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Ruth Ann Dailey: Reading for pleasure, the essential luxury

For years, reading for pleasure was a luxury reserved for vacations — and if you’re heading off on one, I have a few terrific titles.

about 18 hours ago

Mosaic art on the steps at Oakley Street was a project of the South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association and completed, with community collaboration, by artist Laura Jean McLaughlin.

Diana Nelson Jones' Walkabout: City wants input about best use for refurbishing steps system

With too many steps to maintain, the city is asking the public to help shape a strategy to protect the ones loved and needed most.

about 18 hours ago

Ruth Barsotti, of Barsotti Wines in the Strip District.

Brian O'Neill: Selling a bottle of wine, the Barsotti way

At Barsottis, wine education means sipping six new wines from Italy backed by a spread that includes Joe’s olives and Ruth’s meatballs.

1 day ago

Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, in 2012

David M. Shribman: George H.W. Bush — the sage of the offered hand

The former president no longer plays speed golf, but he’s still got his game.

1 day ago

President Donald Trump has claimed that 3 to 5 million illegal votes deprived him of winning the popular vote over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.

Tony Norman: The sore winner in the White House

What happens when an election's winner pouts more than its loser?

3 days ago

A man fishes Wednesday on the North Shore. A member of the DEP said Wednesday's air quality alert wasn’t caused just by the heat but the lack of wind in the area.

Brian O'Neill: Don’t hold your breath for better air in Pittsburgh

It’s been seven decades since Pittsburgh took major steps to clean up its air.

4 days ago

Included in the exhibit is Vince Ornato's oil painting showing ironworker Ralph A. Winner Jr. having his leg amputated, in the rain, 200 feet in the air on the old Brady Street Bridge, in 1978.

Brian O'Neill: Heinz History Center has a must-see exhibition opening this weekend

There will be a dramedy playing out in two dimensions on the walls of the Heinz History Center starting Saturday.

5 days ago

Dan Simpson: Story of a daring life

Lynda Schuster spent her years in dicey places as a war correspondent and diplomat's wife.

5 days ago

George Romero, who directed "The Night of The Living Dead," waves a Terrible Towel before a Steelers game Oct. 1, 2015, at Heinz Field. It was the anniversary of the film that was made in the Pittsburgh area.

Tony Norman: Welcome to Mr. Romero's neighborhood

George Romero and Andy Warhol were twin Western Pa. artists of different genres.

6 days ago

Ruth Ann Dailey: Dear Pittsburgh, spend some to make some

Some city departments’ languishing output is leading to long waits, which can be frustrating.

1 week ago

The Hampton Battery in Allegheny Commons Park on the North Side.

Walkabout: Pittsburgh's 'monuments man' shares expertise

Kirk Savage will be featured on the next episode of a PBS series episode on monuments and markers that have changed America.

1 week ago

Social work graduate student Lesley Broff of Swissvale bought her car through Community Auto. Their mission is simple; helping working people so they can get to their jobs or find better ones.

Brian O'Neill: Cars for zooming ahead in life

Community Auto has a simple mission; making lives better one car at a time.

1 week ago

Oliver Cromwell to members of Parliament: “Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?”

David M. Shribman: Members of Congress, get out of town

Don’t complain about their vacations. They need time to contemplate their “virtues.”

1 week ago

Pennsylvania Capitol building in Harrisburg

Brian O'Neill: Fat, inefficient and expensive — that's your statehouse

For the second consecutive year, America’s Largest Full-Time State Legislature has presented Gov. Tom Wolf with an unbalanced budget.

1 week ago

Reg Henry: Confessions of a bad father

Moved more by perspiration than inspiration after a nasty tweet storm, I wrote an open letter of apology to my grown-up children.

1 week ago

Donald Trump Jr. released emails Tuesday that showed he was eager to get information purportedly from the Russian government that would damage the candidacy of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.

Dan Simpson: The questions continue to accumulate

We need to find out exactly how the Trumps are connected to Russia.

1 week ago

The Ku Klux Klan protests Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., over the planned removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee, and calling for the protection of Southern Confederate monuments.

Tony Norman: Klan demonstrators not as scary as who they vote for

The real battle for civil rights is taking place in the halls of the Capitol and at the Department of Justice.

1 week ago

Ruth Ann Dailey: Baby at center of gender conflict? Let's not

A parent in British Columbia is fighting to obtain a birth certificate that does not identify the sex of an infant named Searyl Atli.

2 weeks ago

Sculptor Allen George Newman's World War I doughboy statue on the Sixth Ward Honor Roll memorial has been guarding the entrance to Lawrenceville at the intersection of Penn Ave. and Butler St. since 1919.

Walkabout: Upper Lawrenceville home an example of real estate craziness

If one small brick house on Dresden Way is a harbinger of things to come to Upper Lawrenceville’s alleys, hold onto your hats.

2 weeks ago

David M. Shribman: There’s a long way to go

A Senate vote on health care would merely send the game into the final quarter.

2 weeks ago

Brian O'Neill: Battle of the Bulbs hits Homestead

New streetlights installed in Munhall, Homestead and West Homestead are hurting the eyes, or at least the sensibilities, of council.

2 weeks ago

Tony Norman: Hobby Lobby and the god of sticky fingers

Hobby Lobby engaged in religious hypocrisy when it purchased $1.6 million in stolen artifacts.

2 weeks ago

Dan Simpson: Ban the travel ban

It won’t improve our safety, but it will violate our principles.

2 weeks ago

Screen grab of @realDonaldTrump Twitter feed.

Tony Norman: From Yorktown to Wrestlemania: the de-evolution of the presidency

It is a cause for national humiliation that the commander in chief can’t resist the lure of social media.

2 weeks ago

The USS Midway, one of the Navy's longest-serving aircraft carriers, began a second life as the USS Midway Museum on the San Diego waterfront in 2004.

Ruth Ann Dailey: From Midway to Independence Day, a question haunts

I try to use the term “life-changing” sparingly, but I do believe that I will never forget the hours I spent wandering this enormous ship.

3 weeks ago

Janna Hockenjos and Mae Belle enjoy their portable chairs.

Walkabout: Riverlife's Take a Seat project brings whimsy to social experiment

Riverlife’s mission is to initiate, guide and lead activities along our rivers.

3 weeks ago

Post-Gazette columnist Brian O'Neill, center, talks with Brian O'Neill, left, of Brookline and Pitt offensive lineman Brian O'Neill, right, at Atrias at PNC Park Tuesday.

Brian O'Neill: This O'Neill is no mirror image

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Three Brian O’Neills go into a bar. One’s a teacher. One’s a football player. One’s a columnist.

3 weeks ago

David M. Shribman: Party rebellions in stereo

Both Democrats and Republicans are trying to figure out what their parties stand for.

3 weeks ago

President Donald Trump speaks during an energy roundtable with tribal, state, and local leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House Wednesday.

Tony Norman: Twitter dumb and Tweeter dumber

Donald J. Trump, the president of the United States, wrestled with his conscience about whether to fire off a particularly nasty tweet.

3 weeks ago

Columnist Brian O'Neill carries baby robin back to its nest. A family of robins has been nesting in a hanging fern on O'Neill's porch.

Brian O'Neill: When robins take over your porch, adjust

I’m sitting on my side porch Monday morning, beginning this column on my laptop and waiting for a robin to start buzzing my head.

3 weeks ago

A group of sea otters gathers in Morro Bay, Calif.

Reg Henry: ‘See that sea otter? It sustains us,’ I say

Out here on California coast, the return of sea otters brought balance back to ecosystem. Simple stuff, but humans resist it.

3 weeks ago

Dan Simpson: Squeezing the old and the poor

Denying people health care to give tax cuts to the rich is neither right nor smart.

3 weeks ago

Demonstrators protest changes to the Affordable Care Act Thursday in Chicago.

Tony Norman: The GOP’s plan to make America sicker

I used to have enough faith in American democracy to say something this crazy couldn’t happen.

3 weeks ago

Bill Cosby exits the courthouse after a mistrial on the sixth day of jury deliberations of his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse, June 17 in Norristown, Pa.

Ruth Ann Dailey: Bill Cosby’s ‘Are You Kidding Me Tour'

Now that Cosby’s trial ended with a hung jury, he plans to tour the nation to counsel people on how to avoid facing sex-crime allegations.

4 weeks ago

The earliest existing drawing of Pittsburgh’s town plan, produced in 1784 by surveyor George Woods for the Penn family, which owned the land.

Brian O'Neill: Our ‘birth document,’ a bargain at $275k

Forget stocks, bonds, gold or bitcoins. Maps of 18th-century Pittsburgh, that’s where the money is. Though I probably shouldn’t say “maps.”

4 weeks ago

David M. Shribman: A good neighbor among nations

This coming Saturday, Canada turns 150 in a different world, more quiet and contented than its neighbor to the South.

4 weeks ago

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