Oakland News

Sam Spatter can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7843. Despite the economic slowdown, Pittsburgh's office market improved as vacancies declined and rental rates increased during the three-month period ended June 30.

By Alice T. Carter , TRIBUNE-REVIEW THEATER CRITIC Wednesday, July 8, 2009 Last updated: 4:06 pm Photos click to enlarge PICT production Jasmine Goldband/Tribune-Review 'Doubt' Produced by: Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre When: Begins Thursday and continues through Aug.

North Dithridge Street and its eclectic mix of churches, fraternity houses and high-rise apartment buildings will become home to Pittsburgh's new curfew center next month.

Dave DeSimone is a member of the American Wine Society. He can be heard daily on KQV Radio with the Wine Cellar reports.

Phipps Conservatory once again is aflutter with butterflies. Adults and children can watch as butterflies emerge from cocoons and venture out to dine amidst the lush tropical plantings of the Stove Room.

The 10-year lease for 144,265 square feet of laboratory and office space starts Oct.

Pittsburgh police are investigating an early-morning shooting in Oakland that sent one man to the hospital.

Michael Machosky can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7901. Now that it looks like this is the summer that the Great Recession of '08-'09 stopped sleeping on the couch and decided to just move in, there have been some things we've had to get used to.

A slide between Clayton and Perrysville avenues, North Side. Amid a tangle of felled trees and dirt, a yellow bucket crane sits along the hillside above Perrysville Avenue, just below an orange umbrella on the deck of a townhouse.

Mike Cronin can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7884. Carnegie Mellon University officials plan to develop about three acres of land in Oakland that the school has bought from the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and PNC Bank.

They accept cash, Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express. If you are part of the Campus Food program, you can use your finds from that account to order from Pizza Bellagio .

A 40-year-old Oakland man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly making false statements to the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Pittsburgh reported.

Frank Rosato with his oldest son, John. When the Rosatos of Pittsburgh get together for big family functions, as they often do, they have to rent a hall to accommodate everyone.

With interest in Canadians at a seasonal high here in Pittsburgh, WYEP has perhaps picked the perfect time to present the Sam Roberts Band as headliners at the station's annual free summer music festival.

Pant-omime: Sam Trussell , Douglas Rees and Amanda Jane Cooper in What The Butler Saw , at Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre.

A joint venture partnership of Massaro Properties, TKA Architects Inc., Kratsa Properties and Langholz Wilson Ellis Inc.

Transportation legislation - and projects earmarked in it - could benefit Pennsylvania's crumbling roads and boost its hopes of build rail connections to the east and west, officials said Friday.

Iranian college students and supporters Thursday chanted calls of "Where's my vote" and "Down with dictator" during a three-hour demonstration in Oakland to protest the recent Iranian presidential election.

Thursday morning brought new views of the damage left behind by a slow-moving, severe thunderstorm that broke a rainfall record in the Pittsburgh area on Wednesday.

This plaque on a building at 12 rue de L'Odeon, Paris, acknowledges the initial publication of James Joyce's "Ulysses" by the Shakespeare and Company Bookstore owned by American Sylvia Beach.