Theater Group Ousts Co-Founder
The board of Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre Co. has replaced artistic director Andrew Paul, who co-founded the company in 1997. Details in Program Notes.
PICT Board Ousts Company Co-Founder
Andrew Paul replaced as artistic director of noted theater troupe
RuPaul’s Drag Race Alaska Watch
Fish-toting Alaska rolls into the final 8, on RuPaul’s Drag Race
Macy’s Event “In Conversation” Puts Artists On Pedestal
Macy’s of Downtown Pittsburgh hosts event honoring the work of iconic photographer and film director Gordon Parks. “In Conversation” hosted by writer/producer Joseph Lewis features panel of Pittsburgh-based entrepreneur Emmai Alaquiva and prestigious actors Terrell Tilford and Malinda Williams.
Bayard Rustin film screening Wednesday at Bricolage
In the waning days of Black History Month, take a few minutes out tomorrow night to check out a film and discussion about a lesser-known member of the civil rights movement: At 7 p.m.. Wed., Feb. 27, the American Friends Service Committee presents a screening of Brother Outsider, a documentary about Bayard Rustin. Rustin was…
Lamb denies knowledge of questionable police accounts, points at city finance department instead
In the ongoing drama, Police Accounts of Our Lives, City Controller Michael Lamb today denied any knowledge of potentially fraudulent or unauthorized slush accounts and theorized that the city’s finance department misrepresented funds. He also used the press conference to launch an anti-fraud hotline. “The need here is obvious,” he said at a press conference,…
Heads Up: Morning headlines for Feb. 26
In today’s copwatch news, a federal judge denied a request by the city to delay the trial of a former detective, Bradley Walker, accused of an off-duty road-rage incident. The judge, Arthur Schwab, ruled that the city was trying to delay the March 18 trial to minimize publicity stemming from former police chief Nate Harper’s…
Lynn Cullen Live 02/26/13
Video Archive Phone guest: Susan; more Oscar re-cap; Jack Nicholson’s interaction with Jennifer Lawrence; Renee Zellweger, Barbara Streisand looked embalmed; Amanda Seyfried’s head is too big for her body; Kristen Stewart looks like she’d knife you in an alley; Charlize is forever gorgeous, why is everyone so over Anne Hathaway?; can’t just watch the Oscars…
Volunteers needed for Fallingwater
Applications for volunteers are now being accepted at Fallingwater for positions at the Frank Lloyd Wright masterwork and Bear Run Nature Reserve. Volunteers are needed to interact with visitors, help with landscaping and gardening projects and assist staff with customer service. Volunteers are asked to commit to at least one day per month from May…
MP3 Monday: The Turbosonics
Stream or download “Zombie-A-Go-Go” by The Turbosonics
Heads Up: Morning headlines for Feb. 25
You know that “sequester” thing everybody’s been talking about? The latest — but surely not the last — manufactured crisis being generated in Washington D.C.? Here’s a look at how its massive cuts will affect Pennsylvania. (Tea Party alert: This came from the White House, so obviously it can’t be trusted. Like, notice how it…
Lynn Cullen Live 02/25/13
Video Archive Heading into sequestration; Oscar re-cap; Seth McFarland wasn’t that funny, the opening dragged too long, and his jokes about John Wilkes Booth & Rihanna were in bad taste; the Oscars used to just be a luncheon until the 40s; Michelle Obama presents Best Picture; awkward, not-funny presenter moments; Dame Shirley Bassey was flat;…
Stream This Ish: February 20 Issue
Stream tracks from the bands featured in this week’s City Paper.
Liven up the Oscars
Found online: Bingo cards to help relieve the tedium of the Academy Awards
Heads Up: Morning headlines for Feb. 22
In today’s WTFgate (maybe we need a name for this whole situation?) headlines … a former bodyguard of Mayor Luke Ravenstahl says the mayor knew that his bodyguards were toting around debit cards issued from a police credit union, rather than a designated city account. Moreover: The reason the guards had the cards was because…
Lynn Cullen Live 02/22/13
Video Archive Guest: Chris Potter; lots happening on the front of the Post-Gazette today; corruption in Pittsburgh government; all 3 Orie sisters convicted; Luke Ravenstahl in hot water; debit cards issued to Ravenstahl’s security, money from police credit union so as to not be tracked by reporters; new acting Chief of Police perhaps not the…
Lynn Cullen Live 02/21/13
Video Archive Guest: Tom Sokolowski; word of the day: invigilate; Nate Harper steps down & why this doesn’t look good for Ravenstahl; a look at the life of Bruce Dixon; proteges & prostitutes; academic freedom bills; Texas is against teaching critical thinking; how loving boobies turned into a federal case; people love to hate the…
Heads Up: Morning headlines for Feb. 21
Story of the day: Police chief Nate Harper is out, after Mayor Luke Ravenstahl “asks” for his resignation amid a slew of ethics questions. (You can watch the presser for yourself here.)It probably ain’t going to end here. For one thing, Harper’s replacement is Regina McDonald … who administers the secondary-employment program — which has…
Reversing previous support, Ravenstahl announces Harper’s departure as police chief
After days of standing behind Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Chief Nate Harper, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl abruptly asked for his resignation today, after spending two hours this afternoon being questioned by the FBI and U.S. District Attorney’s Office. In the course of that questioning, Ravenstahl told reporters tonight, he made the decision to ask Harper…
Films at CMU
Locally filmed Perks of a Wallflower among the films screening at CMU this week
Ravenstahl kicks off re-election campaign
Ravenstahl kicks off re-election run
An Organizer’s Storytelling Hour
The Big Idea Book Store will host a “Living Our Lives — An Organizer’s Storytelling Hour” tonight. Local organizers slated to speak are: Devon Cohen, with Shadbush Collective and HRC: Fed Up; Leah Samuel, a peace and justice journalist; Etta Cetera, prison and anti-racism activist; and Margo Nikitas, an attorney for the United Electrical, Radio…
Heads Up: Morning headlines for Feb. 20
This just in: Dr. Bruce Dixon, who headed the county Health Department until being sacked by County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, died early this morning. Early reports are he died from natural causes. In Harrisburg, budget hearings are underway, and Democrats seem resolved to make it tough sledding for Gov. Tom Corbett’s budget proposals. Something about…
Boxheart’s artist-of-the-year show is an elegant exhibit by Kuzana Ogg.
KUZANA OGG: URBANE continues through March 2. Boxheart Gallery 4523 Liberty Ave. Bloomfield. 412-687-8858 or boxheartgallery.com Boxheart Gallery celebrates its 12th annual Artist of the Year with an alluring show by Kuzana Ogg. The title, Kuzana Ogg: Urbane, refers to the show’s refined and elegant manner, and alludes to its depiction of urban structures. The…
Bad Check: Some restaurant owners get poor reviews when it comes to tip pooling
Jesse Seager, the owner of Point Brugge Cafe in Highland Park, learned a hard lesson last year when he was ordered by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division to pay $37,719 in back wages to 39 of his employees. He had been requiring his servers — who can clear $250 a night…
Pitt Rep’s Zanna, Don’t!
ZANNA, DON’T! continues through March 3. Henry Heymann Theatre Stephen Foster Memorial 4200 Fifth Ave. Oakland. $12-25. 412-624-7529 or play.pitt.edu You’d have to be dead not to get at least some enjoyment out of the University of Pittsburgh Rep’s production of Zanna, Don’t! This excessively perky off-Broadway musical from 2002, with music by Tim Acito…
A City of Two Tales
Every other week, it seems, a new report gets released showing an economic boom for the Pittsburgh region. But some people are enjoying it more than others — and the winners and losers may not be who you think. Tea Party rhetoric notwithstanding, for example, government employees have been the top job-losers … and despite…
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) at Unseam’d Shakespeare
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) continues through March 2. Unseam’d Shakespeare Co. at the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater 937 Liberty Ave. Downtown. $18-25. unseamd.com The Unseam’d Shakespeare Co. celebrates its 20th anniversary of distinctive deconstructions of the Bard with something it usually doesn’t do: a pretty straightforward rendition of somebody else’s Avonian interpretation. The…
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Police Bureaus
There’s been a lot of good economic news for Pittsburgh recently. But perhaps the most hopeful sign for our city is that some of our most innovative business ideas are coming from … city government. The Bureau of Police especially is demonstrating an entrepreneurial spirit that could be the envy of any CMU start-up. The…
Comedian Paul Poundstone on textbooks, “loud and yelly” humor, and road rage.
PAULA POUNDSTONE 7 p.m. Fri., Feb. 22. Carnegie Library Music Hall 510 E. 10th Ave. Munhall. $29.50-37. 412-368-5225 Even if one of Paula Poundstone’s standup-comedy performances starts off slowly, she has something in her favor: a theater filled with people ready to laugh. “Nothing worse than a group of people who came out for a…
Savage Love
I hosted a live taping of the Savage Lovecast on Valentine’s Day, and it went great — thanks to all who came (especially to the five boys who left with butt plugs in their butts) — but I had a drink or five afterward, and I’m so fucking hungover right now that I shouldn’t be…
A new dance work explores “post-blackness” and other aspects of identity
STAYCEE PEARL DANCE PROJECT performs “…on being …” 8 p.m. Fri., Feb. 22, and 8 p.m. Sat., Feb. 23. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater 5941 Penn Ave. East Liberty. $15-35. 412-363-3000 or kelly-strayhorn.org What does it mean to be black? For local choreographer Staycee Pearl, that question hit home when her dance works were questioned by others in…
My Hippie Teachers Are Dying or Already Dead
The Pennsylvania escapees, hours away from freedom, are caught in a Houston motel room with the phone numbers of one whore, a Pizza Hut, and Beer World by their beds. Only hours away from Mexico where Kerouac fucked and drank — You go to Mexico if you don’t want to be found. You go to…
The Last Gladiators
The Last Gladiators Directed by: Alex Gibney Starts: Fri., Feb. 22. Manor. “I have small hands,” says Chris “Knuckles” Nilan, professional hockey brawler. He shows them to the camera, pointing out where they’ve been broken, cut, bitten. Today, his scarred hands are just one part of Nilan’s damaged life. His story — the rise and…
Short List: February 20 – 26
Spotlight: Thu., Feb. 21 — Stage After years of busting small-time hoods, he’s no millionaire playboy, and rescuing damsels in distress hasn’t made this crime-fighter less lonely. It’s a job, and it keeps Pittsburgh Batman in beer and hoagies. Pittsburgh might take his gruff, old-school service for granted … until a criminal mastermind unleashes a…
Safe Haven
Before the dawn of digital reproduction, there was a phenomenon in which the more you copied and re-copied something, the paler and fuzzier it became. Such is Safe Haven, the latest film adapted from a Nicholas Sparks novel. Sparks’ biggest book-to-screen hit, The Notebook (2004), has come and gone, and all we’re left with is…
Café Delhi
Café Delhi 205 Mary St. Carnegie 412-278-5058 Hours: Tue.-Sun. 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Prices: $3-8 Liquor: BYOB Everyone knows Pittsburgh once thrived as a city of immigrants. This led to rich ethnic cultures in its neighborhoods and surrounding towns — or actually, successive waves of cultures. Bloomfield was German before it was Italian, and former-synagogues-turned-churches tell…
One Life
This BBC-produced nature doc from Michael Gunton and Martha Holmes is one of those vivid, gorgeously filmed spectacles that creates the impression that our planet is a pristine playground, populated by amusing and resourceful creatures. Because while the film name-checks us — by including man in its organizing narrative about how all living things must…
Challenging Times
Those who can cook often pride themselves on being able to whip up delicious dishes using whatever items they have left in the pantry. But, as many learned this past weekend, it’s one thing to have a cook’s “empty” pantry and another to rely only on the donations found in the region’s food pantries. …
Lord Finesse’s suit against Mac Miller raises questions about the future of the hip-hop mixtape
It was surprising, if not unprecedented, when rapper and producer Lord Finesse sued Mac Miller last year over a sample on Miller’s 2010 K.I.D.S. mixtape. Conventional wisdom once said that mixtapes were generally safe from copyright suits, as they’re distributed for free and don’t have the profile of larger releases. But in recent years, more and…
Copper Kettle lets you try your hand at brewing your own craft beer
“You don’t have to worry about clean-up. You just get to do all the fun stuff,” Greg Hough tells a patron who’s stirring a steaming kettle of malty wort at the Copper Kettle Brewing Company. Rick Ferguson, of North Carolina, is here with his old New Kensington High School classmates Bruce Pipman, Art McAuley and…
Dream Death reawakens to play Winter’s Wake
WINTER’S WAKE 2013: DRONES FOR QUEENS, BROWN ANGEL, NOMAD QUEEN, DENDRITIC ARBOR. 9 p.m. Thu., Feb. 21. Gooski’s 3117 Brereton St. Polish Hill. $5. VEKTOR, BLACK ANVIL, GNAW, VIT, LIQUIFIED GUTS, METH QUARRY. 7 p.m. Fri., Feb, 22. 6119. 6119 Penn Ave East Liberty. $12. DREAM DEATH, EVOKEN, THE GATES OF SLUMBER, OCCULTATION, VATTNET VISKAR,…
The Thin Man Sandwich Shop brings upscale deli fare to The Strip
Dan and Sherri Leiphart finally found their spot. Their Thin Man Sandwich Shop opened Feb. 5 at the corner of 21st and Smallman streets. After two years of looking, they felt that the heart of the Strip District’s gastronomic bazaar was right for combining a fine-dining aesthetic with a lunch-counter atmosphere. The long, narrow space…
Lynn Cullen Live 02/20/13
Video Archive Guest: Chris Potter; Obit: Dr. Bruce Dixon, former director of the Health Dept.; money made out to the city being deposited at the Police Dept. credit union; Natalia Rudiak kicked off her campaign; inquiry about insider trading before the Heinz deal, made national news a week before it made local news; NY Daily…
Ex Cops makes dream-pop concise on first full-length
EX COPS with WILLIAM FORREST, I AM A SEA CREATURE. 6:30 p.m. Sat., Feb. 23. Shadow Lounge 5972 Baum Blvd. East Liberty. $10. 18 and over. 412-363-8277 or shadowlounge.net Last year, the legendary New York City record store Other Music launched a new label in partnership with Fat Possum, and the first act they signed…
Devin Miles prepares to head south for SXSW
“Skill-honing”: that’s how 21-year-old hip-hop artist Devin Miles describes his years as a student at Central Catholic High School, when he and schoolmates Roscoe WIKI and Christo would get together to work on music. They took turns recording their own songs and engineering for one another. Miles’ drive and experience as a self-taught engineer led…
Critics’ Picks: February 20 – 26
[POP] + THU., FEB. 21 The pop sensibility Jenny Dalton possesses is underlain by something more sinister: The Minneapolis piano-pop songwriter likes to play with that element of minor-key suspense and foreboding. Think a slightly-less-weird Kate Bush, or Tori Amos — but with a voice that sounds a little more like Jewel. Her new Blood…
Out of Reach: Will amendment to state constitution help keep nonprofits’ money out of taxpayers’ hands?
Thad Turner has no illusions about what will happen to the Warren County YMCA if the nonprofit organization is told to start paying more than $170,000 in property taxes. “It will destroy us,” says Turner, the group’s executive director. “We’d be able to struggle along for awhile, but we don’t have the ability to make…
Seven Myths About Arts Funding
When they’re not busy trying to keep the lights on or mounting their next show, arts folk sometimes chuckle over how the public thinks the arts are funded. We’re talking, obviously, about nonprofit arts — not Avatar, The Book of Mormon and Kenny Chesney, but museums, galleries, literary series, and music, theater and dance troupes.…
Will Work for Change: Activists say their work might not be lucrative, but it’s fulfilling
Someone has been shouting “get a job!” at Vincent Eirene since he was a little boy. The thing is, he does have a job. Eirene is a lifelong activist, plying his trade at protests, speeches and actions, and running a house for the homeless supported from his own pocket and community donations. But, like many…
MP3 Monday: Grisly Amputation & Lycosa
Stream or download tracks from Grisly Amputation and Lycosa.
MP3 Monday: White Like Fire
Download “Lies” by White Like Fire
