12+ hour, 42+ min ago   (744+ words) For many of us, the summer is ending in a paroxysm of grief. Perennials we believed would last forever have perished. Over mere weeks, we lost a legendary performer, a feminist trailblazer and a living memorial. I never met Dolly…...

9+ hour, 37+ min ago   (771+ words) VENICE, Italy — “Woman Unknown,” a drama about Denmark in the aftermath of the Nazi occupation directed by May el-Toukhy, won the prestigious Golden Lion at the 83rd Venice Film Festival on Saturday. The Maggie Gyllenhaal -led jury announced the winners, which…...

9+ hour, 24+ min ago   (628+ words) A fundraiser supporting those doing a good thing may not be all that unusual in the Pittsburgh area. A polo match might be. But after being held for more than 40 years, the annual Family House Polo Match has become a…...

8+ hour, 17+ min ago   (525+ words) A Carnegie Mellon University professor is on a voluntary sabbatical while school officials review what they called “hostile and threatening social media posts.” Uju Anya, an associate professor of second language acquisition, is under scrutiny following a 2021 exchange on X…...

10+ hour, 51+ min ago   (552+ words) Fourteen-year-old Andrew Doran watched for 20 minutes as a blacksmith at the Fort Allen Antique Farm Equipment Association heated a metal rod over coals and pounded it into the shape of an “S” hook. “Nowadays, a machine could spit that out…...

18+ hour, 42+ min ago   (384+ words) Leechburg’s annual Pink Day will look a little different this year. Sherry Price, who captained the event for 13 years, bid farewell to Pink Day planning with the 2025 event. She passed the torch to Leechburg Mayor Doreen Smeal and Dina Blake,…...

17+ hour, 41+ min ago   (953+ words) For decades, the women of Pittsburgh Pirates president Travis Williams’ immediate family have relied on just one ace to deliver the couple’s six children — and now their newest grandchild, too. For more than 30 years, Travis’ wife, Nikki Williams, 54, of Robinson,…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (426+ words) LOS ANGELES — A federal jury on Friday found rapper Lil Durk not guilty of the attempted killing for hire of rival rapper Quando Rondo at a Los Angeles gas station, a shooting that resulted in the death of Rondo’s cousin....

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (719+ words) TORONTO — The 51st Toronto International Film Festival is underway, with steady parades of premieres running like traffic jams through downtown Toronto. Here are glimpses of what’s happening on the ground, and what festivalgoers are talking about. ‘Obsession’ returns from whence it…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (671+ words) An unheralded African American jazz revolutionary from East Liberty whose progressive passages helped pave the way to the genre’s future had a stretch of street in her old neighborhood renamed Mary Lou Williams Way on Friday. Dubbed “The First Lady…...