Far from being a holiday only for African Americans, everyone can learn from and enjoy the universal values that Kwanzaa celebrates, said a spokesperson for the Young Men and Women’s African Heritage Association. For the past 12 years, the association has held a public Kwanzaa celebration, and this ...

Just because your neighbor has Verizon’s Fios internet and cable service doesn’t mean you can get it. The Chronicle recently learned that although residents on one side of a street on the Northside may have Fios services, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the other side does, too. For example, as o...

This summer, a garden at the corner of Manhattan and Adams streets in Manchester will look greener thanks to the Manchester Beautification Committee and a grant from the Sprout Fund. The neighborhood garden, started a few years ago by the committee with some help from Wal-Mart, covers nine city lots...

The Garden Theater Block awaits redevelopment at the hands of Zukin Development and Collaborative Ventures.  Zukin was chosen to work on the block earlier this year. (Photo/Kelly Thomas) In a year when headlines focused on the national economic crisis, Northside communities persevered to bring resol...

The law of cause and effect is one of the laws that I have learned to abide by in critiquing or improving my life. We often don’t realize how much power we have over own lives based on our own choices and the decisions we make. This law does not discriminate, waiver or only apply when convenient. Si...

Left: Bill Strickland, founder, president and CEO of the Northside's Manchester Bidwell Corporation, was appointed to the White House Council for Community Solutions by President Obama in December. (Photo courtesy Manchester Bidwell Corporation) The Northside now has a voice in the White House. Pres...

Matty, the mother of Amani owner Terra Jones, talks with City Council President Darlene Harris at a coffee tasting at Amani on Dec. 9. (Photo/Kelly Thomas) Coffee connoisseurs from around the city crowded Amani International Coffeehouse on Dec. 9 to sample almost 20 blends of coffee roasted in-house...

This week the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh board of directors voted to keep all library branches open in 2011, reversing an earlier plan that called for several branches to close. A large budget deficit prompted the development of the plan to close several library branches, but public outcry and a...

A museum visitor watches David Wojnarowicz's controversial video "A Fire in My Belly" at the Mattress Factory on Sampsonia Way. The video contains some disturbing images and was removed from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery after creating a controversy. (Photo courtesy the Mattress Factor...

From long-awaited development projects taking off to charity projects and changes in education, 2010 was another big year for the Northside. Catch up on the news you might have missed or just reminisce about the big stories that happened during the pastyear. To read each story, click on the headline...