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Driftwood Oven is returning to its wood-fired roots with a second location on the North Side. Neil Blazin took the keys Wednesday to the Western Avenue space recently occupied by Alberta’s Pizzeria.
The building owner called Blazin shortly after Alberta’s abruptly closed in September, he says. The 48-seat restaurant comes with a Forno Bravo oven 54 inches in diameter.
“It’s a gorgeous space,” Blazin says. “It’s everything I would have wanted the first time.”
Link in our bio for more.
📝: Hal B. Klein/Post-Gazette
11 Nov 2026
Dick Hoak, who went from running back to assistant coach to become the longest tenured non-owner in Steelers history, has died. He was 86.
Hoak was a Jeannette native who went to Penn State before joining the Steelers in 1961. He spent 45 total years with the Steelers — 10 as a running back who led the team in rushing three times and then another 35 as a running backs coach under Chuck Noll and Bill Cowher.
When Cowher was hired in 1992, Hoak was the only assistant coach he retained from Noll’s staff.
“We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dick Hoak, a legendary member of the Pittsburgh Steelers family,” team owner and president Art Rooney II said Wednesday in a statement. “Dick was part of the foundation of this organization and played an instrumental role in shaping the Steelers as both a player and coach.”
Read more at the link in our bio.
📸: Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press
11 Nov 2026
Brookline’s 2026 restaurant boom is getting a nostalgic coda: DiCarlo’s Pizza is coming to the neighborhood.
Mentions of “pizza” in the region date back to at least 1935, when the Pittsburgh Press published a recipe for “delectable,” mushroom- and cheese-topped “little pastries” called Pizza Neapolitan. In 1945, Fox’s Grill, a tavern on North Highland Avenue, advertised “Italian Pizza a specialty” in the Post-Gazette.
But it was DiCarlo’s Pizza, opened the same year in nearby Steubenville, Ohio, that sparked the commercialization of this now-ubiquitous food in the Upper Ohio Valley.
Primo DiCarlo took over the oven at his parents’ bakery and acquired the first commercial “pizzeria” license in Ohio. Four years later, with his brother Galdo now part of the venture, DiCarlo’s opened a second location in Wheeling, W.V. In 1951 came a third, the first within Pittsburgh city limits, on Saw Mill Run Boulevard in Overbrook.
Read more at the link in our bio.
📝📸: Hal B. Klein/Post-Gazette
10 Nov 2026
A line of luxury cars pull up to a $4.5 million mansion for sale in Cranberry, and women wearing designer workout clothes step out with their Pilates mats ready.
But the workout is just a warm up. These women have come to scope out the mansion at 15 Burke Road — and some will consider buying it.
“You walk in and look up and see the magnificent light fixtures. And you can see it from the road too, which makes it more spectacular,” said Leanne Johnston, 34, of Cranberry, a guest at the recent event.
The evening event includes a Pilates class in the detached garage, which is big enough for 20 cars, sipping wine in the kitchen, touring the nine-bedroom mansion and mingling in its two-story foyer — all part of an unconventional effort to sell an ultra luxury home.
Read more at the link in our bio.
📝: Tim Grant/Post-Gazette
📸: Sophia Lucente/For the Post-Gazette
09 Nov 2026
Five months ago, Todd Porter had never met Kandida Dawson.
But when he sat down with a reporter to talk about his battle with a rare condition known as Goodpasture syndrome, it took about 30 seconds for him to get Dawson on speaker phone to talk about her role in saving his life.
“She’s just the best,” Porter, 56, of Connellsville, said of his new friend, who felt driven to be his kidney donor after hearing about his need at a prayer service earlier this year.
Dawson provided the happy ending through a kidney transplant in July for Porter’s circuitous journey dealing with a condition that began more than 30 years ago, took a three-decade pause, then came roaring back 2½ years ago.
📝: Ed Blazina/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
📸: Justin Guido/For the Post-Gazette, Courtesy of Todd Porter
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09 Nov 2026
Clad in sandstone, the 6,301-square-foot Squirrel Hill home at 5867 Wilkins Ave. has six bedrooms, three full bathrooms and two powder rooms. It's listed for $1.75 million.
The current owners moved in in October 2018 and have restored and renovated the 1907-built house, which had not been updated in decades. The tiled roof was one of the first projects.
“It was asphalt shingles when we bought it, but we found out when it was built it was tile, so we thought if we are going to redo this whole house, let’s do it right,” he said.
See more of the home at the link in our bio.
📸: 360 Captures
08 Nov 2026
Is there anything more glorious during the holiday than a big platter of homemade cookies?
Whether they’re iced, sprinkled with colored sugar or filled with jewel-colored jam, cookies are an expression of love, generosity or cultural heritage -— sometimes all three wrapped up into one delicious bite.
And if you’re the baker who made the sweet confections, nothing pleases you more than being told your bite-sized goodies are as delectable as they are beautiful.
With that in mind, we’re happy to announce the Post-Gazette Holiday Cookie Challenge is making its sweet return for a sixth year.
🍪 Head to the link in our bio for more info. ⬇️
08 Nov 2026
Lightning struck twice for the University of Pittsburgh in the 1970s: It found not only an archaeological site with potential evidence of early inhabitants in North America, but landed a stellar archaeologist who could prove it.
In 1974, Pitt anthropologist James M. Adovasio confirmed evidence of human habitation dating back 18,000 years ago at a site just 35 miles outside of Pittsburgh. Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village was the site of the discovery and is now a national historic landmark near Avella, Washington County.
Adovasio, former chairman of Pitt’s anthropology department, died Oct. 4 at the age of 82 at his home in Sherman, N.Y.
Read more at the link in our bio.
📝: Mary Ann Thomas/Post-Gazette
📸: Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette, Courtesy of Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village
07 Nov 2026
BRANDON McGINLEY | I have received a lot of emails from Carlino Giampolo. And members of City Council have heard a lot from him — at least 40 times during public comments in recent months, by his reckoning.
Giampolo is the self-appointed leader of Panther Hollow, the tiny neighborhood-within-a-neighborhood situated in the ravine that cuts into the heart of Oakland. It is his life’s mission to ensure no changes occur to communities he cares about that are not, to his mind, fitting to their traditions. For this reason, he is disliked by a wide variety of people, especially politicians.
Yet today, Carlino Giampolo is faced with his greatest challenge yet, a development not just in the heart of Panther Hollow but less than 100 feet from his own front door: an informal skate park.
Read more at the link in our bio.
📸: Post-Gazette
07 Nov 2026
Layla Clark was up late Friday night when she started getting messages on her phone. Around 3 a.m., she sent her mother a text: “Mom, I’m going viral again.”
A 17-year-old senior at Thomas Jefferson High School in Jefferson Hills, Layla plays mallet percussion instruments in her high school marching band. Last year, her mom posted a TikTok of Layla playing the marimba during the AC/DC song “Thunderstruck” — striking the instrument so hard that the ball of her mallet popped off. The video went viral, getting nearly 4 million views and more than 33,000 shares.
But that was nothing compared to what happened over the weekend.
Read more at the link in our bio.
📝: Anya Sostek/Post-Gazette
🎥: Matt Freed/Post-Gazette
📸: Associated Press
06 Nov 2026
More than 1,000 residents of Mt. Lebanon and beyond who were still reeling from the shocking deaths of a father and his two young children came together Wednesday evening to comfort each other and pray.
There was standing room only at St. Bernard Church on Washington Road, just a few blocks away from the tragic scene where Patrick Lynch, 42, and his children James, 8, and Caroline, 6, fell to their deaths around 4:15 p.m. Tuesday. The trio were found unresponsive in the street adjacent to the Washington Road parking garage next to the Mt. Lebanon Municipal Building.
The Allegheny County medical examiner has ruled that both children died of multiple blunt force injuries in what authorities are calling a murder-suicide.
When Kip Kurtz, 46, and Stacey Azzarello, 47, of South Park, woke Wednesday morning to read the tragic details of what had happened, they knew they had to seek comfort among others who were hurting from this “heartbreaking and absolutely gut-wrenching” event, they said.
“This has definitely affected the Mt. Lebanon community and beyond,” Kurtz said before joining mourners of all ages inside what many call the “Cathedral of the South Hills.”
Read more at the link in our bio.
📸: Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette
05 Nov 2026
A sixth person has died after contracting measles as the outbreak sweeping Pennsylvania hits another record: the state’s largest in nearly a half century.
The state health department and local officials in Jefferson County declined to provide any information about the fatality, other than the individual was unvaccinated.
The death comes as the outbreak hits 1,467 cases, surpassing the number of infections reported during the epidemic that swept the Philadelphia area in 1991 and left nine children dead.
While state health officials say the current outbreak is showing signs of slowing, dozens of cases continue to be reported each week in communities where vaccination rates have fallen to dangerously low levels.
Read more at the link in our bio.
📝: Jimmy Cloutier and Hanna Webster/Post-Gazette
📸: Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette
04 Nov 2026
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