Taking Back Sunday performing at Stage AE June 1
It’s fitting that Taking Back Sunday will spend one night of its tour reclaiming its glory days in Pittsburgh. With a newly installed lineup straight out of fan fiction, they’ll revisit a city that hosted a huge moment in the band’s early career. But much has changed. Taking Back Sunday...
In a heartbeat: UPMC’s Dr. Saba helps ground against the shock of abnormal EKGs
The issue An abnormal EKG result can be a shock to the system. Dr. Samir Saba, co-director of the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute and chief of the Division of Cardiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, is here to help ground you in knowledge. Q: What does...
Pittsburgh pain experts explain implications of new, potentially non-addictive, opioid tested in rodents
A novel opioid developed by National Institutes of Health researchers has shown early potential to deliver powerful pain relief without the addiction and respiratory risks tied to conventional opioids, according to a study published in the science journal Nature. The compound known as DFNZ — formally N-desethyl-fluornitrazene — relieved pain...
Heinz Endowments shifting cultural funding away from artists and toward organizations
One of Pittsburgh’s biggest grant-making organizations is shifting its approach to arts and culture funding. The Heinz Endowments announced this week it would move away from directly funding artists and programming. Instead, it will support organizations it sees as helping to lift the region’s greater arts and culture community. Heinz...
‘The Pitt’ bobbleheads figure to be a hit at PNC Park
The Pirates have partnered with HBO Max and Pittsburgh-based medical drama “The Pitt” to bring the hit show out of the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center and into the stands at PNC Park. On July 25 — during the fifth annual Yinzerpalooza weekend in Pittsburgh at PNC Park — the...
In a heartbeat: What’s the draw of blood donation?
The issue According to Vitalant Pittsburgh communications director Maya Santana, the need for blood has remained steady due to everyday emergencies and ongoing medical treatments. Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs a blood transfusion, and patients rely on a constant and ready supply already available on hospital...
Pitt graduate’s experiment on Artemis II may improve medicine on Earth
Technology developed for NASA’s Artemis II moon mission may one day help improve medical treatments for people on Earth. Researchers are studying tiny “organ chips” — devices that mimic how human organs function — to learn how the body responds to stress, disease and new medicines. The chips recently traveled...
Millvale Music Festival performance to help illuminate issues of depression, suicide
Editor’s note: This article contains a description of a suicide attempt. To get help with depression or suicidal thoughts, call or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org/chat. A psychedelic performance during the Millvale Music Festival means to illuminate those darkened by depression and suicide, though the pair of Pittsburgh photons behind...
Allegheny General Hospital to undergo 4-year external facelift
AHN Allegheny General’s 90-year-old, 22-story South Tower is slated to begin a 4-year, $36 million renovation in June. The project checklist at the hospital system’s flagship academic medical center on the North Shore includes an overhaul of the facade’s masonry and ornamental terra cotta, replacement of more than 800 windows...
United Way of Southwestern Pa. distributing 40,000 books to in-need kids
Some 40,000 portals to different worlds were readied to be opened at Acrisure Stadium on a Wednesday morning that saw the Steelers playbook take a backseat to other tomes. During The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s eighth annual Big Book Drop, more than 200 volunteers helped pack, label and distribute...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon reveals his secrets to Woodland Hills students
It’s not often a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and screenwriter levels with high school kids. On Monday, author and former Pittsburgh resident Michael Chabon — whose works include “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh” and “Wonder Boys” — spoke to the hearts and minds of Woodland...
New treatments on the horizon for those suffering from seasonal allergies in Western Pennsylvania
Trying pollen seasons are becoming the norm in Western Pennsylvania. In March, TribLive reported that allergy season is getting longer in Western Pennsylvania and around the world. Climate change is shortening the number of freeze-free days, leading to earlier blooming and increased vegetation. Thankfully, there are new and in-development treatment...
In a heartbeat: Dermatologist answers your burning summer skin care questions
The issue Short-term effects of sunburn include damage to the skin manifesting as immediate painful inflammation, peeling and possible blistering depending on the severity. Severe sunburn can lead to systemic symptoms causing fever, chills, dehydration, nausea, dizziness and headaches. Long-term effects include permanent DNA damage, which could lead to skin...
Family House unveils new Shadyside conservatory for families of traveling medical patients
Families who travel thousands of miles for life-altering medical treatment at Pittsburgh’s many hospitals have received a new place to rest. Family House in Shadyside recently unveiled a newly completed feature courtesy of a pair of philanthropists who have been spreading tens of millions across the city’s institutions for years....
Mammography Month shines light on misunderstood life-saving test in Pa.Video
While the U.S. breast cancer death rate declined by 43% between 1990 and 2025 following the proliferation of mammograms, per the American College of Radiology, that welcome prolonged decline has leveled off among women ages 40-74 in recent years. What’s more, ACR officials indicate the national rate of breast cancers...
Heinz History Center offers glimpse inside newly underway expansionVideo
The Strip District’s Senator John Heinz History Center — the largest history museum in Pennsylvania — is now in the process of getting even bigger. Officials broke ground Thursday on a massive new expansion that sports sterling new features aimed at carrying the museum into the future. The moment comes...
B Marshall’s Draft Bash sees minority-business owners soldier through permitting issues
In the shadow of a behemoth commercial event raking in millions while christening new millionaires from a grand stage, on Friday afternoon, a group of 40 minority business owners was just looking to make ends meet in a relatively empty nearby North Side park. The picturesque scene at day two...
New and improved Market Square unveiled just in time for NFL Draft is only the beginning
With a little over 24 hours left on the clock before the NFL Draft brings upward of 500,000 fans out in Pittsburgh, the $15 million revitalization of Downtown’s Market Square was officially completed and unveiled Wednesday afternoon. The public square draws 3 million visitors a year and houses 49 small...
A guide to NFL Draft week’s many bizarre and inspired events in Pittsburgh
The NFL’s offseason is often referred to as silly season. To bear that out, the flagship event — the NFL Draft — is a deluge of high-visibility promotional activations. Ranging from truly helpful and inspired all the way to wild, weird and overly commercialized, they figure to inundate Pittsburgh this...
Billboard warns participants in sex trafficking with influx of NFL Draft attendees headed to Pittsburgh
One group is playing no games when it comes to the potential for an increase in sex trafficking activities ahead of the NFL Draft — and D.C.-based human rights advocacy group Rights4Girls has purchased a digital billboard on I-79 North to prove it. The billboard, located south of the city...
Pittsburgh Symphony set to take on Jimmy Buffett, Bob Marley and more
With the bustle of the NFL Draft looming in Pittsburgh and daily clouds of trepidatious news floating on the horizon, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is set to remind patrons to slow down and try to appreciate that life is a beach. During “Tropical Rock” performances slated Friday through Sunday at...
Organizer of Draft Bash event on North Side forges ahead while awaiting permit
Even though Pittsburgh event producer William “B” Marshall is still waiting for full permit approval with one week to go before the 2026 NFL Draft, he’s moving ahead with plans to bring 40 largely minority-owned art, food and merchandise vendors to the southwest corner of Allegheny Commons Park West throughout...
Pittsburgh Brewing pours its heart into new Downtown taproom experimentVideo
After 165 years brewing and distributing some of Pittsburgh’s most iconic beers, Pittsburgh Brewing Co. has reemphasized the first word of its name by pouring its heart into a taproom experiment in the heart of Downtown. With the first of its taprooms located at its 42-acre brewing and distilling campus...
Bud Light to offer free beer while fans’ teams are on the clock at NFL Draft
Football fans will have a chance to get ahead of their favorite team’s cringe-inducingly bad draft decisions or celebrate team-building foresight at the 2026 NFL Draft in Pittsburgh — provided they’re into downing a Bud Light draft. According to a Tuesday press release from Anheuser-Busch, during the NFL Draft from...
