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Heinz Field Has A New Name — And No One Likes It
The long-time home of the Pittsburgh Steelers has a new name: Acrisure Stadium. The team made it official late yesterday, and fans went wild making f…
3 years, 8 months ago
Celebrating 60 Years Of Andy Warhol’s Soup-er Art
Artist Andy Warhol grew up in Oakland, but his iconic influence started later — mostly because of a soup can that made its debut 60 years ago in Los …
3 years, 8 months ago
Anti-Trans Bills, Late Budgets & The Bugs Everyone Wants You To Kill
It’s the Friday news roundup! Morgan is away celebrating her birthday (we see you, Cancer season) so the rest of the squad gets nerdy with state budg…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Ultimate Guide To Pittsburgh Butcher Shops
There are hardly any independent butchers left in the region, but these seven institutions — most of them more than 50 years old — offer high-quality…
3 years, 8 months ago
How A Deadly Pgh Labor Fight Set The Stage For Workers’ Rights
Today marks the 130th anniversary of the Battle of Homestead. No, it wasn’t part of any war, and technically, it didn’t even happen in Homestead. Jus…
3 years, 8 months ago
A Former Steeler’s New Take On Mental Health
Super Bowl champ — and forever Pittsburgher — Ryan Mundy thrived on the field in the shadow of groundbreaking concussion research. But as he pondered…
3 years, 8 months ago
Driverless Cars, Research At Risk, And A Coffee Union Update
The Friday news roundup is back! This week, the team discusses a GOP move to block state funding for Pa. schools that use fetal tissue for medical re…
3 years, 8 months ago
Forget The Moral Panic, Pittsburgh Loves Its Furries
A handful of school boards across the country are causing a fresh stir, alleging a growing number of schools are putting litter boxes in bathrooms to…
3 years, 9 months ago
Whatever Happened To That Racist Stephen Foster Statue?
You know the one — Stephen Foster is well-dressed and seated, looking down over a barefoot Black man playing a banjo at his feet. After 118 years in …
3 years, 9 months ago
Capitol Line Trains ‘On Track’ For A $200M Boost To Pgh
Ridership along Norfolk Southern’s Pennsylvanian train line has been growing in recent years, and the state says the whole operation needs a little T…
3 years, 9 months ago