Pittsburgh Pride, an annual celebration meant to uplift the local LGBTQ community, has seen more than its fair share of tumult related to its former organizer, the Delta Foundation. Between the outcry over lack of representation in its ranks, the controversial choice of musical acts, and the resignation of its former leader, as well as vendors calling for refunds after the 2020 event was canceled due to COVID-19, Pittsburgh Pride has almost constantly been mired in strife...
We searched the web, and asked our readers to help us find some of Pittsburgh's best job openings this week. If your company or business is hiring, or you spot a cool job you think is worth highlighting next week, send it our way at jobs@pghcitypaper.com...
Hundreds gathered in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood on Sept. 24 at noon for Sunrise Movement Pittsburgh’s Strike for Climate Justice to protest for more action to combat climate change. The crowd marched from Oakland to Downtown's City Council Building, swelling to about 200 people...
In Pittsburgh, locals call being gossipy “nebby” and Pittsburghers looooove to be nebby. And while nebbiness used to be confined to water coolers, neighborhood meetings, or chats on the porch, modern-day nebbiness can now be found online...
Allegheny County COVID-19 information as of Sept. 24
Number of new positive cases in Allegheny County: 332 Number of today's new coronavirus deaths in Allegheny County: 0...
If you are into music with few words, and heavy on the vibes, you’ll love the new album Drink The Blue Sky by Nice Rec. This entire album is dripping gold, with grooves that call to mind Khruangbin or NxWorries but with a more electronic flavor...
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and Karina Ricks, director of the city’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, announced a 50-year Mobility Vision Plan on Thu., Sept. 23, sharing the city of Pittsburgh's ambitious transit goals. The long-term transportation plan includes ideas for a central terminal location, a hyperloop system, an aerial tram system connecting neighborhoods, and new bridges that allow vehicles to cross the Monongahela River from Hazelwood to the Hill Top neighborhoods...
In a lawsuit filed on the afternoon of Sept. 23, Pennsylvania’s top prosecutor challenged 17 subpoenas issued by Senate Republicans, for voter’s identifying information, as part of the GOP-backed investigation into the 2020 general and 2021 primary elections. In a 76-page suit, filed in Commonwealth Court, Attorney General Josh Shapiro argues that the subpoenas issued in a party-line vote by the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee last week, threaten Pennsylvanians’ rights to “free and fair elections and to the protection of their personal information.”
Jim Daniels has published or collaborated on approximately 41 books since his debut poetry collection Places/Everyone won the Brittingham Prize in 1985. The recently retired Carnegie Mellon University creative writing professor’s bibliography includes poetry chapbooks and collections, books of short fiction, and edited anthologies...
Fried chicken sandwiches are everywhere right now. After a well-publicized battle starting in 2019 between Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen and Chick-Fil-A over who had the best fast-food chicken sandwich, just about every other franchise and food joint has introduced their own Southern-style fried chicken sandwich...
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced on Sept. 20 that Port Authority of Allegheny County would be awarded $216.9 million in grant funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The grant funds are intended to aid transit agencies with maintaining their services, pay transit employees, and also help in recovering agencies from COVID-19 pandemic losses...
Reel Q is bringing back its popular Pittsburgh LGBTQ+ Film Festival for its 36th year, highlighting 14 features, over 60 short films, and four in-person screening events. This year’s programming will be a hybrid of in-person and online screenings, so you can watch in a crowd or from the comfort of your own home...
National Coffee Day is on Sept. 29, and coffee-lovers and dog-lovers alike can celebrate, while also helping out some pups, with Grounds & Hounds coffee. Grounds & Hounds Coffee Co. is a California-based company with a mission to donate a portion of their profits made from coffee, drinkware, home and living, and apparel to support animal rescue organizations...
Thu., Sept. 23
hyperBOP
Spirit
10 p.m. - 2 a.m.
hyperBOP is a dance night completely dedicated to hyperpop, synth, experimental pop and hip hop, electronic, trance, and rave. If you like SOPHIE, Crystal Castles, and Caroline Polachek, you’ll want to be there to join dj handsome boy, dj gummy, and dj pink diamond...
Horror movies are a staple of the fall season, as viewers indulge in slashers, monster flicks, ghost stories, and other offerings from the genre as a way to build up to Halloween. Now, Pittsburgh Film Kitchen and Jump Cut Theater want local filmmakers to contribute to this tradition by submitting to a Halloween-themed short film showcase...
Since the Pennsylvania Turnpike converted to all-electronic tolling in June 2020, nearly $105 million in fees went uncollected. On Sept. 22, the 14-member Senate Transportation Committee launched an inquiry to find out why, and to evaluate ways to avoid revenue “leakage” — unpaid tolls...
Code Orange has made its hometown of Pittsburgh proud, continuously delivering its own brand of hardcore punk to fans with Grammy-nominated albums. Now the band returns to live touring, and will belatedly celebrate the March 2020 release of its album Underneath, which has been lauded by the Guardian as a "thrilling new form of molten metal."
