Just a few days before Thanksgiving last year, Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media (PCAM) announced it was shuttering its film programs amid mass layoffs at the organization. This theoretically meant the end of programming at the Harris Theater and the Regent Square Theater, two of the handful of independent movie theaters left in the city...

About two months ago, T.J. Harris was heading to a DJing gig when he discovered one of his cables was defective.  “There were literally two stores that I could go to at the time, and both were 15 miles away from where I was,” says Harris...

In Pittsburgh, you don’t usually expect to see a fire-eater at an acoustic performance, or a comedian playing to a less-than amused crowd waiting to see their favorite punk band.  Yinzer-lesque, a new variety show featuring local performers representing music, burlesque, comedy, and sideshow arts, seeks to change that...

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I'm a big fan of self-editing. For example, every horoscope I write evolves over the course of at least three drafts...

One of the most interesting things about writing this column has been interacting with readers who relatively frequently contact me to tell me about how my work relates to their thoughts, feelings, and relationships. Though less common, I also have folks ask for advice...

Luke Parker and his family turned the former Zippy’s Saloon — a neighborhood dive said to be a true taste of Pittsburgh — into a trendy bar Rand soon-to-be gastropub Red’s Good News. But the full history of Red’s goes long past Zippy’s. During renovations, the family uncovered a trough built into the bar...

“Life is short, I don’t want to do work that’s just a paycheck,” Jim Rugg says of life as a comic book artist, bookmaker, illustrator, and designer.  The winner of Eisner and Ignatz awards for excellence in comics, Rugg has produced acclaimed titles including Street Angel, Afrodisiac, and the recently re-released The PLAIN Janes (Little, Brown) series, a collaboration with writer Cecil Castellucci that includes a new work, Janes Attack Back!

Lunar New Year — widely referred to as Chinese New Year, though many other Asian countries honor it — is the most important and celebrated holiday of the year for cultures rooted in a lunar calendar.  The festival is a spectacle that Marian Lien, president of the Organization for Chinese Americans Pittsburgh, can only describe as “Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July” all wrapped into one...

As a seasoned politician, representing the underserved for a total of one township meeting, I have learned to speak truth to power. (I also learned my township has a secret pond and is getting a beach volleyball court!)

Heading to a venue for the first time can be anxiety-inducing or at the very least cause inconveniences. Where’s will call?

It was a rainy Tuesday afternoon in December, so close to the holiday break that coaxing a productive discussion out of students would be a herculean task. There’s the old cliché of teachers showing a movie to fill gaps like this, but the film screening planned for this day would be different...

“I love being anxious. I mean, I think I've grown to embrace it...

To honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., the Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross in Homewood hosted a gun buyback event on Mon., Jan. 20. The event was slated to last from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., but after less than an hour, the church’s fundraised budget of $5,000 had been given away...

Glo Phase - Mezzotint After taking a departure from instrumental tracks last June with Fall Deep, an R&B album featuring the dreamy vocals of singer Jocelyn Rent, Glo Phase's downtempo electronic tunes are back in his latest release, Mezzotint. Written, mixed, and mastered by Glo Phase himself, aka Joseph Rusnak, Mezzotint takes listeners on a dreary, house and techno laden ride through Pittsburgh — like in the hypnotic "Tunnel Vision" or the short but sweet "Reverse Feelings."

In Port Authority of Allegheny County's current ConnectCard system, fare money can be added to the card in person at an associated retailer or ConnectCard station, or online, but with several days of delay between when payment is submitted and when it appears on the card. That's about to change, as Port Authority gets ready to implement a new system that would allow riders to pay the fare through an app on their smartphones...

If one of your resolutions is to become more creative this year, join Pittsburgh City Paper in kicking off 2020 by making something new every day this month. We've signed up for Fun A Day Pittsburgh where participants spend every day in January working on a project for the month — some make something new for 31 days, others pick one big project and work on it a little each day...

Can’t keep up with Pittsburgh’s fast-changing food scene? Don’t panic...

Last year, Janera Solomon decided to step down from her role as executive director of the Kelly Strayhorn Theater (KST). After serving in the role for more than 10 years, leading the East Liberty venue through years of vibrant arts programming and community events, the Pittsburgh arts community wondered who would succeed her...

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Video Archive Today is the first day of the Senate Impeachment trial...

After longtime state Rep. Harry Readshaw (D-Carrick) announced he would not be seeking re-election, the Democratic primary for state House District 36 has become a two-person race between progressive Jessica Benham (D-South Side) and candidate Heather Kass (D-Carrick), who has ties to Readshaw. And according to WESA, both are seeking the endorsement from the Allegheny County Democratic Committee...