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...
It was in late June of 2019 when Pittsburgh-bred The Gotobeds were given a trophy recognizing their salesmanship in Kalamazoo, Mich. This wasn't their first...
In a company-wide email, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced on Monday the ride-hailing company would be cutting about 350 jobs. The losses will be spread across multiple departments, including UberEats and the Advance Technologies Group (ATG), which works on autonomous-vehicle technology...
Tobin Seastedt’s apple fritters look like you might expect: fried to a golden brown, with a drizzle of icing soaking sweetly into hot dough. But when you bite into it, a worm might fall out...
When it comes to directing animals, Michael Killen started with one of the world’s most famous Chihuahuas — the “Yo Quiero Taco Bell?” dog from the fast-food giant’s hugely successful ad campaign. While he served as an animator on that project, it led to a career that, over the past couple of decades, has included shoots with camels in South Africa, cows in New Zealand, and Longhorn steers in Texas, among others...
When I was first starting to have sex as a teenager in the mid-90s, Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" was like a generational anthem. I have vivid memories of having sex in a car in a park-and-ride, the bass of that song reverberating throughout the vehicle...
It’s not hard to find a dog-friendly restaurants and bars in Pittsburgh. Grist House Craft Brewery in Millvale is so dog-friendly that they created an entire Instagram page dedicated to pups at the brewery...
On some summer evenings in Pittsburgh, a swarm of small birds can be seen whipping and zooming over the intersection of the McKees Rocks Bridge and Ohio River Boulevard. Hundreds, if not thousands, of small birds fly around with impressive speed and coordination...
When a dog they knew passed away, Dave and Pat Klug couldn’t find the perfect sympathy card to send their friend, so they made one themselves, leading to a business creating pet sympathy cards for over 10 years. “We love all animals and have great respect for them,” says Dave, an artist and designer, and Pat, an advertising and marketing professional, who sell their cards and artwork to both animal lovers and animal care professionals...
Animals have long been artists’ muses, from their humble beginnings 40,000 years ago as Paleolithic sketches on cave walls to the brightly colored screen-printed cows seen just inside the front doors of Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum. Today, Pittsburgh artists continue to incorporate animals into their pieces in exciting ways, from new takes on traditional mediums to 3D do-it-yourself creations made to be displayed on living room walls...
In January 2019, hip-hop artist Aesop Rock released a song with electronic musician and Pittsburgh artist TOBACCO called "Churro." The song’s lyrics describe, in specific detail, the scene of an eagle caught on camera eating a cat to the shock of its viewers...
