Saturday at noon, Pitt plays North Carolina at Acrisure Stadium, and the game is sold out. At halftime, the members of the 1976 national championship team get honored on the field. That was Tony Dorsett’s team, the year he won the Heisman. It’s been 50 years.

Everybody gets a 1976 rally towel. Get there early and you get a Dorsett bobblehead.

The part nobody planned: this year’s Pitt team is 5–0, ranked 25th, and it just lost its quarterback. Mason Heintschel had thrown for 1,304 yards and 14 touchdowns when he took a helmet to the knee Friday night at Virginia Tech. He’s out for the season.

Holden Geriner, a fifth-year transfer, came in and finished a 35–33 win. Pat Narduzzi’s review: “He played well enough to win the football game.”

The rest of the weekend:

▸ Friday: Dan + Shay at PPG Paints Arena, 7 p.m. Dan Smyers went to North Allegheny.
▸ Saturday: Pitt at noon, then Penguins vs. Dallas at 7.
▸ Sunday: Steelers vs. Colts at 1, then Chance the Rapper at the Wylie that night.
▸ All four days: Oktoberfest downtown, with a 60-foot Ferris wheel.

The bottom line: the North Shore will be full Saturday and again Sunday. Saturday is 73 and dry. Sunday is the leftovers of Hurricane Isaias: steady rain from early morning on. If you only have one stadium trip in you, make it Pitt.

The county health department confirmed its first measles case in a county resident on Monday. The patient is a minor and wasn’t vaccinated.

The exposure: the Target at 9805 McKnight Road, last Thursday, Oct. 1, between 3:45 and 5:45 p.m. The virus can hang in the air for up to two hours after a sick person leaves. No schools are involved.

What to do: if you were there and you aren’t vaccinated, call your doctor before you walk into a waiting room. One dose of the MMR vaccine is 93% effective. Two get you to 97%. The statewide outbreak just passed 1,000 cases.

It started last Thursday and it’s now in its second week. The union, IBEW Local 29, says the two sides are still apart on safety and retirement. Duquesne Light says it has contingency plans to keep the power on. Worth knowing with a storm coming Sunday.

The warnings are over. As of Oct. 1, Pittsburgh Regional Transit police are writing tickets for driving in the new bus-only lanes on Fifth and Forbes, between Bellefield and Craft avenues. The cost: a $25 fine plus $175 in fees.

That covers a quick pickup, a drop-off or a delivery. Bikes too. The one exception: where the line is dashed, you can merge in to turn right.

We wrote in August that a second daily train to New York was coming. The second Pennsylvanian starts running Nov. 18, and Amtrak says tickets go on sale this week.

Today you get one shot, at 7:30 a.m. The second train doubles that, starting the week before Thanksgiving.

Casa San José is moving into a new $6.6 million community center on Broadway Avenue, in a building that sat empty for about 30 years. It has doctor and dental exam rooms in the basement. The ribbon cutting is Oct. 15.

 

“One of the most exclusive penthouses on the market in downtown Pittsburgh at this time. A $65,000 stove imported from Italy. Attention to detail in every corner and centrally located in one of the busiest districts in downtown Pittsburgh.”

That’s the range on the right: Italian, eight burners, about $65,000 according to the listing. It sits across from a marble island three inches thick, next to two dishwashers, a six-foot sink and a tap that pours sparkling water.

The rest of the place keeps up. While the Lumière tower was still being built, somebody took four condos and had them made into one. That’s Residence 1508. The great room has a glass wall that folds open like an accordion over the fountains in Mellon Square, and a projection screen drops out of the ceiling for the game.

The owner’s wing takes up what would have been a whole condo by itself. Go look at the stove.

Listed by Austin Kyle Rusert, Coldwell Banker Realty.

 

The Steelers (2–2) host Indianapolis Sunday at 1. After the 27–24 loss in Cleveland, the thing they keep landing on is third down: 4-of-13 against the Browns.

Pitt: 5–0 and ranked 25th, home against North Carolina Saturday at noon with a new quarterback. Story up top.

Penguins: lost 5–3 in Washington Wednesday. Columbus Friday, then Dallas at home Saturday at 7.

 

Past 7 days, residential. “Was” is last week’s issue.

What we’re seeing

More new listings, more sales, more deals. And a pile of listings that ran out the clock.

Why you’d care

 

There is a video rental store on Butler Street again. Lost Lizard Video opened Sept. 5 in Upper Lawrenceville with more than 100 tapes. About three quarters of them are horror, which is good timing.

The owner, Vincent Santis, bought up tapes for $2 or $3 apiece when the Blockbusters and Family Videos near his Ohio hometown went under. He’s been collecting ever since.

Memberships run $10 to $35 a month and come in three sizes, all reptiles: Gecko, Chameleon and Komodo. Saturday at 8 it’s an Ed Wood birthday screening, BYOB, $10.

Be kind. Rewind.

 

 

 

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— Tim