If you’re in search of a more lowkey day out and want to avoid the Arts Festival crowds, there’s still plenty to do around town this weekend. Here are five events to check out instead.

Happy Memorial Day weekend! For many, this means an extra day to relax — but it’s also an extra day to fill with fun. Here are a few things going on this weekend around town, so make room in your three-day weekend schedule.

An automated sushi bar in the South Side Works appears to be open after two cleaning chemicals were mixed, potentially exposing more than a dozen people to chlorine gas, Pittsburgh police said.

It’s the middle of May with nice, toasty temperatures on tap for the weekend. There are great chances to hang outside — or inside, if you prefer — at these events around town.

After more than two decades, East Carson Street bar, restaurant and music venue The Smiling Moose is closing its doors.

It’s a great weekend to love animals, music and the city we live in. Celebrate Pittsburgh — and yourself! — with these five events around town rocking all weekend long.

A pedestrian was taken to a hospital in critical condition after being struck by a hit-and-run driver overnight Sunday in Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington neighborhood.

“I wish for you so many beautiful hours.”

A Clairton man remains jailed after being charged with shooting someone early Sunday during St. Patrick’s Day revelry in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood.

Chinese cuisine lovers rejoice: there’s a new spot to get soup dumplings in Pittsburgh.