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The play title invokes the name of Justin Timberlake — but will the pop superstar actually be there on stage? Playwright Matt Schatz isn’t telling. Audiences will find out as City Theatre premieres Schatz’s “An Untitled New Play by Justin Timberlake,” in a co-production with Pittsburgh CLO. The piece will
90.5 WESA Michelle Naccarati-Chapkis of Women for a Healthy Environment speaks at a rally urging city officials to slow down passage of plan to spend $335 million in federal aid. After four-and-a-half-hours of public testimony -- and a follow-up 45-minute rally -- on how to spend $335 million of federal coronavirus aid, the big message for Pittsburgh City Council was: You haven’t heard from the public enough. And while a preliminary vote on the plan is slated for Wednesday morning, it won’t be the last word. Council is weighing a plan, crafted by Mayor Bill Peduto’s office and a handful...
Image from: YouTube.com As we've known for some time, Fox got nothin'. They have no idea how to handle Joe Biden while still placating The Other Guy, and you can see them stumbling. Their numbers are dropping like a hot rock, yet they keep doing the same old, same old: Fox & Friends has a typical reaction to Biden's address: "Every time he has a chance to praise the previous administration, he not only doesn't praise, he kicks them in the groin." (Kilmeade must've been angry all the time when Trump didn't praise Obama/kicked him in the groin?) pic.twitter.com/kepF0mrTyx
Katie Blackley / 90.5 WESA The advisory board of Pittsburgh’s Housing Opportunity Fund, or HOF, will soon have to be more selective about what projects they support, and when they do, they want to be sure those investments do the most good. Pittsburgh City Council approved the Housing Opportunity Fund in 2017, but it took a while to fund it, so the HOF has operated in an environment of relative abundance: in each calendar year it’s had roughly two years of funding to get out the door. While the Urban Redevelopment Authority had created a scoring sheet to evaluate proposals, advisory ...
4:10 By most counts Pittsburgh is short some 20,000 units of affordable housing … but there’s not a lot of money to go around. 90.5 WESA’s Margaret J. Krauss reports even standout projects can run the risk of failure. By most counts Pittsburgh is short some 20,000 units of affordable housing, and the number continues to grow. Meeting the need, while always a challenge, seems even more daunting against the backdrop of vast housing insecurity revealed by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The city’s Housing Opportunity Fund, or HOF, is often a final stop for affordable housing projects;...