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CP Photo: Jared Wickerham Lea Bickerton, owner of The Tiny Bookstore Lea and Bill Bickerton, the husband and wife team behind The Tiny Bookstore in Pittsburgh’s North Hills, have a running joke that the store is Lea’s baby. Bill is just the hired help. At just under 300 square feet, and tucked away in the center of Pines Plaza shopping center in Ross, patrons at The Tiny Bookstore won’t find an aisle devoted to popular novels or New York Ti...

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "My business is circumference," wrote poet Emily Dickinson in a letter to her mentor. What did she mean by that? "Circumference"...

Dafna Rehavia working on Binds & Bonds For someone with such a soft, gentle demeanor, Pittsburgh-based artist Dafna Rehavia has a penchant for sharp edges. This becomes apparent while exploring Binds & Bonds, her in-progress, site-specific installation on view as part of a two-month residency at BOOM Concepts in Garfield. Among the piles of broken chairs wound in twine, yarn, and ribbons are exposed rusty nails and bits of metal wire. There are also tin can lids, broken glass, and jaguars, the sleek predator appearing throughout as cutouts hanging on a wall or stal...

Criminal justice advocacy can be a long slog in Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania. There have been some statewide successes recently, like Pennsylvania's new law to expand...

CP Photo: Jared Wickerham Owners Nicole Capozzi and Josh Hogan No one gets into art for the money, and no one gets into the art gallery business with the guarantee that their gallery will have a long and fruitful career. But with hard work, cheap rent, and trust from the local arts community, BoxHeart Gallery in Bloomfield has stuck around for two decades, celebrating its 20th anniversary with a new exhibit, BoxHeart Turns 20!, which opens Wed., ...