Hanks Likes Pittsburgh, Popular Bar Closing & More: Weekly Wrap

PITTSBURGH, PA - We come to the Weekly Wrap this week to give kudos to Tom Hanks for publicly acknowledging what we already know: Pittsburgh truly is someplace special.

The Oscar-winning actor, who has been in town filming a movie about a certain sweater-wearing Pittsburgh icon, took to Facebook and Twitter to give a simple sincere shout-out to the city. Not surprisingly, the posts went viral and were liked and-or retweeted by tens of thousands of people (presumably by Pittsburghers, as folks from Cleveland don’t usually profess much affection for the Steel City).

Contrast Hanks’ nice gesture to that of Sienna Miller (who?), a British actress who was here in 2006 to film “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.” She disparaged the city in an interview by describing it with a word that rhymes with, well, Pitt.

Miller was dead wrong. Hanks was spot-on.

Now for the rest of the Weekly Wrap:

Curious as to when Pittsburgh could see its first snowfall? Hint: It seldom doesn’t wait until winter to occur.

A reward is being offered for information leading to the conviction of the person who killed a family cat with an arrow in Brookline.

Another North Shore tavern is about to go the way of the late Tilted Kilt. You remember the Tilted Kilt, don’t you?

Sad News: Pennsylvania Deputy Attorney General Laura Ditka, who spent more than 25 years in the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office, died at 55.

Hanks photo via Sony Pictures; Snow photo via Getty Images; Cat photo via GoFundMe; Closed photo via Shutterstock and Ditka photo via Allegheny County District Attorney's Office.

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