Mark Fatla of the Northside Leadership Conference (right) presents Allegheny General Hospital's Northside Partnership coordinator Deb Caplan (left) with a copy of his signature black fedora in thanks for Caplan's decade of service to the Northside. (Photo/Kelly Thomas) Two of the Northside’s most in...

Gerald and Patricia Cislon in Amani Coffee.  Gerald grew up on the Northside published his first book, dedicated to Patty, earlier this year. (Photo/Kelly Thomas) East Deutschtown native Gerald Cislon has an interesting story to tell, and he chose an interesting way to tell it. At age 67, Cislon pub...

Mildred "Pinky" McGlothlin of Troy Hill told council members not to sell city assets at a hearing on proposed plans to avoid state takeover of Pittsburgh's pension fund. (Photo/Kelly Thomas)   A diverse group of Northsiders spoke with a united voice at a City Council hearing Oct. 12 on the mayor’s p...

A sizable crowd assembled to see a free preview of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” presented by Prime Stage Theatreat the New Hazlett Theater on Oct. 3. Something in the theater, however, was missing. “Where’s the stage?” inquired a voice from the crowd. “The stage,” responded Prime Stage Artistic Dir...

Above: Spring Garden Avenue was closed Monday afternoon after a house collapsed, leaving one worker injured. Below: Work crews finished the demolition work before more of the unstable building could collapse. (Photos/Kelly Thomas) The roof of 839 Spring Garden Ave. collapsed around noon Monday while...

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Clear skies above two of the three telescope domes at the Allegheny Observatory on Oct. 1, when more than 300 people came to its annual open house. (Photo/Matthew Cichowicz) Almost 400 light years away from Earth, Alberio appears as a single star of average brightness to the naked eye, but through t...

Dumbledore, the Aviary's Eurasian eagle owl, shows what he can do in the recently completed Helen K. Schmidt FliteZone Theater. (Photo courtesy the National Aviary) On Oct. 5, I headed to the Northside’s National Aviary, a trip once reserved as a childhood treat, for the first time in years. This ti...

Steven Hughes graduated from Le Cordon Bleu Pittsburgh in 1994, and has worked with many types of cuisines in chef positions across the country. He has also worked as the culinary director for the "Mind of a Chef" cooking school at In the Kitchen, located in the Strip District.  He has worked under ...

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