VIA Festival announces its 2016 lineup
Headliners include ESG, Rakim and Juliana Huxtable
Cheswick power-plant employees and local residents testify at Allegheny County hearing
After the Allegheny County Health Department issued a strict proposed permit for the Cheswick power plant, workers and residents came out to testify for or against it.
Are young people responding to meme-like ads of Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race?
The Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race is the most expensive in the country, but all that cash might not be having an effect on young voters.
Escape artist Michael Griffin takes on new challenge in Pittsburgh
Escape artist Michael Griffin will perform another death-defying stunt, this time from the depths of Pittsburgh’s Allegheny River, if he sells 200 tickets to his upcoming show here.
Pittsburgh neighborhoods spend a ‘Night Out’ for community and police relations
Despite public tension, communities gather to build stronger relationships with police.
Iconic Pittsburgh filmmaker Tony Buba featured at the Carnegie tomorrow
A new documentary short about Buba is followed by several of his own signature works
Listen Up! Aug. 3
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists mentioned in the current music section. Check it aht below!
Cooking spaghetti carbonara for one can quickly deliver a simple but decadent meal
Cooking for one can be frustrating. First are the serving sizes, which imply that I have four to six mouths to feed. But I’m the only one relying on me, which is, mostly, pretty great! (I can eat chocolate ice cream for breakfast because I’m a grown-ass woman.) Sometimes having a week’s worth of leftovers…
Brooklyn’s Rhyton brings its freewheeling jams to Brillobox this week
It is in repetition that the album’s technical riches are revealed in the form of ambitious timing, thoughtful lyrics and studio wizardry.
Pittsburgh is the first stop for millennials looking to raise awareness of affordable-housing issues
Young representatives from across the country are traveling to five U.S. cities to discuss issues surrounding inequality. CP sat down with one to discuss affordable housing.
Lynn Cullen Live 08/2/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. What would happen if Trump dropped out before Election Day? Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
OpenStreets Pittsburgh successfully expands into Pittsburgh’s North Side and West End
A Car-Free West End Bridge highlights the four-hour event
MP3 Monday: Pk Delay
This week’s track comes from rapper Pk Delay, who we wrote about back in June. Stream or download “Mood Yah,” feat. Choo Jackson, from the EP, dad., for free below. You can also see Delay in person on Aug. 6 when he performs at Gus’s Cafe in Lawrenceville. The show starts at 10 p.m. This…
Lynn Cullen Live 08/1/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Bill Clinton’s bony hands. Lynn’s brush with the fuzz. Jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Palestinian Activist, Author Speaks in Pittsburgh Next Week
BDS Pittsburgh hosts Iyad Burnat Sunday and Monday at the Merton Center, Big Idea Bookstore
Synth artists to perform at Pittsburgh’s Cattivo on Saturday
Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizer and Lateral present live synth music from techno musicians including headliner Antenes
Lynn Cullen Live 07/29/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Fun Friday! Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Pittsburgh City Paper’s Democratic National Convention Live Blog: Day 4
11 p.m. Hillary Clinton takes the stage and the building is packed. The Bernie Sanders supporters have remained quiet, or maybe they are being drowned out… #BernieOrBust delegates in neon shirts booing are getting drowned out by Hillary chants #DemsInPhilly pic.twitter.com/7vzP5zEFV9 — Rebecca Addison (@PghReporter) July 29, 2016 Pretty noticeable from media seats above crowd…
Lynn Cullen Live 07/28/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Bernie supporters at the DNC. Advisors request that classified information not be given to Trump. Penn Plaza will now host a Whole Foods. Hays Woods approved by the city. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps…
Pittsburgh City Paper’s Democratic National Committee Live Blog: Day 3
Follow the action from day three of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia
Listen Up! July 27
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists mentioned in the current music section. Grab a paper and listen along!
You don’t have to like Ted Cruz to respect his snub of Donald Trump
Two great results came out of the Republican National Convention last week, and both of them involved the speech by former GOP presidential candidate and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. First, Cruz took the stage at the RNC in Cleveland and refused to endorse Donald Trump, a man who not only attacked Cruz personally during the…
Jesus Christ Superstar at Stage 62
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR continues through Sun., July 31. Stage 62 at Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Ave., Carnegie. $15-20. 412-429-6262 or stage62.com As someone pointed out, you can’t always get what you want, but sometimes you can get what you need. And if you’re as clever about it as the folks at…
Check out The Abbey on Butler Street, in Pittsburgh’s trendy Lawrenceville
The Abbey on Butler Street 4635 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-682-0200 Hours: Mon.-Sat. Lunch 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; dinner 5-11 p.m.; Sunday brunch 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Prices: $6.50-14.50 Liquor: Full Bar The name of The Abbey might be inaccurate, but it isn’t misleading. The building’s former roles as a masonry shop, foundry and funeral home have resulted…
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts’ half of Fiberart International is an expansive and often exciting show in itself
FIBERART INTERNATIONAL 2016 and MARCELLUS SHALE DOCUMENTARY PROJECT continue through July 31. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside. 412-361-0873 or pfpca.org Fiberart International 2016 is so large it requires two venues. One half, which I’ve yet to see, is at the Society of Contemporary Craft through Aug. 21. But the 42 works…
Star Trek Beyond
Star Trek Beyond Directed by Justin Lin Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Idris Elba In 3-D, in select theaters Will anything with the name “Star Trek” ever again boldly go anywhere that it hasn’t gone before? Probably not. So calling the new movie Star Trek Beyond is a bit of a tease. In fact, this…
Muli-platinum-selling artist Josh Groban talks about bullying, the importance of arts education and how he developed his sense of humor
JOSH GROBAN with SARAH MCLACHLAN 7:30 p.m. Tue., Aug. 2. First Niagara Pavilion, 665 Rt. 18, Burgettstown. $32.50-145. 724-947-7400 Josh Groban was bullied as a kid. He describes his younger self as shy and sensitive, very unlike the Groban we know now, the multi-platinum-selling artist who belts some of the most powerful ballads in the…
With SuperMonkey Recording Co., Christian Groblewski aims to put Pittsburgh music on the map
With his label, SuperMonkey Recording Company, Christian Groblewski aims to do for Pittsburgh what Sub Pop did for Seattle. “I’m a child of the ’90s, I was influenced by the grunge scene,” he says, sitting behind the desk in SuperMonkey headquarters, an Allentown storefront which — thanks to a grant from the neighborhood nonprofit Hilltop…
Julius Caesar at Throughline Theatre
JULIUS CAESAR continues through Sat., July 30. Grey Box Theatre, 3595 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $15-20. 888-718-4253 or throughlinetheatre.org If Donald Trump had read Julius Caesar, he wouldn’t have let Ted Cruz speak at the recent Republican National Convention. For any student of this deeply instructive political play of Shakespeare’s would have known that Cruz would…
The Hound of the Baskervilles at Kinetic Theatre
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES continues through Aug. 7. Kinetic Theatre at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater, 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $20-40. kinetictheatre.org “Once more into the breach!” Or so I imagine David Whalen said as he slipped on his red smoking jacket for his fourth portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, here for Kinetic Theatre Company’s production of…
RNC protests didn’t burn so bright in Cleveland last week
While it’s impossible to nail down exact numbers, estimates indicate there were far more police and journalists (20,000!) than delegates and protesters at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last week. This could explain why protests there didn’t explode like many thought they would; protesters were just outnumbered. Nowhere was this dichotomy more evident than…
Pittsburgh Go: Catch Pokémon and get healthy around Pittsburgh
Health Issue Pittsburgh Go: Catch Pokémon and get healthy around Pittsburgh Pittsburgh breast-milk bank provides aid to mothers in need Explore Pittsburgh’s history with eight Olympic games Pittsburgh offers hundreds of different fitness classes designed to take participants out of their comfort zone CMU student developing magnetic malaria treatment Pokémon Go is getting more gamers…
Pittsburgh breast-milk bank provides aid to mothers in need
Health Issue Pittsburgh Go: Catch Pokémon and get healthy around Pittsburgh Pittsburgh breast-milk bank provides aid to mothers in need Explore Pittsburgh’s history with eight Olympic games Pittsburgh offers hundreds of different fitness classes designed to take participants out of their comfort zone CMU student developing magnetic malaria treatment Last spring, the Three Rivers Mothers’…
Explore Pittsburgh’s history with eight Olympic games
Health Issue Pittsburgh Go: Catch Pokémon and get healthy around Pittsburgh Pittsburgh breast-milk bank provides aid to mothers in need Explore Pittsburgh’s history with eight Olympic games Pittsburgh offers hundreds of different fitness classes designed to take participants out of their comfort zone CMU student developing magnetic malaria treatment While Pittsburgh may not be the…
Pittsburgh offers hundreds of different fitness classes designed to take participants out of their comfort zone
Health Issue Pittsburgh Go: Catch Pokémon and get healthy around Pittsburgh Pittsburgh breast-milk bank provides aid to mothers in need Explore Pittsburgh’s history with eight Olympic games Pittsburgh offers hundreds of different fitness classes designed to take participants out of their comfort zone CMU student developing magnetic malaria treatment Aerial-silk riggings are weight-tested to hold…
CMU student developing magnetic malaria treatment
Health Issue Pittsburgh Go: Catch Pokémon and get healthy around Pittsburgh Pittsburgh breast-milk bank provides aid to mothers in need Explore Pittsburgh’s history with eight Olympic games Pittsburgh offers hundreds of different fitness classes designed to take participants out of their comfort zone CMU student developing magnetic malaria treatment As a woman in a STEM…
Personal Chef: Brilliant Brownies by a Brainy Bicyclist
I love riding my bicycle in the summer. I’m not a cyclist who eats mouthfuls of simple carbs to “race” by themselves. I can ride fast, but I ride at a pace that allows me to enjoy the scenery. I pack four or five of these brownies, made without wheat, added sugar, eggs or dairy,…
Weird Pittsburgh
There are only 138,000 Amish citizens in Pennsylvania and Ohio, but the newly-formed Amish PAC is hoping they’ll swing the states for Donald Trump. The Central Pennsylvania Business Journal reports that the Virginia-based PAC has launched billboard and print-media campaigns in parts of the states with significant horse-and-buggy traffic. Brazenly, the organization is insinuating similarities…
Edgar’s Best Tacos moves to a bigger, better location in the Strip District
A true taqueria-style Mexican joint should offer a few staples, and none of them should be giant bowl-like glasses of blue margaritas. They should include homemade cinnamon-rice beverage horchata and fresh-fried tortilla chips. And, of course, inexpensive cuts of marinated meat, stewed for hours, then shoved in smallish corn tortillas to be consumed in seconds.…
Short List: July 27 – August 2
FREE: Sat., July 30 — Festival Last year’s inaugural Pittsburgh VegFest went pretty well. “The turnout was just absolutely amazing,” says Leila Sleiman, who along with co-founder Natalie Fristick welcomed more than 4,000 visitors to Allegheny Commons Park East for a day of nibbling and info-gathering centered on veganism and a plant-based lifestyle. Sleiman and…
Stuff We Like
City of Play. This nonprofit brings a playful atmosphere to events around town, like the giant ball at this year’s Pittonkatonk (pictured). The organization also hosts weekly pub games and pick-up sports. www.cityofplay.org Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Ben Fountain’s lively, bittersweet novel follows a young soldier and his squad who, on a short visit…
Lemon Sun
It’s one of those days. The dogwood bloomed too early, the snow came late, and here we are, in our steam-heat apartment, the Christmas lights we never put away still blinking above the empty fireplace. You in the shower, me on the couch staring out the window as the wind twists the white petals and…
Two poets grapple with life-changing health issues
Recently, in Poetry magazine, Jim Ferris, author of The Hospital Poems, wrote this about the poetics of affliction: Disability is dangerous. We represent danger to the normate world, and rightly so. Disabled people live closer to the edge. We are more vulnerable. … But there is something glorious in being considered so odd, so marginal…
On Paradise, the members of Vancouver’s White Lung refine their sound without losing their edge
WHITE LUNG, THE GREYS, THE WIRE RIOTS 8 p.m. Wed., Aug. 3. Club Café. 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $10-12. 412-431-4950 or clubcafelive.com Three songs into White Lung’s new album, Paradise, the Vancouver band sends a signal that things are changing. The song in question — “Below” — moves at a much slower BPM than anything…
Gin flavors run deeper than juniper
One night, deep down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, I stumbled upon a memorable print by British artist William Hogarth. It depicts a grotesque scene of London in the 18th century, its denizens driven to prostitution and violence. A beggar tries to wrestle a bone from a dog. A child careens headfirst toward the ground, falling…
Café Society
The perennial Woody Allen’s new film, Café Society, is a smorgasbord of pluses and minuses that add up to maybe five, a romantic dramedy set in the 1930s that, let’s just say, seems like old times. It revolves around a young man (the perpetually uncharismatic Jesse Eisenberg) who leaves his family’s jewelry business in New…
Pittsburgh City Paper Booze Battles: The Goldmark vs. Dorothy 6 Blast Furnace Café
Each week, we order the same cocktail at two different bars for a friendly head-to-head battle. Go to the bars, taste them both 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…
Lynn Cullen Live 07/27/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Differences between DNC and RNC with mothers and celebrities speaking. Trump and the Russians. Olympics in Rio coming up. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
An American Idiot for the Black Lives Matter era
AMERICAN IDIOT Fri., July 29-Sun., July 31. New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $10-18. 412-945-0282 or alumnitheatercompany.org Television broadcasts another shooting, police brutality and Black Lives Matter protests. Facebook spotlights countless disturbing scenes worldwide. Twitter drowns in partisan bickering. A media-saturated everytown is the setting for Green Day’s American Idiot. The 2010…
Critics’ Picks, July 28-Aug. 3
[AFROBEAT] + THU., JULY 28 Femi Kuti and the Positive Force will fill the Rex Theater with funk-drenched Afrobeat, intended to get you grooving. Kuti is a multi-instrumentalist (and son of the legendary Fela Kuti) with major chops on the saxophone, trumpet and keyboard. Kuti and the Positive Force create music that is bursting with…
Cherry Heering
$27.99 / bottle Made in Denmark since 1818, Cherry Heering is a spiced cherry liqueur that adds richness to classic cocktails like the Blood and Sand or the High Hat. I had it for the first time a few years ago, and I’m still not over my obsession. — Celine Roberts Cherry Heering can be…
A trio of female athletes will carry Pittsburgh’s hopes into the Summer Olympics
The 2016 Olympics kick off in just over a week. The summer games, which are the second-best kind of Olympic Games, take place mostly in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Besides political unrest, bodies washing ashore, the Zika virus and some buildings not being completed, Rio is all set to host the world’s best athletes. I…
New Releases
PAUL LABRISE ALBUM-RELEASE SHOW 10 p.m. Thu., July 28. Howlers, 4509 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412-682-0320 or howlerspittsburgh.com Nik Sea Living on the Outside (Self-released) www.facebook.com/NikSeaOfficial Nik Sea’s Living on the Outside is a solid, grooving rock effort, offering funk-fused music that leans into pop sensibilities, while still incorporating some moments of grit and edge underneath…
City Paper Podcast – Episode 26
In this week’s episode of the CP Podcast, host Alex Gordon speaks with David Manchester of the band Arlo Aldo, who play harmony-heavy folk that sounds happy while feeling sad, or maybe the other way around. David dropped by the CP studios this week to discuss Arlo’s latest record (House & Home), recording at The Wilderness Recording…
Savage Love
I’m 28 years old and live in the Midwest. I’m intersex, but I identify as female. I am not out about being born intersex. Due to surgeries and hormones, I look like a fairly attractive female. I have been hanging out with a chill hetero guy, and things are getting very flirty. Is it unethical…
Lynn Cullen Live 07/25/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. “The law and order candidate.” DNC commences in Philly. Trump’s dealing with the banks and tax returns. McSweeney’s offers imagined monologues. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Sound Bite sips coffee with D Stubblefield of Pittsburgh
D Stubblefield has a cup of coffee with Sound Bite and lets us in on the life of a barista.
