Iceland: Life continues in shadow of volcano

By Bryan Lawver, Point Park News Service
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Plumes of volcanic ash continue to billow from Iceland’s Eyjafjalla glacier, grounding European flights, stranding travelers around the world and coating the countryside in a thick layer of gray dust.

Pittsburgh mixes Historic Architecture with the Technological Age

By: Jeanette Reft
While Mayor Luke Ravenstahl currently serves in the office of a nearly 100-year-old building, he is the first Pittsburgh mayor to publicly keep up with the modern age of technology.

Pittsburgh: A city for a poet, that doesn’t even know it.

By Jeanette Reft, Point Park News Service
Nathan Mallory, co-owner of Cannon Coffee in Brookline, did not envision having a plain, boring spot for locals to drink coffee.

The feed: Pittsburgh journalists discuss the values and disadvantages of gathering news through social networks

By Faith Cotter
Special to the Point Park News Service
When the Steel City was blasted with an unusually large amount of snow at the beginning of February, Pittsburgh Post Gazette reporter Mackenzie Carpenter used her know-how with the social networking site Twitter to keep on top of snowstorm news.

He makes art of hanging it

A fulltime employee at Downtown’s Wood Street Galleries, Marc Burgess, 27, of Bloomfield, has been working for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for three years. Always having a love for the arts, and being an artist himself, he attended C.A.P.A. and the School for the Arts Institute of Chicago. Now, Burgess helps install art pieces from artists around the world.

Snow Way: Can you dig it?

Photos and stories collaborated from Point Park News Service students from the snow storm of February, 2010.

Down but — mostly — not out, Market Square restaurants eager for construction to end

Restaurant owners and businesspeople in Market Square are keeping a positive outlook despite the constant sounds of drilling and hammering due to construction. Although people are excited to see the end result, there is a price to pay for owners of smaller restaurants in Market Square…

Oil City hospital demolished

The demolition of the former Oil City hospital on Jan. 18, 2010. The old hospital was vacated and listed for sale for one dollar, but the UPMC Northwest deal stated that if no one was interested in buying it after one year, it was to be demolished.

Smell it! Eat it! A&J barbecues Market Square

Jerry Harrison, 52, of the Northside is a former truck driver who decided to start a restaurant because of his love of cooking barbeque-inspired dishes. Still, it’s something that he didn’t always expect he’d do. A&J Ribs in Market Square opened in November. Harrison owns the restaurant with five family members. He has gained loyal customers, including Ryan Mundy of the Pittsburgh Steelers, mostly through word-of-mouth and passing out flyers.

Port Authority riders dig deeper to get where they’re going

By Auja Jones
Michael Powell rides the bus into Downtown every workday, but with the recent Port Authority fare increase, it costs him a little more than it used to.

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