Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh workers to hold union vote next week
When people think of workers’ rights in Pittsburgh, they often associate the movement with the efforts of the United Steelworkers (USW). But workers’ rights movements in the Steel City also include the unionization efforts of fast-food workers, hospital employees, and now, library workers. The United Library Workers of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh will be holding their…
Pittsburgh Grooveline: Dance parties at Belvederes Ultra-Dive, Scenario, and more (July 25-31)
Each week, Pittsburgh City Paper compiles a list of Pittsburgh dance parties for you and your crew to bust loose to the best bangers, EDM, pop hits, and more. (All events are 21 and over unless otherwise stated.) Thu., July 25 Synodic at Belvederes Ultra-Dive. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. 4016 Butler St., Lawrenceville. Free. belvederesultradive.com Belvederes…
U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler spreads a conspiracy theory about Robert Mueller
Today, U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Peters) sat in the U.S. House hearing of special counsel Robert Mueller and interviewed him on the report that lays out several instances where President Donald Trump obstructed justice when investigations looked into the president’s alleged connections to the Russian government. During that nearly five minute interview, Reschenthaler focused on…
Ricardo Iamuuri Robinson to project veteran voices with new public art residency
Local artist Ricardo Iamuuri Robinson will work to give veterans a voice with a new public art residency. Iamuuri, a composer, sound recordist, and audiovisual artist, was selected as the artist-in-residence for RethinkVets, an initiative created by the Heinz Endowments to serve veterans throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania. Over the next two years, Iamuuri and members of the…
Plasmid covers Misfits’ “Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight?”
No permission needed to listen to Plasmid’s Misfits’ cover, “Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight?” that dropped last week. Mom’s permission also isn’t needed to go out and see Plasmid tonight at Gooski’s. Music starts at 9 p.m., and joining the Pittsburgh punk band is The Trades, Dead Batteries, and Fuck Yeah, Dinosaurs. One of Plasmid’s…
What type of pickle are you?
If you’ve always wanted to know what kind of pickled food you would be based on your personality, take this quiz to find out! /**/
Watch some films, eat some popcorn, and meet a cute pig at the latest Pittsburgh International Children’s Film Festival
Row House Cinema takes families around the world for the latest edition of its Pittsburgh International Children’s Film Festival. From July 26-Aug. 1, the single-screen theater will host a week of films, including classic favorites, award-winning shorts, documentaries, and acclaimed animated features. There will also be fun activities for all ages, including the chance to…
Four months after quitting her job and launching a fashion label, Pittsburgh designer Maya Myeko holds her first runway show
Attending one fashion show was all it took for 19-year-old Maya Myeko to quit her day job and pursue a career in fashion. Four months later, Myeko, who runs a clothing brand under the moniker Maya Temple, is putting on her first-ever runway show at the Ace Hotel. “I was having really bad creative block,”…
Documentary about Toni Morrison’s life and work makes an altar to her genius
The day she found out about winning the Nobel Prize in literature, Toni Morrison was asked by a reporter what sets her apart from her peers to win such an esteemed prize. “I think I write well,” she says, without skipping a beat. It’s more fact than opinion. Toni Morrison writes well. Very well. Maybe…
How state Sen. Pam Iovino is navigating one of Pennsylvania’s most pivotal senate districts
In an era when partisan politics are getting stronger, Pennsylvania’s 37th Senate District in the suburbs of Pittsburgh is an anomaly, and it’s unclear whether any politician or party has figured out how to keep it in their grasp. That is the task ahead for newly elected state Sen. Pam Iovino (D-Mount Lebanon). In April,…
First Black woman to graduate Pitt engineering school to introduce screening of Hidden Figures
The 2016 film Hidden Figures takes place in 1961, when mathematician Katherine Goble Johnson, played by Taraji P. Henson, worked with other Black women to contribute essential, and long-overlooked, calculations to NASA’s Space Race programs. The film is based on the true story of these remarkable women. That same year, a Pittsburgher accomplished her own…
Street festival highlights new developments in Larimer
DeAnna Davis believes that Larimer rarely receives the positive attention given to the rest of Pittsburgh’s East End. “A lot of times you hear about all of the bad things that go on here, right?” says Davis of a neighborhood that, besides being one of the poorest in the city, has also struggled with higher…
Colcom Foundation-funded, anti-immigrant group attacks U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb
Pittsburgh’s Colcom Foundation has been under scrutiny lately. Immigrant groups requested that the name of the foundation be removed from the Pittsburgh Holiday Market last December after they discovered Colcom’s large donations to anti-immigrant groups. And last month, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote two features on Colcom, digging into the foundation’s increased funding to anti-immigrant groups like…
Listen to posthumous Mac Miller song ‘The Sun Room’
Another posthumous Mac Miller song is making its rounds on the internet. Discovered on Soundcloud, “The Sun Room (Somewhere In Space),” seems to be a rough draft of the opening song on Miller’s 2013 album Watching Movies with the Sound Off. Besides having an extremely similar name to his song “The Star Room,” the opening…
Former WPXI anchor Darieth Chisolm wins revenge porn case in Jamaican court
Two years after her revenge porn nightmare began, former WPXI anchor Darieth Chisolm won the case against her ex-boyfriend, Donovan Powell, in a Jamaican court ruling on Wed., July 22. Powell plead guilty to three counts of malicious communication, which falls under Jamaica’s Cybercrimes Act, according to Jamaican newspaper The Gleaner. After a 20-year career at WPXI,…
Lynn Cullen Live – 7/23/19
Video Archive Robert Mueller will testify tomorrow, and while they are both anticipating hearing what he has to say Lynn and Susan don’t think it will really matter. Nothing will ultimately come from the hearing. They are also talking about the new UK prime minister Boris Johnson, and the riots happening in Puerto Rico. On…
Big crowds, little gherkins: a history of the Heinz pickle pin
Last summer, during the fourth annual Picklesburgh festival, crowds on the Roberto Clemente Bridge swelled to record numbers. People swarmed the free festival to eat, drink, and wear pickle products. The crowd was so big that for the 2019 festival, Picklesburgh, which runs from July 26-28, is nearly doubling its size, spanning the Roberto Clemente…
U.S. Steel’s market value drops $5.5 billion thanks to Trump’s tariffs
According to several reports, Pittsburgh’s largest steel company — and the second largest in the country, has lost about 70 percent of its market value thanks to forces put into place by President Donald Trump’s steel tariffs. Since Trump announced tariffs on foreign-made steel 16 months ago, U.S. Steel’s market value has dropped by $5.5…
Pittsburgh Classic Players’ A Streetcar Named Desire will have you screaming “Stella!”
A successful production of A Streetcar Named Desire requires more than a good Blanche DuBois, more than a Stanley Kowalski that can rock an undershirt and yell well. While those two are huffing up all the air in the room, you gotta look to Stella. That’s the best way to approach Pittsburgh Classic Players’ production…
Concert Announcements: King Princess, Kip Moore, and more
Stay up-to-date with your favorite artists and musicians coming to Pittsburgh. Each week, Pittsburgh City Paper will bring you the most recent concert announcements so you never miss a show. Neck Deep. Sat., Sept. 21. Rex Theater, South Side. JUST ANNOUNCED@NeckDeepUK With special guests@EternalBoyMusic Saturday, September 21, 2019@RexTheaterDoors at 6PM | Show at 7PMAll Ages…
Hello Bully and Pittsburgh Tattoo Co. team up for flash tattoo fundraiser
When Daisy Wise lost her beloved American pit bull terrier, she was left with heartbreak over the loss of her companion, as well as displeasure with the negative perceptions surrounding the breed. In 2005, Wise took her sadness and anger and founded Hello Bully, a nonprofit she describes as “a pit bull rescue and so much more.” The organization…
Watch the intensely earnest trailer for the Fred Rogers movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Last fall, film crews descended on Pittsburgh to film the Fred Rogers film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, starring Tom Hanks as the children’s television host. Now the trailer is finally out, and it looks exactly as you’d expect it to: sweet, heartwarming, earnest, and other related feelings. The trailer reinforces that it could only…
Lynn Cullen Live – 7/22/19
Video Archive The 50th anniversary of the moon landing over the weekend has caused many to look back at the newspapers saved from the time. In the Chicago Daily News there was also an article by Sydney Harris on the ‘love it or leave it’ mentality. After 50 years the country is still dealing with…
Picklesburgh means pickle-flavored beer, and more of this week’s food news
East End and Primanti Bros It’s almost Picklesburgh, which means everything in Pittsburgh is about to be pickled. An East End Brewing and Primanti Bros. beer collaboration, the Almost Famous Pickle Beer, will soon be joining the ranks of pickle products. Almost Famous Pickle Beer does, in fact, taste like a pickle. The name is…
Concert Photos: Belle and Sebastian, Men I Trust at Carnegie Music Hall
Scottish band Belle and Sebastian heated up the stage at Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland yesterday with its hybrid of folk-rock and ’60s pop. The music is whimsical, with body infecting melodies and feel-good beats. According to photographer Erin Allport, her Fitbit said she climbed 31 flights of stairs, “which feels like a conservative estimate,” she posted…
Does your Sheetz have curly fries?
This is not a drill. Sheetz has added curly fries (also known as Curly Fryz) to their already prolific menu. The chain convenience store is currently testing curly fries, in addition to French Fryz, in 54 of its store locations across Pennsylvania and Ohio. There are over 500 locations in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio,…
Sibling duo behind Row House Cinema and Bierport are turning an old elementary school into a creative incubator
A former elementary school will soon be home to aspiring artists, chefs, and creators. Brian and Irwin Mendelssohn, the sibling duo behind Row House Cinema and Bierport, are transforming a vacant Manchester school into Fulton Commons, a space that when finished will hold a kitchen incubator, coworking spaces, and art studio. The brothers recently announced…
YWCA Greater Pittsburgh announces new CEO
On July 8, the YWCA Greater Pittsburgh named Janine Woods as its new CEO, following the retirement of previous CEO Magdeline Jensen in June 2018. A Kansas native, Woods has previously lived in North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas, working for nonprofits, including the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus, the North Carolina Dental Fund, and Save the…
What’s the status of Pittsburgh’s Bus Rapid Transit line?
Pittsburgh’s next big public transit project on the horizon is the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line from Downtown to Oakland and beyond. The project aims to provide bus-only lanes, new stations, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities in hopes of boosting multi-model transit options and decreasing congestion between the region’s two largest job centers. The project…
Getting lost in it: a Q&A with Kurt Vile
It’s probably unfair to characterize an artist by talking about a four-second stretch in one of their songs, but if it’s Kurt Vile and the four seconds are the count-in to “One Trick Ponies,” you could do worse. The song, from 2018’s Bottle It In, kicks off with an egg shaker, someone counting down to…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to cut two more print days, print only 3 days a week
According to the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, the union representing Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staffers, the region’s largest newspaper is cutting two more print days from its weekly schedule. In August 2018, the P-G cut Tuesdays and Saturdays from its print schedule. With these announced cuts, the P-G will only print three days a week. Since the…
Who’s playing at Picklesburgh 2019
Pickles unite Pittsburghers all of kinds at Picklesburgh, but this year music may too. Earlier today, The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership announced the musicians and bands performing at this year’s popular festival, and the acts are all over the genre spectrum. Under the hip-hop umbrella are Mars Jackson, Back Alley Sound, and Isaiah Small. Representing rock are Jack…
Wizard World returns to Pittsburgh, and it wants your old books
Get ready to wave your wand and put on your superhero cape, because the Wizard World convention is headed to Pittsburgh for a third time from July 26-28. After a three year gap – it had two previous runs in 2015 and 2016 – the ComicCon-style convention is not only bringing celebrities, games, and cosplayers…
Lynn Cullen Live – 17/18/19
Video Archive The legacy of retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is how we’re starting the show today. The moderate Republican, who is the third longest serving justice on the court died Tuesday at the age of 99. It’s interesting to note that he is the last justice whose confirmation hearing was not televised.…
Lynn Cullen Live – 7/17/19
Video Archive A Wall Street Journal opinion piece on nationalism and the United States is where the show is starting today. It discusses the differences between nationalism and patriotism, as well as, what it means to be “truly American.” Recent comments by Kellyanne Conway are also being looked at it, and EEOC regulations. It’s Wednesday,…
Co-hosts of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Setting the SEEN talk sequins, Pittsburgh fashion, and athleisure chic with Tereneh Idia
Two of Pittsburgh’s most important purveyors of style, Natalie Bencivenga and Sara Bauknecht, co-hosts of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Setting the SEEN webshow, joined me this month to talk fashion over a picnic. Could you tell me about what you’re wearing today? Sara: I am wearing a Michael Kors dress that my mom got on sale at Macy’s as…
Experimental documentary Wild Human explores the relationship between wilderness, and representations of wilderness
Filmmaker David Bernabo wanted to make something about the environment and climate change, but he knew that topic had been covered many times over by people with more resources and expertise. So he took a more experimental route with Wild Human, exploring the concept of the relationship between humans and wilderness, more specifically how humans…
Vicky Carbone is an advocate for Pittsburgh metal and a whole lot more
Name: Vicky Carbone, aka Vee L. Cee, Garfield Work: Promoter and booker for Steel & Bone Productions, a promotional group for metal shows, along with Mike Schang, Jason of Slow Heavy Metal Music, Jen Nunez, and Caz; mail-order manager for record label 20 Buck Spin; manager and creative director at Pyre Press print shop; advocate of…
Free Will Astrology
CANCER (June 21-July 22): What would you say if I asked you to tell me who you truly are? I wouldn’t want to hear so much about your titles and awards. I’d be curious about your sacred mysteries, not your literal history. I’d want to know the treasured secrets you talk about with yourself before…
Artist behind hundreds of iconic album covers debuts first solo show at Westmoreland Museum of Art
Yes, you can and should sometimes judge a book by its cover. Or, say, an album cover so well designed that when fans hear the title, they picture the artwork on the sleeve long before the lyrics start popping into their heads. It’s what graphic designers spend lifetimes mastering: the art of combining typography and…
Meet the people working to bring body positivity, inclusivity, and accessibility to the Pittsburgh health scene
Jamie Hamilton has built a career on being what she calls a “plus-size creative,” something she believes would not have been possible a decade ago. “If things hadn’t changed, I wouldn’t be able to make money doing what I do,” says Hamilton, a freelance creative director and photographer. Hamilton goes by Jamie JeTaime on her…
New Bellevue restaurant adds another bar option — and tacos
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Try these welcoming dressing rooms on for size
Dressing rooms can be treacherous places, especially for people who have struggled with body-image issues. Urbanfitco, a Sewickley-based clothing store, sells a variety of products, but specializes in activewear. Recently, owner KC Kaluhiokalani decided to give the store’s dressing room a makeover to create a more positive and welcoming environment for customers. “You go into…
You don’t have to go to the gym to get your exercise
Being active doesn’t always have to mean grinding it out at the gym. For those of us that would rather not bench press or run on the treadmill, try these ideas for staying active that aren’t too strenuous and might even be fun. Grab some friends and head to the park With the many parks…
Crush Hour is the first women’s LGBTQ happy hour since 2014
Despite having the word “crush” in its name, Crush Hour isn’t about speed dating. It’s about community. The new happy hour, with its first event on July 19, is creating a safe space for LGBTQ women across the city to come together, enjoy a drink, and connect. This isn’t the first LGBTQ mixer to pop…
Bummer-pop group Soft Gondola releases its first album, which also happens to be its last
While working on its eponymous first LP, bummer-pop group Soft Gondola didn’t know that it would also be its last. But lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist Daniella Trimble had a feeling. “I didn’t know that this would be the last record, but I knew that while we were writing it that it wouldn’t be sustainable…
The rare — if not only — art exhibit in Pittsburgh that exclusively features the work of Asian Pacific Islander Americans
A new exhibit in the offices of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council highlights a group of artists that have been historically underrepresented in the city. We Are Here: Asian Pacific Islander American Artists in Pittsburgh came together after the exhibit’s curator Karen Lue pulled together a show for the Lunar New Year at Everyday Cafe…
That Was Dope! Showcase offers headlining gigs to open-mic favorites
If it weren’t for the presence of local open mic sessions, the Eddan Sparks Trio wouldn’t exist. So now, the pop, soul, funk band is giving back to the music community with its That Was Dope! Showcase, a platform where those selected to perform are guaranteed a headlining gig. Brandon Lehman, Eddan Sparks, and Benji.…
Pop-punk rockers The Maine celebrate seventh album, gear up for Sad Summer Fest
Pop-punk band The Maine has proven its staying power in the global punk scene, releasing albums and singles consistently since 2007. The group formed as teens in Tempe, Ariz., and has spent the last 12 years together touring and releasing seven albums. The Maine dropped its latest album, You Are OK, in March as a…
Texture Contemporary Ballet opens its ninth season with Flying & Falling
State-of-the-art dance choreographed to modern pop takes the stage in Flying & Falling, the first show of Texture Contemporary Ballet’s ninth season. New, expanded, and restated pieces of choreography will be showcased in the season opener at the New Hazlett Theater from July 18-21. The show features choreography by Texture’s artistic director Alan Obuzor, associate…
Pennsylvania’s best inexpensive beers ranked
It’s great that small breweries are opening up everywhere, owned by community members with a focus on local ingredients and revitalizing business districts. That being said, there’s no denying that craft-beer exhaustion is upon us, as the explosion of craft breweries doesn’t mean all the new beers actually taste good. And when you pay top dollar…
A guide to being a good strip club customer
Several weeks ago, I found myself in a conversation with a group of Pittsburgh-based strippers who were sharing the nitty-gritty frustrations of customer interactions. It seems important for people to know this stuff, so I decided to reach out to three current and former full-time dancers — Eden, Sheena, and Iris — asking them what…
