Gallery/Community-Center Project in Braddock Seeks Funding
Braddock Inclusion Project venue would show art and hold classes
Immigrant-rights groups ask Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald to increase immigrant protections
The Allegheny County Jail still allows limited communication with federal immigration officers, and advocates want that to change.
Introducing CP’s Chronicle: 100 Days of Trump
The Trump presidency got off to a perfectly calm start with a by-the-book, and even somewhat dull, inauguration. And lots of big things that candidate Donald Trump promised to do on Day One didn’t actually happen. Then, just 24 hours later, millions of people around the world were out in the streets protesting; we went…
100 Days of Trump: From ‘American Carnage’ to Harrisburg
WEEK ONE Day 1: Fri., Jan. 20 • Donald J. Trump is inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. His 16-minute inaugural address includes the words “American carnage” and “tombstones.” It also rains briefly. • Netflix announces season 5 of House of Cards: “We make the terror.” • The Senate confirms retired Marine Gen. James…
MP3 Monday: Jacquea May
Each week, we post a song from a local artist online. This week’s is “Today Ain’t The Day” by Jacquea May, from her debut EP The Makings Of Me, executive produced by May and her 1Hood colleague Idasa Tariq. The EP’s five tracks vary from experimental soul to more accessible R&B to a stunning a…
Liberty Poles, Excise Tax and Rebellion: Part Three
As Americans began to move west after the Revolutionary War, Pittsburgh became a last outpost of civilization before travelers boarded boats on the Ohio River. Distillers produced whiskey to trade with the newcomers in exchange for staples. However, when the young government’s debts to the French came due, these distillers were where it looked for…
Hundreds of Pittsburghers to attend environmental marches locally and in Washington, D.C.
Pittsburgh is just one of several cities across the country to march in defense of the environment.
U.S. Rep. Keith Rothfus seems to be increasing his support for President Donald Trump, but why?
The typically quiet Republican congressman from Sewickley has increased support toward President Donald Trump in the last week.
Pittsburgh environmental groups launch initiative to help schools and child-care facilities address lead and radon
Women for a Healthy Environment, the Green Building Alliance and The Heinz Endowments to help schools, early-learning centers and after-school programs test for lead and radon, and mitigate the environmental risks in their facilities.
Gucci Mane brings tour to Stage AE in Pittsburgh
Gucci Mane performed at Stage AE
Pennsylvania Superior Court gives surviving partners of long-time same-sex relationships the right to prove common-law marriage
In 2005, Pennsylvania abolished common-law marriages. Critics to common-law marriages point out that they’re antiquated and made more sense in a rural society where courthouses and officials who could legally marry people were harder to access. Today, couples can walk into courthouses and get married with relative ease. But until recently, this wasn’t the case…
New Pittsburgh-based video series will bring some much needed heroines to the Steel City
HEROINEBURGH Premiere (Episodes 1-4) 6 and 8:15 p.m. Sun., April 30. Row House Cinema, 4115 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $5. 412-904-3225 “Do you want to play a supervillain in a live-action video series?” In all the years I’ve known Manny Theiner, he’s asked me a lot of questions. They usually deal with bands he’s bringing to…
They are the music makers: What (some) Pittsburgh musicians, promoters, labels and producers would like to see improve in the city’s scene
“When I need to find something out, I just go out and find somebody that knows more than me, and I go and I ask them.” That’s a line spoken by Marv, Mickey Rourke’s character from the 2005 film Sin City. I think about that line all the time. It’s a pretty accurate description of…
Pittsburgh’s Women Who Rock will benefit Magee Women’s Research Institute
Women Who Rock Pittsburgh 7 p.m. Thu., May 11. Hard Rock Café, 230 W. Station Square St., South Side. $35-600. tinyurl.com/womenrockpgh The patriarchy has a pervasive presence in nearly all music communities. Talented women are often ignored or pushed aside, treated as an afterthought or an exception to the rule. Depending on the pocket of…
The Allegheny 9 racing series is drawing runners to the county’s park system
The Allegheny County Parks Foundation wants you to get to know the nine parks that it maintains. Its latest fundraising and awareness effort is a new road-and-trail race series called the Allegheny 9. The fourth race was held April 22 in Boyce Park. “It’s actually one of the largest park systems in the country,” says…
Underberg Herbal Digestive
“For the last five generations, the Underberg family has been making this aromatic and herbaceous digestive with a secret recipe of herbs from 43 countries. Meant to be taken all at once after a large meal to help settle the stomach, Underberg is reminiscent of Fernet Branca and has become a cult favorite among bartenders.”…
New Releases
The Me Toos CD-release show with Vertigo Go and the Spectres 9 p.m. Sat., April 29. Spirit Lodge, 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. Free. 412-586-4441 The Me Toos Ghost Fly BySelf-released It might be too strong a statement to say that an album’s running order can make or break a band. But when done right, the…
This week in Pittsburgh Sports History
I’ve always been a fan of the little segments during live sporting events when they tell you what happened on this day, or that day, in history. I love all of the facts, but when you’ve been alive a while, you start to hear them repeated. So I went looking for events that most people…
The decades-old ‘Men Cooking’ cookbook celebrates the adventurous chef
When the seasons turn to fresh food, it’s time to dust off the cookbooks and bust out some new recipes. Or the old ones: a lifetime of buying used books means digging deep into the past for forgotten recipes, or just musings. For years, men cooked professionally — indeed, the world of fine dining was…
Colossal
Colossal Directed by Nacho Vigalondo Starring Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Stevens Starts Thu., April 27. Hollywood and Regent Square When Gloria (Anne Hathaway) comes home drunk one too many times, her frustrated boyfriend Tim (Dan Stevens) throws her out of his swank New York City apartment. So homeless — and jobless — Gloria grudgingly…
Social platforms like Instagram and Spotify are changing the way musical artists promote themselves
Music Issue City Paper’s 2017 Music Issue: Pittsburgh isn’t just home to good local bands, it’s home to great artists Social platforms like Instagram and Spotify are changing the way musical artists promote themselves Pittsburgh’s Pittonkatonk is a year-round venture The Glitter Box Theater, a new DIY-space in Oakland, is all about affordability and accessibility…
Pittsburgh Opera throws a curve: Its first-ever world premiere tells the story of famed Negro Leagues slugger Josh Gibson
THE SUMMER KING 8 p.m. Sat., April 29; 7 p.m. Tue., May 2; 7:30 p.m. Fri., May 5; and 3 p.m. Sun., May 7. Pittsburgh Opera at the Benedum Center, 237 Seventh St., Downtown. $12-159. 412-456-6666 or pittsburghopera.org The composer was a baseball fan long before he knew opera. The opera-company director still doesn’t know…
Short List: April 27 – May 3
FREE EVENT: Fri., April 29 – Art Have anything to say to Donald Trump? You’re in luck. This Friday and Saturday (on the 99th and 100th days of his presidency), artist Sheryl Oring brings her public performance piece I Wish to Say to Pittsburgh for the first time, in partnership with the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership…
The Lost City of Z
James Gray’s adaptation of the David Grann nonfiction book The Lost City of Z is a thoughtfully melded ripping yarn, journey of self-discovery and gentle rebuke of the “civilized” world’s myopia. Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) has bounced around the Empire with the British military — when we meet him in 1905 he’s posted in Ireland…
Critics’ Picks, April 27 – May 3
[ROCK] + THU., APRIL 27 Hold onto your butts — one of the best modern rock ‘n’ roll bands is coming to the Mr. Roboto Project tonight. The Coathangers, of Atlanta, have a grimy, raw energy you can’t turn away from. The band’s most recent single, “Captain’s Dead,” is a dark, ominous jaunt, a fitting…
It’s U.S. Rep. Keith Rothfus’ birthday, so send him some social-media love
On April 25, Republican U.S. Congressman Keith Rothfus, whose gerrymandered District 12 stretches from southern Lawrence County to Johnstown, turned 55. Birthdays come but once a year and deserve to be recognized; especially the birthday of a fine American patriot and “man of the people” like Rothfus. OK, yes, I’m kidding. Rothfus is a weak,…
On its new, Lydia Lunch-produced record, Pissed Jeans highlights the absurdity of hetero, middle-class white-guy-ness
PISSED JEANS, S.L.I.P., PEACE TALKS 9 p.m. Sat., April 29. Mr. Smalls Theatre, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $15. 412-821-4447 or mrsmalls.com For the most uncomfortable few minutes on Pissed Jean’s new record, Why Love Now — and probably the most uncomfortable in its whole catalogue — the band enlisted help from Chicago-based author Lindsay Hunter.…
Poet Barbara Edelman’s debut collection explores the experiences of adult children and aging parents
With some 46.2 million U.S. citizens ages 65 and older, and life expectancy near a peak, it often falls to the adult children of the elderly to become caregivers as parents reach senescence. This is a fact of life that many Gen Xers like myself must grapple with, and it’s the focus of some compelling…
Pittsburgh’s SIDE EYE is bringing audiences a complete live experience
SIDE EYE with Mystic Seers and Talkers 9 p.m. Fri., April 28. Belvedere’s Ultra-Dive, 4016 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $5-7. 412-687-2555 or belvederesultradive.com There is something special about seeing a show that’s also an experience. Think big surprises, over-the-top costumes, compelling visuals: a whole package that sticks with you for days afterward. SIDE EYE is a…
Graduation
It seems there is no benefit to trodding the moral high road in this slowly unfolding drama from Romanian writer-director Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days). Romeo (Adrian Titieni), a doctor in a smallish town, has high hopes for his teenage daughter, Eliza (Maria-Victoria Dragus). She has won a scholarship to a U.K.…
4.48 Psychosis at Off the Wall
4.48 PSYCHOSIS continues through May 6. Carnegie Stage, 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $25-40. 724-873-3576 or insideoffthewall.com Nobody can accuse anyone connected with Off the Wall Productions’ latest show, Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis, of taking the easy path. The play was first performed in 2000, a year-and-a-half after Kane’s death by suicide, and is —…
The 4th River Collective bring a sense of community to Pittsburgh’s street-music scene
Music Issue City Paper’s 2017 Music Issue: Pittsburgh isn’t just home to good local bands, it’s home to great artists Social platforms like Instagram and Spotify are changing the way musical artists promote themselves Pittsburgh’s Pittonkatonk is a year-round venture The Glitter Box Theater, a new DIY-space in Oakland, is all about affordability and accessibility…
Heralded painter Michael Williams on his new show at the Carnegie
MICHAEL WILLIAMS continues through Aug. 27. Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. 412-622-3131 or cmoa.org A revolution happened under our noses; it wasn’t televised, but rather torrented and Photoshopped. Heralding this new painting is Michael Williams, an artist whose work makes a case for ars gratia artis, using unique practices: The Los Angeles-based…
Unforgettable
If you’ve got a yearning for those domestic psychosexual thrillers of yore, here’s a modern one from Denise Di Novi. Well, modern in that it includes social-media catfishing instead of leaving hang-up calls like deranged folks had to do in the analog days; it’s not so modern in that you’ve seen every beat of this…
Pittsburgh’s Pittonkatonk is a year-round venture
Music Issue City Paper’s 2017 Music Issue: Pittsburgh isn’t just home to good local bands, it’s home to great artists Social platforms like Instagram and Spotify are changing the way musical artists promote themselves Pittsburgh’s Pittonkatonk is a year-round venture The Glitter Box Theater, a new DIY-space in Oakland, is all about affordability and accessibility…
Ahead of move to Nashville, marquee producer DJ Afterthought recaps six years in Pittsburgh’s music scene
Music Issue City Paper’s 2017 Music Issue: Pittsburgh isn’t just home to good local bands, it’s home to great artists Social platforms like Instagram and Spotify are changing the way musical artists promote themselves Pittsburgh’s Pittonkatonk is a year-round venture The Glitter Box Theater, a new DIY-space in Oakland, is all about affordability and accessibility…
Grilled asparagus with ramps, hard-boiled egg and horseradish
This recipe was created for our spring menu at Scratch Food & Beverage. It’s the first time I’ve had full creative control over a menu, and I’ve been looking forward to making really tasty and pretty vegetable-focused dishes. I took components that I thought worked together, but also [used] pairings that are unusual. Asparagus and…
On the North Side, Huszar offers classic Hungarian comfort food
Huszar 627 E. North Ave., North Side. 412-322-8795 Hours: Tue.-Fri. 9 a.m.-midnight; Sat. noon-11 p.m.; Sun. noon-7 p.m. Prices: $6-14 Liquor: Full bar One of the lasting legacies of Pittsburgh’s immigrant-driven, industrial past is its ties — sometimes generations removed, but still tenuously present — to the Old World of Central Europe. Recently, a revival…
The Glitter Box Theater, a new DIY-space in Oakland, is all about affordability and accessibility
Music Issue City Paper’s 2017 Music Issue: Pittsburgh isn’t just home to good local bands, it’s home to great artists Social platforms like Instagram and Spotify are changing the way musical artists promote themselves Pittsburgh’s Pittonkatonk is a year-round venture The Glitter Box Theater, a new DIY-space in Oakland, is all about affordability and accessibility…
Booze ’Bot
Robots are quickly losing their space-age reputation and entering the modern world across disciplines all along the spectrum. They drive our cars and distribute medication in hospital wards; now they even malt the grains used to make whiskey. On May 5, at its Barrelhouse in Spring Garden, Wigle will reveal its new educational floor-malting robot…
Wysocki: The battle for the Pittsburgh Pirates’ best all-time catcher comes down to a close call at the plate
Without question, catcher is the toughest position to play in baseball. Catchers take jarring foul tips off their face masks; base-runners try to take them out with slides; and they do all of this while squatting for three hours. The gritty co-pilot of a Major League battery knows the game better than anyone. That’s why…
Pittsburgh City Paper Booze Battles: Eddie V’s vs. The Summit
Each week, we order the same cocktail at two different bars for a friendly head-to-head battle. Go to the bars, taste both drinks and tell us what you like about each by tagging @pghcitypaper on Twitter or Instagram and using #CPBoozeBattles. If you want to be part of Booze Battles, send an email to food-and-beverage…
Teen musician/promoter doing his part to bring more all-ages shows to Pittsburgh venues
Music Issue City Paper’s 2017 Music Issue: Pittsburgh isn’t just home to good local bands, it’s home to great artists Social platforms like Instagram and Spotify are changing the way musical artists promote themselves Pittsburgh’s Pittonkatonk is a year-round venture The Glitter Box Theater, a new DIY-space in Oakland, is all about affordability and accessibility…
Savage Love
I’m a 31-year-old gay male. I’ve been with my fiancé for three years, and we are getting married in the fall. I’ve got a question about initiating sex in my sleep — I read somewhere that “sexsomnia” is the “medical” term, but maybe the internet invented that? According to my fiancé, I have initiated or…
Girls Write Pittsburgh is helping local kids explore their creativity and themselves
Thirteen-year-old Maddie Nolan read the poem she had written in class that day — an “ode to an ode” as she called it — a swirling vocal exercise that brought to mind a poetry slam, with its internal rhymes and alliteration reminiscent of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton lyrics, of which Maddie is a huge fan. She…
City Paper’s 2017 Music Issue: Pittsburgh isn’t just home to good local bands, it’s home to great artists
Music Issue City Paper’s 2017 Music Issue: Pittsburgh isn’t just home to good local bands, it’s home to great artists Social platforms like Instagram and Spotify are changing the way musical artists promote themselves Pittsburgh’s Pittonkatonk is a year-round venture The Glitter Box Theater, a new DIY-space in Oakland, is all about affordability and accessibility…
Lynn Cullen Live 04/25/16
Video Archive Ivanka Trump gets booed in German. Man kills baby on Facebook Live. Jay Dickey, lawmaker who blocked gun research, dies at 77. Judge blocks order for funding of sanctuary cities. Audio Only Archive Stream or download the last 5 shows on the MP3 downloads page.
Two world class sumo wrestlers face off for charity at Stage AE
For more info, read Charlie Deitch’s story here. Or, if you’re old fashioned and prefer your pictures not to move, check out Luke Thor Travis’ stills from the event here.
