Arnold, Brackenridge get Hollywood treatment for ‘The Burning Valley’
Ball fields, streetscapes and gritty industry across Brackenridge and Arnold will be featured in a big screen release, “The Burning Valley.” Filmmaker Evan Coury, a New Kensington native who graduated in May from Brooklyn College’s MFA Film Program, hasn’t forgotten his roots. He is shooting his first movie in locations...
Tim Curry, iconic character actor and ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ star, dies at 80
Tim Curry, a character actor who created a gallery of delicious, very loony villains for stage and screen, including Dr. Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and the smug concierge in “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” has died. He was 80. Curry, who suffered a stroke in...
TribLive Q&A: Ted Nugent: ‘I will go down in history as the real American goodguy’Video
Playing hard rock and speaking his mind go hand in hand for Ted Nugent. The conservative rocker has long been a classic rock radio staple, thanks to songs like 1970s hits “Cat Scratch Fever,” “Stranglehold” and “Free-for-All.” But his music has sometimes been overshadowed by his vocal advocacy for gun...
Lucky Charms and Trix go au naturel as General Mills ditches artificial colors
General Mills said Wednesday it has removed artificial colors from all its U.S. cereals, including Lucky Charms and Trix. The Minneapolis company has shifted to fruit- and vegetable-based dyes as well as colors derived from spices like turmeric and paprika to give its cereals their customary bright colors. “This achievement...
Musicians pay tribute to Dolly Parton in concertsVideo
Musicians locally and around the world paid tribute to country singer Dolly Parton, who died at age 80 on Tuesday, in concerts last night. Locally, Kesha’s show Tuesday night at the Pavilion at Star Lake featured an emotional cover of Parton’s “Old Flames (Can’t Hold a Candle to You).” The...
Harvest Fair is labor of love for Fox Chapel couple
For Jay Thier, a longtime volunteer at Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church, the annual Harvest Fair is more than a roomful of castoffs looking to be sold. It’s a collection of personal histories manifested in furniture, jewelry and tchotchkes. “My favorite part of the fair is the stories of the attendees,”...
TV Q&A: Are TV stations responsible for keeping viewers safe?
Q: When did local television stations assume the responsibility of “keeping us safe” during storms instead of just reporting important and substantive news? — Gary, via Facebook Rob: That’s been built into broadcasting — TV and radio — from near its start: look no further than the advent of the...
CCAC microbiology professor awarded Guinness World Record in teaching
Community College of Allegheny County microbiology professor Francis Maxin now holds the Guinness World Record as having the longest science instructor career for men, according to the college. Maxin started his career in September 1966 when the college first opened its doors. He remains a full-time member of the faculty...
Celebrities react to Dolly Parton’s death: ‘There will never be another’
Tributes poured in Tuesday from across the music and entertainment worlds after the death of Dolly Parton, with fellow artists remembering the country music legend as a gifted singer, generous person and inspiration to many. Reba McEntire, Kacey Musgraves, Miley Cyrus, Lily Tomlin and others were among those mourning Parton,...
TV Talk: Gordon Ramsay rehabs Emsworth’s Café Notte on ‘Kitchen Nightmares’
Emsworth’s Café Notte co-owner Debbie Santucci knew her restaurant, open since 2009, was in trouble when she wrote to Gordon Ramsay, star of Fox’s “Kitchen Nightmares,” a show where Ramsay parachutes in to diagnose a restaurant’s problems and attempts to help get the place back on track. Santucci’s son and...
Review: TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, En Vogue bring old school cool back at Star Lake
Between them, they’ve charted 17 top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, sold about 100 million records worldwide and defined the songs of an era — especially for women. On Monday night, TLC, Salt-N-Pepa and En Vogue shared one stage at the Pavilion at Star Lake. And they’ve still...
TV Talk: After winning in 2024, Point Breeze’s Victoria Groce returns to ‘Jeopardy! Masters’Video
Point Breeze’s Victoria Groce marks her fifth visit to the “Jeopardy!” stage this week with the season premiere of ABC’s “Jeopardy! Masters” (8 p.m. Aug. 26, WTAE; streams next day on Hulu), which she won in 2024. “I will probably never not feel a little something right in the pit...
Motion City Soundtrack on ‘Everything Is Alright,’ mental health and finding hope
Motion City Soundtrack once cooked up one of the young millennium’s most forward musical statements about mental health almost entirely on the fly. After finding modest success in 2003 with the sentimental perspective of “My Favorite Accident” from their debut album “I Am the Movie,” the Minneapolis quintet broke into...
Carnegie Mellon to lead national study on AI, arts education
Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Fine Arts will lead a two-year study on how artificial intelligence can be integrated in arts education. “Our goal is to help folks in higher education and schools talk about how we should work creatively, skillfully and ethically with AI,” said Daragh Byrne, who teaches...
Wyndham Grand hotel to house some Point Park University students again
For the second straight year, some Point Park University students will live in the Wyndham Grand hotel this fall. About 50 to 64 first-year transfer students and upperclassmen will be housed at the hotel, said Keith Paylo, Point Park’s vice president of student affairs and dean of students. Freshmen and...
Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley to host adoption event pairing dogs with veterans
Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley is getting some help from a national organization, Pets for Patriots, to pair animals with veterans at an adoption event in September. Animal Protectors hosted an event in March where “pets picked their owners,” said shelter administrator Danielle Marie Baughman. “We filled up our training...
How the No. 2 pencil became a uniquely American school supply staple
For generations of Americans, a sharpened No. 2 pencil has represented childhood and coming of age. Still a fixture of back-to-school shopping lists, it outlines a child’s first letters, erases their mistakes and lets them doodle in the margins when they daydream. For decades, sweaty hands clutched the ridged yellow...
Follow the yellow brick road to the new Wizard of Oz Museum in Cocoa Beach
ORLANDO, Fla. — The world of Oz has a new home on Florida’s Space Coast, and it can be found by following the yellow brick road to an emerald green building in Cocoa Beach. The Wizard of Oz Museum, which opened in Cape Canaveral in 2022, moved into an expanded...
Upper St. Clair teen donates Pokémon cards to kids in need
An Upper St. Clair High School teen has enlisted the help of thousands of friendly Japanese monsters to bring smiles to the faces of those staring down real-life beasts like sickness, poverty and trauma. In what began as a school capstone project, 16-year-old Vikrant Kamat has flipped Pokémon’s “Gotta catch...
Editorial: ‘Employment issues’ not enough to explain warden firing
What is happening at Westmoreland County Prison? It’s hard to say. We know what actions the county is taking to address problems. On Thursday, the prison board fired Warden Steven Pelesky in a special meeting. His second-in-
command, Deputy Warden of Security Robert Fagan, was placed on leave pending an investigation....
In-person therapy makes a comeback in Western Pennsylvania
In 2020, the covid-19 pandemic almost uniformly forced mental health providers and their patients to shift therapy appointments online. More than a half-decade later, teletherapy seems to have cemented its place in healthcare — though patients and providers alike now say they’ve noticed a push to return to the clinician’s...
Boston Symphony Orchestra and musicians extend contract for 48 hours, a sign they may avert strike
BOSTON — The Boston Symphony Orchestra and its musicians have decided to extend their collective bargaining agreement for 48 hours, a sign they could be nearing a deal to head off what would have been the first strike in the ensemble’s 145-year history. The Boston Musicians’ Association said Saturday it...
Photos: IndyCar comes to the nation’s capital
WASHINGTON — Spectators take in the sights and sounds of the IndyCar Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington, where a 1.7-mile street circuit winds through some of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors....
15th annual Rev ‘Em Up for Kids car cruise coming to South Park
A century ago, they basically consisted of an engine, four tires and a bit of space for the driver and a few passengers. Today, they’re veritable computers on wheels. “It’s cool to see cars from, let’s say, 1929 all the way up to a new Corvette or a new Mustang,”...
Classic, dirty or espresso? Western Pennsylvania bartenders talk martinis
Shaken? Stirred? Olive? Twist? Gin? Vodka … or something completely different? Few subjects will rile up a cocktail connoisseur like how to serve a martini correctly. And then there are the completely out-of-the-box preparations that have cropped up to widen the debate even further. From the post-“Sex and the City”...
