Clothing re-sale store provides affordable ‘treasures’

By: Ashleigh Hawk

Devastated by a divorce and out of money at the age of 50, Sally Power opened an upscale clothing re-sale store in the North Hills, hoping to revive her psyche and her finances.
While she initially hoped Treasure House Fashions on McKnight Road would pull her out of a financial and emotional funk, Power started [...]

Rustbelt Radio might get a spot on the dial

By: Ron Gavalik

Rustbelt radio co-host and producer Andalusia Knoll works in the WRCT broadcast booth on the Carnegie Mellon University campus. Rustbelt offers community-cooperative news programming out of its Carnegie Mellon base.

Matt Toups only gets one shot a week at getting his local news broadcast on the radio.

Mattress factory features anything but sleepy art

By Rachel Vasquez

Sporting a dark brown jacket and gloves, Mary Temple, a featured artist at the Mattress Factory, takes a step back from her most recent creation – something which, at first glance, many would simply perceive to be a painting of a stark white brick wall.
With paint brush in hand, however, Temple works to [...]

Pittsburgh companies downsize employees

By: Kenneth Fibbe

Highmark employee Jim English used to be overweight, embarrassed to exercise in public and unable to easily fit into a bus seat. 
Since the company opened a fitness center in 2002, English has lost 80 pounds, works out five days a week and even runs an occasional marathon.
“I’m healthier, I feel better, and I [...]

Hello Bully, goodbye pit bull’s bad image

 By Tiffany Jordan
Balawejder started the Hello Bully website from her Cranberry home after losing her beloved pit bull in 2005, in the hopes of showing another side of the highly criticized breed of dog.

“One of the things I realized early on was that these dogs are severely misunderstood,” Balawejder said.
Pit bulls have been portrayed as malicious dog [...]

‘Geeks’ gather for careers and cocktails

By Kenneth Fibbe

Six nights a year, software engineer Vanessa Fine can find comfort in talking binary code with friends.
She knows whenever Geek Night rolls around she can finally speak freely amongst fellow computer junkies who will understand her tech-based work life, programming jargon and unique personal interests.
“It’s the only place I can sit down and [...]

Report of fire leads to Family Court evacuation

Photos by Kris Radder

Florists warn of Web impostors

By:  Joelle Quartini
For Jennifer Gatto, a thoughtful gesture soured when she decided to send flowers on Mother’s Day.
She knew she wouldn’t see her mom on the special day, so she went online to send an arrangement. But she didn’t realize she’d pay more for the card and vase, or that shipping would cost $10 extra [...]

Rustbelt Radio might get a spot on the dial

By: Ron Gavalik
Matt Toups only gets one shot a week at getting his local news broadcast on the radio.
A systems administrator at Carnegie Mellon University, Toups does a weekly, one-hour show called the Rustbelt Radio Project. But because of what he and others see as a lack of local radio channels, the program gets only [...]

Fund opens private education for Brentwood family

By: Christina Praskovich

Parents of 14 children, Mimi Gruber and her husband have watched other families pull children from St. Sylvester School in Brentwood because of the high costs of tuition.
But they have been able to keep their three youngest — now in fourth, fifth and sixth grades — at St. Sylvester thanks to the Catholic [...]

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