Tomorrow, three great Pittsburgh acts playing Brillobox. Dream-pop band Flower Crown and basement rock group Paddy the Wanderer are both performing, along with a DJ set from Jonathan Chamberlain of Chariot Fade...
On Oct. 18, the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh unveiled Lest We Forget, an outdoor art installation by German-Italian artist Luigi Toscano. On view outside the Cathedral of Learning on Pitt’s campus, the public installation is presented as part of Toscano's traveling art exhibit featuring more than 200 large, high-resolution portraits of Holocaust survivors from around the world...
After the Tree of Life mass shooting last year, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported on the extensive social media use of the alleged shooter Robert Bowers, and the extreme anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant rhetoric he spread. The vast majority of Bowers' posts were done on a social media site called Gab, which is based in Lackawanna County, Pa., and is popular among white nationalists, the alt-right, and white supremacists...
When C. Scott announced his new album, Phase Shifting, as his "debut," it sounded like he might have misspoken, or possibly forgotten the past 10 years of his life. Anybody half paying attention to Pittsburgh music in the past few years has seen his name pop up in production credits and liner notes, DJing around town, or playing bass with Clara Kent in Tribe Eternal...
Every Friday, Pittsburgh City Paper compiles a round-up of new releases and second-run films playing around the city. This only covers films that are new to theaters this week; check out what movies opened last week here...
Local band Short Fictions' latest single, "Really Like You," tells a story to which we can all relate. Vocalist Sam Treber chronicles the anxiety that comes along with having a crush, like, really, really liking someone...
Video Archive Senior Arts & Entertainment writer Amanda Waltz welcomes Tobin Seastedt, entomophagist and owner of Crickets to Betsy, to talk about baking with bugs...
Stay up-to-date with your favorite artists and musicians coming to Pittsburgh. Each week, Pittsburgh City Paper will bring you the most recent concert announcements so you never miss a show...
When husband and wife Shannon and Vince Ebbitt decided to open a board game bar, they settled on the site of the old Shamrock Inn, the North Side watering hole once owned by Steelers founder Art Rooney Sr.’s brother-in-law, John Laughlin. Then the walls collapsed...
For bike lanes to function properly, they have to be reserved for cyclists, scooter riders, or anyone else traveling about the speed of a bicycle. They obviously don’t work when cars park in them, forcing cyclists to exit the lane and ride in traffic where cars are typically traveling much faster...
As the Nov. 5 election nears, Lisa Middleman — the independent candidate for Allegheny County District Attorney — is steadily gaining endorsements. SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania's largest health-care union, became the most recent name on Middleman’s list of supporters after announcing their endorsement on Oct. 16...
In honor of Romero Lives!, the city's month-long George A. Romero tribute, Pittsburgh City Paper presents 31 Days of the Undead, a series of reviews and essays about zombie media. Look for new posts going up every day through Oct. 31...
Each week, the Pittsburgh City Paper compiles a list of Pittsburgh dance parties for you and your crew to bust loose to the best bangers, EDM, pop hits, and more. (All events are 21 and over unless otherwise stated.)
Typically, with new development comes new parking spaces. Most Pittsburghers travel by car, and developers assume most of the people visiting their new retail and housing structures will need places to park...
In honor of Romero Lives!, the city's month-long George A. Romero tribute, Pittsburgh City Paper presents 31 Days of the Undead, a series of reviews and essays about zombie media. Look for new posts going up every day from now through Oct. 31...
New Found Glory's new movie covers EP, From The Screen To Your Stereo 3, is available now on Hopeless Records! See New Found Glory hit the Roxian stage with Hawthorne Heights, Free Throw and Jetty Bones on 11/19!
At the end of Amy Rigby’s memoir, Girl to City, the Mount Lebanon native writes, “I loved the world like I loved New York like I loved Elton John, and I had to keep doing as best I could.” That sentence summarizes four decades of her persistent belief that art, specifically music, makes a difference in the world, that her own body of work — with the bands the Last Roundups and the Shams, and as a solo artist — has been worthwhile...
