Charles Hall: setting his own beat
No longer chasing record deals, local percussionist focuses on job as assistant at Point Park, his music By Alex Stumpf Point Park News Service For Charles Hall, sitting on a stool in a corner dance...
View ArticleHotel downtown brings new kind of comfort
By Sean McKeag Point Park News Service The ambassador to the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh frolics around the lobby, while the bellhops greet incoming guests unobtrusively making their presence...
View ArticlePittsburgh Marathon, sibling style
A pair of Wisconsin runners test the bonds of family to run in Sunday’s marathon By Audrey Prisk Point Park News Service Laura Hokanson, 23, has been running since high school, but has been working out...
View ArticleContestants prepare for zombie relay race this September
By Gregg Harrington Point Park News Service The zombie apocalypse will fall on the Pittsburgh area soon. Droves of citizens will flee from the giant group of the undead. The only strange thing is,...
View ArticleSome Ideas collective brings bands to Braddock
By Gregg Harrington Point Park News Service A few years ago, when friends Ian Shiver and Welch Canavan took a chance by moving to Braddock, Pennsylvania, a former steel mill town outside of Pittsburgh,...
View ArticleBraddock Free Clinic fills void left by UPMC
By Gregg Harrington Point Park News Service A granite sign on the Braddock Municipal Building lawn at 415 Sixth Street states “Lest We Forget” in memory of all United States veterans; a slogan that...
View ArticleOutsourced from India
By Andrew Goldstein Point Park News Service Inside the Indian boutique, Shingar, the eyes are besieged by a myriad of colors extending beyond the rainbow from the clothing racks packed with saris,...
View ArticleHollywood gives small businesses ‘boost’
By Sean McKeag Point Park News Service When Matthew Yough, owner of Bean Catering in the Southside, got a phone call to provide catered coffee services for the Tom Cruise film, “One Shot”, it was a...
View ArticleMuslim discrimination
By Sean McKeag Point Park News Service Twenty-two-year-old Reem Hobeld in her native garb was at the beverage station at the Pittsburgh Burger Company in the waterfront when a man yelled, “Hey friend!...
View ArticleHello Bully Bath-a-Thon Here, all bullies are welcome
By Lindsay Brandt Point Park News Service Gracie the Pit Bull was a puppy when she showed up at Michael Delahonty’s church and never left because of a Pit Bull rescue group. Ferdinand was rescued and...
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