WESA cancels longtime radio show Prosody
By Amanda Reed
Carnegie Mellon professor’s new memoir revisits her brain injury
“It might help other brain-injury survivors.”
Tags: Book Reviews + Features, Books, Deb Brandon, Carnegie Mellon University, CMU, But My Brain Had Other Ideas: A Memoir of Recovery from Brain Injury
Local author Carrie Ann DiRisio parodies YA-lit tropes
“It’s ‘punching-up’ humor, in a way to make fun of the rich, mega-hot white dude.”
Tags: Book Reviews + Features, Books, Carrie Ann DiRisio, Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me, Broody McHottiepants
Pittsburgh-based Lynda Schuster’s memoir of her life as a foreign correspondent and ambassador’s wife
“I lived in this rarefied bubble where it’s all cocktail parties and state dinners.”
Tags: Book Reviews + Features, Books, Lynda Schuster, Dirty Wars and Polished Silver: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix, Dial Torgerson, Dennis Jett
Tags: Prosody, poetry, WESA, public radio, Pittsburgh writers, WYEP
Holiday Magic! brings lights and festive flora to Oakland
Tags: Pittsburgh, Phipps, Phipps Conservatory, Winter Flower Show and Light Garden, Holiday Magic, Holidays in Pittsburgh, Christmas Lights
First Night 2018 attractions announced
Tags: Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Events, Holidays, Music, First Night, arts event, New Year's Eve, 2018, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Pop-up Nickelodeon begins Downtown on Friday
Tags: Entertainment, Screen, Theater, movies, Downtown, Light-Up Night, First Night, cinema, silent movies
wats:ON? Festival Returns to Carnegie Mellon University
Tags: Art, Carnegie Mellon University, architecture, performance art, wats:ON? festival
Local author attempts serialized email novel
Adam Dove’s The Truth comes to an inbox near you
Tags: Book Reviews + Features, Books, Adam Dove, The Truth, University of Pittsburgh
Short List: Oct. 19-26
Women serial killers sing in Angelmakers; the future of work; Harry Belafonte; Resonance Works season-opener
By Bill O'Driscoll and Amanda Reed
Tags: Short List, Events, Angelmakers: Songs for Female Serial Killers, Xanadu, Kiss Me Kate, Into the Fire/Poet’s Love, Harry Belafonte, Ploughman’s Lunch, Timothy Kelley, Funny Ladies: A Much-Needed Night of Laughter, Artists Studio Tour, Romeo and Juliet, Touch Update, CM Burroughs
By Mars Johnson
Goat Fest proves goats are the GOAT for landscaping in Pittsburgh
By Amanda Waltz
Better Food, Better Me combats food insecurity in Homewood
By Maia Williams
Tasty Creme of Library is a South Hills soft-serve staple
By Matt Petras
Pittsburgh’s top events: July 25-31
By CP Staff