The Magnetic Chart of 2016 Primary Awesomeness Welcomes Chris Christie
The Magnetic Chart of 2016 Primary Awesomeness Welcomes Chris Christie
Concert photos: the Barenaked Ladies and the Violent Femmes, June 23
The Last Summer on Earth Tour rolled through Pittsburgh last night, featuring performances from the Violent Femms and the Barenaked Ladies. After an afternoon thunderstorm, the clouds parted for a sunny evening of music. The lawn quickly filled with blankets of relaxing families, couples and the like as Colin Hay opened. The Violent Femmes came…
The Magnetic Chart of 2016 Primary Awesomeness Welcomes Bobby Jindal
The Magnetic Chart of 2016 Primary Awesomeness Welcomes Bobby Jindal
Listen Up! June 24
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists covered in the current music section. This week’s issue is PACKED with good stuff, so be sure to take a listen.
Concert announcements: Patty Griffin, The Neighbourhood, more
Just a lil drizzle of concert announcements for ya on this rainy/sunny day. Patty Griffin and Sam Lee perform at the Byham Theater on September 27 ($37.75-47.75, on sale Friday) On October 12, Stage AE hosts The Neighbourhood, Bad Suns and Hunny ($29.50-32, on sale Friday) The Velvet Teen plays Brillobox on August 2 ($10-12,…
Pittsburgh 350 climate activists march ahead of Paris talks
Pittsburgh activists want to influence U.S. diplomats ahead of UN climate summit; City Councilor Dan Gilman proclaims “Climate Action Day”; Mayor Bill Peduto calls for calls for a clean energy model.
MP3 Monday: Ethan Bence
This week’s MP3 Music Video Monday comes to you from local rapper Ethan Bence. “Ill Tell Ya” is a first look at the CMU student’s forthcoming Outspoken Introvert EP, which is due out next month. If you like the single, feel free to download below. *Full disclosure: City Paper was not involved in the making of…
Concert photos: The Summerland Tour, June 19
The Summerland Tour, featuring American Hi-Fi, Toadies, Fuel and Everclear, made a stop in Pittsburgh this past Friday. A sparse, middle-aged crowd of 90’s rockers gathered at Stage AE to watch these groups perform their greatest hits from over the years. Check out the full set of photos below!
Lynn Cullen Live 6/22/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. AME Church shooting. Damon Young, editor-in-chief of VSB blog will join us on Wednesday. Brian Williams continues his humiliation. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Concert review: Billy Corgan at the Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall, June 16
This will likely rank among the most memorable and oddly enjoyable shows I’ll see this year
From Rome to Pittsburgh: Local groups rally for Climate Action after Pope’s remarks
Pittsburgh 350 will host a march and rally in support of Climate Action on Sunday. The event comes off of the heels of Pope Francis’s remarks condemning how big business has turned the Earth into an “immense pile of filth.”
Council to consider sick leave legislation
This week council transferred a liquor license, but more exciting events happened outside of council chambers.
A conversation with Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind
On June 29, San Francisco-based rock-band Third Eye Blind will make a stop in Pittsburgh as part of it’s summer tour with emo band Dashboard Confessional. City Paper talked to Third Eye Blind’s lead singer Stephan Jenkins about the upcoming show, the band’s latest album Dopamine, which was released June 16, and how Third Eye…
Organ convention comes to Pittsburgh, highlights St. Paul’s Cathedral instrument
A four-day celebration of the instrument comes to Pittsburgh.
Officials say East Liberty is among best examples of city’s ‘renaissance,’ residents disagree
Residents, business owners and activists say equitable development doesn’t include displacement.
County Health Department debuting new ‘Healthier Allegheny’ plan at community meetings
The health department is taking its Plan for a Healthier Allegheny on tour.
CP Weekend Podcast – June 19 – 20, 2015
This week on the CP Weekend Podcast: Brunch with drag kings and queens, take a jazz tour and get your yoga on.
On the Record with Chris Carrabba
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL with THIRD EYE BLIND. 6 p.m. Mon., June 22. Stage AE 400 North Shore Drive $35 All ages 412-229-5483 or stageae.com Dashboard Confessional has, essentially, been on hiatus, but frontman Chris Carrabba has been far from idle with Twin Forks and Further From Forever. CP talked to Carrabba about the band’s first tour…
The Wolfpack
The Wolfpack Directed by: Crystal Moselle Starts Fri., June 19. Harris “One particular year, we never got out at all.” So recalls one of the Angulo children, explaining one facet of his family’s bizarre hermetic existence in the heart of New York City, now recounted in Crystal Moselle’s documentary, The Wolfpack. The Angulos — six…
Roots Pride started a conversation about inclusiveness — where does it go from here?
Krys Thomas is in the middle of Fifth Avenue with hundreds of others marching in Pittsburgh’s annual Pride parade — and even though it just started to rain, the glee coursing across her face is unmistakable. “This is our day,” says Thomas, between throwing fistfuls of gold glitter onto spectators. “Pride is for everyone. Doesn’t…
Inside Out
Yay, Pixar is back! (Let’s never speak again of Cars 2.) The digital-animation house that gave us Finding Nemo, Up and Toy Story returns to form with Inside Out, a film that is fresh, funny, wise, sweet, gorgeous to look at and, for a “kid pic,” epically high-concept. But don’t panic! On one easily accessible…
In the wake of massive layoffs, concern over the future of Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
In 2006, two of the city’s biggest arts groups, Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, merged. Though the merger followed the temporary closure of the debt-ridden PCA, longtime Filmmakers executive director Charlie Humphrey said at the time that, long term, the move might be at least as beneficial to Filmmakers. A decade later,…
The Connection
For true-crime completists, Cédric Jimenez’s new drama presents the French side of the international drug-smuggling venture known as the “French Connection.” Heroin was moved from Turkey through France, by French and Italian gangsters, and on to the United States, with the illegal traffic reaching its peak in the 1960s and ’70s. (The American angle was…
Full of Pride
More than 110,000 people came downtown June 12-14 to celebrate Pittsburgh Pride weekend, according to figures released from the Delta Foundation, the group that produces the Pride event. From a concert by last-minute replacement Nick Jonas on Saturday night to an action-packed Pride Parade on Sunday afternoon. Photographer John Colombo spent the weekend capturing the…
Dope
The opening title of Rick Famuyiwa’s coming-of-age comedy reminds us that “dope” means drugs or somebody who makes mistakes, and that it’s also slang for “good, in a fresh kind of way.” All three meanings get a workout here, as high school senior Malcolm (Shameik Moore) has an awesome, crazy, messed-up week or so. Malcolm…
The Evaline, a legendary Bloomfield party house, is restarting the roller-coaster after a three-year hiatus
THE EVALINE COSTUME CABAL FEATURING BLUE COUPE 8 p.m. Fri., June 19 426 S. Evaline St. Bloomfield $40 Tickets available on eventbrite.com: bit.ly/1ShNu9j, or by calling 412-681-9677 to arrange pickup. In 2011, the five original members of the Alice Cooper Group were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. During the performance, bass…
Jurassic World
They might as well have called it “Jurassic Fan Service.” If you love the Jurassic franchise, this fourth iteration, directed by Colin Trevorrow, is for you. You get pretty much the same story (re-created dinosaurs get loose in park, wreck shit); lots of CGI creatures rampaging in 3-D; and winks to the original 1993 film.…
Savage Love
My boyfriend and I both spent a lot of time masturbating when we were young, and pretty much trained our brains to come only one way. He can only come from masturbating furiously, or sometimes from a marathon of jackhammer sex. A few years before I met him, I toned down the masturbating to retrain…
Famed drummer Ginger Baker talks about playing alongside legends, getting older, and his cantankerous reputation
GINGER BAKER JAZZ CONFUSION 9 p.m. Sat., June 20. August Wilson Centre 980 Liberty Ave. Downtown $42.25-69.25 Visit pittsburghjazzlive.com for tickets and a complete list of events, including many free outdoor concerts, happening June 19-21. A moment comes near the middle of Beware of Mr. Baker, the sobering 2012 documentary about Ginger Baker, in which…
Short List: June 18 – 25
SPOTLIGHT: Fri., June 19 — Opera Between 1854 and 1929, the Children’s Aid Society created by social reformer Charles Loring Brace shipped some 250,000 impoverished children from New York City to prospective homes elsewhere in the U.S. The “orphan train” (so-called although most of the kids weren’t technically orphans, and many didn’t go by rail)…
Crossing craters, canyons and clouds with Luke Borsten
LUKE BORSTEN with AS LADDERS 6 p.m. Sun., June 21 Snake Hill Concert Venue 3612 Ridgeway St. Polish Hill Free 724-880-5819 or www.facebook.com/SnakeHillPGH In May, singer-songwriter Lukas Borsten got into his 1999 Corolla and set out from his home in Portland, Ore., for his first solo tour, covering 50-plus towns and cities in more than…
Stuff We Like
Dry Lake Elizabeth. There’s a sort of majestic pathos to being (1) the world’s smallest “lake” to begin with, and (2) sitting drained for months while the city that owns you figures out the plumbing. West Park, North Side Summer Break. This seasonal beer from Block House Brewing has hints of grapefruit and other fruits.…
This Sunday, the international Make Music festival comes to Pittsburgh
In the early ’80s, France began holding the yearly Fête de la Musique, or Make Music Day, where amateur and professional musicians fill public spaces with live music. The festival, which always takes place on June 21, the longest day of the year, has since spread internationally, with celebrations in more than 700 cities. The…
YouTube Lullaby
Sing to me Katy Sing to me Demi Sing to me Ellie, and Sia. Give me your glam, your aery your mezzo-soprano in the wan light of the last quarter moon. Beguile me with your magnetic style, your wild and winsome fashion, elegant enchanted hands trace sublime choreography across the lucent screen. Surround me with…
Critics’ Picks, June 18-24
[INDIE ROCK] + FRI., JUNE 19 At first, the Metric were shocked to be opening for Imagine Dragons. Even though the Canadian darlings have been successful (mostly in their home country), their towering synth-pop still seems modest compared to the band that nearly blew up the Grammy stage with Kendrick Lamar. But Metric’s Emily Haines…
Lviv European Kitchen
Lviv European Kitchen 940 Fifth Ave Coraopolis 412-262-1210 or 412-262-1288 Hours: Tue.-Thu. 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Fri. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sat. 1-8 p.m. Prices: $3-14 Liquor: BYOB Not long ago, the hearty, homey Eastern European food so emblematic of our city seemed to be passing into history along with the immigrants who brought it. With scant…
PLCB launches program to carry more craft spirits
Over the past 10 years, Pittsburgh has experienced a huge renaissance in almost every cultural enclave. Speaking as a transplant who considers this city her home, among the many things that I’m proud of coming out of Pennsylvania are our distilleries and breweries. Apparently, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board agrees. The PLCB recently announced the…
Bloomfield’s newest coffee shop also specializes in design
4121 Main, Bloomfield’s newest coffee shop, is an oasis. The space is small but welcoming, and full of fresh flowers and natural light from the large storefront windows. Patrons are talking or reading, but — thanks to the intentional absence of Wi-Fi — no one is working on laptops. But there’s more to this shop…
Mary Poppins at Pittsburgh CLO
MARY POPPINS continues through June 21 Benedum Center 719 Liberty Ave. Downtown $20-65.75 412-456-6666 or pittsburghclo.org Mary Poppins, the Broadway musical that’s been hyped higher than the nanny can fly, lives up to its reputation. And then some. As descended from the classic 1964 Disney film and P.L. Travers’ stories, Mary Poppins flies (literally) into the Banks family’s Cherry…
It’s time to tear down Mount Washington’s illuminated sign
Mount Washington’s flashing neon billboard, with its 30-foot-high letters stretching across more than 200 feet, is either an icon or an embarrassment, depending on your view. Recently it has become the subject of controversy between Mayor Bill Peduto, who wants the sign cleaned, but not otherwise changed, and owner Lamar Advertising, who wants to replace…
Girls Only at CLO Cabaret
GIRLS ONLY: THE SECRET COMEDY OF WOMEN continues through Aug. 16. The Cabaret at Theater Square, 655 Penn Ave. Downtown $34.75-44.75 412-325-6766 or clocabaret.com Cartoonist Alison Bechdel isn’t famous just for having won the MacArthur Award, or because the stage version of her graphic novel Fun Home won this year’s Tony for best musical. There’s…
An educator turns to fiction
In 1974, Madhu Bazaz Wangu and her husband moved from India to Pittsburgh. It took some adjusting. “People would talk to me louder than they needed to,” she recalls, and though fluent in English, she had trouble understanding the local accent. Wangu also found that fellow Indian immigrants often isolated themselves socially, as a group.…
Ben Patterson’s chalk pastels drop jaws at The Gallery 4
One of the most exciting things about art in the 21st century is the continual blurring of the line between street art and fine art. No longer must an artist leap between them. Rather, artists can generate work that is simultaneously both — planting one foot on each side and making the work they want…
A look at Dream Another Dream
LITTLE NEMO: DREAM ANOTHER DREAM continues through June 28 Toonseum 945 Liberty Ave. Downtown 412-232-0199 or toonseum.org In 1905, cartoonist and animator Zenas Winsor McCay, who had already established himself with the series “Dream of the Rarebit Fiend,” debuted “Little Nemo in Slumberland.” The weekly strip followed a young boy through somnolent adventures, encountering strangers…
A Pride Divided: Two groups with differing ideas on inclusiveness held Pride celebrations this weekend, so what do they make of each other?
This past weekend, thousands packed the streets Downtown in what the Delta Foundation says was its best-attended Pride ever. But it wasn’t without controversy. Shortly after Delta (Pittsburgh Pride’s organizer) hired Iggy Azalea to headline Pride, many members of the LGBT community spoke out against the choice. The Australian-born rapper has been accused of appropriating…
