Columns
Looking Down the Lines — Week 2
Andrew White | Staff Writer Last time out: 2-4 overall, 2-3 CFB, 0-1 NFL Season record: 2-4 overall, 2-3 CFB, 0-1 NFL Alright, let’s not sugarcoat this. Last week wasn’t pretty. It could have […]
Month: September 2019
Arts & Entertainment
Paper Tiger is a lazy, tone-deaf special from Bill Burr
Ollie Gratzinger | Editor-in-Chief 09/12/19 In his new comedy special Paper Tiger, Bill Burr aims to critique the nuances of an ever-polarized and political American society, but instead, he bumbles through 67 minutes of awkward, […]
Arts & Entertainment
It Chapter Two continues the Loser Club’s horrifying tale
Madison Pastrick | Layout Editor & Ad Manager 09/12/19 Stephen King’s literary masterpiece has made it to the big screen once again, as everybody’s least favorite clown, Pennywise, returns to wreak havoc on the poor […]
Arts & Entertainment
The Lion King brings Pride Rock to Pittsburgh
Colleen Hammond | Opinions Editor 09/12/19 From the bright lights of Broadway to my hometown Shakespeare in the park, I assumed after a decade in the theater I had seen nearly everything the medium had […]
Opinions
A prorogued Parliament pushes off Brexit negotiations
Timothy Rush | Staff Columnist The United Kingdom is a country divided over the looming shadow of Brexit, Britain’s exiting of the European Union. On Sept. 5, the U.K. […]
Staff Editorials
E-cigarette crackdowns
Staff Editorial The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially acknowledged a link between a sixth death and the use of e-cigarettes. Following that, the Trump administration announced that the FDA will look to ban […]
Features
Pittsburgh Irish Festival went off without hitch
Ashley Newman | Staff Writer 09/12/2019 As I walked through Sandcastle waterpark, the scene looked pretty desolate. The closed park was almost completely empty, with dry pools and windows closed on every concession stand. As […]
Features
Mural created in East Liberty to honor Mac Miller
Kellen Stepler | Staff Writer 09/12/2019 Art can do a lot of things. It can make our surroundings more beautiful, it can express and communicate emotions and it can move and impact a community. The […]
News
Event to host Emmy-winning musician
09/12/2019 Ollie Gratzinger | editor-in-chief On Oct. 2, the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania will host renowned musician and philanthropist Peter Buffett at the Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland at 7 p.m. The event, “A […]
Opinions
America needs to ax the gender based “pink tax”
Zoe Stratos | Staff Columnist The pink tax: the ongoing global phenomenon by which women’s goods and services cost more than men’s across all ages, regardless of similarities. Included in the price gap are children’s […]