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JoAnne Klimovich Harrop

Point Park grads capture picture-perfect moment with Tom Hanks in Pittsburgh

Danette Levers changed her Facebook profile picture at 7:34 a.m. Friday. There’s a pretty good chance she won’t ever change it again. She waited for months to upload that photo of her standing next to Tom Hanks. She idolizes the actor. She can recite most of his movie lines from...
Regent Square, Harris theaters shuttered; Pittsburgh Center for Arts closes main building

The Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media on Monday closed the Regent Square Theater and the Harris Theater, Downtown, and will cease operations at year’s end in the Marshall Mansion, its main building at the corner of Fifth and Shady avenues in Pittsburgh’s East End. In a letter to its...
Fox Chapel native opens Simple Sugars holiday pop-up shopVideo

Bakery Square will be a little smoother this holiday season. Simple Sugars, an all-natural handmade skincare product line specially formulated for sensitive skin, has opened a holiday pop-up shop through Dec. 22 in the East End shopping complex. The products have previously been sold only through its website. “I have...
Stay warm, see holiday lights at Lumaze Pittsburgh, a new indoor festivalVideo

Run through sparking icicles. Take a seat in an illuminated horse’s carriage. Walk under a tunnel of lights. Enter a castle of bright bulbs. Pose for a photo next to a gigantic glass slipper. These are a few of the experiences at Lumaze Pittsburgh, a new indoor holiday festival, which...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Nov. 22-24

The unofficial start to the holiday season begins this weekend with the annual Light Up Night. It’s one of many fun choices this weekend in Pittsburgh Shining bright Friday is your chance to see national recording artist and recent Queen frontman Adam Lambert as he leads the entertainment at the...
Joanne Rogers, Pittsburgh’s ‘luckiest widow’ savors seeing, appearing in Mister Rogers movieVideo

Joanne Rogers calls herself the luckiest widow in Pittsburgh. The presence of her late husband, Fred Rogers, is everywhere. “He is just there,” she said of Mister Rogers. “I don’t have to give up all of him. And, you know, thank goodness. I’m just fortunate.” The movie “A Beautiful Day...
‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ debuts in PittsburghVideo

It was a beautiful night in the neighborhood in Pittsburgh as the Mister Rogers movie debuted. A red carpet gala and special screening of “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” took place Wednesday at the SouthSide Works Cinema in Pittsburgh. Rogers’ wife Joanne Rogers arrived at 6:30 p.m., smiling and...
Kaufmann’s clock unveiled at Carnegie Science Center mini railroad exhibitVideo

You won’t be able to meet under this Kaufmann’s clock. But it can still conjure up memories of waiting for a date under the recognizable timepiece. A replica of the department store, including the clock where people met for decades in Downtown Pittsburgh, is the latest piece to be installed...
2 million lights shine at Kennywood holiday attractionVideo

Kennywood Park visitors will immediately see the lights — tunnel of brightly colored, pulsating LED bulbs. There are 15,000 strung on three miles of aircraft cable at the West Mifflin amusement park. They shine like a prism and can be configured in 9,000 ways via a computer program. It’s the...
Fred Rogers’ clothing will be on display at Heinz History Center

More than 20 items of Fred Rogers’ clothing from his beloved children’s show will be added to the Strip District’s Senator John Heinz History Center’s “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” exhibit, beginning Friday. The timing is right because the much anticipated “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” a film about Rogers starring...
Welcome to ‘The Symphony Splendor Holiday Home Tour’Video

The outside of the 152-year-old farmhouse on Murdstone Road in Upper St. Clair is adorned with festive wreaths on every window, as well as the front door. The minute you see it, the holiday season has arrived. Dressed to the nines, it’s one of seven stops on the sixth annual...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Nov. 15-17

The Steelers are off, but there’s still plenty going on this weekend. Animal magnetism The Pittsburgh Pet Expo is Friday through Sunday at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown. There will be a diving dog competition and pet costume contest, as well as chicken races, hermit crab races, stunt...
Pittsburgh’s Omni William Penn Hotel shines bright after yearly cleaning of chandeliersVideo

The lobby inside the Omni William Penn Hotel in Downtown Pittsburgh shined a little brighter Thursday. The annual cleaning of the three $250,000 chandeliers took place. It’s a ritual to get them extra sparkly for the city’s annual Light Up Night. The event, held this year on Nov. 22, kicks...
Night of comedy aims to help North Strabane couple who lost home in landslide

Doug and Suzanne Grimes are paying a mortgage on a house that’s no longer there. Their North Strabane home was ruined by a landslide in June 2018 and declared unsafe. It was demolished a few months later. The couple is now saddled with a second mortgage, storage costs and over...
Sweet competition benefits the Leechburg Public Library

You don’t have to cross an ocean to see who is crowned the next best baker. Just come to Leechburg. An upcoming spaghetti dinner fundraiser for the Leechburg Public Library will include a baking contest for a chance to be the named “Star Baker of Leechburg.” The idea came from...
Diamond showroom to open in Downtown Pittsburgh

The gems sparkle from inside the glass display cases at the Rothschild Trading Company, a Pittsburgh and Los Angeles-based diamond manufacturer, that celebrates the grand opening of its diamond showroom in Downtown Pittsburgh Friday, Nov. 8. Owner Henry Rothschild rented the space six months ago. The New Orleans native chose...

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