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‘The Bachelor’ fans react to Joey Graziadei’s season, predict hometown dates
With hometown dates less than two weeks away, Season 28 of ABC’s “The Bachelor” is heating up. Four contestants will get to show the bachelor around their hometowns and introduce him to their families. Fans took to the X social media platform to express their opinions on Joey Graziadei —...
Four Chord Music Fest 10 moves to Pittsburgh for 2024, lineup announced
The Four Chord Music Fest, featuring loads of national and local punk rock, pop punk and indie bands, is moving back to Pittsburgh for its 10th edition. The festival, which started in 2014 at the former Xtaza nightclub in the Strip District, has been at Wild Things Park in Washington...
‘Porky’s,’ ‘Die Hard 2′ actor dies at age 64
Actor Tony Ganios, who is best known for playing the character Meat in the “Porky’s” films, died on Sunday at age 64. His fiancée, Amanda Serrano-Ganios, confirmed the news on X, formerly known as Twitter, writing “The last words we said to each other were “I love you.” Love is...
TV Q&A: Who will SportsNet Pittsburgh have as Pirates announcers?
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: Who will the Pirates announcers be this season on SportsNet Pittsburgh? — Chris, via email Rob: This week, SportsNet Pittsburgh announced its Pirates broadcast team...
Beatles to get Fab Four of biopics, a movie each for Paul, John, George, Ringo
NEW YORK — The Beatles are getting the big-screen biopic treatment in not just one film, but a Fab Four of movies that will give each band member their own spotlight — all of which are to be directed by Sam Mendes. For the first time, the Beatles, long among...
Former WPXI news anchor Peggy Finnegan selling Marshall Township home
Veteran WPXI news anchor Peggy Finnegan’s home is on the market and contingent. It was listed at $714,900. The classic contemporary architectural style house on Ash Court in Marshall is owned by Finnegan, who announced her retirement after three decades in December 2020. The Herbert custom home was built in...
Trib Lunch Box: Tiny homes, bridge collapse hearing, brewery closing, new chief public defender
Here are some noon headlines from TribLive, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024: • Pittsburgh to vote on tiny houses plan for homeless Pittsburgh’s Planning Commission is poised to vote Tuesday on a controversial zoning change meant to tackle homelessness, one of the city’s most vexing and intractable problems. The move, pushed...
Eco-friendly dream home up for $1.25M in Clinton
Pat Hebda is saying goodbye to her beloved eco-friendly home in Clinton Township for the last time. Hebda, 74, is selling her dream home, dubbed “Dream’s End,” a 60-acre estate designed with an emphasis on being environmentally friendly. The asking price is $1.25 million. Hebda’s husband of 40 years, Jim...
James Taylor, Dan + Shay concerts added this summer at Star LakeVideo
The concert lineup at the Pavilion at Star Lake got even more crowded with the addition of two more shows Tuesday. Pop duo Dan + Shay will visit the Burgettstown venue on Aug. 2, while singer-songwriter James Taylor, with his all-star band, will stop on Sept. 7. Taylor, who was...
Necromancer Brewing Co. closing, 2nd location won’t open
Necromancer Brewing Co. in Ross is closing. And that means Midnight Whistler Pub in Greenfield won’t be opening. The decision was announced Monday in an Instagram post. The microbrewery and brew pub was open for three years and Midnight Whistler, a second location, was planned to open in the former...
Welcome to the ‘Hotel California’ case: The trial over handwritten lyrics to an Eagles classic
NEW YORK — In the mid-1970s, the Eagles were working on a spooky, cryptic new song. On a lined yellow pad, Don Henley, with input from band co-founder Glenn Frey, jotted thoughts about “a dark desert highway” and “a lovely place” with a luxurious surface and ominous undertones. And something...
TV Talk: ‘Constellation’ starts strong, ends weakVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. PASADENA, Calif. — “Constellation” is one of those post-“Lost,” labyrinthine shows, the kind of series that may or may not ever provide satisfying answers or reach a decent conclusion. It’s a twisty conspiracy thriller with...
Accordion players enjoy instrument’s resurgence
The Accordion Club of Natrona Heights might need to change its name. These guys and gals aren’t just sitting around playing old-timey polkas — they can really jam. “We like to get together and kind of show off what we can do,” said club founder Gabe Ziccarelli, 77, whose lightning-fast...
Astronomers find what may be the universe’s brightest object with a black hole devouring a sun a day
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day. The record-breaking quasar shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. The...
Mark Smail, 62, carried on the family automotive business, was active in community
While Mark A. Smail had the responsibility of operating the family’s successful automotive dealerships east of Greensburg, he also made it a priority to spend quality time with his family and enjoy life. Smail enjoyed boating in the Florida Keys in the summer, going to the family’s lodge in Ontario’s...
Students and parents are frustrated by delays in hearing about federal financial aid for college
NEW YORK — For many students, the excitement of being accepted into their first-choice college is being tempered this year by a troublesome uncertainty over whether they’ll get the financial aid they need to attend. The financial aid decisions that usually go out with acceptance letters are being delayed because...
TV Talk at TCA: Pittsburgh native who won equal rights for flight attendants featured in PBS’s ‘Fly with Me’Video
PASADENA, Calif. — Growing up in Swissvale, Mary Pat Laffey Inman was familiar with the work of unions, but she had no idea just how important they would be to her career as a flight attendant. Her efforts to gain pay and benefit equality with men changed the airline industry’s...
‘Oppenheimer’ wins 7 prizes, including best picture, at British Academy Film AwardsVideo
LONDON — Atom bomb epic “Oppenheimer” won seven prizes, including best picture, director and actor, at the 77th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, cementing its front-runner status for the Oscars next month. Gothic fantasia “Poor Things” took five prizes and Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest” won three. British-born...
How Ziggy Marley helped bring the authenticity to ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
People had been coming to Ziggy Marley and his family for years with ideas about how to turn reggae icon Bob Marley’s life into a movie. But it never felt quite right, until a few years ago when they decided to be the instigators. “It was just a feeling,” Ziggy...
Silent Book Club gains traction in the Pittsburgh region
The rules of Silent Book Club are simple: No assigned reading, no homework and no small talk required. Members are expected to show up at a designated meeting place with whatever title they’re enjoying, sit and read. They can share thoughts if they want, but they don’t have to. The...
‘There needs to be somebody that looks like me’: Pittsburgh nonprofit creates recreation opportunities for people of color
Jaiya Hughes loves everything about winter. When temperatures drop, Hughes, 10, cannot wait to don her snow coat and boots and hit the hills of her East Liberty neighborhood in Pittsburgh, sled in hand. Her mother, Tazi Hughes, always joins in on the action. But when Jaiya sees fellow sled...
Monroeville ‘doodler’ featured at The Manos Gallery in Tarentum
Larry Brandstetter’s passion for art began at the kitchen table. When he was 8, Brandstetter recalls his mother sitting in their Morningside home with an open phone book nearby. “She would draw these ladies in chiffon dresses and heels,” Brandstetter said. Her whimsy sparked his creativity, according to the self-proclaimed...
Runners shrug off cold in Pittsburgh Undie Run to help fight neurofibromatosis
“Aren’t you freezing?” The question was painfully obvious. But it was hard to avoid repeating it Saturday to runners young and old who huffed and puffed their way across the Roberto Clemente Bridge from Downtown Pittsburgh to the North Shore, wearing enthusiastic smiles, colorful skivvies and not much more in...
Students in Hempfield support programs sell handmade items through boutique
Jack Wonderling carefully lifted the lid of the heat press machine and placed a fresh tote bag inside. He pressed down on the handle of the press and held it for about a minute until the design — a glittery blue Spartan logo — was transferred onto the outside of...
Drake and J. Cole wow old and new fans at PPG Paints Arena
Two legends can co-exist, and they did it Friday night as the Drake with J. Cole: It’s All A Blur Tour-Big As The What? hit the PPG Paints Arena stage for the first of two nights. It might have been snowy and cold outside, but Drake and J. Cole brought...
