Campaign 2016’s Silly Season: A Weekly Tweet Round-Up Aug. 21
Campaign 2016’s Silly Season: A Weekly Tweet Round-Up Aug. 21
Listen Up! August 19
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists covered in the current music section. Grab a copy of the paper and listen while you read!
BikeFest begins Friday
Kickoff Party is at Spirit; 10 days of rides and other events follow
Allegheny County Council member calls for more transparency and increased power for council
County Council member Sue Means says there has been a lack of transparency within the council, and that council’s power has been too limited.
Concert announcements: The Internet, The Flamin’ Groovies, Cannibal Corpse, more
What concert announcement do I, personally, find most interesting today? It might be neo-soul group, The Internet, which features Syd the Kyd of Odd Future. That’s happening at Mr. Small’s Theatre on September 15 ($18-20, on sale now). Also rather compelling: The Flamin’ Groovies will be at the Hard Rock Cafe on November 15 ($14-16,…
MP3 Monday: Billy Price and Otis Clay
This week’s MP3 offering comes from noted blues artists Billy Price and Otis Clay. Stream or download “All Because of Your Love” from their great album This Time for Real, below. And be sure to check out our review of the record here. This download has expired, sorry!
Lynn Cullen Live 8/17/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Doctors essentially being paid on commission. AR3 basketball league keeps hope alive. Amazon expose from NY Times. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
New Bohemian arts venue to close
Operator of North Side space seeking others to take it over
Free “Pool pARTy” Tomorrow at Highland Park Pool
Afternoon event highlights artwork at this public pool
Lynn Cullen Live 8/14/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Lynn mulls a window-washing career, talks cybercrime, trigger warnings and cricket chips. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Lynn Cullen Live 8/13/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Charlie and Lynn discuss state politics and the downfall of Kathleen Kane. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre holds its annual free show
PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE PRESENTS BALLET UNDER THE STARS 7:30 p.m. Sun., Aug. 16. Hartwood Acres Park Middle Road Concert Area, 200 Hartwood Acres, Allison Park. Free. pbt.org For Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s 27th annual Ballet Under the Stars program at Hartwood Acres, the company will revisit works from its milestone 45th-anniversary season, as well as premiere a new…
Local author Andy Moore writes the first book about the fruit called the pawpaw
One bright afternoon in early August, Andy Moore biked up into the South Side Slopes to visit three of his favorite pawpaw trees. A front yard in the Slopes is an odd place to find pawpaws, which typically grow wild in forests. But then, the pawpaw is a singular plant: The trees bear the largest…
Tangerine
Tangerine Directed by Sean Baker Starring Mya Taylor, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Karren Karagulian Starts Fri., Aug. 14. Harris In English, and Armenian, with subtitles. “Merry Christmas Eve, bitch.” Tangerine kicks off its funny, raucous, sweet-and-sour vibe from the first line. Two transgender sex workers are sitting in a donut shop, catching up: Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki…
Short List: Aug 15-19
FREE EVENT: Sat., Aug. 15 — Outdoors Whether you spend your weekends fashioning your backyard into the grounds of Versailles or don’t know a spade from a shovel, it’s pretty hard to pass up a summer day wandering around a beautiful flower garden. On Sat., Aug. 15, the Penn State Extension, which offers the university’s…
The Gift
If you need a chill for the late summer heat, you could do worse than investigating The Gift. Written and directed by Joel Edgerton, it’s a domestic thriller, with a deliciously slow build that gradually reveals … well, see for yourself. Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robin (Rebecca Hall) move to Los Angeles, and while shopping,…
Stuff We Like
“Adjutant.” A desolate concrete stretch of Downtown’s Allegheny River riverwalk (near Point State Park) has been revivified with this new, 850-foot-long mural depicting large-scale silhouettes of common weeds. It was designed by artist Kim Beck for Riverlife’s #TBD project. “Big Vacation.” The local four-piece Run Forever released the first single from its forthcoming self-titled record…
Cop Car
A stolen cop car leads to a mess o’ trouble, as one might expect. But in Jon Watts’ indie thriller, the circumstances aren’t wholly typical. The car is taken by two 10-year-old boys (James Freedson-Jackson and Hays Wellford) after they find it seemingly abandoned in a ravine. Off they go on a joy ride across…
Carmella’s Plates and Pints
Carmella’s Plates and Pints 1908 E. Carson St., South Side 412-918-1215 Hours: Mon.-Fri. 4 p.m.-2 a.m.; Sat.-Sun. 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Prices: $5-21 Liquor: Full bar Carmella Salem has a long history pulling pints in the South Side. But when it came to opening her own watering hole, she decided to give food equal billing with…
Fantastic Four
Straight up: This re-boot of the Marvel comics actioner, featuring four young superheroes of disparate abilities, is a dud. Its flaws run from substantial (emotionally unengaging, clunkily plotted, boring) to bizarrely mesmerizing (in about a third of her scenes, star Kate Mara is wearing the worst wig). It’s primarily an origin story about how four…
The inaugural Pittsburgh VegFest sets up on the North Side
PITTSBURGH VEGFEST 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., Aug. 22. Allegheny Commons Park East, North Side. pittsburghvegfest.org While it’s true that vegans and vegetarians will find a whole lot to do — especially eat — at the inaugural Pittsburgh VegFest, they’re only part of the audience organizers hope to attract. “VegFest is all about education,” says Leila…
Ricki and the Flash
In this light dramedy penned by Diablo Cody (Juno) and directed by Jonathan Demme, a woman who chose her rock ’n’ roll career over family makes an effort to get to know her long-estranged adult children. America’s Actress, Meryl Streep — bless her heart and horrible side braids — has cheerfully donned this gaudy coat…
A short primer on mezcal
Humans have a magical touch for turning things into alcoholic beverages. We’re resourceful. We use what’s at hand and we’ll be damned if we give up. (Google “torpedo juice,” of World War II fame, to see how far we’ll go.) But of all these methods, the production of mezcal captures my imagination most tightly. For…
Shaun the Sheep
Starting as a supporting character on Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep is the latest Aardman stop-motion creation to get the feature-length treatment, here co-directed by Mark Burton and Richard Starzak. Like much of the production house’s work, Shaun’s world is a place of bucolic farms, doughy human forms and mild mischief. Cut together as…
CP Weekend Podcast – Aug. 14 – 16, 2015
This week: Picnic with Vikings, ballet under the stars or head-bang at RANT music festival.
Try the Pie’s Bean Kaloni Tupou talks about family, safe spaces and being “too nice”
TRY THE PIE with THE MANEUVERS, COTOPAXI, CHATTEL TAIL 7 p.m. Fri., Aug. 14. City Grows, 5208 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $5. All ages. 412-508-8138 or citygrowspgh.com On “Forgiveness,” Bean Kaloni Tupou — a.k.a. Try the Pie — sings, “I will be angry if I have to be / I will be angry if I want…
A proposed addition to an Oakland landmark prompts questions about the redevelopment process
There’s little debate about the considerable architectural quality and historic nature of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association on Fifth Avenue in Oakland. The regal building was completed in 1911 to designs by architect Benno Janssen with refined proportions and ornate classical columns in the style of the Venetian Renaissance. It speaks to an era when aristocratic…
Lawrenceville venues gear up for the fourth annual Rock All Night event
There was a time when Lawrenceville was an underdog. When the Round Corner Cantina’s back patio was Sufak’s clay horseshoe pit, and when Arsenal Bowling Lanes was, for a New York Times travel piece, the height of neighborhood nightclub culture. A time when Lawrenceville was known as “Lawless-ville.” This was also the time when Michael…
Poet Lynn Emanuel’s The Nerve of It intrigues even as it frustrates
Wittgenstein’s admonition “Anything your reader can do for himself, leave to him” is challenged immediately by Lynn Emanuel in the preface to her new book, The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected. Emanuel declares that “chronology is predictable” and “arbitrary,” and then explains how she has cut and pasted together a new ordering of…
The Lawrenceville Moose is reborn as Spirit, a hip bar and music venue
SPIRIT 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. 412-586-4441 or spiritpgh.com When Jeff Ryan and Tom Barr decided to leave Brooklyn — experiencing, Barr notes, the “boomerang effect back to Pittsburgh” — they knew they wanted to utilize their skills, which included making good food and gourmet cocktails, and creating musical experiences. All of which culminated in their…
Critics’ Picks, Aug. 13-19
[INDIE ROCK] + THU., AUG 13 It’s pretty common for the children of celebrities to go into the music business, and often these careers feel like the ill-advised vanity projects of entitled youngsters. Not so with Greta Klein, daughter of Kevin Klein and Phoebe Cates, and the force behind the band Frankie Cosmos. The K…
New Releases
Joe Newtz Crossing Over (Rhythm of the Earth Music) www.joenewtz.com Sure, it’s kind of lazy to reference an artist’s self-proclaimed influences in a review. But it’s worth mentioning that Beaver-based singer-songwriter Joe Newtz cites both Tom Jones and Incubus, and both influences are equally evident: Imagine, if you will, the earnest Brandon Boyd singing with…
Vacant buildings and property-owners’ rights have some Pittsburgh city councilors rethinking historic designation
During rush hour, the intersection of Green Tree Road and Woodville Avenue is a choke-point of traffic for travelers in the West End. Over the years the city has added a stop sign to reduce congestion, but for commuters who live on that side of town, the intersection remains a source of frustration. That throughway…
Grass-powered mowers: The goats of Steel City Grazers practice environmentally friendly lawn care
Video by Ashley Murray At an evening happy hour at the Carrie Furnace in Rankin, a crowd gathered around an electric fence. The colossal, now-defunct blast furnaces loomed behind them, but their attention — and cell-phone cameras — were focused on nine small- to medium-sized goats and a miniature donkey. “That’s my favorite one, with…
Pittsburgh City Paper to begin using they as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun
I am by no means an expert in the vast world of grammar rules. While I’ll never ask if you “seen the Pirates game last night,” or to “pass me them chips,” I do have my struggles. I fight a daily battle with “affect” and “effect” and semicolons, quite frankly, throw me for a loop.…
Savage Love
I’ve been reading your column for a while, and you always advise kinky people to go seek the same within the kink community. But in my experience, the kink community is very “sex right away, get to know you later”-oriented. So I have two questions. First, as someone who’s a bit of an old-fashioned romantic,…
Steel City Grazers goats graze at the Carrie Furnace
Video by Ashley Murray
Lynn Cullen Live 8/12/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Dimitri Vassilaros, a Pittsburgh journalist and talk show host joins Lynn to talk about the importance of privacy and the golden days of radio. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Lynn Cullen Live 8/11/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Lynn goes to the gun range. Republican debates and their pageantry. Cop convention in Pittsburgh. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
