The key reunion scene in the opera Madama Butterfly is heartbreakingly sad, but the reunion that director Crystal Manich is experiencing is a joy.
Raised in Peters Township and Mt. Lebanon, Crystal Manich is back in town to direct the Pittsburgh Opera’s production of Puccini’s opera of love and betrayal. It runs at the Benedum [...]
The work of further aligning education with workforce development moves forward this month, as the Energy Innovation Center’s first training sessions begin.
The center, or EIC, is a collaboration of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, the Pittsburgh region’s research universities, economic development organizations and corporations, including Eaton Corp., [...]
The Latino population in the Pittsburgh region may be small, but it is growing steadily and many of its professionals are making a positive mark here.
A few of them are highlighted in a series of videos as part of the new Latino outreach initiative by
The most commonly discussed measures of economic health are generally gross domestic product and poverty rates, but they don’t capture the full picture. That’s according to The Community Opportunity Index, a project that looks at such issues as education, housing, public safety and political processes to measure a region’s well being. In a recent report [...]
Among the persistent myths about Pittsburgh is the notion that our young bright people leave town as soon as they’re able. For a good 20 years that was true; after steel hit bottom in 1983, our overall regional economy floundered painfully and an exodus of skilled and educated workers ensued. In the past decade, however, [...]
Flashdance — The Musical launches its national tour here on Jan. 1. The original film remains special for many Gen-X Pittsburghers — those who are life-long residents, those in diaspora and those of us lucky enough to have boomeranged back home. That’s in part because it was one of the first feature films to be [...]
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