MP3 Monday: Choo Jackson
This week’s MP3 Monday is the opening track from Choo Jackson’s latest, Choo, Where U Goin’? If you don’t know Choo, “Camo” is a good introduction to his introspective, sardonic lyricism. This album is a beast. Start with streaming/downloading “Camo” right here, then check out his earlier output on his Soundcloud and keep an eye…
Pittsburgh officials investigating officer-involved shooting of homeowner who was trying to fend off robber in Larimer
Community activist Brandi Fisher responds to the death of 57-year-old Christopher Thompkins who was shot and killed by Pittsburgh police responding to a burglary in his home
“My Feminism Will Be Intersectional Or It Will Be Bullshit”: a take-away from the Women’s March on Washington
Pittsburgh City Paper staff writer Celine Robert’s take on the Women’s March on Washington
Report reveals Trump’s infrastructure priorities; two Pittsburgh-area projects make list
Multiple Pittsburgh-area locks and dams are eyed for upgrades by President Donald Trump.
Uber donates $10,000 to the Women’s Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh
Uber announced they were donating $10,000 to the local shelter to offset transportation costs for victims of domestic violence.
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto details how he will deal with President Trump’s administration
He says Pittsburgh will stand up to protect immigrants and vows to continue community-policing policy.
One last look: A slideshow of the Pittsburgh Steelers AFC Championship loss to the New England Patriots
A slideshow of the AFC Championship game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England patriots.
Playwright and actor on his play about race, opening Friday at Pittsburgh’s August Wilson Center
Solo show by internationally known performer gets two showing
JanuScary, at The Hollywood, offers five new horror films
If you’d like to double down on the gloom and doom of the season, the Hollywood Theater, in Dormont, is offering JanuScary, a mini-festival of five new horror films. Nicola Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother (7 p.m. Fri., Jan. 27, and 7 p.m. Mon., Jan. 30) is a stylish black-and-white film that balances slow,…
Animal Rescue League moves animals to new shelter during Moving of the Animals Parade
The Animal Rescue League held a parade to move its animals from their old location in Larimer to their new location in Homewood.
Two local female-led marches filled Pittsburgh streets this weekend
Check out our slideshows from The Women’s March on Pittsburgh Downtown and the Our Feminism Must Be Intersectional rally and march in East Liberty.
Two world-renowned sumo wrestlers put on exhibit at Stage AE for charity
Two of the world’s most prominent sumo wrestlers put on a show at Stage AE on Saturday night.
MP3 Monday: DK Anderson’s Cypher
This week’s MP3 Monday is a slow-burning jazz track from DK Anderson’s Cypher. “Double Vision” is a good intro to the moody, abstract and unrushed style of his latest release, 8th Window, recorded at Mr. Smalls. It’s a fantastic record, mixing challenging originals with covers including Jimi Hendrix and the Mario Bros. theme. No joke. Stream…
Savage Love
About a year ago, I was pretending to read my boyfriend’s mind and jokingly said, “You want to put it in my ear.” Since then, I have seen references to ear sex (aural sex?) everywhere! There’s even a holiday (“Take It in the Ear Day,” on Dec. 8), and I was reading a book just…
Lynn Cullen Live 01/23/17
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Women’s march. First couple of days in office produces scary results. “Alternative facts” Nazi gets punched in the face. Republicans propose withdrawal from U.N. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Donald Trump Inauguration Day Live Blog: Here’s how Pittsburghers are fighting back
Follow along for our coverage of inauguration alternative events and anti-Trump rallies in Pittsburgh today.
Lynn Cullen Live 01/20/17
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Southwestern Pennsylvania Congressman Tim Murphy uses male pronoun when referring to Chelsea Manning in statement
The Republican rep from Upper St. Clair, already holding a dismal record towards LGBT rights, adds jab to transgender community.
On the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency, Pittsburgh Aquarian artists will gather for Aquapolypse Now!
January 21 marks Donald Trump’s first official day in office. It’s also a day where people around the country will act in protest against his administration.
Lynn Cullen Live 01/19/17
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Betsy DeVos and the grizzly risk. Trump appointments and ties with the Kremlin. Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.” Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Two Gunns: Guitarist Steve Gunn finds joy in both collaboration and solo work
STEVE GUNN AND LEE RANALDO with MEG BAIRD 8 p.m. Thu., Jan. 19. The Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St., North Side. $12-15. 412-237-8300 or warhol.org Though they came to prominence in different eras, guitarists Steve Gunn and Lee Ranaldo have a shared musical sensibility. As co-founder of Sonic Youth, Ranaldo helped pioneer the mainstreaming…
20th Century Women
Five years ago, Mike Mills made Beginners, a film loosely based on his dad’s late-in-life decision to come out as gay. Now the women in his life, particularly his mother, get the inspired-by treatment in this ensemble dramedy. It’s 1979, and in Santa Barbara, Calif., single mom Dorothea (Annette Bening) presides over a large Victorian…
Bodiography Contemporary Ballet marks its 15th anniversary
BODIOGRAPHY CONTEMPORARY BALLET’S 15th ANNIVERSARY RED CARPET PERFORMANCE 8 p.m. Sat., Jan. 21. Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown. $38-100. 412-456-6666 or trustarts.org Entering its 15th season, Bodiography Contemporary Ballet, like many dance companies, has experienced a number of changes during its lifespan — changes in dancers, repertory and, to a certain extent, vision. One…
New Releases
The Silver Thread Strange Currents (Psychodaisy Records) thesilverthread.bandcamp.com The pop rock of the 1960s and 1990s looms large over the eight songs on Strange Currents. Hints of Pearl Jam and Sonic Youth work side by side with the early psychedelia of Steppenwolf and the pre-punk of the Kinks. It’s not a revelatory combination, but this trio’s…
Winter Music
Winter Guide Intro Winter Art Winter Music Winter Stage Winter Literary Winter Outdoors Winter Kids Other Fun Winter Events Who better than Mogwai to score something as dramatic as Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise, the 2015 documentary exploring the horrors and strange beauty of the Atomic Age? The iconic, (mostly) instrumental outfit performs this…
Pittsburgh Drinks
Bars have long been a center for business deals and creative pursuits, but modern collaborations start through social media. Pittsburgh will get the best of both with the release of Pittsburgh Drinks: A History of Cocktails, Nightlife & Bartending Tradition, by co-authors Sean Enright and Cody McDevitt. Enright, a bartender in Pittsburgh for the past…
Winter Stage
Winter Guide Intro Winter Art Winter Music Winter Stage Winter Literary Winter Outdoors Winter Kids Other Fun Winter Events Stage and film actor Michael Phillip Edwards plays multiple roles in I Am Not Sam, including that of Sam, an elderly black man, in this touring one-man show about identity and race. Other characters include Sam’s…
Felicia’s Enchiladas
My Uncle Dick and I hardly ever speak now, but I remember a time when he would tell me about the winding adventures of his youth. A fantastic storyteller, cook and world-wanderer, Dick is also an artist and maker of children’s toys. In the 1970s, he moved down to San Miguel de Allende, a small…
Winter Literary
Winter Guide Intro Winter Art Winter Music Winter Stage Winter Literary Winter Outdoors Winter Kids Other Fun Winter Events The journalist and essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates won accolades including a National Book Award for his 2015 memoir Between the World and Me. Coates, a national correspondent for The Atlantic and one of Time’s 100 Most Influential…
Pittsburgh City Paper Booze Battles: Tender Bar + Kitchen vs. DiAnoia’s Eatery
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…
Winter Outdoors
Winter Guide Intro Winter Art Winter Music Winter Stage Winter Literary Winter Outdoors Winter Kids Other Fun Winter Events Sure, it’s sunny in Miami, but that town can’t host an annual Ice Fest like Ligonier. Lots of frosty family fun, including the popular ice-carving demonstrations that turn giant blocks of frozen water into art. Jan.…
Brancott Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2015
“I just had a date last night and I brought this bottle along. It’s very popular, and we sell so much of it here. It has grapefruit and tropical flavors.” — Recommended by Joe Marasco, bartender at the Steelhead Brasserie and Wine Bar Brancott Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2015 is available at Steelhead Brasserie, and at…
Winter Kids
Winter Guide Intro Winter Art Winter Music Winter Stage Winter Literary Winter Outdoors Winter Kids Other Fun Winter Events Get healthier the fun (and footballish) way with NFL Play 60, a special one-day indoor training camp, held at the Heinz History Center. Get physical with a 40-yard dash, agility drills and footwork challenges. Feel like…
Poet Jennifer Jackson Berry’s The Feeder is a strong collection
In a 1994 interview with The Paris Review, Pulitzer Prize-winner and Wilkinsburg native W.D. Snodgrass stated that confessionalism remains “a journalistic tag, not very accurate. It sounds either like you’re some kind of religious poet, which I am not, or as if you write bedroom memoirs. … [M]y poems were called confessional because I wrote…
Other Fun Winter Events
Winter Guide Intro Winter Art Winter Music Winter Stage Winter Literary Winter Outdoors Winter Kids Other Fun Winter Events You know who also needs cheering up in the gloomy winter months? Cat, dogs and even bunnies at animal shelters. Take a dog for a walk; cuddle a cat; foster an animal; or do outreach to…
As Donald Trump prepares to be sworn in as the 45th president, Ambridge isn’t waiting around for his help.
When Donald Trump campaigned in Ambridge in October 2016, he spoke about the area’s decline and promised he could bring back jobs in the steel industry. The soon-to-be President gave rally-goers a vision of hope, but also reminded them their region was doing “lousy” and to disregard anybody who told them otherwise. “Don’t let anybody…
UUBU 6 brings an assortment of comfort-food dishes to the South Side Slopes
UUBU 6 178 Pius St., South Side Slopes. 412-381-7695 Hours: 6-9 p.m.; open days vary weekly; check UUBU 6 Facebook page for current info Prices: $3-12 Liquor: Full bar When UUBU 6 first opened more than a decade ago, more than its peculiar name set it apart. The restaurant became an unlikely destination on the…
New feminist makerspace comes to Pittsburgh
From an initial peek, Prototype PGH, the new Oakland-based feminist makerspace, doesn’t look like much. In the infant organization’s room in the old Blumcraft building, tools hang on the wall and there’s a unicorn mask in the corner, but what you see isn’t all of what you get. Louise Larson and Erin Oldynski, the…
Just Good Donuts, on the South Side, makes well-priced fancy donuts
Last summer, inside its East Carson Street storefront, the Pub Chip Shop started making donuts in a very low-key fashion. “We opened kinda quiet,” says Mindy Heisler, of the Pub Chip Shop and the driving force behind its new donut venture, Just Good Donuts. The take-out joint specializes in British Isles cuisine, but the idea to…
Destory All, the new CD from Pittsburgh Trio Strange Monsters, is full of character
STRANGE MONSTERS with Sun Hound 9:30 p.m. Fri., Jan. 20. Park House, 403 E. Ohio St., North Side. Free. 412-224-2273 “Sometimes the most absurd or ridiculous subjects can yield the deepest meanings,” says guitarist/vocalist Don Strange, of the local trio Strange Monsters. The perfect example comes in the opening track on their most recent CD,…
Former New England Patriot Matt Light gives Steelers fans a chance to be his guest for the AFC Championship
As much as I’d like to say that former New England Patriots offensive lineman Matt Light is a jagoff, he’s actually a pretty nice guy. Sure, he won three Super Bowls and five AFC Championships and went to three Pro Bowls with, quite possibly, the only football team conjured in hell by Satan himself, but…
Release of ‘Patriots Day’ has writer wondering if civic pride turned into civic paranoia in the wake of Boston Marathon bombings
I often wonder if cities can have souls; if living in a certain place can affect how one thinks and acts. And if so, is one a Pittsburgher, say, before one is an American? In feudal societies this was certainly the case. We are all proud of our hometowns, but where should this pride end,…
City Paper’s Winter Guide provides reasons to leave the house
Dippy the Dinosaur doesn’t let the cold keep him from enjoying winter; he just puts a scarf on. And so too should you add another layer or two and get out of the house. In the following pages, we list plenty of things to see and do, from plays and puppies to concerts and crazy…
Elle
Elle Directed by Paul Verhoeven Starring Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Jonas Bloquet Starts Fri., Jan. 13 at AMC Loews Waterfront, and Jan. 20 at Harris In French, with subtitles Dutch director Paul Verhoeven has always been a provocateur, whether in his better films like Robocop and Starship Troopers or his enjoyable trashfests like Showgirls. No…
How should environmentalists respond to Trump?
On Jan. 9, at noon, about 75 climate activists gathered at the Station Square office of U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey. They demanded that Toomey oppose nominees of President-elect Donald Trump’s, like climate-change-denying Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, nominated to head the EPA, and ExxonMobil chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson, the nominee for Secretary of State.…
Winter Art
Winter Guide Intro Winter Art Winter Music Winter Stage Winter Literary Winter Outdoors Winter Kids Other Fun Winter Events The Frick family enjoyed purchasing art. At the Frick Art & Historical Center, visitors can peruse The Frick Collects: From Rubens to Monet, an exhibit that traces the acquisition of various objects that today comprise the…
T.J. McConnell is already repping Duquesne basketball in the NBA, and he might not be alone in a few years.
The Philadelphia 76ers trailed the New York Knicks by one point on Jan. 12 with just under six seconds remaining. A little-known Sixers backup point guard got the ball and hit a fade-away baseline jumper over future Hall of Famer Carmelo Anthony at the buzzer. Downtrodden Philly fans erupted as their team won its 11th…
USA Sumo show will raise money for Greater Pittsburgh YMCA
Sumo Showdown 7 p.m. Sat., Jan. 21. Stage AE, 400 North Shore Drive, North Side. $35-100; $20 for kids under 12. 412-229-5483 or ticketmaster.com Anyone with a television set has likely seen the Geico Insurance commercial with the ice-skating sumo wrestler tentatively performing in an Olympic-style event. And if you’ve seen it, you’ve probably wondered…
The Domesticity of Abandonment explores dispossessed people and objects
THE DOMESTICITY OF ABANDONMENT continues through Jan. 29. SPACE, 812 Liberty Ave., Downtown. 412-325-7723 or spacepittsburgh.org “Abandonment” describes a human attitude toward other humans, or human creations: No one laments an abandoned forest or an abandoned desert. The Domesticity of Abandonment, a group show at SPACE gallery, explores both abandoned artifacts and abandoned people. Carolina…
Short List: Jan 18-24
SPOTLIGHT: Sat., Jan. 21 – Stage “A lot of boxing stories are about how people box. I wanted to tell a story about why they box,” says Marco Ramirez of his 2015 play The Royale. “One of the reasons that the play has had this wonderful life is because it’s not really about the mechanics…
Silence
Silence Directed by Martin Scorsese Starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Issei Ogata In English, and some Japanese, with subtitles Martin Scorsese’s new movie Silence takes place in late-17th-century Japan, a country in the final stages of ridding itself of European Catholic missionaries and stamping out any residual followers. But back in Portugal, two young priests…
Live By Night
Ben Affleck stars as a gangster in this crime drama, adapted from a Dennis Lehane novel, set during Prohibition. Affleck, who also directed, portrays Joe Coughlin, an Irish kid from Boston who, during the World War, “left a soldier, came back an outlaw.” After some trouble in Beantown, Coughlin winds up in Ybor City (described…
The Founder
John Lee Hancock’s dramedy The Founder recounts how one California hamburger stand became the global force and mega-brand that is McDonald’s. It begins in the mid-1950s with Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a struggling salesman always on the hunt for the golden ticket; he’s currently hawking multi-spindle milkshake machines without much success. Except that one place…
Paterson
Paterson Starts Fri., Jan. 20. AMC Loews Waterfront Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, this low-key observational film spends a week in the life of Paterson (Adam Driver), a bus driver who lives and works in Paterson, N.J. His daily life is defined by routine — the same breakfast, bus route, lunch stop (at the…
Lynn Cullen Live 01/17/17
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. President-elect Trump won’t work until Monday after inauguration. Misogyny in news. Ratings and who owns who. LSD micro-dosing. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Lynn Cullen Live 01/16/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Pending inauguration and MLK Day. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
