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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: I would like to know what will happen to Erica Mokay since Lindsay Ward is back from maternity leave on KDKA-TV’s morning newscasts. Erica Mokay...

(Editor’s note: To mark Westmoreland County’s 250th birthday this year, we’ve come up with a list of 250 things — 10 things in 25 communities — that we consider to be important to the makeup of our area. This series will appear each week through December. If you have a...

The former Back to the Foodture restaurant will reopen Saturday in Pittsburgh’s Uptown neighborhood. The SouthSide Works location will remain permanently closed. The temporary closure of both was the result of months of emails with lawyers representing Universal Studios. Universal Studios emailed the owners — chef Angel Magwood and her...

Glidden Paint by PPG’s color of the year is limitless, both in versatility and in name. The “anything but yellow” honey beige tone offers “limitless applications,” according to Ashley McCollum, Glidden global color expert. “Consumers can use Limitless anywhere they’d like a neutral to create an updated, on-trend look, complementary...

Over the past few years, Librarian Sharon Coronado has been tested by select patrons who oppose the presence of certain voices in books at Ligonier Valley Library, particularly the voices of people of color and LGBTQ individuals. In one instance, Coronado recalls, a group of parents came into the library...

Gracie Trout said she loves showing animals, and on Monday, the calf she showed at the Westmoreland Fair — Jezebel — took home the Junior Champion title. This year was her second year showing, and Gracie, 11, of Tarrs won first in the fall Guernsey calf category, both 4-H and...

In this episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen discuss Pittsburgh pop culture news of the moment, including Friday night’s Guns N’ Roses concert at Pittsburgh’s PNC Park. Benz offers his reaction to season two of HBO’s “Winning Time,” which Owen warns...

The former Cinderlands restaurant and taproom in Lawrenceville has received another makeover. Long story short: It’s called Long Story Short — a bar and sandwich shop with indoor and outdoor seating. There is also a back room with a pool table, dart board and comfortable seating. A restored 1971 band...

Presley Thomas of Mt. Pleasant Township turned out to be a winner on Friday when she was selected as the 2023 Westmoreland Fair Queen and then again on Sunday when she won first place in senior showmanship for rabbits at the fair. “All of us girls (four in the fair...

It was a Barbiepalooza day for a Greensburg grandmother, who on Sunday was selling her collection of more than 100 Barbie dolls for less than what she paid for them in her 30 years of collecting the colorfully-costumed character. Why sell them now after holding onto them since the early...

Dessert is the beauty queen of the kitchen. Food magazines give us cover models of impossibly beautiful cakes. On television, sugar turns into masterpieces as if by magic. Social media does for pastries what airbrushing does for influencers — presenting the most perfect versions of the delicious truth possible. But...

Country music singer Luke Bryan brought his Country on Tour show to the sold-out Pavilion at Star Lake in Burgettstown on Saturday night. Famous for songs like “Drink a Beer,” “Do I,” “Huntin’, Fishin’ and Lovin’ Every Day” and “Country Girl (Shake It For Me),” Bryan has also been an...

The weather was gorgeous on Saturday for Day 3 of Little Italy Days in Pittsburgh’s Bloomfield neighborhood. Sal Richetti, who was born and raised in Bloomfield, has produced Little Italy Days since 2012. This four-day festival celebrates Bloomfield’s Italian heritage, and creates a destination spot for Italian-themed entertainment and food...

The winner of the Blue Ribbon Apple Pie contest at the Westmoreland Fair on Saturday will face a very familiar competitor when she bakes her apple pie for the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg in January. Michelle Ganassi Forry of Berlin, Somerset County, qualified for the state Farm Show by...

After inspiring head-banging for so many years, Guns N’ Roses instead left some in the audience head-scratching on Friday night at PNC Park. The veteran hard rockers’ world tour hit Pittsburgh, and singer Axl Rose’s voice fluctuated throughout the night, rarely coming close to the dynamic singing captured in their...

Amazon’s Prime Video reversed course today and canceled its renewal of “A League of their Own,” which filmed its first season in Pittsburgh. Although a filming location for season two had not been announced, “League” was expected to return to Pittsburgh. Variety reported the nonrenewal, noting it was the second...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. As ABC’s “The Bachelorette” comes to the end of its Charity Lawson- starring season Monday (8-11 p.m., WTAE-TV), South Fayette native Tanner Courtad is not in the running to become Lawson’s husband. He’s made peace with...

We’ve made it to the weekend. There is a lot going on, including a Steelers preseason game against the Buffalo Bills at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday at Acrisure Stadium on the North Shore, so plan accordingly. Here are some ways to spend it. Little Italy Days Little Italy Days Italian...

Double bill Two exhibits debut Friday at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley, off Route 711 south of the borough. “An Appreciation for the Familiar” features works by artist J.D. Titzel of Greenville, Mercer County. Titzel paints in watercolor and oil and also does graphite drawings. He...