By Alyse Horn With recent approval from the City’s zoning board, Light of Life Rescue Mission is one step closer on relocation from its North Avenue spot to two different Northside locations. The two sites include Light of Life’s Ridge Avenue location, which was acquired from Pittsburgh Public Schoo...

Photo courtesy of Saturday Light Brigade By Alyse Horn Since 2012, Saturday Light Brigade has used its voice to exemplify the voices of youth and adults through its Crossing Fences program. Saturday Light Brigade is a radio production that was founded in 1978 and works out of the Children’s Museum, ...

Photo by Sam Ditch The mugs created by Daniel See and men from the Pleasant Valley Men's Shelter are being sold at the Mattress Factory with all proceeds going to PVMS. By Alyse Horn Project Home(less), an initiative that imprints handprints of the homeless onto mugs, was created by a person who did...

Photo by Jonathon Denson By Alyse Horn Spring Garden is one of the oldest intact neighborhoods on the Northside, and it is nestled in the valley between Spring Hill and Troy Hill. Back when the neighborhood was developing its community, it was home to meat packing plants and from that business stemm...

Photo by Alyse Horn Priory Fine Pastries has been open on East Ohio Street since 2004 and serves up an assortment of sweets, such as cinnamon rolls, creamed horns, pies, cupcakes, and the list goes on. By Alyse Horn It can be said that the way to a person’s heart is through their stomach. If that’s ...

Photos by Alyse Horn Executive Director of the Northside Community Development Fund Mark Masterson, Small Business and Redevelopment Manager for the City of Pittsburgh Henry Pyatt, and Jeff Daniels from Councilwoman Darlene Harris' office. By Alyse Horn On Monday, November 7 the Northside Community ...

Photo by Laura Slovesko By Alyse Horn Prime Stage Theatre, which runs out of the New Hazlett Theatre at 6 Allegheny Square East, will open its season with the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Harper Lee “To Kill a Mockingbird” on Friday, November 4 and run through Sunday, November 14. The Saturday, No...

by Merecedes J. Howze, Pittsburgh Public Schools In September, the Pittsburgh Board of Education approved the selection of James Cooper as Principal of Pittsburgh Perry Traditional Academy. Principal Cooper’s first official day was Monday, October 17. “My first order of business is to listen, learn,...

Photo by Alyse Horn A look inside the old Workingmen’s Beneficiary Union building after the roof was torn out in September. By Alyse Horn The roof on the building of 1958 Varley St. has been ripped out and replaced, and now Spring Hill Brewing is ready to embark on the next steps that will take them...

By Alyse Horn After a noise complaint in July during the Deutschtown Music Festival, James Street Gastropub & Speakeasy was forced to close its Ballroom until further notice. The venue needed to undergo renovations on its second floor to make it soundproof and add ventilation, said General Manager K...