Northside's first water lantern festival comes to Allegheny Commons West Park this summer https://youtu.be/ylelsv3b2ME The first annual Pittsburgh Night Lights Water Lantern Festival will be held on Saturday, August 17, 2019 at Lake Elizabeth in Allegheny Commons West Park. The gates open at 6:30 pm...

By Justin Criado The 10th annual City of Asylum/Pittsburgh Jazz Poetry Concert has grown too big for the friendly confines of its Sampsonia Way home and will take place in Allegheny Commons' West Park this Saturday, Sept. 6 at 7:45 p.m. The free music and poetry event will feature the Oliver Lake Bi...

By Alyse Horn Sometimes people make questionable purchases. Take Jim Smith, a military veteran and drum aficionado, who said he once bought a snare drum that looked like a piece of coal. “It had been stored in an attic. It was covered in soot and bird dropping,” Smith said. When he took the drum hom...