PWSA’s flush and boil water advisory impacts an estimated 100,000 Pittsburghers
Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority issues flush and boil advisory due to low chlorine levels.
Pittsburgh state Rep. Dom Costa says initial support of anti-immigrant bill accidental; activists skeptical
The Democratic Rep from Stanton Heights has a history of supporting anti-immigrant legislation.
National Women’s Hockey League All-Star Game comes to Pittsburgh
Last weekend, the National Hockey League celebrated its 100th birthday as the professional hockey world descended on Los Angeles for the All-Star Game. But while it’s not as old, the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL) is getting the chance to showcase its top talent right in our own backyard. The NWHL All-Star weekend takes place…
Listen Up! Feb. 1
Music from this week’s issue, if that’s your kind of thing.
Hundreds protest at U.S. Senator Pat Toomey’s office in Pittsburgh
Hundreds marched to U.S. Senator Pat Toomey’s office in Pittsburgh to protest repealing the Affordable Care Act, President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban and more.
2017 NYC Winter Jazzfest – A Look Back
Mike Shanley recounts a lively weekend in New York for the 13th annual Winter Jazzfest.
Lynn Cullen Live 01/31/17
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Cabinet picks. Bannon takes actions on Saturdays. Buckle up for Supreme Court picks. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
In response to Trump’s immigration orders, more than 700 Pittsburghers protest between Jan. 28-29
Pittsburghers respond with protests in the days following the president’s executive orders increasing immigration enforcement and limiting refugees.
Lynn Cullen Live 01/30/17
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Immigration ban and the fallout. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
A Conversation with “H is for Hawk” author Helen MacDonald
Author Helen Macdonald on literary genres, social class and nature, and more
Pittsburgh’s first Art Exchange this Sunday at the Mine Factory
Event is a novel way for artists and art enthusiasts to add to their collections
Program with renowned environmental artist Saturday at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art
Environmental artist Andrea Polli leads presentation based on Oakland’s “Cloud Factory”
Lynn Cullen Live 01/26/17
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Trump is a crazy tyrant. Bannon is registered in two states to vote. The legacy of Mossie Murphy. RIP Mary Tyler Moore. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Listen Up! Jan. 25
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists mentioned in the current music section. Listen while reading the stories in this week’s paper for a fully immersive experience.
Two local artists offer books with contrasting takes on the everyday
Coping with the everyday can be no small feat. Two new publications, by local artists John Peña and Christiane Dolores, accept the challenge in idiosyncratic fashion. Daily Geology is the second year’s-worth compilation of Peña’s long-running project to make a drawing recording a memorable moment from each day. Because it documents moments, the self-published collection…
This year’s Summit Against Racism sees increased attendance
In preparation for this year’s Summit Against Racism, organizers created 500 information packets for attendees, even though only about 350 people were expected. But by 11 a.m. on Sat., Jan. 21, all 500 packets had been distributed and attendees were still filing in the door. “We ran out of program books,” said summit co-coordinator Mary…
Kathleen Mulcahy and Sylvester Damianos impress, if differently, at the Westmoreland
OPPOSITES ATTRACT continues through Feb. 5. Westmoreland Museum of American Art, 221 N. Main St., Greensburg. 724-837-1500 or thewestmoreland.org The Westmoreland Museum of American Art is way different from how I remember it. A big renovation was completed in October 2015, and if, like me, you haven’t been there since, this is the perfect opportunity.…
Art-merica Divided
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Jasmine Hearn premieres blue, sable and burning
JASMINE HEARN performs BLUE, SABLE AND BURNING 7:30 p.m. Thu., Jan. 26. Braddock Carnegie Library, 419 Library St., Braddock. $12 at the door (free for Braddock Carnegie Library patrons). 412-351-5356 or facebook.com (“blue sable and burning”) A main reason people are drawn to works of art is the chance to see themselves reflected in them.…
Pennsylvania is on the verge of regulating Daily Fantasy Sports
Regulating fantasy sports may no longer be a fantasy in Pennsylvania. Thanks to an already allocated budget allowance of $100 million, Pennsylvania will most likely join a handful of other states in regulating online gambling. But while online gaming as a whole seems to have broad support, regulating daily fantasy sports (DFS) could create some…
Split
Split Directed by M. Night Shyamalan Starring James McAvoy, Anna Taylor-Joy, Betty Buckley Three teenage girls are kidnapped from a mall parking lot by an intense dude. They wind up imprisoned in a basement, captives of Dennis (James McAvoy). No, wait — he’s Barry. Um, is that Dennis/Barry in a dress? The gimmick of Split,…
If you want to commemorate Pittsburgh sports milestones, a historical marker is the way to go
Allegheny County has about 150 designated historical markers commemorating Pittsburgh’s contributions to labor, literature, medicine, military battles, music and, of course, sports. While statues are one way to pay tribute to a person, when you realize there’s a statue of Fonzie in Milwaukee, the value of a bronze doppelganger decreases in value. But a historical…
Pittsburgh rockers The Park Plan deliver more than straight-up power pop
THE PARK PLAN CD RELEASE with LoFi Delphi, Old Game, Lorenzo’s Oil. 8 p.m. Sat., Jan. 28. Howlers, 4509 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. $5. 412-682-0320 On first blush, The Park Plan could be considered a pop band in the classic sense. The band’s 2015 debut, Junior Achievement, featured layers of clean, twangy guitars banging out infectious…
Short List: Jan. 25-Feb. 1
SPOTLIGHT: Mon., Jan. 30 – Talk Helen Macdonald Photo courtesy of Marzena Pogorzaly Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures welcomes Helen Macdonald, the English writer, poet and naturalist responsible for 2015’s blockbuster, genre-defying memoir H Is for Hawk. When Macdonald lost her father, overwhelming grief provoked her to buy a goshawk. In doing so, she joined the…
Pittsburgh City Paper Booze Battles: Bar Marco vs. The Abbey on Butler Street
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…
Pork and Beans brings an upscale riff on Southern barbecue to Downtown Pittsburgh
Pork and Beans 136 Sixth St., Downtown. 412-338-1876 Hours: Tue.-Thu. 4-11 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 4 p.m.-midnight Prices: Snacks, salads, sandwiches and a la carte smoked meats $8-14; entrees $30-38 Liquor: Full bar Some chefs build a brand by replicating a concept in an ever-expanding territory. Not chef Richard DeShantz. His empire may be tiny, but it…
Delving into dessert wines
I don’t often order dessert. I wish I could say that I am too sophisticated for sweets or possess incredible self-control. But the truth is that I’ve usually stuffed my face so aggressively during the previous courses that there’s not a speck of room left for cakes and pies. Dessert wine, however, I can get…
Living That Single, Sandwich-for-Dinner-Every-Night Lifestyle
Listen, it’s a new year, new me, and I’m going full on woo-woo with the power of positivity. See this grilled-cheese sandwich? It’s not the sad grilled cheese of your childhood, with sticky slices of American slapped between pieces of butter-drenched bread. No, this is the kind of sandwich you make to celebrate the fact…
Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox breathes old life into new classics
SCOTT BRADLEE’S POSTMODERN JUKEBOX 8 p.m. Wed., Feb. 1. Carnegie Music Hall, 510 E. 10th Ave., Munhall. $30-60. 412- 462-3444 or librarymusichall.com It’s one of those inspired ideas that leads listeners to wonder why someone hadn’t thought of it before: Take modern-day hit songs, and recast them in the styles of yesteryear. That’s the winning…
A longtime progressive dinner inspires a how-to book
Gab Cody and Sam Turich moved from Brooklyn to Lawrenceville in 2007, and immediately were welcomed with an invitation to a tradition already a quarter-century old: the neighborhood’s progressive dinner. Today, that peripatetic party — each course is eaten at a different house — draws 150 neighbors, and Cody and Turich have attended the annual…
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Multiple Choice expands in its second year, kicking off with a night of ‘Underground Hip Hop’
MULTIPLE CHOICE: UNDERGROUND HIP HOP 4 p.m. Sun., Jan. 29. August Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $5-20. 412-456-6666 or trustarts.org There’s a video on YouTube called “A-F-R-O — Definition of a Rap Flow.” It features a teenage MC called A-F-R-O rapping immaculately over a remix of Friend & Lover’s “Reach Out of the Darkness.”…
BACHBOOMBOX narrows the gap between hip hop and classical music
GROOVE AESTHETIC: BACHBOOMBOX 6:30 p.m. Wed., Jan. 25. BOOM Concepts, 5139 Penn Ave., Garfield. Pay-what-you-wish. 412-624-4129 or chambermusicpittsburgh.org Hip hop and classical music are genres rife with misconceptions and stereotypes. Even in contemporary pop music, where distinctions between genres are more and more diluted, these two still carry some seriously archaic baggage — hip hop…
How about we forgo the ‘Fire Mike Tomlin’ nonsense during the Pittsburgh Steelers offseason?
Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin was fired on Sunday night — by some guy on Twitter with 13 followers. It shouldn’t be a surprise that within seconds of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ loss to the New England Patriots in the Jan. 22 AFC Championship game, fans were already out on social media calling for the coach…
Gold
What is it about the quest for gold that drives men to do very foolish things? That’s one of the threads that runs through this caper-ish dramedy directed by Stephen Gaghan (Syriana). Kenny Wells (Matthew McConaughey) is a third-generation Nevada-based mining man, but by the late 1980s, he’s reduced to buying up abandoned claims and…
Cranberry Gose, Long Trail Brewing Co.
“A lot of people are starting to get into tart and sour beer. This is a nice introduction to those styles. It’s not too heavy on the cranberry flavors, but is a good seasonal beer for the winter. I try a little every time I come in.” — Recommended by Patrick Cunningham, bartender at Lot…
Critics’ Picks, Jan. 26-Feb. 1
[INDIE ROCK] + FRI., JAN. 27 Last summer, four well-regarded Pittsburgh bands with similar aesthetics teamed up a la Elephant Six and formed a musical collective, Golden Magnet, to inspire each other and push the local music scene forward. Part of that includes bringing Oakland’s student population back into the fold, hence this free showcase…
Curse
Waiting for steak and fries beneath this dining room’s cold light, I look on as Angelita, the stocky Paiute waitress, hauls ales and elk burgers to tables of Germans touring Utah parks on Beemer bikes. It took until senior year for me to balance a full tray of steaming chow, elbow wobbling until I learned…
Savage Love
I am quite the follower on social media — Facebook and Twitter in particular. I make no trolling comments, no #MAGA hashtags; I just look with my male gaze. Like Laura Mulvey says, the male gaze is only natural. I’ve lost interest in pornography, so I use everyday pictures of women, typically selfies. It helps…
Alternative facts aren’t lies — they’re just another way to say everything is awesome despite evidence to the contrary
Editor’s Note: The following piece is not just the opinion of City Paper editor Charlie Deitch, the 16-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and three-time Emmy winner for his work on the 1970s sitcom Maude, co-starring Bea Arthur; it is the opinion of every single person in America. The people came from all 50 states,…
Two Pittsburgh women’s marches spur conversation around intersectional feminism
Slideshows from two local female-led marches Check out the photo slideshows in our blog post. It started with a Facebook comment. Two weeks ago, Celeste Scott posted on the event page for the Women’s March on Pittsburgh, a sister march to the national event planned for Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21. “Is this a white…
Factory Installed delves into real places and digital spaces
FACTORY INSTALLED continues through May 28. Mattress Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side. 412-231-3169 or mattress.org In the darkened space of the basement gallery at the Mattress Factory, the sounds of the MTA subway are instantly recognizable. Depending on when you enter, the images might be fairly still, with only people in motion, or an…
Pittsburghers pledge to continue fighting after women’s march
Kara Kernan, of Brookline, knew she would be menstruating on Saturday, and decided to make the best of a crampy situation. She and two friends traveled to Washington, D.C., to demonstrate with hundreds of thousands of others in the Women’s March on Washington, and Kernan made a sign that garnered the attention of a lot…
Lynn Cullen Live 01/25/17
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Gag order on EPA. Felony charges for journalists. Trump conspiracy theories. Bald eagles as pests. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Lynn Cullen Live 01/24/17
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Global gag order. More Trump appointments. On the Marches. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
