Oakland News

The Three Rivers Film Festival, presented by Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Dollar Bank, opens Friday with a robust, diverse mix of movies.

The Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh is holding its semi-annual fundraiser for the Evelyn H. Wei Memorial Scholarship Award in Epidemiology.

The 28th annual Three Rivers Film Festival, presented by Pittsburgh Filmmakers, runs from Fri., Nov.

Pittsburgh police are urging people to be cautious after an assault and two robberies Monday night in Oakland.

Shadyside house being preserved once labeled a 'crown jewel' City patchwork Many things make Pittsburgh unique, says Franklin Toker.

A committee of University of Pittsburgh trustees approved the $1.3 million purchase of a three-quarter-acre parcel in Oakland that will be converted to undergraduate student apartments.

Spend an hour hanging with some of the biggest names in art. Through Nov. 20, Carnegie Museum of Art in Oakland is offering free, guided, one-hour tours of some of the star attractions in its permanent collection.

The Port Authority of Allegheny County voted Friday for a wide-ranging transit redevelopment plan that will change several bus routes, eliminate others with low demand and raise the fare for riders who live farthest from the city of Pittsburgh.

A luxury apartment building could become the first development in the long-planned Oakland Portal complex in Oakland.

Senator Tom Harkin will speak at the University of Pittsburgh from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Oct.

A line of police officers and a line of lawyers faced off at Pittsburgh Municipal Court yesterday, quarreling over why more than 100 people were arrested in the streets of Oakland on the final day of the G-20 summit.

Adam Dulak said he wasn't thinking about the Group of 20 summit at midnight Sept.

Citiparks farmers markets run through Thanksgiving: * East Liberty, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Mondays, Penn Circle West next to McDonald's * South Side, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Corner of 18th and East Carson streets * Carrick, 33:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Carrick Shopping Center, Brownsville Road and Parkfield Street * Bloomfield, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Thursdays, ...

An Ohio University student arrested in Oakland following the G-20 summit Sept. 25 said she tried to leave several times after police ordered a crowd to disperse, but a wall of law-enforcement officers blocked her path.

Just in time for Halloween, the most famous vampire of all invades the Charity Randall Theatre as the University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre presents Ted Tiller's comic thriller Count Dracula October 22 through November 1. Things are more than unusually strange at Dr.

Pittsburgh arson investigators were called to four fires Sunday afternoon, officials said.

Two candidates challenging Mayor Luke Ravenstahl for his post accused him Tuesday of ignoring some of Pittsburgh's tight-knit neighborhoods and failing to deliver on promises to make the city friendly to businesses.

What "The Public Health Implications of Helmet Laws in Taiwan" - special lecture presented by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health Who Wen-Ta Chiu, M.D., Ph.D., president and professor of medicine, public health and nutritional science, Taipei Medical University, and 2009 University of Pittsburgh Legacy Laureate.

The Klezmatics have been called the Rolling Stones of klezmer music. The poet Allen Ginsburg likened them to a combination of avant-garde pop and classical music.

The live music scene in Pittsburgh is hardly music to Tony DePaolis' ears. At 27, he says he counts himself among an endangered species -- musicians who support themselves solely by performing.