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Photo courtesy stock.xchng Brighton Heights resident Jennifer Shaffer and a group of her gamer friends are proving that girls who love video games (and live on the Northside!) are not only awesome, but dedicated and conscientious. The weekend of Friday, Aug. 20 (and possibly beyond that), Jennifer a...

A drawing of S&A Homes's proposal for the Central Northside. (Image courtesy S&A Homes) Sometimes it takes a seemingly impossible goal to bring about great change. That’s one of the reasons the Central Northside Neighborhood Council added a year to its vision statement: “By the end of 2015 CNNC will...

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Walking through the archway at Penn Brewery is like entering a Nuremberg castle. The stately building, located at 800 Vinial Street at the foot of Troy Hill, reopened its restaurant to serve faithful patrons who missed the owners, Tom and Mary-Beth Pastorius, their award winning Penn Pilsner, and of...

A rendering of the proposed soccer field by J. T. Sauer & Associates.   Pending an okay from the state Department of Environmental Protection, the City of Pittsburgh is ready to break ground on the $1.6 million Riverview Park soccer field, finally. Originally, construction on the field was set to st...

Just as eager as the kids that play there, Central Northside residents packed the Children’s Museum’s lower level on Monday, July 19 to hear from four developers on their proposals for the Garden Theater block. Choosing a developer won’t be easy, but it will require the full community’s input, said ...

This map shows one of three possible road alterations. This option would connect Behan Street and Jabok Way, both currently dead ends, to W. North Avenue. Allegheny West, the smallest neighborhood on the Northside, could get a whole lot bigger in terms of residents. That’s because the Allegheny West...

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Frank Rossi, left, leads members of the Pittsburg Banjo Club in a ragtime tune. (Photo/Henry Clay Webster) When bragging about the Northside’s many cultural institutions to out-of-towners, many locals forget to mention one that has appeared on a weekly basis for more than twenty years. The Pittsburg...