On Sunday, the Allegheny County Democratic Committee endorsed Heather Kass (D-Carrick) for the state race in House District 36, which includes most of South Pittsburgh. In January, Pittsburgh City Paper reported on Kass' past social media posts praising President Donald Trump, decrying Obamacare, and criticizing Hillary Clinton...

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Video Archive Lynn is talking about her trip to New York this past weekend...

In many ways, Topiltzin Gomez and his family's story is not unique. They crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in 2002 for better economic opportunity and better education, connected with family already living in the states, and did their best to make a new life here under the strain of living undocumented...

The exciting bass and rhythmic flow of lyrics from Roddy Ricch and Rod Wave, two popular hip-hop artists, contributes to Ernest Johnson III’s flow of painting. Johnson, a young artist from Gateway High School, uses their music to jumpstart his creative process...

On Tuesday, The Lumineers touch down in Pittsburgh to support their third album, III, with a show at PPG Paints Arena. Pittsburgh City Paper chatted with The Lumineers' Wesley Schultz for The 412, CP’s feature where you can stay up to date with your favorite bands/musicians and learn fun, random tidbits about them...

Loosely translated, the word "sprezzatura" means to look and feel effortless, and that's pretty on-the-nose for Jen Saffron's new cafe in Millvale: Sprezzatura, housed in the refurbished Millvale Moose Lodge, has the chatty, laid-back nature of a diner. The service is hospitable and relaxed, and the menu is accessible and fresh...

For centuries, the art world has relegated women to the passive role of muse, a body to be painted and sculpted. Even today, the representation of female artists in museums still lags, contrary to cultural institutions’ claims to care about addressing the problem...

History tells us that disco died on July 12, 1979, when Chicago radio DJ Steve Dahl caused a disco record-destroying riot at the Comiskey Park baseball stadium.  But don’t tell that to Ethan Maccoby, co-founder of the ABBA-themed Gimme Gimme Disco touring party...

For most people, the disco era conjures up a series of familiar images: packed dance floors, late-night revelers, unmistakable fashion, and lots of flashing lights. But what did the disco scene actually look like in Pittsburgh during its heyday?

When the waves of the #MeToo movement first started crashing in, so many reactions from the outside were, “How could this have happened?” and from the inside, “We always knew.” Creating a workplace where the boss can do as he pleases, with whomever he pleases, without fear of retribution, does not happen overnight. That kind of environment must be nurtured over many years, until everyone knows that speaking up is considered tattling, and being a tattletale is worse than being a sleaze...

Brittney Chantele recalls the exact moment when her mindset about the military changed. Right around the end of 2012 — about a year and a half into her Army National Guard enlistment — Chantele was on a date...

Pittsburgh likes parking chairs. It's a cultural touchstone referenced in jokes, on t-shirts, or in an ad promoting tourism to the Steel City...

A whiskey highball may seem like a simple cocktail. There are only two ingredients, whiskey and seltzer, and for many people, it's interchangeable with a whiskey soda...

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 1908, British playwright W. Somerset Maugham reached the height of success. Four of his plays were being performed concurrently in four different London theaters...

My love/hate relationship with Black History Month has not waned since I admitted it out loud several years ago. But after the month I just spent in India, I have come to realize that what the world needs now is a Global Black History month...

On the corner of “I Probably Shouldn’t” and “Thanks, I’ll Pass” lies the Mecca of morsels, the sultry siren of savories and sweets, a veritable vice-a-palooza. Here, you’ll come just to grab a bag of chips, but instead leave with 30 scratch-offs, a glass pipe, and a pocket full of gas-station aphrodisiacs...

In 2014, Princess Berpl was working full time as a nurse and would come home from work only to start her side hustle: making independent amateur pornography clips and working as a cam model. After about two years into these double shifts, she had an idea...

The title of Colum McCann’s new novel, Apeirogon (Random House), means a shape with a "countably infinite" number of sides. The book is set in Israel and Palestine, where, as the title suggests, there are thousands of stories with different points of view...

Like a lot of songwriters, Nate Die from the band SPISH got his start writing stories. “I went to school for fiction writing,” he says...

For five decades, the Hill House served as a community anchor in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. Residents across generations saw it as a community center, a hub for services such as dental care and work training, and a venue for local performers and headliners like Grammy Award-winning artist John Legend...