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The new series is an updated remake of the 1992 classic "A League of Their Own" Grab your baseball gloves and head to the sofa. A new television series shot in Pittsburgh and based on the All-American Girls Professional League premieres this week. Fourteen women from western Pennsylvania played in the real-life league during the 1940s and 50s in teams across the country.

MILLVALE, Pa. — Grist House Craft Brewery and Taylor Gang, co-founded by Wiz Khalifa, are teaming up to create a beer for a local festival. The brewery and the entertainment organization are offering a wheat ale called Steel City Sunshine. The drink will be served during Pittsburgh’s Barrel & Flow Fest.

Heavy metal group Metallica is performing only two stadium shows this summer, and one of them happens to be in Pennsylvania. The group behind hits such as “Master of Puppets,” “For Whom The Bell Tolls,” “Nothing Else Matters,” “Enter Sandman” and “The Unforgiven” will play at PNC Park in Pittsburgh on Aug. 14. Greta Van Fleet and Ice Nine Kills will also be performing.

Question: My wife and I were watching WQED-TV’s “Portraits for the Home Front: The Story of Elizabeth Black,” which originally aired in 2013. Elizabeth was a well-known portrait artist from Pittsburgh who joined the American Red Cross during World War II. Much of her lost creations were uncovered by the work of one of her sons and daughter-in-law. There is a portion of the documentary at approximately 39:00-41:00 that shows interns from colleges around Pittsburgh working on finding families to help get portrait prints to them.

The city is about to be filled with the sweet sounds of jazz as the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival draws in more than 100 musicians from around the world. The festival, presented by the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, will take place Sept. 16-18 at Highmark Stadium and the August Wilson Center. Featured throughout the festival will be an all-star lineup of some of the biggest names in jazz music, including Ledisi, Stanley Clarke, Samara Joy, the Average White Band, Vanisha Gould and dozens of others.

This fall, members of Andy Warhol’s family plan to auction a group of early paintings he produced while enrolled in art school that have been left behind as part of his relatives’s estate. Estimated values of the tranche of early paintings have not been disclosed. Warhol’s nephew, James Warhola (the Pop artist dropped the “a” in his surname), is tasked with selling the works alongside his six siblings. Warhola, who works an an illustrator and is based between Clinton Corners, New York and Oakland, Pittsburgh, and his siblings inherited the works from his father and mother, Paul and Anne Warhola, who...

New Kensington planners recommend approving a proposed project that would decorate a downtown alley and two intersections with artwork. The city’s planning commission voted 3-0 Tuesday in favor of the “Art in the Alley” project for Ivy Alley and the painting of crosswalks on Fifth Avenue at Eighth and 10th streets. Commission members Michael Keyes and Randi Shank were absent.

NEW CASTLE − "The Princess Who Had No Name" is a play combining the charm of many fairy tales with a mystery waiting to be solved. As the Princess wakes up alone in the forest, she has no memory of her past. To solve the mystery, she seeks to regain the memory of her past, and she gets a lot of help from well-known fantasy favorites who live in the Misty Forest.

Works from more than 100 artists will converge in Pittsburgh in the longest-running North American exhibition of contemporary art. The 58th Carnegie International, which has been presented every three-to-four years since 1896, begins Sept. 24 and runs through April 2. Works, ranging from those made in 1945 to new pieces, are meant to situate “international” within a local context and examine how art is shedding light on the current issues of the world.

Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company will join in celebrating the revitalization of the August Wilson House by staging Wilson’s “Jitney” at the historic property in Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s childhood home has been renovated as a community art center. Grand opening activities will be...

Hood’s lifelong love for TV news is plain not only in her work on PTL, but in her other projects as well — among them, an online show called “PghSpot” and a live show called “Neighborhood Conversations,” where she transforms local businesses into a broadcast studio for a day and interviews local legends in front of a live studio audience. So, we wanted to know: What’s Mikey Hood’s Best of the ’Burgh?

Ethan Coen is stepping out on his own. The director — who is known as the dynamic duo Coen Brothers with his fellow director-brother Joel — will begin filming his first solo film in Western Pennsylvania in September. Pittsburgh Film Office director Dawn Keezer recently told the Pittsburgh...

BEAVER FALLS − Past stars of Beaver Falls High School musicals will share a stage Friday for the fourth annual Alumni Showcase. The 7 p.m. performance showcases alumni from the classes of 1983-2022, performing solos and duets from a variety of Broadway shows. There are 17 Henry Mancini Musical...

Pittsburgh CLO finishes its summer 2022 season with Sister Act, a rollicking musical adaptation of the hit 1992 film starring Whoopi Goldberg. Playing now through Sun., Aug. 14 at the Benedum Center, the musical — set in ‘70s Philadelphia, as opposed to the film’s setting of ‘90s San Francisco — follows a flashy nightclub singer who goes into Witness Protection as a nun in a stuffy convent, only to discover a higher calling for her showmanship.

Just ahead of their 2022 tour kick-off, Alice In Chains have been bestowed a handful of honors, including a 5X platinum certification for their 1992 album ‘Dirt,’ featuring the early hits “Down In a Hole,” “Rooster,” “Would?,” and more.

Ride-share services should properly thank Black jitney drivers for creating their business model. This is according to Mark Clayton Southers, the founder and producing artistic director of the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company. “Uber and Lyft need to give some of these African-American jitney drivers a pension,” Southers says with a...

PITTSBURGH — On this week's FOX 53 Insider, Darren Zaslau chats with So You Think You Can Dance finalists Alexis Warr and Keaton Kermode. The two will each perform five dances on the season 17 finale to win $100,000 and earn the title of "America's Favorite Dancer." Warr is 22 years old and is from Utah. Kermode is 20 years old and is from Indiana.

In “The Mothman Prophecies,” writer John Klein (Richard Gere) gazes out over the lawn of the Cathedral of Learning at the Carnegie Museums on a wintry Pittsburgh afternoon. The supernatural thriller from 2002 is one of the films where Pittsburgh doesn’t play itself; it stands in for Washington,...

Some dragons popped up in the latest summer course led by history instructor William Campbell and two colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. The fanciful creatures are among decorative figures that caught the eyes of his six students when they got an up-close look at some illuminated medieval manuscripts.

The goal of all art, Albert Camus said, is to gain access to those one or two images that first gained access to our hearts. Visitors to 1flychicken creations can gain access to Pittsburgh’s heart — from the bus-eating pothole to Picklesburgh, from the many incarnations of “jagoff” to the beauty and history of the city’s legendary bridges — courtesy of artist, writer and maker Meghan Tutolo.