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2 days ago | 
pittsburghmagazine.com | Virginia Linn
Paul Miller Jr. was just a month shy of his 22nd birthday when he was driving his Toyota Corolla on Route 33 in Hamilton Township in Northeastern Pennsylvania. A driver of a tractor-trailer coming from the opposite direction was looking at his cellphone and crossed the center line, striking Miller’s car head-on. Miller, a senior at East Stroudsburg University, was killed instantly. That was in July 2010.
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6 days ago | 
pittsburghmagazine.com | Virginia Linn
Bench Coach Don Kelly is the new manager. Pirates Manager Derek Shelton is out. Pirates Bench Coach Don Kelly is in as the new manager. That was the news from the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday in what team owner Bob Nutting called a first quarter of the season that has been “frustrating and painful for all of us.”“Derek is a good man who did a lot for the Pirates and Pittsburgh, but it was time for a change,” Nutting said in a statement.
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6 days ago | 
pittsburghmagazine.com | Virginia Linn
Kennywood Park’s Steel Curtain will start rolling again for the general public on May 24 — just in time for Memorial Day weekend.
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1 week ago | 
pittsburghmagazine.com | Virginia Linn
Edda Fields-Black wanted to make her historical account of a Union Army raid led by Harriet Tubman on southern plantations and rice fields as authentic as possible. So she re-enacted parts of the raid that occurred in June 1863 along the Combahee River in Beaufort, South Carolina, which freed 756 enslaved people. She rode on a boat up the dark river, illuminated only by a full moon.
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1 week ago | 
pittsburghmagazine.com | Virginia Linn
How do you make friends in Pittsburgh? Our correspondent Ryan Rydzewski writes in our May magazine about the importance of building friendships as a way of staying connected and combating loneliness, a health risk highlighted by the former U.S. surgeon general.
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2 weeks ago | 
pittsburghmagazine.com | Virginia Linn
When a power outage shut down London Heathrow Airport in March for most of a day, more than 1,300 flights were canceled, disrupting travel for 200,000 passengers. That won’t happen at Pittsburgh International Airport. That’s because the airport is totally powered by its own 23-megawatt microgrid project on-site with a natural gas plant as well as 10,000 solar panels on 8 acres constructed over a landfill.
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2 weeks ago | 
pittsburghmagazine.com | Virginia Linn
Just two years after taking the helm as Chatham University’s 20th president, Rhonda Phillips is leaving the small private school to become president of St. Mary’s College of Maryland, the National Public Honors College. She will be replaced by Lisa Lambert, Chatham’s current provost and vice president of academic affairs, as interim president on June 1. Phillips came on board as the 2,300-student university was facing a $8 million to $12 million deficit.
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2 weeks ago | 
pittsburghmagazine.com | Virginia Linn
The Pittsburgh Penguins and Head Coach Mike Sullivan have parted ways. The announcement on X by President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Kyle Dubas before 9 a.m. Monday comes about 10 days after the franchise ended its first losing season since 2005-06. Sullivan has been head coach since December 2015 and led the team to back-to-back Stanley Cup Championships in 2016 and 2017. The Penguins begin a search for a new head coach immediately.
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2 weeks ago | 
pittsburghmagazine.com | Virginia Linn
If it seems like a big chunk of Downtown is under construction, that’s not an exaggeration. And there’s more coming as the official groundbreaking of the 4-acre Arts Landing is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, April 29. Demolition of the Goodyear Auto Service store on a corner of the Cultural Trust-owned property is making way for construction to begin on the $31 million Eighth Street civic space.
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2 weeks ago | 
pittsburghmagazine.com | Virginia Linn
The 125th U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club in June is leaving behind more than the economic impact of thousands of fans descending upon the Pittsburgh area, the temporary jobs that will be created and the international exposure for the region during the tournament. The United States Golf Association will be making a $1 million investment in three public golf courses in the Pittsburgh area and in local leadership learning programs to keep the game of golf vibrant in the region.
