Shadyside News

They are conversion of the Highland Building into a 100-room hotel; renovation or demolition for a structure of the Wallace Building at Centre and Highland avenues; and development of the PNC Bank building site.

He was a young college graduate with the world laid out before himliterally. As an AmeriCorps Vista volunteer, the young architect could have gone to New York, Miami... but staring at a map, Richard Parsakian opted for Pittsburgh.

Thirty years ago, a young Frenchman walking in Normandy came across an American soldier's rusted dog tag among the rocks at Nacqueville, west of the port of Cherbourg.

Henne Jewelers is located at 5501 Walnut St., Shadyside. For more information about the Michael Kobold talk and watch event, call 412-682-0226. Web Links Henne Jewelers Kobold watches have been everywhere from the North Pole to Antarctica, the depths of the ocean to the peaks of some of the world's highest mountains.

Nicole Kaplan, left, and John Wascavage in Quantum Theatre's "Candide." Quantum Theatre stages classics and plays that are largely unknown, often American premieres, in places no one thought to stage them before.

There's the verdant green of Allegheny Cemetery over there. The dazzling rainbow of the new Children's Hospital here.

Nov. 1--Franklin Toker wanted his readers to feel the heartbeats of the Pittsburgh neighborhoods he loves.

Not all of Pittsburgh's historic houses are Colonial, Federal or Second Empire. The Robert and Cecilia Frank house, the avant garde house by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer on Woodland Road in Shadyside, is undergoing preservation work.

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

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Three late-night robberies -- including one where the thief wore a Halloween mask -- were reported within a couple of hours overnight in Shadyside and East Liberty.

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James Lannis was a Pittsburgh original. The city fire captain, nicknamed "Gypsy" for his travels around city neighborhoods, lit up the firehouse with his laughter for nearly three decades and regaled children with his storytelling.

A parade of college students marched through the Municipal Courts Building yesterday to explain why they were caught up in mass arrests following the G-20 summit, and District Judge Kevin E. Cooper played the role of a scolding parent.

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.

"Our core mission of educating women," says Dr. Esther Barazzone, Chatham Unversity president, "both undergraduate and graduate, is extremely important for the economic development of the region." Leaning forward in her well appointed office in Andrew Mellon's former home, a large, faux-Tudor structure that once housed the Secretary of the Treasury ...

Share + Oct 17, 2009 2:35 pm US/Eastern SHADYSIDE Police have arrested a woman accused of robbing a Uni-Mart in Shadyside on three separate occasions.

ThePittsburghChannel.Com updated Oct. 17, 2009 PITTSBURGH - THE PITTSBURGH CHANNEL.com Pittsburgh police arrested a woman Friday night in connection with three robberies at the same convenience store.

Pittsburgh robbery detectives arrested a woman and charged her in three robberies at the Shadyside Uni-Mart. Shanez Hanion, 38, of Shadyside was arrested Thursday night, according to a police release, and charged in three robberies at the store at 5724 Ellsworth Ave.

Today and tomorrow : Feathers, the Shadyside fine linens and down store, will have a trunk show of Peacock Alley's exclusive Couture Bedding Collection with a personal appearance by company founder Mary Ella Gabler from 1 to 6 p.m. today.