School-board candidate Moira Kaleida says district needs more innovation
School-board candidate Moira Kaleida says innovation could solve some of the district’s woes.
A Conversation with Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon is not a cartoon, nor a “cartoon-musician”, but his music does have a kind of fidgety high energy that feels, at the very least, animated. His songs are joyful, playful, and off-kilter, without any of the arm’s-length sarcasm that you might expect to find padding music this idiosyncratic. Deacon is classified as an…
Point Park Connections Dance Show This Weekend
Point Park Connections, a showcase for Point Park University’s student dancers in new short works choreographed by adjunct dance faculty, has four performances Downtown starting tomorrow. Students in Point Park’s nationally known dance program will perform in works including: “Descent,” by Daniel Karasik; “Crunch,” by Shana Simmons; “Libertango,” by Sarah Everhart; “Paiju,” by Matt Pardo;…
Police union gives opening arbitration presentation, compares Act 47 to “crack for mayors”
Police union gives opening presentation in contract arbitration with the city
Listen Up! April 8
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists covered in the current music section or included in our concert listings. (As you’ll see, there’s a lot of garage rock happening in the city this week). Listen! Read!
Key Obama Campaign Consultant Speaks at Hill House Tomorrow
Michael Slaby, who guided online and social-media strategies in both of Barack Obama’s presidential runs, speaks tomorrow night at the Hill House.
BREAKING: City/police contract arbitration to happen in more comfortable, climate-controlled environs
Air conditioning, lighting under scrutiny at city/police union arbitration hearing.
Concert announcements: Death Cab, Delta Spirit, Liturgy, more
Get out your date books and gel pens … it’s time for concert announcements! Not to force you to start thinking about fall already, but on September 17, Death Cab For Cutie will be joined by Twin Shadow at Stage AE ($38.50-40, on sale Friday). More eminently at Stage AE: Christina Perri and Colbie Caillat stop…
Artists Sought to Design Poster for Upcoming H.R. Giger Film Screenings
The Hollywood Theater seeks artists to create a poster for its upcoming H.R. Giger film screenings
Pitt professor hosts panel today on business and conservation coexistence
Pitt’s Katz School of Business to hold talk on business and water conservation.
Lynn Cullen Live 4/7/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. The suicide of the Baron of Botox. Starbucks offers to pay for a four year degree for it’s American employees. Susan closes on a house with the help of some Packers tickets. Rolling Stone officially withdraws the UVA article. Audio Only Archive Listen to the…
Author and Anti-Fracking Activist Sandra Steingraber Speaks Tonight at Pitt
New York-based Steingraber gives a free talk titled “Fracking is a Feminist Issue: Women Confronting Fossil Fuels and Petrochemicals in an Age of Climate Emergency” at Pitt tonight.
MP3 Monday: Brazilian Wax
This week’s MP3 Monday comes to you from local punks Brazilian Wax. “Sun” is a quick, punchy garage-rocker off the band’s latest album, Rip It Off. Take a listen below, and check out the band’s Bandcamp page for the full album. To download, right-click here and select “save link as.”
Lynn Cullen Live 4/6/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Dorothy the falcon lays what may be one last clutch of eggs. Daryl Metcalfe is someone no one should be surprised by. Solitary confinement is inhumane. Norway’s prisons have a different approach. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple…
Fish fry to benefit Persad Center Friday
Fish fry(day) in Lawrenceville to benefit Persad Center.
CP Weekend Podcast for April 3-5: Unblurred, Easter eggs, and pooches
In store for you this weekend: Focus in on art along Penn Avenue, hunt for eggs in the museum and pet some pooches at the Western PA Kennel Club dog show.
UPDATE: Police union invites media to contract arbitration
The union that represents city police is inviting members of the media to sit in on contract arbitration.
India-Themed Arts Festival Announced
Performance and visual-art showcase to run Sept. 25-Nov. 9
FOLLOW-UP: Activists to meet with Springdale residents tonight regarding Cheswick power plant
Activists, air-quality watchdogs and scientists will lead a public meeting tonight with Springdale residents regarding the upcoming permit renewal for the Cheswick Generating Station.
CP Weekend Podcast – April 3-5, 2015
This week on CP Weekend Podcast: Crawl down Penn Avenue at Unblurred, hunt for eggs in the museum and go pet some pooches this weekend!
Lynn Cullen Live 4/2/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Lynn discusses Mike Pence, minimum wage, April Fools, and Tennessee’s state book. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
The Pittsburgh Pirates have one goal in 2015: to win it all
Navigation: The Pittsburgh Pirates have one goal in 2015: to win it all Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle is key piece to team’s success X-Factors Covering Her Team: Ellwood City woman turns Pirates freebies into family keepsakes Tribune-Review’s Travis Sawchik tells how the Pirates turned things around with sabermetrics Spring Training Slideshow A few years…
With Adventures, members of Code Orange explore alternate musical avenues
ADVENTURES with WHIRR, GIVE, RUN FOREVER, SWINGERS CLUB 7 p.m. Tue., April 7 The Mr. Roboto Project 5106 Penn Ave. Bloomfield $10 theroboto project.org Adventures’ new record, Supersonic Home, is full of wistfulness and longing, heartache and self-aware admissions. Musically, it worships at the altar of fuzzed-out ’90s rock and is rife with melody and…
Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle is key piece to team’s success
Navigation: The Pittsburgh Pirates have one goal in 2015: to win it all Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle is key piece to team’s success X-Factors Covering Her Team: Ellwood City woman turns Pirates freebies into family keepsakes Tribune-Review’s Travis Sawchik tells how the Pirates turned things around with sabermetrics Spring Training Slideshow Clint Hurdle obviously…
With Jazz Appreciation Month comes a wide range of opportunities to explore the genre
The month of April was declared Jazz Appreciation Month nearly 14 years ago by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, with the help of musician/producer Quincy Jones. In the ensuing years, the designation has stirred up some healthy debate: Does a mere 30 days reduce this gratitude to lip service? What part of jazz…
X-Factors
Navigation: The Pittsburgh Pirates have one goal in 2015: to win it all Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle is key piece to team’s success X-Factors Covering Her Team: Ellwood City woman turns Pirates freebies into family keepsakes Tribune-Review’s Travis Sawchik tells how the Pirates turned things around with sabermetrics Spring Training Slideshow Sean Rodriguez: Every…
A permanent home is in the works for Very Tight Recordings
The main floor of Matt Very’s new recording studio is beginning to take shape. There are no soundboards, no microphones, nothing like that. In fact, there are few lights or doors, and the “studio” layout requires some imagination. But two years into the construction of Very Tight Recordings’ new Sharpsburg location, the space is starting…
Covering Her Team: Ellwood City woman turns Pirates freebies into family keepsakes
Navigation: The Pittsburgh Pirates have one goal in 2015: to win it all Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle is key piece to team’s success X-Factors Covering Her Team: Ellwood City woman turns Pirates freebies into family keepsakes Tribune-Review’s Travis Sawchik tells how the Pirates turned things around with sabermetrics Spring Training Slideshow Any fan who’s…
Critics’ Picks for April 2-8
[HIP HOP] + SAT., APRIL 4 After a tumultuous couple of weeks with Sony, we can retroactively assume that Earl Sweatshirt’s “Not Ready 2 Leave” tour subtitle didn’t have anything to do with the relationship with his record label. Sony didn’t exactly stick the landing with I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside’s rollout,…
Tribune-Review‘s Travis Sawchik tells how the Pirates turned things around with sabermetrics
Navigation: The Pittsburgh Pirates have one goal in 2015: to win it all Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle is key piece to team’s success X-Factors Covering Her Team: Ellwood City woman turns Pirates freebies into family keepsakes Tribune-Review’s Travis Sawchik tells how the Pirates turned things around with sabermetrics Spring Training Slideshow For 20 years,…
New Releases
Cold Weather When Waking Self-released coldweather.bandcamp.com Sometimes when a new band reminds you of another artist, it feels kind of pointless. Why not just listen to the “real” thing? But sometimes, when done just right, it makes you grateful that someone out there is making music so reminiscent of the stuff you already love. In…
Someday is Now is the first full-career survey of the work of singular artist and activist Corita Kent
SOMEDAY IS NOW: THE ART OF CORITA KENT continues through April 19 The Andy Warhol Museum 117 Sandusky St. North Side 412-237-8300 or warhol.org “Rule 7: The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on…
Despite conviction, prison, former Pittsburgh City Councilor Twanda Carlisle wants another shot at public service
Video by Ashley Murray When life-long Homewood resident Victoria Young thinks of former Pittsburgh City Councilor Twanda Carlisle, she fondly remembers the time they spent singing in the church choir together. “Her and her mom are wonderful people,” Young says today. “She’s such a wonderful person.” It bothers Young little that her former elected representative…
A review of Leslie Anne Mcilroy’s SLAG
Slag is waste left over from steelmaking. But a scholarly epigraph in Leslie Anne Mcilroy’s newest poetry collection, SLAG (Main Street Rag, $14), suggests a more personal parallel: “The long-term adverse effects of sexual abuse in infancy are the results of memories … which in later years can be triggered by a host of cues…
Investigation into HIV-meds distribution highlights ongoing problems with health care at the Allegheny County Jail
Ask Alexandra Morgan-Kurtz about the quality of medical care at the Allegheny County Jail and there’s an uncharacteristic pause. “I’m trying to think of a polite way to say this,” says the staff attorney of the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project. “Probably the worst health care in the state I’ve seen when it comes to prisons…
Endless Lawns at The REP
ENDLESS LAWNS continues through April 12 Pittsburgh Playhouse 222 Craft Ave. Oakland $24 412-392-8000 or pittsburgh playhouse.com Endless Lawns is about the twin daughters of a dead movie star. Since his death, one sister has developed professionally paralyzing alcoholism, while the other is in recovery from same. Neither dry Torch, anchoring the show as played…
A Guide to the World’s Worst Baseball Memorabilia Auctions
Last week, Pirates centerfielder Andrew McCutchen shocked the sports world when he decided to cut his hair and auction off the 44 braids, along with an autographed baseball, for charity. Doing anything for charity is great and we love Cutch as much as the next person does. But if we’re being honest, this is kind…
Oblivion at City Theatre
OBLIVION continues through April 26 City Theatre 1300 Bingham St. South Side $15-61 412-431-2489 or citytheatre company.org You can practically smell the kale chips toasting in the next room. The married couple at the center of Carly Mensch’s 2013 play Oblivion (now at City Theatre) so aggressively, if not stereotypically, epitomizes the moneyed urban hip…
Savage Love
I think my husband is addicted to porn. I find porn in his browser history almost every single day. He says I’m the only one he wants, but I find that hard to believe knowing he watches nonstop porn before fucking me. He also parties every time he goes on a business trip. Needless to…
A Conversation with Michael Meyer
Michael Meyer’s In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China is part memoir, part historical record and part travelogue; he calls it his “kitchen-sink book.” Meyer moved to China as an English teacher with the Peace Corps in 1995. While his novel The Last Days of Old Beijing focuses on the…
Short List: April 1 – 8
SPOTLIGHT: Fri., April 3 — Art A new pop-up shop in Garfield aims to make gender-based wage inequality a little more palpable. Retail outlet 76<100, the latest recipient of a grant from the nonprofit Awesome Pittsburgh, reflects the U.S. Department of Labor statistic that the median earnings of full-time female workers in Pennsylvania are 76…
A look at Pittsburgh Pirates spring training in Bradenton, Fla.
Photos by Charlie Deitch Navigation: The Pittsburgh Pirates have one goal in 2015: to win it all Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle is key piece to team’s success X-Factors Covering Her Team: Ellwood City woman turns Pirates freebies into family keepsakes Tribune-Review’s Travis Sawchik tells how the Pirates turned things around with sabermetrics Spring Training…
Stuff We Like
Paul Kuhrman’s Defaced Baseball Cards. In the local artist’s witty recasting of old trading cards, the Seattle Mariners’ John Moses carries a pair of stone tablets, and Astros catcher Robbie Wine wields not a bat but a bottle. www.paulkuhrman.com Eastbound and Down. Chronicling the misadventures of washed-up former major-league pitcher Kenny Powers, this HBO comedy…
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter Directed by: David and Nathan Zellner Starring: Rinko Kikuchi In English, and Japanese, with subtitles Starts Fri., April 1. Hollywood We all use movies as a temporary escape from our own realities. But what if a movie offered an actual escape — the chance to transform a trapped existence into an…
424 Walnut
424 Walnut 424 Walnut St. Sewickley 412-741-7143 Hours: Mon.-Sat. 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Prices: Appetizers, soups, salads, sandwiches $4-17; entrees $17-37 Liquor: Full bar At first glance, 424 Walnut is similar to a restaurant type that abounds in the Pittsburgh market: in the words of its own Facebook page, it offers “fine Italian and American cuisine…
Get Hard
In Etan Cohen’s misguided comedy Get Hard, a rich white jerk (Will Ferrell) asks the only black guy he knows (Kevin Hart) to train him for an upcoming prison sentence. I expected plenty of lazy jokes based on racial stereotypes, and there they were. And just because the film acknowledges its own lazy stereotyping doesn’t…
Raw eggs in booze are traditional, safe and delicious
Sunday is Easter, which means stockpiles of plastic grass, chocolate bunnies and, of course, eggs. Most of them will be garishly dyed and turned into way more egg salad than anyone could possibly want. But if you happen to have a few left unboiled, you can add some serious depth to your cocktail game. I’ve…
Ballet 422
This new documentary from Jody Lee Lipes tracks the development of a new short ballet piece for the New York City Ballet. Lipes adopts the style of Frederick Wiseman, assembling the work from fly-on-the-wall footage shot throughout the creation process. (Intertitles help explain some of the ballet company’s structure and personnel.) Thus, we see 25-year-old…
Staghorn Home & Garden Café does coffee … and potting soil
Kate and Mark Morris aren’t huge coffee people. Their Staghorn Home & Garden Café sprang from the free java they dispensed while selling Kate Morris’ decorative terrariums at I Made It! Market events. They opened Staghorn in December, around the corner from the Greenfield house they share with their son, Sam, who’s nearly 2, because…
Buzzard
Marty Jackitansky (Joshua Burge) might seem like a caricature: a slovenly heavy-metal and horror-movie fan who eats disgusting junk food and barely punches the clock at his temp job at a mortgage company somewhere in the featureless Midwest. His most treasured possession is a Freddy Kruger-like videogame glove that he has retrofitted with knifes. But…
A look back at Twanda Carlisle’s misuse of public money – CP TV
Video by Ashley Murray
’71
’71. In 1971, a young British soldier named Gary Hook (Jack O’Connell) is sent to patrol the increasingly violent streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland. His first foray goes badly, when a street riot turns deadly and Hook is separated from his unit and left to survive the night in republican territory. Yann Demange’s debut feature…
Lynn Cullen Live 4/1/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. A man calls looking for a long lost friend. Will not having a dog affect Scott Walker’s candidacy? The story of the Snow Ease. Amazon Dash button is unveiled. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps…
