Q&A with Jenny Lewis, performing at Carnegie Library Music Hall Tue., June 12
“I know how I feel, but songs are mysterious, mystical things.”
Q&A: Valerie June performs at Three Rivers Arts Festival on Fri., June 8
“Do what you love in life; I’m slowly getting to doing what I love.”
A new specialty grocer opens in Pleasant Hills and Bridgeville
Specialty grocery chain, Fresh Thyme Farmers Market opens two stores in the Pittsburgh area
Lynn Cullen Live – 6/5/18
Video Archive Tuesday means Susan is joining Lynn. To start off they are once again discussing Rob Rogers’ cartoons. Today is the first time in over a week he’s had a piece published in the Post Gazette. People are saying a constitutional crisis is upon us, but Lynn believes we might be in one already.…
Q&A: The Front Bottoms perform a sold out show at Mr. Smalls Theater, talk new music, Wuakaskole Records
“If someone’s in the studio who knows how to play bongos, there’ll prolly be a bongo solo.”
Reminder from Pittsburgh Parking Authority: Don’t park in the bike lanes
PPA officials say Pittsburgh’s bike lanes are an “asset” and it’s a public-safety concern when cars park in them.
MP3 Monday: The Painbirds
Download The Painbirds’ dark, danceable “Split Seconds,” here, now, free.
Lynn Cullen Live – 6/4/18
Video Archive Lynn is back from her trip to the other side of the state for an ACLU meeting, and she’s discussing some of the billboards she saw along the way. Billboard 1 – Impeachment large with Make America America again underneath Billboard 2 – GOP with a hammer and sickle in the O Billboard…
Concert photos: Justin Timberlake at PPG Paints Arena
Photo highlights of Justin Timberlake and some trees
Pittsburgh students call on Bill Peduto to oppose Shell cracker plant
University of Pittsburgh student protesters say the cracker plant is in conflict with Pittsburgh’s environmental goals for the region.
Lynn Cullen Live – 5/31/18
Video Archive Lynn is taking tomorrow off, so today is the last show of the week. We’re starting off with Lynn’s recommendation for the RBG documentary. She saw it last night and says it’s great. Now she’s discussing a study that has shown that humanity has killed 83% of wild animals. Audio Only Archive Stream…
Lynn Cullen Live – 5/30/18
Video Archive It’s the penultimate day of May, and Lynn is starting the day talking about Rosanne’s tweet, as well as it’s aftermath. She is also discussing her need to try to stay away from all these events and news about Trump, but how disengagement isn’t actually an option. The Dana Milbank column in the…
Eat Me: Dwaejibulgogi
Location: Soju, 4923 Penn Ave., Garfield Ambiance: Soju is a new addition to Garfield. It’s warm and inviting with modern wood finishes and a garage door to let in the warmer weather. A couple seats at the bar accommodate friends for drinks or solo diners. What we ate: Dwaejibulgogi (spicy Korean barbecue pork) Cost: $14…
Feed the soul and the body at the Three Rivers Arts Festival
The Three Rivers Arts Festival’s schedule is packed with performances, gallery exhibits and activities to keep you Downtown for its 10 days and nights. That’s long enough to drive up anyone’s appetite. So, when preparing to spend days absorbing as much culture as possible, make sure your blood sugar doesn’t suffer, and plan your meals,…
Local pit masters dish on what to sip with your barbecue
Beer and barbecue are a natural match. However, there are plenty of other adult beverages that complement meat cooked in the beloved low-and-slow style. Three local barbecue gurus share which non-beer options they enjoy. Richard Coursey, owner and pit master of YinzBurgh BBQ, says his priority is finding a drink that won’t clash with the…
The Three Rivers Arts Festival’s Emerging Artist Program provides mentorship and assistance to new artists
The Downtown air is filled with carnival food; sounds of laughter and chatter dance across the pavement. Around the corner, a corridor of hundreds of tents appears, each one holding a unique set of artistic treasures to behold or maybe take home. This is the Three Rivers Arts Festival Arts Market, a perennial staple of…
Larimer sausage maker is an 80-year staple in the community
Henry Grasso Co., Inc. 716 Larimer Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 412-441-8126 The Pittsburgh dining scene is increasingly embracing the old school. Specialty shops such as Chantal’s Cheese Shop or Gryphon Tea Company function much like grocers did before the advent of large supermarkets and big box stores. They offer a limited number of products and count…
New releases from The Long Hunt and Jimmy Mayo
The Long Hunt All Paths Lead to Here Self-released listentothelonghunt.com The Long Hunt makes wandering music, so it’s only fitting that its latest release is titled All Paths Lead to Here. The heavy psych, minimalist post-rock moves through valleys of sludgy riffs, ascends into peaks of slithering bass licks and rolls across ambient fields of…
Artist and illustrator Ashley Olinger to paint a City Paper ArtBox at Three Rivers Arts Festival
Local illustrator and artist Ashley Olinger created a vibrant cover for City Paper’s Summer Guide issue. She is back in the fold to participate in a live painting of newspaper boxes — we’re calling it an “Artbox” — as part of Three Rivers Arts Festival. We talked to Olinger about her career, painting live, and…
Cousin Boneless makes a move with weird, spooky Possession
The members of Cousin Boneless never fit in. That’s exactly how they like it. “We can play a set that’s accessible to families having a picnic, or we can also play a super dingy basement show with a bunch of punks and get them riled up as well,” vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Joey Schuller says. “It’s…
Savage Love
I am a 38-year-old gay man with a serious problem. My boyfriend of five years has developed a strange fascination. We’ve always watched porn together, but now he has been looking at straight porn and even lesbian porn (!!!) more and more often. More than once he has expressed an interest in having a MMF…
Marc-Andre Fleury doesn’t belong to Pittsburgh anymore
Marc-Andre Fleury doesn’t belong to us anymore. He knows it. His family knows it. His friends know it. Pittsburghers need to know it, too. This is no way a suggestion to avoid watching the Stanley Cup Final. If any citizenry is familiar with how the NHL’s championship series will likely play out, it’s the seen-it/lived-it…
Race to the Coffin comedy is going to roast the crap out of Harry Potter
Harry Potter is an amazing, magical, world-changing series of books and movies, but some of its stuff really just doesn’t make sense. The Weasley family, for example, lives in poverty in a world where wizards can literally create just about anything with magic. Conjure up some cash, Weasleys! John Dick Winters, founder of Pittsburgh-based Race…
Famous films get low-budget treatment at Row House Cinema’s Sweded Film Festival, but … ‘is it fun?’
Most people will never see their movie played in an actual movie theater, but the Sweded Film Festival at Row House Cinema offers anyone with a camera and a sense of humor that chance. The concept of a sweded film — purposely short and low-budget recreations of popular movies — comes from the 2008 Michel…
Real Deal
“Honestly, what happened [last October’s mass shooting] … you see terrible things throughout America, but when it’s a place you’re trying to make your home, it’s different. We kind of took it on ourselves to play for this city. You can’t go anywhere here without knowing somebody who was affected. A lot of us were…
Feminist art exhibition claps back
The modern cultural lexicon has embraced the concept of the “clap back,” an acute and (sometimes withering) response to criticism or oppression. This phrase, utilized and popularized by women of color, has taken its place in headlines, spoken word and internet memedom. I’M NOT WITH HIM, a new exhibit at Future Tenant, is curated by…
City Theatre’s Nomad Hotel a lesson in children raising themselves
Ripped from today’s headlines! (I always wanted to start a review like that …) Playwright Carla Ching’s Nomad Hotel is a mashup of two unsavory current cultural trends: “motel kids” and “parachute kids.” The first are working poor families that, because of rising house prices and stagnated wages, are forced to live in motels. The…
Hop Along reaches new heights on its latest, Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Hop Along’s music has the ability to freeze time. The first time you hear vocalist and guitarist Frances Quinlan’s distinct voice over the subtle, smart-moving guitar parts, your breath may get caught in your throat. With careful ingredients, Hop Along captures the sublime, confusing, warm and existential in a way that evades easy description. Its…
Does anybody outside of Pittsburgh care about the Three Rivers Arts Festival?
The Pittsburgh diaspora is powerful. It’s why the airport is crowded on certain Sundays in the fall; Pittsburghers come back home to watch the Steelers. But a beloved football team isn’t the only national draw anymore. Pittsburgh has been attracting more conventions in recent years and has been featured as a visit-worthy destination in many…
Q&A with Pittsburgh’s premier poet, Billie Nardozzi
Pittsburgh is lucky to have Billie Nardozzi. He’s been publishing short, memorable poems in the Post-Gazette (at his own expense), writing and performing fight songs for the local sports teams and making regular appearances on 93.7fm The Fan for more than a decade. The songs and the poems are simple, but undeniably charming (he’s written…
7 Days of Concerts
Another week, another seven shows to feast your ears and eyes upon. From indie rock to pop-tinged neo soul to folk rock, the universe has provided. Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Top 5 Kenny Chesney Songs (For Pittsburghers)
“Never Wanted Nothing More” … Than Amazon to pick Pittsburgh. Pretty please, Amazon. We’ll, like, convert the Mon into a bike lane only accessible to your people. And how does “Mount Amazon” sound? Or “Primeburgh”? — Sincerely, our elected officials “When I Think About Leaving” An ode to the couple of great, few good and…
Free Will Astrology
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On Feb. 17, 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev had an appointment with a local cheese-making company to provide his expert consultation. But he never made it. A blast of inspiration overtook him soon after he awoke, and he stayed home to tend to the blessed intrusion. He spent that day as…
Dahntahn for you
“Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life.” Dun dun dududu dun dududu… You probably know those opening lines to Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” and the first scene in his landmark film Purple Rain. What you probably don’t know is that in 1984, when the song and film were…
Celine Roberts on butchery
When I started writing about food, I gravitated toward something very unfamiliar: meat production and butchery. As a vegetarian of 13 years who had somewhat recently started eating meat again, I was driven to understand what I was eating and where it was coming from. I’ve now interviewed several butchers and chefs in Pittsburgh and…
MP3 Monday: Caleb Kopta
This week’s free MP3 is a danceable indie rock track with some serious Sam’s Town-era Killers vibes with a dose of ’80s nostalgia.
