The Northside Chronicle has paired with Manchester Academic Charter School to feature the works of students in grades 6-8. This month, 5 seventh graders will share their family's holiday traditions. You can also find the selected work of four additional students in our December 2010 print edition. <...

Although it may look like a single large building at first glance, the newly opened Stage AE amphitheater on the North Shore has not one, but three facilities. Stage AE opened unofficially with a community open house on Dec. 1, which featured local band Muddy Kreek Blues Band. Girl Talk officially o...

At a Pittsburgh Public Schools board of directors public hearing on Monday, eight Northsiders presented mixed opinions on Propel Charter School’s application to open a new school in the area. Propel Northside would begin as a K-4 school with 40 students in each grade, and grow to a K-8 school. The o...

Part two in a three-part series.  Click to read part one and part three . A niche market turns out profits Andrew Lee was a man on a mission. Having worked in the cigar industry for more than four years, he filled a void in the market by opening up Executive Cigars, a high-end shop with a walk-in hu...

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Few existing Northside institutions can trace their history back to the years before the Civil War. Time, economic changes and population shifts have often caused the decline and disappearance of what were, in their day, thriving organizations and programs. That is why the story of the Metropolitan ...

Marcia Bisland, the new director of the Girls, Math & Science Partnership based out of the Carnegie Science Center, is working to ensure that girls have a fighting chance in today’s increasingly math and science-oriented world. According to Bisland, the next generation of our workforce will encounte...

An initial flood of stimulus funds to Pittsburgh seems to have dried up. There have been no new projects in the city resulting from federal grants made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act since July. “I check regularly for opportunities that the City of Pittsburgh can apply for s...