Shadyside News

Adam Brandolph can be reached via e-mail or at 412-765-2312. By Adam Brandolph TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, December 9, 2009 The Pittsburgh Planning Commission on Tuesday approved -- with some conditions -- a University of Pittsburgh Medical Centerurgent care facility in Shadyside.

It's not easy being cursed with a sweet tooth in this town. On one side, there's your teeth, waistline, self-control and New Year's resolutions screaming, "No, no no! Don't do it!" On the other side, there's the Burnt Almond Torte from Prantl's Bakery, and the dazzling array of imported chocolates at Mon Aimee whispering seductively, "Yes, do it.

Pittsburgh police arrested a man following a short chase in Shadyside early Sunday morning.

Dr. Joe Suyama, medical director at UPMC Urgent Care at Shadyside, which opens Dec.

When Sara McGinley met William Nelson at an Army reunion in Pittsburgh in the late 1950s, it didn't take her long to realize that he was the man for her.

A Pittsburgh man was held at gunpoint and robbed on a Shadyside street Monday night.

The "unfussy bistro" will serve "globally inspired new American cuisine." A small menu of seasonally changing staple dishes will be supplemented by daily chalkboard specials.

Jeffrey Hunker, a former Carnegie Mellon University professor charged last year with drunken driving three times in eight days, was charged with DUI again on Thanksgiving after police said he smashed into a parked car in Shadyside and pulled away when an officer approached him.

A former Carnegie Mellon University professor was arrested for driving under the influence Thursday night in Shadyside.

Paul Bowden's "Liberty Bridge from Duquesne University" . In an era when studio spaces and photographed subject-studies seem to define artistic productivity, it is a rare treat -- particularly in America -- to see the work of someone who paints in the impressionist tradition: en plein air .

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is going ahead with plans to build an urgent-care center on Centre Avenue, despite neighborhood opposition and concerns about the legality of what some view as an expansion of UPMC Shadyside.

They are conversion of the Highland Building into a 100-room hotel; renovation or demolition for a structure of the Wallace Building at Centre and Highland avenues; and development of the PNC Bank building site.

He was a young college graduate with the world laid out before himliterally. As an AmeriCorps Vista volunteer, the young architect could have gone to New York, Miami... but staring at a map, Richard Parsakian opted for Pittsburgh.

Thirty years ago, a young Frenchman walking in Normandy came across an American soldier's rusted dog tag among the rocks at Nacqueville, west of the port of Cherbourg.

Henne Jewelers is located at 5501 Walnut St., Shadyside. For more information about the Michael Kobold talk and watch event, call 412-682-0226. Web Links Henne Jewelers Kobold watches have been everywhere from the North Pole to Antarctica, the depths of the ocean to the peaks of some of the world's highest mountains.

Nicole Kaplan, left, and John Wascavage in Quantum Theatre's "Candide." Quantum Theatre stages classics and plays that are largely unknown, often American premieres, in places no one thought to stage them before.

There's the verdant green of Allegheny Cemetery over there. The dazzling rainbow of the new Children's Hospital here.

Nov. 1--Franklin Toker wanted his readers to feel the heartbeats of the Pittsburgh neighborhoods he loves.

Not all of Pittsburgh's historic houses are Colonial, Federal or Second Empire. The Robert and Cecilia Frank house, the avant garde house by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer on Woodland Road in Shadyside, is undergoing preservation work.

Shadyside house being preserved once labeled a 'crown jewel' City patchwork Many things make Pittsburgh unique, says Franklin Toker.