Kate Sweeney's American Afterlife looks at death rituals
We get an holistic approach to a topic that demands attention even as we shy away from it.
By Julia Cook
Tags: Book Reviews + Features
Taking Back Sunday welcomes change without changing its shape
"It's a rare thing when you can bring an audience like that together in one place, enjoying the same thing at the same time."
Tags: Music Features
STC Fest looks to showcase local hip hop at the Rex
"In time, it can be built into a larger-scale platform like A3C and SXSW."
Tags: Music, Local Beat
Seizure Man specializes in cassettes
The local label is handling this year's Reddit Cassette Culture compilation
Fitz and the Tantrums bring good pop — and a guitar — to Stage AE
"On the first album, it was all about Fitz's massive old organ and his old, out-of-tune piano."
WYEP marks 40 years as "the station that refused to die"
"People probably underestimated the passion of the city to keep the radio station around."
Tags: Music Features, Slideshow
Mandolin Orange brings Appalachian tradition into modern times
"Regardless of what era you're being inspired by, you can only really write about the times that you have to be living in."
Chip DiMonick goes pop with Londona
"This project has taken us places, rather than us taking it places."
White Like Fire warms up to Pittsburgh fans
"People didn't really like us. It was good, though; it was sort of a trial by fire."
PigPen Theatre Co. remembers its CMU roots
"We're just actors who just picked up our instruments five years ago."
By Mars Johnson
Pittsburgh now has a "Moon Tree" whose seed flew through outer space
By Rachel Wilkinson
The big, spooky Pittsburgh event guide: Oct. 3-Oct. 31
By CP Staff
Title Town marks 15 years of getting crowds to boogie down to bygone music
By Amanda Waltz
Ghost hunters say the National Aviary is “extremely haunted”
