Campaign 2016’s Silly Season: A Weekly Tweet Round-Up Aug. 14
Campaign 2016’s Silly Season: A Weekly Tweet Round-Up Aug. 14
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Listen Up! August 12
Need some catchy tunes to get you through this Wednesday? Same here! Check out our weekly Spotify playlist below, which features songs by bands and artists highlighted in our current issue.
Nothing Holds
It’s been a wet, green June, the sky a windswept scudding grey, so filtered dim, so different from the dry, bright Australian summers with piled-up heat and blinding glare I dreamed and sweated through. Sometimes the pavements on the sloping street outside become surges of water — little rivers disappearing downhill — and waterlogged trees…
Concert announcements: Mac Miller, Pentagram, Have Mercy
Just a smattering of concert announcements today, so lets just get right to it. Mac Miller will be with Choo Jackson and The Come-Up at Stage AE on September 20 ($29.50-35, on sale now ). It might be one of the last outdoor shows of the season, which could be reason enough to go. Local…
Extended Q&A: Eleanor Friedberger talks about music, art and the Dormont pool
Eleanor Friedberger’s been taking it easy — at least easier than her wildly prolific run with The Fiery Furnaces, which produced nine albums in six years. After last year’s appearance at Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films, Friedberger prepped her third record, which she finished in May. It’s been two years since 2013’s great Personal…
CP Weekend Podcast – Aug. 7 – 9, 2015
This week: Support your local super humans at the Pittsburgh Triathlon and remember that Girls Rock!
On the Record with Eleanor Friedberger
Eleanor Friedberger 7 p.m. Fri., Aug. 7. The Frick Art and Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze. $5 suggested donation. 412-371-0600 or thefrickpittsburgh.org Eleanor Friedberger’s been taking it easy — at least easier than her wildly prolific run with The Fiery Furnaces. She comes to town this weekend with new music for a First…
Infinitely Polar Bear
Capturing the complexity of mental illness on screen is no easy feat, particularly when one widens the lens to include the emotional, social and even economic impact that can reverberate through a family. But in Infinitely Polar Bear, writer-director Maya Forbes has a head start: Her dramedy is adapted from her own life, a 1970s…
Critics’ Picks, August 6-9
[INDIE ROCK] + THU., AUG. 6 It was a long time coming, but Joe D’Agostino finally arrived at LOSE, the brilliantly bracing third album from Cymbals Eat Guitars. His best friend, Ben High, died just before the band released its first LP seven years ago, and undertones of that loss have been present before. But…
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Brett Morgen’s docu-essay about Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is part rags-to-riches story of a rock star; part extra-narrative, arty meditation on the nature of creativity and pain; and part argument that Cobain was a doomed figure from the start. Morgen secured the cooperation of Cobain’s family (his mother, widow Courtney Love and their daughter, Frances…
In the wake of inmate deaths, Allegheny County will begin overseeing jail health care next month. So why are some advocates still feeling queasy?
When two Allegheny County Jail inmates died on the same day this past May, it was the tipping point of the relationship between county officials and Corizon Health, the for-profit company that provided health care for inmates. The next day, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald announced he would not renew the company’s contract that was…
New optical center Chromos opens up in Lawrenceville with a charitable focus
Glasses displays on top of vintage bicycles, walls adorned with a rotating selection of local art, and a courtyard garden that will eventually have a patio to host food trucks and community events. Chromos Eyewear, in Lawrenceville, is an optical center catering to a younger, hipper crowd. A crowd that not only wants stylish eyewear,…
Liven up the Republican primary debate with this set of six unique bingo cards
The first televised Republican primary debate, featuring only 10 of the 16 GOP candidates vying for the presidential nomination, is Thu., Aug. 6, in Cleveland. (Attendees will be chosen based on how well they are polling, with the top 10 to be announced late Tue., Aug. 4.) With so many candidates, and so much intra-party…
Short List: August 6 – 13
SPOTLIGHT: Thu., Aug., 13 — Dance If the New Hazlett Theater’s Community Supported Art program lets subscribers sample new artists and works, it also gives artists a chance to branch out. For instance, the CSA launches its third season with The Reduction, a dance work by David Bernabo, until recently known primarily for his work…
Stuff We Like
Mellon Square Park. The renovations and scenery make this park on top of a parking garage an oasis for Downtown workers looking to escape the cubicle. Pimm’s No. 1 Cup. You can find this English-made liqueur in many local spirits shops. Mix with lemon-lime soda and garnish with tons of fruit, mint and cucumbers for…
Thai Touch Kitchen
Thai Touch Kitchen 665 Washington Road, Mount Lebanon. 412-892-9517 Hours: Mon.-Thu. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun. noon-9 p.m. Prices: $5-14 Liquor: BYOB The restaurant business is notoriously volatile. Some combination of the best and luckiest establishments gain a following and stay open. But even so, the restaurant you dine in tonight may…
Dinner Lab’s unique pop-up dining experiences prove popular in Pittsburgh
DINNER LAB For more information on membership, events and private catering, visit dinnerlab.com. Do you hear ringing? That’s the dinner bell, and you’ll want to report quickly. Dinner Lab, which offers unique pop-up dining experiences, has arrived in town. Begun three years ago in New Orleans, Dinner Lab has expanded to 31 cities. Diners purchase…
Wigle series unites craft beer and spirits
A few weeks ago, the folks at Wigle Whiskey tapped a barrel with a complicated past. Its formative years were spent aging Kentucky bourbon, lending color and flavor to sweet corn whiskey. The barrel then worked its way up the Ohio River and landed at Pittsburgh’s East End Brewing, where owner Scott Smith filled it…
From social critique to urban landscapes, solo shows impress at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
8 SOLO SHOWS continues through Aug. 9. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside. 412-361-0873 or center.pfca.org Of the eight solo shows now at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, most by regional artists, none initially appealed to me less than Derek Reese’s “Calamity.” Glance, and this room-sized installation seems a heedless jumble of…
I Am Chris Farley
This new documentary from Brent Hodge and Derik Murray looks at the life and career of comedian Farley, who rose to fame on Saturday Night Live before dying of a drug overdose in 1997. It’s a warm look that reminds one of a well-produced reel one might see at a memorial service, heavy on the…
Lori Jakiela’s latest memoir explores adoption and family
With adoptions totaling 120,000 or more yearly in the U.S., it’s worth considering the many lives touched. And with booksellers listing thousands of adoption titles, it’s long been an emotional subject ripe for literary exploration. To that list, Trafford native Lori Jakiela adds some local flavor with her latest memoir, Belief Is Its Own Kind…
Irrational Man
I’m old enough to remember when “catching the new Woody Allen” helped define the movie-goer as a certain frisky, witty, urbane intellectual, as sure as subscribing to The New Yorker and keeping the fridge stocked with Perrier. These days, Allen reliably churns out films, but they mostly provide opportunities to wonder why. This latest is…
Outside Mullingar at Little Lake
OUTSIDE MULLINGAR continues through Sat., Aug. 15. Little Lake Theatre, 500 Lakeside Drive, Canonsburg. $12-20. 724-745-6300 or littlelake.org An Irish love story, Outside Mullingar manages a strange feat: to be traditional and offbeat in equal measure. Little Lake Theatre, which seems made for this kind of intimate four-person show, doesn’t shy away from unusual programming,…
After building a career on touring and mixtapes, Taylor Gang rapper Chevy Woods releases his first official EP
CHEVY WOODS For more information or to buy The 48 Hunnid Project, visit chevywoodsmusic.com. Growing up in Hazelwood, Chevy Woods learned first-hand how to make money in unconventional ways. This was long before his music took him around the world, but the mentality stuck with him, and became integral to his artistic approach. For most…
It Could Be Any One of Us at Apple Hill
It Could Be Any One of Us continues through Sun., Aug. 8. Apple Hill Playhouse, 275 Manor Road, Delmont. $15-40. 724-468-5050 or applehillplayhouse.org Let’s open with a big salute to Rick Dutrow, Terri Bowser, Matt Henderson, Angie Lavelle, Craig Soich and Pam Lee. I defy anyone to find a harder-working cast than these six as…
Bard College-bred Palberta has a gift for being fun, engaging and in-your-face
PALBERTA with GOD’S WISDOM, SNOW CAPS, RADON CHONG, more 8:30 p.m. Sun., Aug. 9. Spirit, 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. $5. 412-586-4441 or spiritpgh.com Palberta is a band characterized by movement. The songs bounce here and there, with unpredictable melodies that might burst out of the confines of sheet music. The members of the upstate New…
Stewart Huff brings his “philosophical comedy” to Hambone’s
STEWART HUFF 8 p.m. Sat., Aug. 8. Hambone’s, 4207 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $10. 412-681-4318 or purplespass.com/stewarthuffpittsburgh Comedian Stewart Huff, performing Saturday at Hambone’s in Lawrenceville, is likely the only performer out there with an entire bit on the Russian modernist composer Igor Stravinsky. Stewart’s joke tells the story of the (literally) riotous reaction to the…
Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild Jazz transforms a downtown bus shelter into “Pittsburgh’s Smallest Jazz Club”
Downtown commuters may have noticed an upgrade at their bus stop last month. The otherwise typical shelter at Liberty and Strawberry Way was recently rigged with speakers and christened “Pittsburgh’s Smallest Jazz Club” by Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild Jazz, serenading all within earshot with upbeat, big-band jazz. What they might not know is that the faces…
Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation
Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie Starring: Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation hits the ground running. For real, as IMF super-agent and defender of the free world Ethan Hunt runs and jumps onto the wing of a moving jet. As you do when you are supremely…
Lynn Cullen Live 8/5/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Remembering Elsie Hillman, investigating “sadder but wiser,” and a talk with Khalid Raheem, organizer of the National Mobilization Against Police Brutality & Fraternal Order of Police March on August 9. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android…
Savage Love
Does a person who acts loving only when high on weed really love you? My live-in boyfriend of three years acts sweet, loving and caring when he’s high, but when the weed runs out, he’s mean, angry, hurtful and horrible to be around. I’ve asked him when he’s stoned to still act like a loving…
