Virginia Montanez

Dear Pittsburgh, The Porch at Schenley has a $10 mocktail flight and it’s a delight. Not an ad!

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art has a new immersive experience that tells the story of Pittsburgh by dropping you right into paintings of the city since the early 1800s. It is one of most beautiful museum experiences I’ve ever seen. It grabbed my breath. The museum is free. Not an ad.

Literally don't know how to act.

This has been a Pittsburgh weather post 😎🌤️

50 degrees?? Hellmouth opening somewhere on Route 28 next week for sure.

It's 31 degrees outside, Dorito. I'm personally already melting in this heatwave 😎

We generally read the very broad category of book club fiction but there has honestly been no book in the last three years that we all loved. At best we get to "it wasn't bad" or "I liked it." And we generally dislike our book picks more than we like them. We're the worst (but also the best haha)

Well I need to visit this ASAP. I don't struggle with SAD, but I've just about had it with this winter's snow and bitter cold. Done!

I hate when it's my turn to pick a bookclub book because I only read non-fiction history books while we generally read fiction. Please help me by recommending outstanding fiction you've recently read that would spark discussion. If you're in a bookclub, what have you read recently that was good?

Magical! I was not blessed by one

Today in like one block on the North Side, it was folding chair, bar stool, dining room chair, folding chair, baby gate, bar stool, step stool, folding chair. Championship snow behavior. No notes.

Oakmont weighs ban on ICE agreements after local arrest A local immigrant's arrest is prompting Oakmont officials to pursue a ban on formal ICE agreements.

And kudos to Axios and @ryandeto.bsky.social for covering it

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Can someone explain to me why the Post-Gazette has zero coverage of the Oakmont dad detained and still imprisoned by ICE despite having a valid work visa, Real ID, SSN, driver’s license and no criminal record? Kudos to the Trib for their ongoing coverage.

Pittsburghers who have a problem with Bad Bunny because he’s Puerto Rican, I must ask you, what the hell would you say to Roberto Clemente? Would you tell him he‘s un-American too? Do you even hear yourselves?

I read the headline “Ice Halts All Traffic on Pittsburgh Rivers” and I had a momentary burst of anger before I was like, “Oh, you mean like frozen water? Carry on then.”

ICE operation in Oakmont leads to local father’s arrest Harriett Flores thought Thursday was going to be like any other day. She and her husband, Jose, were getting ready for work as their 8-year-old daughter, Lily, prepared for school in their Oakmont hom...

Both have jobs, 5-year work visas, Real IDs, driver’s licenses, Social Security numbers, and no criminal record. Why would anyone other than a complete racist support this?

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Yes exactly

As a historian, one of the most surprising things I learned is that a stretch of brutal winters contributed to the mass hysteria that led to the Salem Witch Trials. I just want to say to my 1690 brethren … I get it now. What else can you do when it’s this cold but lose your whole mind?

Pittsburgh has built an entire culture around the answer being, ”Yes, you jagoff.”

City Theatre will not merge with Pittsburgh CLO, Pittsburgh Public Theater Last August, three major local theater companies — City Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater and Pittsburgh CLO — announced they were considering the possibility of a merger. Today, the comp...

If you understand the Pittsburgh giving community and their approach to the current arts environment, you understand that City Theatre‘s board made a big mistake. Mark it down and throw this in my face later if I’m wrong. They should have voted to merge. triblive.com/aande/theate...

When your doorbell informs you that your neighbor’s kid is shoveling your walk for you because you’re that divorced lady usually out there doing it yourself 🥹💛🖤

Reminder that the last I checked, Pittsburgh has around 46 fewer working snow plows than are needed to adequately clear the city streets during normal snowfall. This storm is going to expose that shortage in new ways and I expect this week to be a huge test for our new mayor.

Best inside joke ever. Get a bowl of rice

Dottie was also making a whole crock pot full of mashed potatoes to go with it. Those two are going to be eating chili for weeks

Giant Eagle said sales of chili ingredients had spiked in prep for the storm. Yesterday I stopped by my mom and dad’s house and if that woman wasn’t in the middle of making a MASSIVE pot of chili for two people who generally eat like birds. 💛🖤

Survival requires a whole new operating and revenue model and it requires desire, commitment and creativity from ownership. The Blocks no longer, if ever, had any of that. We need to wrestle it from their hands and nurture it to life. If they keep it, it dies. The end.

In the race to save the Post-Gazette between the picket-line crossers who have indicated their desire to appease the Blocks versus the proposed nonprofit model led by Kevin Acklin, I'm about to ask to be President of Team Acklin.

Actually brilliant

“See yinz soon.”

Likewise! 🥰