Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon at on Saturday at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art
An open event to fix Wikipedia’s inherent gender bias
Pittsburgh City Councilor Deb Gross calls for water filters to protect local children from lead exposure
Amidst lead concerns, Pittsburgh City Councilor Deb Gross calls for water filters to protect local children.
Pittsburgh South Hills constituents voice opposition to state Sen. Guy Reschenthaler’s legislation
The young state senator has a record of far-right stances, and a large group of his constituents are upset about it.
Artists rallying to resist Trump
On Feb. 21, members of Pittsburgh’s Squonk Opera joined the weekly Tuesdays with Toomey protest, at Station Square, and they didn’t come empty-handed. They brought, in fact, an extra set of oversized, two-dimensional hands to accompany an oversized photo of Pat Toomey’s head — all part of a skit outside the U.S. senator’s Pittsburgh office…
MP3 Monday: wwoman
This week’s track is sexy synth R&B from wwoman.
Scenes from Friday’s ‘RISE UP for Trans Equality!’ protest and rally in Downtown Pittsburgh
Pittsburghers protest Donald Trump’s recent action against the protection of trans rights
Pittsburghers call on PWSA to improve water quality and service
At today’s PWSA board meeting new coalition Our Water Campaign called for better water quality.
Review: Gregory Porter at August Wilson Center
A review of Gregory Porter’s performance at August Wilson Center this week.
Sierra Club steps up the search for ‘missing’ Sen. Pat Toomey with downtown protest
What do you do when you can’t get your United States Senator to answer your calls, your questions or hold a town-hall meeting? If you’re the Sierra Club you project the largest missing person flier ever on a downtown building. Our Renee Rosensteel was on the scene last night and filed this video report:
Listen Up! Feb. 22
Every Wednesday (in this case, a Friday), we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists mentioned in the current music section. Listen in the bathtub while reading the music stories in this week’s paper for a fully immersive experience. This week’s playlist has lots of “punk rock” in it, so be careful who you…
Pittsburgh police release security camera video but not officer body-camera footage in arrest of Steelers coach Joey Porter
After releasing security camera footage from a January incident involving Steelers coach Joey Porter, police say they won’t release body camera footage taken at the scene.
Dancing With the Green Fairy: Part One
Since the 1700s, absinthe, the emerald-colored herbal spirit, has captured the collective imagination. From its beginnings as a medicine to the height of its popularity among artists like Vincent Van Gogh and Mary Shelley, its true effects and mysterious origins have been shrouded in a veil of misunderstanding. Cecil Usher, bar manager at Butcher and…
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh hosts “A Celebration of Seeds” on Saturday
Library’s annual Seed and Plant Swap features seed stories, conversations with gardening experts, hands-on activities for children and teens, and a selection of free seeds and plants
Hibiki Suntory Japanese Harmony Blended Whisky
Hibiki Suntory is the perfect whiskey for bourbon enthusiasts who would like to start drinking something a bit more bracing on the whiskey spectrum. The light golden color is appealing to the eyes and the smooth, slightly woody notes are pleasing to the tongue. Recommended by Celine Roberts Hibiki Suntory Japanese Harmony Blended Whisky is…
Southern Tier’s Pittsburgh brewpub wows with fresh beer and friendly service
Southern Tier Brewing Company 316 North Shore Drive, North Side. 412-301-2337 or stbcbeer.com Now that football season is over, it’s time to count down to opening day at PNC Park. And if you plan on catching a game this season, but the idea of paying nine bucks for an I.C. Light doesn’t sit well, you’re…
The Red Turtle
A castaway washes up on the shore of a small tropical island in Michael Dudok de Wit’s lyrical and dialogue-free animated feature. The man explores the island; he is alone but for curious sand crabs, but finds fruit and water. He makes several attempts to leave on bamboo rafts, but is thwarted just offshore by…
Simple Red Sauce
I remember being vaguely disappointed after inviting him over for dinner. It was early in our relationship, and Josh is a champion of memorable dates; he’d already taken me to Kennywood, a bar full of taxidermied polar bears, and for my first taste of Gus & YiaYia’s ice balls. Feelings of inadequacy weren’t helped by…
Savage Love
I am a straight married man. My wife and I have a 4-year-old and a 3-month-old. We’ve just started having intercourse again. For Valentine’s Day, we spent the night in a B&B while grandma watched the kids. We had edibles, drank sparkling wine and then fucked. It was amazing. After we came and while we…
Pittsburgh City Paper Booze Battles: Blue Dust vs. Round Corner Cantina
Each week, we order the same cocktail at two different bars for a friendly head-to-head battle. Go to the bars, taste both drinks and tell us what you like about each by tagging @pghcitypaper on Twitter or Instagram and using #CPBoozeBattles. If you want to be a part of Booze Battles, send an email to…
Meet an Iranian-American doctor dedicated to serving rural Pennsylvanians
Providing health care in rural Pennsylvania isn’t easy. Over the years, primary-care doctors have been leaving rural towns due to a shrinking patient base and greener pastures at growing medical centers in cities like Pittsburgh. This rural health-care drain has also occurred as health problems increase in rural counties, thanks to the growing opioid epidemic. …
Jeff Rosenstock is just a normal guy making anti-capitalist power pop
THE MENZINGERS, JEFF ROSENSTOCK, ROZWELL KID 8 p.m. Tue., Feb. 28. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $19. All ages. 412-821-4447 or mrsmalls.com Jeff Rosenstock is an anomaly. In the mid-2000s, long before Bandcamp and streaming services became standard, Rosenstock was heading up a revolutionary, amorphous punk collective called Bomb the Music Industry! (BTMI!). He sent free…
Pittsburgh’s Steel City FC is keeping players on the pitch
Steel City FC Tryouts 8-10 p.m. Fri., March 10 The Neighborhood Academy, 709 N. Aiken Ave., East Liberty Shin guards, soccer cleats or indoor soccer shoes required. steelcityfc.com For many athletes, there aren’t always options to continue competitive play after college graduation. For women seeking soccer leagues in Pittsburgh, recreational games might not provide the…
Know Your Rights
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The Great Wall
The Great Wall Directed by Zhang Yimou In English, and Mandarin, with subtitles In 3-D in select theaters The big news: This film isn’t nearly as bad as the trailer makes it look. Zhang Yimou’s actioner The Great Wall turns out to be pretty entertaining (in a basic man-vs.-monster fashion), beautiful to look at and…
Community events scheduled in advance of opera honoring Pittsburgh Negro League legend Josh Gibson
Typically when you think about ways to honor the memory of a historical figure, the first that comes to mind is a feature film. There have been movies about great players like Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Lou Gherig, Mickey mantle and Roger Maris. But there’s never been a feature film about Pittsburgh’s own Josh Gibson.…
Toni Erdmann
German director Maren Ade explores the frayed relationship between an older dad and his adult daughter in the dramedy Toni Erdmann. Ines (Sandra Huller) works in Bucharest as a business consultant, hoping to secure a deal with a Romanian oil company. Her father, Winfried (Peter Simonischek), at loose ends, decides to visit her. She grudgingly…
Eighteen Café, in Squirrel Hill, offers a unique menu of memorable kosher food
Eighteen Café 2028 Murray Ave., Squirrel Hill. 412-421-3033 Hours: Sun., Mon., Wed. lunch 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Tue. and Thu. lunch 11 a.m.-3 p.m., dinner 5-9 p.m.; Sat. 8:30 p.m.-midnight Prices: $7-20 Liquor: Kosher wine bar In some ways, Squirrel Hill’s identity as a Jewish neighborhood seems to be fading, at least along restaurant-lined Forbes and…
Wysocki: Pittsburgh needs to step up its college-basketball game
As the 2016-17 college-basketball season heads toward its conference tournaments, the regular-season report cards are in. And looking at the scene as a whole, one thing is clear — Pittsburgh needs to step up its college-basketball game. Carlow, Robert Morris, Point Park and Duquesne all have losing seasons. Pitt is around .500, but its final…
CSA Day is a reminder about the importance of local agriculture
Community-supported agriculture (CSA) has taken off in the past decade. Subscription services for weekly, in-season bundles of fresh produce mean healthy, locally grown food for customers and, for farmers, much-needed winter revenue. The Pittsburgh area alone has a couple dozen CSAs. But in selling what Simon Huntley calls “food people can feel good about,” CSAs…
Angela Washko and Hacking/Modding/Remixing as Feminist Protest
HACKING/MODDING/REMIXING AS FEMINIST PROTEST continues through Sun., Feb. 26. Miller Gallery, CMU campus, Oakland. 412-268-3618 or millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu Angela Washko is your next role model. The assistant professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University is devoted to introducing women’s voices into the male-monopolized worlds of video games, the media and the tech industry. “Women are taught…
Things I Left Behind Me
ice cream nickels fumbled down worn slats wooden stoop. wild strawberries dredged in sugared milk silver airplane spoon. parental porch light pebbled white glass devastated skin. double window opening to our private sunbathing roof. sunset over the Delaware 13th floor studio fired brick city. carved marble mantel cold-cream rosettes logs crackling. closet too narrow hiding…
Poet Jim Daniels continues fruitfully mining memories of his youth in a blue-collar town
JIM DANIELS with novelist Sharon Dilworth. 7 p.m. Wed., March 1. Cohon University Center, CMU campus, Oakland. Free. cmu.edu/dietrich/news In his six-part poem “Welcome to Warren,” poet Jim Daniels writes of his suburban Detroit hometown, saying, “The Land of Big Ideas / exists in a different tax bracket. / Big ideas sound like whining to us.”…
Annual showcase highlights choreography by Point Park dance faculty
CONSERVATORY DANCE COMPANY AT POINT PARK UNIVERSITY Thu., Feb. 23-Sun., Feb. 26. George Rowland White Performance Studio, 201 Wood St., Downtown. $10-20. 412-392-8000 or pittsburghplayhouse.org Point Park University’s dance department has long had a reputation for turning out talented dancers. So when looking at the program, it’s easy to focus on its distinguished performing alumni…
A Carnegie exhibit asks visitors to contribute interpretations of artworks
THE STORIES YOU TELL continues through March 26. Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. 412-622-3131 or cmoa.org The Stories You Tell, a relatively small exhibit in the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Forum Gallery, would be easy to glance through or even walk past. The museum has so much to offer that it would…
Critics’ Picks, Feb. 23-Mar. 1
[GARAGE ROCK] + THU., FEB. 23 There’s hardly a shortage of fuzzy, retro garage rock out there. But France’s Weird Omen manages to stand out with a healthy dose of punk primitivism, an almost avant-garde noisiness and a knack for clever instrumental touches (check out “Transcontinental” and “Saturday Nights Are Gone,” from the record Breakfast…
Bitter Harvest
George Mendeluk’s film is an old-fashioned melodrama set amid a tumultuous historical time, the Holodomor, in 1930s Ukraine. Under Stalin’s direction, the region is being forcefully brought into the Soviet fold. Family farms are collectivized, religion is being stamped out (though valuable icons are happily seized) and most of the local produce is confiscated. Resistance…
Genesis tribute band The Musical Box knows what it likes
THE MUSICAL BOX 8 p.m. Fri., March 3. Palace Theatre, 21 W. Otterman St., Greensburg. $45-70. 724-836-8000 or thepalacetheatre.org Tribute bands are all the rage these days; the trend started in the late 1970s with the traveling Beatlemania troupe. Today, nearly every classic act of the rock era has at least one modern-day performer reproducing…
Fist Fight
The education system is something of a metaphorical punching bag these days, and there is the potential to mine some sharp comedy out of its oft-beleaguered state. Say, a couple of teachers in a failing, underfunded public school grow so fearful of losing their jobs that each would resort to any crazy scheme to not…
Strangeways unites art scenes through unpredictable dance parties
Strangeways Dance Night 10 p.m. Fri., Feb. 24. Spirit, 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. $5. facebook.com/strangewaysusa/ Strangeways is a dance night that’s hard to pin down. Every fourth Friday of the month, it showcases music from the 1960s through today with a focus on indie, psych, post-punk and Brit pop, but there are always surprises in…
Short List: Feb. 22-Mar. 1
SPOTLIGHT: Wed., March 1 – Music The singular singer-songwriter Baby Dee is coming through town on her nine-city North American tour. While it’s far from her first visit to Pittsburgh, it is her first with what she calls her “family band,” consisting of herself on accordion and nephew Blake Norris on guitar. “It’s kinda nice…
New Releases
Cledus and the Cadillacs One Man Wrecking Crew (self-produced) https://cledusandthecadillacs.bandcamp.com/releases In a press release accompanying One Man Wrecking Crew, the debut release from local country band Cledus & The Cadillacs, the band’s lead singer cautions the listener that this is not a mainstream-country outfit. Rather, the group has a “decidedly Southwestern Pennsylvania rock-and-roll feel.” Now…
Most Listable City
In November of last year, Pittsburgh was profiled in a Vogue article titled “5 Industrial Cities Making America’s Rust Belt Shine Again.” In the piece, author Michaela Trimble explained this new shine with a slew of familiar talking points: mentions of Google, Andy Warhol, Ace Hotel, Uber and Conflict Kitchen; the transition from steel town…
Edward Eberle Retrospective at Contemporary Craft
EDWARD EBERLE RETROSPECTIVE continues through March 11. Contemporary Craft, 2100 Smallman St., Strip District. 412-261-7003 or contemporarycraft.org Edward Eberle Retrospective, at Contemporary Craft, is one of the more beautiful solo exhibits I’ve seen in recent years. Eberle is a nationally recognized, Pittsburgh-based ceramacist best known for his architecturally shaped works in porcelain, embellished with images…
