MP3 Monday: Roulette Waves
This week’s track comes from local rockers Roulette Waves; stream or download “Feel You” below, and don’t forget to check out our review of the band’s new record, Blown Out. To download, right-click here and select “save link as.”
Campaign 2016’s Silly Season: A Weekly Tweet Round-Up Aug. 6
Campaign 2016’s Silly Season: A Weekly Tweet Round-Up Aug. 6
Billy Porter in “Kinky Boots” at the Benedum
Pittsburgh native scores on return home in Broadway role
Listen Up! August 5
It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for our weekly Spotify playlist, where we highlight songs by artists and bands featured in our current issue. Check it out below!
Concert announcements: Nile, Kadavar, Radkey, Kinky Friedman, more
We’re hitting that late-summer concert lull, folks, so here are some newly announced concerts to keep you thinking about live music. Because live music would never forget about you. Unfortunately it will eventually be January again, but on the plus side, Nile plays the Altar Bar on Jaunuary 19 ($20-22, on sale Saturday). Kylesa will also…
Update: Citizen group taking action against world’s largest steel company’s Monessen plant
Mid Mon Valley residents fed up with noxious fumes emanating from Monessen coal-processing plant.
Lynn Cullen Live 8/4/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Susan joins to discuss new puppy, Americans using the Nazi salute before the Nazis, and more doctors hunting big game. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Pittsburgh City Council passes mandatory paid sick days law
Pittsburgh City Council passes sick days legislation, noise ordinance; begins one-month summer break.
CORRECTION: Cyclist injured by driver in hit-and-run incident in East Liberty, car matching description reportedly found
Bike PGH and Pittsburgh Police working to identify driver in bicycle hit-and-run in East Liberty.
Lynn Cullen Live 8/3/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Lynn discusses big-game hunting, $70k starting salaries, Joe Biden’s running odds, and “Americans” as a bad word. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
J. Cole Slideshow from First Niagara Pavilion
Slideshow of J. Cole’s performance at First Niagara Pavilion
Campaign 2016’s Silly Season: A Weekly Tweet Round-Up July 31
Campaign 2016’s Silly Season: A Weekly Tweet Round-Up July 31
Lynn Cullen Live 7/31/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Murderous police officer gets out on million dollar bail. Where does morality come from? Creepy Woody Allen. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
CP Weekend Podcast – July 31 – Aug. 2, 2015
This week: Record-breaking dogs, street fairs and, yes, One Direction
Pittsburgh City Council vows to vote on ‘balanced’ paid sick days bill Monday
Council says it will vote Monday on paid sick days legislation.
Lynn Cullen Live 7/30/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Downed Malaysian flight partially washes up off Madagascar. Scott Walker polls 2nd in GOP party. Ohio police officer murders unarmed black man. Kristoff discusses Iran deal. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer…
Broadway star Billy Porter brings Kinky Boots home to Pittsburgh
KINKY BOOTS Aug. 4-9. Pittsburgh CLO at the Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $40.75-140.75. 412-456-6666 or pittsburghclo.org Billy Porter’s had a pretty decent couple of years. In 2013, he won the Tony and Drama Desk awards for best actor in a musical, for playing the drag queen Lola in Broadway hit Kinky Boots. In…
The Biblical Botanical Garden at Rodef Shalom illustrates useful plants of the ancient Near East
Just off busy Fifth Avenue, in Shadyside, there is a small hidden paradise. Ivy, fig and cedars of Lebanon grow on one side of a garden; millet, cinnamon, olive trees and a tunnel of grape vines thrive across a miniature Jordan River. This is the Biblical Botanical Garden at Rodef Shalom, where plants with significance…
A People’s History of Pittsburgh and Brewology
Its title notwithstanding, A People’s History of Pittsburgh, Vol. 1 ($20) shares little with Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, the revisionist classic that unearthed forgotten grassroots struggles against injustice. This book, one product of a two-year project by local photobook gallery Spaces Corners, recalls The Family of Man, the famous 1950s…
The Livermore re-opens with a focus on Italian food-and-wine pairings
In June, The Livermore in East Liberty closed its doors as a cocktail bar and re-opened as a restaurant focused on hyper-regional, close-to-the-earth Italian food and wine. “We’re restaurant people, and we weren’t feeling the energy we were at Bar Marco,” says Dominic Fiore, sommelier for both establishments. While Livermore still offers a handful of…
The Wedding Singer at Pittsburgh CLO
THE WEDDING SINGER continues through Sun., Aug. 2. Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $20-65.75. 412-456-6666 or trustarts.org Here’s a theatrical curio — a musical version of the 1998 Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore film The Wedding Singer, now at the Benedum Center thanks to the folks at Pittsburgh CLO. If you drew up a list of…
Lawsuit over fracking near schools in Mars School District could have statewide legal impact
On a hot afternoon along a backed-up, rush-hour-plagued two-lane road, parents rally in the front yard of a school, holding cardboard cut-outs of children that bear written phrases like “Don’t Frack My Future” and “Your Job is to Protect Me.” Some drivers honk in approval, while others yell “Frack, baby, frack.” But those parents standing…
Pine at South Park Theatre
PINE continues through Aug. 8. South Park Theatre, Corrigan Drive and Brownsville Road, South Park. $12. 412-831-8552 or southparktheatre.com The holidays and family — is there any combination more awkward? That’s a question at the forefront of Pine, South Park Theatre’s latest production that follows the White family through a bittersweet Christmas as matriarch Rita…
Guest Opinion: Innovation at risk as states ban telemedicine for medical abortions
When I survey all the technologies that will transform health care of the future for the better, I always return to the tremendous potential of telemedicine. Much like how Amazon transformed how we shop, telemedicine can bring health-care providers to your town (or even your home) through your phone or your computer. Such technology diminishes…
Rolling Hills, Satanic Mills plumbs landscape painting at the Frick
ROLLING HILLS, SATANIC MILLS continues through Sun., Aug. 2. Frick Art & Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze. 412-471-5605 or thefrickpittsburgh.org This summer, the former estate of steel mogul Henry Clay Frick hosts the sublime Rolling Hills, Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape. Some might see both British landscape painting and views of…
A Po’ boy at Peter’s Pub
The bartender here knows every word to every country song and her birthday Is tomorrow the woman next to me has shaved her head in solidarity with her sister across the street Recovering from another round of chemo it’s always the worst right after and the waiting Is almost as awful I imagine all the…
Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth Directed by James Kent Starring Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton Starts Fri., July 31. Harris. Testament of Youth begins Nov. 11, 1918, as the end of the Great War (later to be World War I) is being celebrated in the streets of Britain. But it’s clearly a day of anguish for…
Short List: July 29 – August 6
SPOTLIGHT: Tue., Aug. 4 — Words Oral storytelling is likely as old as language itself; whether it’s crafting a simple narrative of one’s day or a hero’s epic adventure, humans have always had a need to tell and hear stories. For 15 years, the Three Rivers Storytelling Festival has helped Pittsburgh celebrate this ancient tradition,…
Pixels
Chris Columbus’ comedy Pixels offers an amusing idea that is both too slight for a 105-minute movie and curiously underdeveloped despite the generous running time. The set-up: What if aliens saw screen footage of arcade video games circa 1982, and assumed those character shapes to attack Earth today? There’s something hilariously horrifying about seeing our…
Stuff We Like
The PNC Carousel. For a cheap alternative to Kennywood, without the crowds, take the kids to Schenley Plaza, in Oakland, for a ride on one of this carousel’s adorable animals for only $1.25. Macro Cookies from the East End Food Co-op Café. Some might argue about whether something containing so much wholesomeness (organic oats, whole…
A Lego Brickumentary
Kief Davidson and Daniel Junge’s new documentary takes viewers deep into the world of the iconic small plastic bricks, from the toy’s somewhat fiery origins in Denmark to its big-screen incarnation in last year’s The Lego Movie. Some of the material will be familiar to even the casual assembler, but the film finds interesting angles…
Paper Towns
This coming-of-age comedy directed by Jake Schreier and adapted from a novel by John Green (The Fault in Our Stars) doesn’t quite find its groove. It sets up its protagonist, the somewhat nerdy high school senior Quentin (Nat Wolff), who has an obsession with Margo (Cara Delevingne), the wild and popular girl across the street.…
Vacation
A sequel-slash-rework of the eponymous 1983 Chevy Chase road comedy, in which the kid from the first film, now grown up, takes his family on the same cross-country trip to Wally World. In this contemporary version, co-directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein, Rusty (Ed Helms) loads up the wife (Christina Applegate) and…
Parents protest fracking near Pennsylvania school
Video by Ashley Murray
At 78 and with myriad health issues, surf-rock legend Dick Dale plays through the pain
DICK DALE 8 p.m. Sun., Aug. 9. Rex Theater, 1602 E. Carson St., South Side. $30-35. 412-381-6811 or rextheater.com By his own admission, Dick Dale is a mess. The man hailed as the King of Surf Guitar has had rectal cancer twice. He’s currently in renal failure and refuses to go on dialysis, and he…
Neighbors say rash of summer shootings don’t define Pittsburgh’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood
It’s a Wednesday afternoon on Brighton Road in Marshall-Shadeland, one of the North Side’s two dozen neighborhoods. A small business district runs along the street. There’s a bar, a pizza shop, a bank and a corner store. Two groups of adults are outside talking. One group surrounds a table in front of a barbershop and…
Old Game celebrates its new music video with a release show
OLD GAME MUSIC-VIDEO RELEASE PARTY 8 p.m. Thu., July 30. The Mr. Roboto Project, 5106 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $5. therobotoproject.org On Thu., July 30, Old Game (formerly Good Thing) will host a video-release show at The Mr. Roboto Project. The night will showcase not only Old Game’s video for its single “Hunter,” but videos from…
Critics’ Picks, July 30-Aug. 5
[ROCK] + SUN., AUG., 2 R. Ring is sort of like that experimental novel you write at night after coming home from your full-time job — for years, you slowly chip away, chapter by chapter, but the day job always takes priority. Well, for Kelley Deal, that day job is being part of one of…
New Releases
Roulette Waves Blown Out (Self-released) roulettewaves.com Consciously or not, it’s natural to look for clues to an unfamiliar band’s sound in its name: Roulette Waves suggests a wild, dangerous emotionality, and wild emotion is something this catchy, grungy, slightly gothy release has in spades. Singer-guitarist Heather Donovan walks a thin line between clean pop precision…
A Guide to Raising City Chickens
Click here to view larger image Story and Illustration by Em DeMarco
Aviva Brick Oven
Aviva Brick Oven 16099 Perry Highway, Warrendale 724-799-8849 Hours: Mon.-Thu. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri. 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sat. 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sun. noon-9 p.m. Prices: $6-19 Liquor: Full bar Aviva Brick Oven is located near the border of Warrendale and Cranberry, and also straddles the fine line between pizzeria and “nice” restaurant, which is to…
Lynn Cullen Live 7/29/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Ann Rule, true crime writer, died today. The GOP and cuckservatives. Four colonialists found in Jamestown and examined. Project Safe Haven rescues Christians from Syria. The evolution of the criminal justice system and mandatory sentencing. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with…
Savage Love
I have always wanted to have a girls-only sex party, but I’m not sure how I feel about actually organizing one. What’s the etiquette if I do organize one myself? Do I need to provide the dildos for people’s harnesses? Or just the condoms and lube? And how do I find people who want to…
Pittsburgh Summer Beerfest 2015
Event video recorded by Aaron Warnick Song Credit: Organic Grunge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Lynn Cullen 7/28/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Lynn, Suz and their mom on the show today! Tune in for a family chat about politics and current events. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
