Imagine a device that could allow you to hear crystal clear sound at a concert anywhere in the venue, even in a stadium or large sports complex. The creators of PEEX are making that possible with their wearable PEEX rX, a controllable device that is synchronized to a stage's sound, giving users options in their live music experience with volume levels, instrument isolation, vocal boosting, and more...

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Video Archive Ryan Deto will be here later in the show to discuss local issues of intrest...

When Adil Mansoor first moved to Pittsburgh in 2010, he wanted to find a vibrant queer community on par with the one he experienced in Chicago. He was drawn to events at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, where he met long-term friends and began attending My People, a yearly arts festival centering the experience of queer and trans people of color...

During a wild storm on the evening of Halloween, a tree snapped in half in my front yard and fell on my house, taking out my electrical meter and box, my awning, roof shingles, the gutter, and a few other things. The fact that we were displaced from our house for four days was somewhat annoying, but fortunately we have family in the area, so that part wasn’t too much of an issue...

On the first day of fall, 4Four6 Distillery still had a “Coming Summer 2019” sign in the window.  “What can we say?

No matter how ingrained you are in the Pittsburgh music scene, you still might not know just how many record labels are operating locally. Many of them fly under the radar, but they're worth knowing...

Technically speaking, Fish Nor Fowl is an "American eatery," but in practice that just means they're not beholden to any particular cuisine. Nothing is set in stone, global influences abound, and the website boasts that the Garfield restaurant's identity can't be "defined nor classified."

For its 25th anniversary, Attack Theatre wanted to do something special. The local modern dance company looked to the avant-garde world of filmmaker David Lynch, specifically to Rebekah Del Rio, the Mexican-American singer/songwriter noted for her Spanish rendition of Roy Orbison's song "Crying" in Lynch’s 2001 film Mulholland Drive...

Drinking in Pittsburgh is cheap relative to other cities. You get what you pay for.

“Oh, you’re drinking the OG soju.” Was this a statement or question?

As the effects of climate change become more extreme, so does the activism fighting against it. In the fall of 2016, Mark Baumer, a Rhode Island artist and activist, began walking across the country barefoot to raise awareness about climate change and to raise money for a local environmental organization...

Can a novel about a college professor have a working-class theme? Yes, if the professor is a former welder/wrestler who teaches creative writing at a community college, as in Dave Newman’s East Pittsburgh Downlow (J. New Books).

Katharine Hepburn — the late actor noted for her independent spirit, patrician features, and much-impersonated Mid-Atlantic accent — was not a typical Hollywood fashion icon. She existed between two Hollywood ideals, too tomboyish to emulate someone like Grace Kelly, who could wear a gown like nobody’s business, and too outspoken to match the seductive mystique of her contemporary Marlene Dietrich, who embraced androgyny and defied gender norms by dressing in both tailored tuxedos and women’s wear...

In 2017, Kheir Mugwaneza, then director of refugee resettlement at Northern Area Multi Service Center (NAMS) in Sharpsburg told Pittsburgh City Paper that “we can use as much support as we can [get]” in terms of supplying assimilation assistance to area refugees. About 19 months later, NAMS’ resettlement division closed down...

Back of House is a new monthly feature, highlighting the people behind-the-scenes in Pittsburgh's food and beverage industry. Name: Eddie Byas, North Side Work: Wholesale Manager, Millie’s Homemade Ice Cream...

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):  Poet Robert Bly tells us that the door to the soul is unlocked...

Two weeks ago, following statements against future development of cracker plants made by Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald went on KDKA radio and gave an interview full of boosterism for natural-gas drilling, aka fracking, and of potential future cracker plants. Petrochemical plants, aka cracker plants, refine natural gas into plastic pellets...

In 2014, filmmaker Ted Haynes began working on a script about mental illness that he thought was too ambitious to bring to reality. When his friend, the actor Jack Erdie (who has previously appeared in Mindhunter, Banshee, and other productions), made a Facebook post about wanting heartier roles, he thought it might be a good time to bring the script back...

LumberjAxes has provided a way for people to bond and try to outdo their peers with its axe-throwing business. Now LumberjAxes has moved from its indoor throwing range to the brisk outdoors with Sliders Curling, touted as the city's first competitive, bar-style ice curling rink...

Are you tired of tracking down food trucks? Welcome to the Pittsburgh City Paper food truck roundup, where we do the hard work for you...

In June, NPR asked its writers to name their favorite album of 2019 thus far. Found alongside popular entries like Solange's When I Get Home and Weyes Blood's Titanic Rising was Black Friday by Palehound...