resident Deisja Williams’ inspiration is from French fashion designer Christian Dior. “Dior is a pioneer,” said Williams, one of eight designers for the Pittsburgh Fashion Week runway show on Sept. 15 at the Wintergarden at PPG Place, Downtown. “He was never afraid to offer a different perspective, and his...
Tom’s Watch Bar the newest North Shore game day spot
Filled with 100-plus high-definition televisions and digital stadium screens, Tom’s Watch Bar is the newest bar/restaurant on Pittsburgh’s North Shore, nestled between PNC Park and Acrisure Stadium. On Saturday, prior to the Pittsburgh Panthers football home opener against Wofford, it was packed with Pitt fans sporting the team’s blue and...
Body art: Meeting of the Marked tattoo convention inks three decades of skin design
A tattoo needle punctures the skin around 100 times per second, depositing the ink 1.5 millimeters to 2 millimeters below the surface. It bypasses the epidermis, the outer layer of the skin. Tool firmly in hand, the image that appears is more than ink injected into the skin — tattoos...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Sept. 8-10
We’ve made it to the weekend. Here are some ways to spend it. Irish Festival The 32nd annual Pittsburgh Irish Festival is from 4 to 11 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday at the Carrie Blast Furnaces in Rankin and...
Tailgate turmoil: North Shore development cuts into game-day experience for Pitt, Steelers fans
Dustin Helm arrived on the North Shore 90 minutes before parking lots opened for the first University of Pittsburgh football game of the season, as he has done for the past seven-plus years. When the lots opened last weekend, Helm attempted to turn left in Lot 7C and make his...
Angel wings: Young Ariel to be remembered at the Butterfly Ball in Ross
Ariel Silvaggio loved animals, including bugs, spiders and worms. When her mom would pick her up from daycare, she would see the little girl playing in the dirt. Teachers would often send her mother pictures of Ariel digging to see what living things she could find outside. “She would come...
Kingfly Spirits goes bananas
When Raoul Segarra saw a recipe in the New York Times for a banana dessert, it became his inspiration for the latest liqueur at Kingfly Spirits in the Strip District. Kingfly’s head distiller combined fresh and dried banana with hints of vanilla bean, lemon peel and sugar. The bananas undergo...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Sept. 1-4
It’s a Labor Day holiday weekend, three days off for some. If you aren’t going to the Miller Lite Kickoff and Rib Festival outside Acrisure Stadium, here are some other ways to spend it — the weather should be perfect with temperatures in the 80s. WWE World Wrestling Entertainment’s “Payback”...
Sewickley interior designer Betsy Wentz pens book about making a house a home
Betsy Wentz recalled sitting on the floor of the carriage house of her Edgeworth home as a little girl sorting through colorful swatches. Her mother was an interior designer and the space was filled wall to wall with fabric and wallpaper samples. “My mom was an incredible teacher, a visionary...
Rib Fest gets earlier start this year on North ShoreVideo
Country music star Morgan Wallen will be performing on Wednesday and Thursday at PNC Park, but his reach will extend to Acrisure Stadium. The annual Miller Lite Kickoff and Rib Festival on Pittsburgh’s North Shore is opening Wednesday — a day earlier than usual — to accommodate the thousands of...
Cookbook author Katie Parla visiting Strip District’s Bar Marco
When Katie Parla was in high school in New Jersey, she studied Latin. That would determine her career path. “I went to a rare public school that had a Latin program,” said Parla via phone, who was visiting family in her native New Jersey on Friday. “I became obsessed with...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Aug. 25-27
With summer quickly becoming a memory, the final weekend of August arrives with a forecast that looks promising for outdoor activities. And good thing, because there are a bunch of ’em. Here are a few fun ways to spend your weekend. Go for a ride The 30th annual UPMC Health...
Coin drives in Bethel Park, Altoona benefit young patients
All those quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies added up to $11,061. Every cent will benefit hospitalized children. The cash was raised through coin drives held during May in the Bethel Park and Blair County school districts for the Sean Rovers and Kaylee Kruise Smiles Fund at UPMC Children’s Hospital Foundation....
The Foodture restaurant is back after legal fight over name
The former Back to the Foodture restaurant will reopen Saturday in Pittsburgh’s Uptown neighborhood. The SouthSide Works location will remain permanently closed. The temporary closure of both was the result of months of emails with lawyers representing Universal Studios. Universal Studios emailed the owners — chef Angel Magwood and her...
Glidden Paint by PPG’s color of the year is ‘Limitless’
Glidden Paint by PPG’s color of the year is limitless, both in versatility and in name. The “anything but yellow” honey beige tone offers “limitless applications,” according to Ashley McCollum, Glidden global color expert. “Consumers can use Limitless anywhere they’d like a neutral to create an updated, on-trend look, complementary...
Long Story Short opens in Lawrenceville with drinks and food
The former Cinderlands restaurant and taproom in Lawrenceville has received another makeover. Long story short: It’s called Long Story Short — a bar and sandwich shop with indoor and outdoor seating. There is also a back room with a pool table, dart board and comfortable seating. A restored 1971 band...
North Huntingdon native and friends escape Hawaii wildfires
Sue Leech Seiff was vacationing in Maui, Hawaii, when she looked out her window Aug. 8 and thought she saw a sandstorm. High winds had been creating sandstorms and ocean funnels, also known as waterspouts — whirling columns of air and water mist — throughout that day. As she came...
Cancer Bridges’ Camp Clubhouse gives children affected by cancer a safe space
A little girl with long wavy brown locks danced to the song “Brown Skin Girl” — the tune by Blue Ivy, SAINt JHN, Beyoncé and Wizkid is one she and her late father would perform as he held her little hand while she spun around the living room floor and...
‘Rock Lobster’: Monroeville man wins Wholey’s contest to grab as many live lobsters as he can in 60 seconds
Steve Hunter knows what he’s having for dinner: fresh lobster. Nine of them. Hunter won the Wholey’s Lobster Grab Contest. The Monroeville resident was given one minute to grab all the lobsters he could with his bare hands out of the 40-degree cold water tank inside Wholey’s store on Saturday...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Aug. 18-20
We’ve made it to the weekend. There is a lot going on, including a Steelers preseason game against the Buffalo Bills at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday at Acrisure Stadium on the North Shore, so plan accordingly. Here are some ways to spend it. Little Italy Days Little Italy Days Italian...
Modular home will be built off-site and brought to Garfield
Pittsburgh’s Garfield neighborhood is getting a special delivery. A modular home, dubbed The Picket Fence, is being constructed at Structural Modular Innovations in Strattanville, in eastern Clarion County, and is expected to be transported in modules and assembled on an empty lot on North Aiken Avenue by year’s end. “Modular...
