Threadbare Cider wins Best in Show at PA Farm Show Threadbare Cider, a Northside cider and mead maker, won Best in Show at the 2025 Pennsylvania Farm Show Cider Competition. In addition, the cider maker took home Best Overall Cider for 2025 with their Farmhouse Cider drink, and received a gold medal...

By Anna Yoder | Columnist Pittsburgh is famous for so many things that it is hard to compile all of them into a single list. Yet, there may be one famous fact that might not be as well known. It is the connection of the 1952 classic movie “Singin’ in the Rain” to a historic Pittsburgh flower shop. T...

By Anna Yoder | Columnist As an avid gardener, I arrived at the Northside with many gardening tools: multiple sized shovels and spades, hoes and rakes, a mattock, sledge hammers, a pitchfork, etc. No longer living on acreage but rather having a tiny courtyard (that I readily admit I have over plante...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor Chestnut Street is reopen after a lengthy renovation project which saw new bricks and sidewalks installed along the history road, among other improvements. A ribbon cutting ceremony celebrated the reopening on July 16. The ceremony was attended by Pittsburgh Mayor Ed...

By Anna Yoder | Columnist “You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream” are the catchy lyrics of the 1925 song entitled “Ice Cream” recorded by Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians. Many of us (who are older) have chanted that phrase as we waited our turn at the neighborhood ice cream truck or l...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor NORTH SHORE — A new festival celebrating women and providing a safe space for them to make new friends is coming to the Northside in June. The inaugural Babesburgh Bash will take place at Allegheny Landing and along Isabella Street on June 29, from 3 to 8 p.m. The fe...

By Anna Yoder | Columnist There are many choices in the Northside to buy your soft drinks, adult beverages, and have a bite to eat. Many of those establishments are also good stewards of their neighborhood and community. Mike’s Beer Bar & North Shore Tavern along with East Street Beer are three such...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor ALLEGHENY COMMONS — Another section of Allegheny Commons Park’s North Promenade has a new look, and the city held a ribbon cutting ceremony on April 30 to celebrate. Mayor Ed Gainey, Councilman Bobby Wilson and representatives from Duquesne Light Company (DLC), The B...

By Ethan Markon | Staff Writer Pittsburgh’s fourth spotted lanternfly season is arriving, but it might not be as bad as previous years. City of Pittsburgh’s Senior Park Ranger Erica Heide said that for lanternflies, “the third year is typically the worst.” Heide noted that all invasive species have ...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor OBSERVATORY HILL — It's not uncommon for people to gather at Allegheny Observatory to catch glimpses of stars, moons or planets, but the crowd which gathered on April 8 was much larger than unusual. That's because, rather than using the sophisticated telescopes of th...