Paris Baguette aims for November opening of its Shadyside location.

The Shadyside Paris Baguette is aiming for a November opening, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

[Owner] Zafar said customers can can expect larger menu from the new Shadyside location.

”Whether it be some personal favorites from the community … anything the community wants from us will actually happily make for them we just need to test that on the market,” he said.

Some of the special items Zafar has on the menu include: Asian sweet rice doughnuts, mango coconut cake and potato bread. Zafar aims to have eight bakers on his staff, who will make this items fresh each morning.

The inside of the building will have a glass dome display case to show off the baked goods, penny tile and an exposed wooden ceiling, he said.

It was first announced for Walnut Street in January 2024, back before the region's first Paris Baguette opened in the Norh Hills. The Shadyside location will be located at 5514 Walnut St., in what was William Sonoma until January 2022. In 2024, the year both locations were set to open in Pittsburgh, the franchisee announced plans to open five Paris Baguette cafes in the area.

Paris Baguette is a chain of bakeries ubiquitous throughout South Korea that has over 250 locations across the United States. The menu boasts a wide variety of cakes, baked goods, sandwiches, juices, and coffees, in addition its eponymous French bread.

2004 Miyazaki film Howl's Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城) at The Oaks Theater in Oakmont, November 20.

The 2004 Miyazaki film Howl's Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城) will play at The Oaks Theater in Oakmont on November 20.

When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.

Doors open at 7, the movie starts at 8, and tickets are available online. The Oaks Theater is located at 310 Allegheny River Blvd. (map).

2025 Amy Wang film Slanted at Three Rivers Film Festival, November 12.

The 2025 Amy Wang film Slanted will play in Pittsburgh on November 12, part of this year's Three Rivers Film Festival.

Slanted follows Joan Huang, a Chinese-American teen in the 2010s South, as she battles racism and cultural clashes. As an 8-year-old, she’s bullied for her differences. At 17, obsessed with popularity, she pursues prom queen and undergoes extreme changes, including dyeing her hair and considering racial modification surgery, to achieve a “white” ideal. Her quest alienates her from family and friends, satirizing assimilation and white worship while focusing on her tragicomic struggle for self-worth.

If you loved The Substance and Mean Girls, this one’s for you!

It plays at the Harris Theater in downtown's Cultural District (map), and tickets are available online. 

"Thinking Like A Journalist, In the Classroom and Beyond, with NPR's Emily Kwong," October 31 at Pitt.

The University of Pittsburgh's Asian Studies Center will host NPR's Emily Kwong for "Thinking Like A Journalist, In the Classroom and Beyond" on October 31.

The rigor to assess fact from fiction. The courage to connect across differences. The power of a good question over a hot take. How can we incorporate the core principles of journalism into the 21st century classroom? NPR's Emily Kwong (host of Short Wave and Inheriting) offers insights from her 15-year career in public media, and reflects upon how academic spaces are strongholds for the free press.

Emily Kwong (she/her) is an NPR audio journalist working at the crossroads of sociopolitical history, family memory, and science. Since 2021, Emily has also been the co-host of Short Wave, NPR's flagship science show sharing new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines. Short Wave met a crucial need for science-based information during the Coronavirus pandemic and won the 2021 Ambie Award for Best Knowledge, Science or Tech Podcast. She is also the host and co-creator of Inheriting, a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families. The first season won the 2025 Ambie Award for Best Society and Culture Podcast, the Silver Signal Award for Best History Podcast, and the 2025 RFK Journalism Award in Radio. Emily got her start as a youth media instructor at WNYC’s Radio Rookies and a daily reporter at the community radio station KCAW in Sitka, Alaska. For four years, she chased stories up fishing boats and onto volcanoes, broadcasting to an island community.

It runs from 2:30 to 4:30 pm in 501 Cathedral of Learning.

Concert film G-Dragon in Cinema: Übermensch in Pittsburgh, from October 29.

The upcoming G-Drago concert film G-Dragon in Cinema: Übermensch will play in Pittsburgh from October 29.

After eight years, the icon of a generation roars back with an epic world tour – UBERMENSCH. Every beat, every breath, every moment that will redefine his legacy bursts onto the big screen. From the anthems that shook the world – “Crooked”, “POWER,” “HEARTBREAKER” – to an epic setlist spanning his most iconic hits, joined by an all-star guest lineup including TAEYANG, DAESUNG, CL, and more. Feel the raw energy, the fire, the unrepeatable magic – captured live and unleashed through SCREENX, 4DX and IMAX.

It is scheduled to play locally, on certain days, at the AMC Loews Waterfront and the Cinemark theaters in Monroeville, North Hills, Robinson, and tickets are available online.

2025 movie Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle (劇場版「鬼滅の刃」無限城編) stays in Pittsburgh area through (at least) October 29.

The 2025 movie Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle (劇場版「鬼滅の刃」無限城編), which opened in Pittsburgh-area theaters on September 11, will stay here through (at least) October 29.

The Demon Slayer Corps plunge into Infinity Castle to defeat Muzan. However, the remaining Hashiras and the Demon Slayers who survived Tanjiro's Final Selection are pitted against the remaining members of the Twelve Kizuki first.

It is scheduled to play locally at the AMC theaters in Waterfront, AMC Classic South Hills, and AMC Westmoreland in Greensburg, tickets are available online.

2025 French-Belgian animated film Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Amélie et la métaphysique des tubes), set in Japan, plays in Pittsburgh from November 6.

The 2025 French-Belgian animated film Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Amélie et la métaphysique des tubes) will play in Pittsburgh from November 6.

The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops a deep attachment to her family’s housekeeper, Nishio-san, Amélie discovers the wonders of nature as well as the emotional truths hidden beneath the surface of her family’s idyllic life as foreigners in post-war Japan. Adapted from the autobiographical novel by Amélie Nothomb and brought to life in the completely original animated style of directors Mailys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han, LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN tells a tender, poignant and visually stunning story about the healing power of human connection.

It is scheduled to play locally at the AMC Loews Waterfront and the Cinemark theater in the North Hills, and tickets are available online.

"Crossing Boundaries," on significance of Japanese prints on Frank Lloyd Wright, October 21 at Pitt.

The Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh will host Kevin Nute and his talk "Crossing Boundaries" on October 21.

Kevin Nute will examine how Frank Lloyd Wright’s exposure to Japanese prints, rather than buildings, radically changed his approach to the indoor/outdoor interface.

About the speaker: Dr. Kevin Nute, Professor of Architecture at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa, is the author of Place, Time and Being in Japanese Architecture (2004), Naturally Animated Architecture (2018), and Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan Revisited (2025), and he is currently the 2025 scholar in residence at the Fallingwater Institute.

The talk starts at 4:00 pm in 125 Frick Fine Arts (map) and is free and open to the public.

1990 Zhang Yimou film Ju Dou (菊豆) in Pittsburgh, November 10 and 11.

The 1990 Zhang Yimou film Ju Dou (菊豆) will play in Pittsburgh on November 10 and 11, part of the Harris Theater's occasional International Art House Classics series.

The film that put director Zhang Yimou and star Gong Li on the international cinema map follows beautiful young Ju Dou as she is married off to an egregiously cruel, and also impotent, owner of a dye mill in the Chinese countryside in the early 20th century. When the boss’ nephew arrives on the scene they fall for each other with lustful abandon. Their impassioned affair soon leads to a son. After the clandestine couple convinces the despotic husband that he is the father, the boy is raised as his long-awaited heir. However the myriad complications of infidelity lead to a visceral and psychological melee between the lovers and their ruler with explosively dramatic turns. With its stunning mise en scène and sumptuous use of color, Ju Dou was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards® and has earned a reputation as one of the greatest Chinese films ever made.

Restoration effected at Hiventy Laboratory (Paris) by IMPEX Films with the support of ARTE, France.

Tickets are available online. The Harris Theater is located in downtown's Cultural District (map).

2025 Philippine film Meet, Greet, & Bye in Pittsburgh, from November 13.

The 2025 Philippine film Meet, Greet, & Bye will play in Pittsburgh from November 13.

Meet, Greet and Bye is an upcoming Philippine family drama film directed by Cathy Garcia-Sampana and produced by Star Cinema. The film stars Maricel Soriano as the family matriarch, with Piolo Pascual, Joshua Garcia, Belle Mariano, and Juan Karlos Labajo playing her children.

It is scheduled to play locally, so far, at the Cinemark theater in Robinson, and tickets are available online.