📚 Unexpected Pgh library finds

👋 Fetterman, McCormick Call Off Pittsburgh Event

U.S. Sens. John Fetterman and Dave McCormick postponed their first joint event due to an "unforeseen logistical issue." The pair was supposed to visit Pittsburgh on Saturday to promote McCormick's new book. [TribLive / PennLive]

• 🤔 Wonder if the senators listened to our podcast? [🎧City Cast Pittsburgh]

📣 Mayor Gainey To Rally Outside UPMC

Following reports claiming that UPMC is denying gender-affirming care to patients, Mayor Ed Gainey is joining a protest outside of the healthcare giant’s headquarters in Downtown at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. [Ed Gainey on Instagram]

• 🏳️‍⚧️ Today is Trans Visibility Day, an annual celebration of transgender people.
• 🏀 The PA Senate just advanced a bill that would ban school-aged trans girls from playing on girl’s sports teams. [WITF]

🚎 Share Feedback on PRT Service Cuts

Pittsburgh Regional Transit is now accepting public feedback on its proposal to cut services and raise bus fare. The agency is facing a possible $100 million deficit if it can’t get additional funding from the state. [90.5 WESA]

• 📉 Pittsburgh could lose nearly 40% of its transit services if the plan takes effect. [🎧 City Cast Pittsburgh]
• ✏️ Make your voice heard through an online survey (coming soon) and at upcoming public meetings. [PRT]

📱 GoFundMe for Eat’n Park Employee Goes Viral

An 81-year-old waitress known as “Betty” now has enough money to retire thanks to a viral TikTok filmed by a Millvale resident. The widely-shared video inspired a benefit fund for Betty, which has surpassed $250,000 dollars. [KDKA]

Let’s play a game! Where in Pittsburgh can you relax on a couch among the pretty plants in the photo above? 👀

🌟 Congrats to Linda W., Selena O., Gina E., Viviana A., Boaz F., and Alex P. who correctly guessed the last “Where Is It?” challenge! ⬇️

Have yinz ever been to the Museum Lab in Allegheny Center on the North Side? I recently went to a wedding there and ✨ WOW ✨

This Romanesque Revival-style building was once the Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny — the first Carnegie library to be commissioned in the U.S. in 1886.

The Children’s Museum (right next door) renovated the building to reveal its original 1890 archways, stately columns, and quilt-inspired mosaic floors. New art, like the colorful fixture in the photo above, is a stunning, modern juxtaposition to the “beautiful ruin.”

Today, the building serves as an event venue, as well as a place where kids 10+ can experience art, tech, and more creative opportunities.

👀 Looking for more to see and do?

• 📍 Find more places to take visitors to the Burgh.
• 🌸 See the pink spring blooms before they fade.
• 🛍️ Find a unique present at the city’s best gift shops.
• 🥐 Dig into the best new restaurants in tahn.
• 💡 Try your luck with our latest Pittsburgh Pop Quiz.