It was noisy and crowded in the basement of Bidwell Presbyterian Church. Families straightened signs and checked clothes, organizers prepared microphones and Channel 11 was setting up outside. It was Martin Luther King Jr. Day and residents of the Northside were preparing to honor it by marching fro...

On Saturday, January 10, a husband and wife team threw a charity concert to help the victims of a recent Northside Fire. More than 70 residents from all over the Northside opened their ears and their wallets to the fire relief fund set up by the Allegheny West Civic Council and the Northside Leaders...

By Andy Medici As part of an ongoing effort to aid the victims of the Western Avenue New Years fire, Tom Roberts and Susanna Ortner Roberts will play a benefit concert at the Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church on North Avenue. The concert will be from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and will feature the...

By Andy Medici The fire on Western Avenue may have claimed several businesses, but the owners have vowed to continue and rebuild their businesses. While no one was injured in the fire, The Modern Cafe and KS Kennedy Floral were both destroyed and the inside of the buildings almost completed burned o...

By Cheryl Lowitzer - Your Organizing Guru It’s official – January is Get Organized or GOMonth – sponsored by the National Organization of Professional Organizers (NAPO) of which yours truly is a proud, card-carrying member of the Pittsburgh Chapter. In honor of the collective “Yes, We Can” intent to...

By the Northside United MLK Committee The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant ani...

The Northside Leadership Conference has set up a relief fund for victims of the New Years fire that claimed two Northside Businesses and damaged a third. While no one was injured in the fire, The Modern Cafe and KS Kennedy Floral were both destroyed – the inside of the buildings almost completed bur...

Many Northside Chronicle readers recognize my name and many even know me personally.  I have been living on Pittsburgh’s North Side for ten years and have thrown my heart and soul into helping to make this a very special place for our own and for future generations.  I grew up in the North Hills sub...

By Andy Medici The ribbon-cutting for a local townhouse development project became a platform to talk about the economy and community revitalization, with Pittsburgh notables showing up to praise the development and stress Pittsburgh’s strength during an economic downturn. Don Walko, the state repre...

By Andy Medici More than 75 people braved the coldest temperatures so far this year in order to be a part of the Deutschtown Merchant’s Association’s first “Light up Night.” The event was geared to showing people all of what East Ohio Street has to offer and to give families a fun evening out. Local...