Five Oddest Pittsburgh Mascots
We all love mascots, but some are admittedly a bit odd. Pittsburgh mascots are no exception. Here are some weird mascots from the Pittsburgh area that have us scratching our heads.
Five Olympians From Pittsburgh
It’s that time of year…the 2018 Winter Olympics! When it comes to athleticism, these men and women are the best of the best. But did you know that several medal-winning Olympians are native to Pittsburgh? Read on to learn more.
#MeToo founder Tarana Burke talks advocacy in Pittsburgh
The #MeToo movement has brought attention to the stories of sexual assault survivors.
This week in Pittsburgh Sports History
Feb. 8, 1953 Mayor David L. Lawrence announces plans to build a “civic theater” Downtown to provide a permanent venue for the Pittsburgh Civic Light Orchestra. Eight years later, the Civic Auditorium was completed, boasting the first retractable-roof on a sports venue in the world. Over its 49 years in existence, the arena hosted The…
Droppin’ Knowledge
On Jan. 29, some of Pittsburgh’s most successful women in the restaurant industry gathered at Merchant Oyster Co., in Lawrenceville, to share their experiences and advice with an invited audience. Jessica Lewis of or, The Whale/Merchant Oyster Co., Cat Cannon of Federal Galley, Sarah Shaffer of Tina’s, and LG Swanson of Spirit sat down for…
Do Pittsburgers prefer burgers or pizza?
New data from Google says pizza and burgers are the two most popular in Southwestern Pennsylvania, with burgers having a slight edge over pizza.
Listen Up! Feb. 7 Issue
A playlist featuring the artists in the music section of tomorrow’s paper, today
A few dinner ideas for your sweetheart(s)
Delicious eats for Valentine’s Day.
Review: Noah Gundersen at the Rex Theater, Sat., Feb. 3
CP music intern Emily Bennett reviews Gundersen’s solo performance and meet-and-greet experience.
Which Celebrity Couple are You?
Find your celebrity couple equivalent and you could win an overnight stay at Seven Springs, plus tubing passes for you and your partner! Winner will be notified on 2/8 via email.
MP3 Monday: Shay Park
This week’s MP3 Monday is a pop ditty, full of longing, with a melody you’ll find yourself humming for weeks.
Call for performance artists who publicly identify as queer
folkLAB initiative is planning its spring show
Betsy Monroe, inspired by the Women’s March, is challenging state Rep. Hal English in Pittsburgh’s North Hills
Pennsylvania’s 30th state house district is getting more liberal and Monroe, a Democrat, believes she can flip the district from red to blue.
Mount Lebanon third-grader wins a national growing competition with a 14-pound cabbage
Pennsylvania third-grader wins scholarship with a 14-pound cabbage
Bethel Park fundraiser with VP Mike Pence and U.S. Rep. candidate Rick Saccone will displace a lunch for seniors
The $5,400-a-plate fundraiser for Saccone is causing a half-day closure of a community center that offers senior citizens lunch for $1.50 suggested donation
Departing arts editor Bill O’Driscoll shares his favorite articles for City Paper
From motorcycle racing to media literacy, from poetry to fracking, here are 18 articles from his CP career
Lynn Cullen Live – 1/31/18
Video Archive Audio Only Archive Stream or download the last 5 shows on the MP3 downloads page.
New Local Release: Jeff Betten’s THREE A.M. AND THE STARS WERE OUT
Jeff Betten THREE A.M. AND THE STARS WERE OUT Self-released www.jeffbetten.com THREE A.M. AND THE STARS WERE OUT is a release that makes a statement. Jeff Betten approached the endeavor with intent to blow up the conventions of a typical album. For it, Betten collaborated with Chet Vincent, Joseph Ripple, Jeremy Colbert, Erika Laing, David…
Critics’ Pick: Noah Gundersen at Rex Theater
[ROCK] + SAT., FEB. 3 If you had asked me a year ago to stick Noah Gundersen into a genre, I would have given him the tender title of singer/songwriter. Alas, my sweet Seattle son is all grown up and has earned himself a juicier title — rock ’n’ roller. If you never listen to…
The Wide World of Italian Wine
Italy makes a whole lot of wine. In fact, according to the most recent figures from the International Organization of Vine and Wine, Italy leads the globe in wine, accounting for nearly 20 percent of the world’s production. Despite the impressive volume, many drinkers are far more familiar with French Chardonnays and Napa Cabs than…
Pittsburgh City Paper Booze Battles: William Penn Speakeasy vs. William Penn Speakeasy
Each week, we order two of the same cocktail for a friendly head-to-head battle. Go to the bar, 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 food-and-beverage writer…
Pittsburgh LGBTQ blog grabs GLAAD media award nomination
After 12 years of spreading awareness on a plethora of LGBTQ issues, Sue Kerr is finally starting to get some recognition. In Pittsburgh City Paper’s 2016 Best of Pittsburgh readers’-poll issue, Kerr was named best local blogger for her work telling LGBTQ stories. Now, the blog she founded, Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, has been nominated for…
Spoiler Alert: WWE’s Royal Rumble was almost perfect
There’s no pay-per-view in the WWE Universe that’s more fun than the Royal Rumble. The main match is a kicked-up Battle Royale, built around the 30-person rumble-style match. It starts with two wrestlers, and every 90 seconds another entrant appears. In order to be eliminated, you must go over the top rope, and both of…
Pittsburgh Musical Theater looks to edgier fare
Gesturing toward a table bearing a mock chainsaw, a shotgun and a metal hand, Nick Mitchell discussed how much fake blood would be just right. The director was pondering the props for Evil Dead: The Musical, a stage show to be produced by a perhaps unlikely troupe: Pittsburgh Musical Theater. With Evil Dead — inspired…
Pittsburgh City Paper presents the 21st-Century NHL Power Rankings
While some people are excited for this week’s Super Bowl, a lot of us have decided to just turn our attention straight to the ice. All we have to look forward to now is the Pittsburgh Penguins’ quest for a third straight Stanley Cup. Last week, I unveiled Cheap Seats’ 21st-Century NFL Power Rankings and…
Savage Love
I am a 38-year-old lesbian, very femme, very out. I have a coworker I can’t figure out. We’ve worked together for a year and gotten very close. I never want to put out the wrong signals to coworkers, and I err on the side of keeping a safe but friendly distance. This is different. We…
Critics’ Pick: An exorcism at Glitter Box Theater
[EXORCISM] + SAT., FEB. 3 It’s 2018. We’ve all got some bad juju we could get rid of. Marketed as an endeavor of the scientific and artistic varieties, the purpose of this exorcising event is a loose one — meaning it’s what you make it. The objective at the forefront of this casual little exorcism…
Kangaroo: A Love Hate Story
Kangaroo: A Love Hate Story Directed by Mick McIntyre and Kate McIntyre Clere Starts Fri., Jan. 26. Hollywood The film opens with grainy black-and-white video footage, as a camera shakily makes its way through trees at night. Discernible: a pickup truck and, briefly, a kangaroo caught in a spotlight. The camera operator is agitated, fearful.…
Critics’ Pick: Adult Mom at Roboto
[INDIE POP] + SUN., FEB. 4 One time I saw Adult Mom perform a show in a crowded living room in Athens, Ohio. As vocalist/songwriter Steph Knipe sang, “Maybe in a year, I won’t feel like a bad queer” — the conclusion of “Survival” from 2015’s Momentary Lapse of Happily — I burst into loud,…
Settlements resulting from alleged police misconduct are costing Pittsburgh taxpayers millions. What can be done to lessen the burden?
In 2009, the City of Pittsburgh approved a $3.7 million settlement for musician Thomas Doswell. The settlement was the result of Doswell’s decades-long struggle to clear his name after he was falsely arrested and imprisoned in 1986. Doswell spent 19 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of rape. He was ultimately freed following the…
Ardbeg 10-Year Single-Malt Scotch Whiskey
“Since this scotch is matured in American oak casks once used to make bourbon, it has some vanilla notes that help to soften its intense peatiness. Spicy notes give it depth, while the finish is slightly nutty.” Recommended by Celine Roberts, CP staff writer Ardbeg 10-Year Single-Malt Scotch Whiskey is available at Fine Wine &…
A sendoff for Pittsburgh City Paper’s longtime arts editor Bill O’Driscoll
This is a sad week for us here at City Paper. After spending the past 1,100 or so moons with this organization, arts Editor Bill O’Driscoll is packing up his desk and moving on. Starting Monday, he will be the arts and culture reporter at WESA. I would say he’s their “new” arts and culture…
New Commutes: Analyzing the changing ways Pittsburghers get to work
Pittsburgh is changing. From revitalized business districts and construction of luxury apartments to the disappearance of some long-loved establishments, Pittsburghers have different destinations now. And the way they are getting to those new destinations is changing, too. By looking at U.S. Census data, Pittsburgh City Paper analyzed the changing commuter patterns of Pittsburghers. From 2010-2016,…
Félicité
It’s another steamy night in an open-air club in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The easy banter between customers establishes that this is a place of regulars. Drinks are served, romantic overtures are rejected, and finally a band sets up in the corner. A woman stands before the ensemble, and then with a…
Rules of Seconds at barebones productions
“Honor” might seem a concept antique — 19th century at best. But honor is the subject of John Pollono’s crackling new play Rules of Seconds, receiving its Pittsburgh premiere at barebones productions. The dark comedy is set in 1855 Boston, where dueling is outlawed but men routinely duel anyway because, according to the 18th-century Irish…
Oso Oso performs at Cattivo on Feb. 5 with Tiny Moving Parts and Mom Jeans
Just before Oso Oso frontman Jade Lilitri picked up the phone last week to speak with City Paper, he was doing something that one year earlier he never could have imagined: preparing for his band’s tour. And not just any tour, but a more than month-long run opening for popular emo act Tiny Moving Parts,…
A new taco joint, Baby Loves Tacos, opens in Bloomfield
Baby Loves Tacos 4508 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 412-872-1491 website Pittsburgh isn’t really a Mexican-food mecca. The region has some of the lowest percentages of people of Mexican descent of any large metro area in the country. To many Pittsburghers, a taco is the delicious concoction of a crunchy shell filled with seasoned ground beef,…
Home winemakers gather at annual Wine Share
Frank LaValle steers me into a long corridor, echoing with the sounds of glasses clinking and laughter. “Come on, I’ve got to introduce you to my cousin. He makes the best wine,” he says as we move through the crowd. I had met LaValle two minutes prior as I was taking off my coat, and…
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey at City Theatre
With an eye fixed firmly on my karma, I note that City Theatre presents the local premiere of James Lecesne’s The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. Whatever else there is to say about Lecesne’s talents, the most remarkable is his having written the Oscar-winning short film “Trevor,” which lead to the creation of The Trevor…
Local author Tom Sweterlitsch on his second science-fiction novel — and his Hollywood connections
Until just over four years ago, Tom Sweterlitsch wrote as an avocation. He was married, with a young daughter, a house in Greenfield, and a day job he loved as a customer-service rep at the Carnegie Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. He wrote fiction in his off hours. These days, writing is his…
A Q&A with Misra Records GM Jeff Betten about his first time at the Grammys
It was a mixed bag for Pittsburgh artists at the 2018 Grammy Awards last Sunday night. Local hardcore group Code Orange lost out to Mastodon for Best Metal Performance; the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra won Best Orchestral Performance for its recording of Shostakovich’s “Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio.” For Pittsburgh’s Jeff Betten, general manager of Misra…
New Local Release: Blue Soul Ten’s The Beautiful Warrior
Blue Soul Ten The Beautiful Warrior Self-Released www.facebook.com/bluesoulten/ Claye Greene, the local brain and brawn behind Blue Soul Ten, created The Beautiful Warrior as the third in a trilogy of albums, beginning with The Unspoken Warrior and The Fearless Warrior. The Unspoken Warrior had more of a lounge feel; The Fearless Warrior polished the edges…
