DC’s The Evens stop by the Union Project
Thursday, Washington D.C.’s minimalist, punkish, folkish duo the Evens makes their first stop in Pittsburgh since 2006. Comprised of Ian MacKaye of Fugazi on guitar and Amy Farina of the Warmers on drums, they’ll play the Union Project, a venue you may have visited for a yoga class or a wedding, but, perhaps, never to…
Art-Subscription Series Move Ahead
Those two “community-supported art” ventures are producing art, and one’s still seeking subscribers. More in Program Notes.
Art-Subscription Series Move Ahead
Shareholders begin to see dividends in form of artworks
Transportation funding scuttlebutt afoot in Harrisburg
Transportation, PAT, ATU,
Get your SCOTUS on tomorrow with various events
Well, it’s here. The Supreme Court of the United States is expected to hand down rulings tomorrow on same-sex marriage in the Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act cases on the final day of the court’s term. And there’s a handful of local events tomorrow in which same-sex marriage supporters can join together…
Lynn Cullen Live 06/25/13
Video Archive Phone guest: Susan; 4802 on summer hiatus; don’t talk about politics at dinner; SCOTUS decisions; Section 4 of Voting Rights Act found unconstitutional; we are a nation divided, not much changed after Civil War; same sex marriage ruling not out today; cronut delivery up to $3,000; problem w/ class action suits; worker’s comp…
Lynn Cullen Live 06/24/13
Video Archive Pirates are on fire; NRA has the government wrapped around it’s finger; aftermath of Kenny Chesney concert; where in the world is Snowden?; Trayvon Martin case begins today; SCOTUS affirmative action ruling, sent to lower court; new UPMC commercials are almost threats; Patrice King Brown making home phone calls on behalf of UPMC;…
Rivers Casino workers seek political support from Illinois teachers in attempt to unionize
Representatives from the Steel City Casino Workers’ Council, who hope to unionize employees at the Rivers Casino, have been visiting Illinois in recent weeks, hoping to increase pressure on casino management with the help of the Illinois Teachers Retirement System, which has invested in the fund that owns a majority stake in the property.
Lynn Cullen Live 06/21/13
Video Archive Print newspaper rates are going up; people who keep up with the news are more depressed; Buddhist monk rampaging; Afghan refugees returning home from Pakistan; Putin the Super Bowl ring thief; Amsterdam is a little TOO bike friendly; religion & violence; Exodus Int’l disbands, apologizes to gay community for trying to “cure” them;…
Pittsburgh Film Office head says uncapped tax credit would be boon to Pittsburgh and the entire state
Without the Pa. Film Tax Credit Tom Cruise wouldn’t have been able to pose in front of the Andy Warhol Bridge State Sen. Dominic Pileggi’s move last week to uncap the state’s $60 million film tax credit couldn’t come at a better time for the state’s film industry. Well, that’s not entirely true. The incentive…
Former Long-Term Inmate to Speak on Solitary Confinement
Member of the “Angola 3” talks Saturday in East Liberty
Prayer vigil next week for SCOTUS decision on marriage equality
No ruling yet on the Supreme Court cases involving Proposition 8 or the Defense of Marriage Act. But advocates are planning a prayer vigil next week, regardless of the outcome. The vigil, Upon the Supreme Court Decision on Marriage (or Not), will be an interfaith service at 7 p.m., Wed., June 26, at Sixth Presbyterian…
Lynn Cullen Live 06/20/13
Video Archive Obits: James Gandolfini, actor / Michael Hastings, journalist; Supreme Court decisions made / in the making; photo of Saturn to be taken on July 19; Paula Deen is a racist; Tea Party anti-immigration rally, what Michelle Bachmann had to say; without the worker, there would be no wealth; Caller: Joe. Audio Only Archive
Tonight: The Deadstring Brothers
Listen up classic-rock enthusiasts! The Deadstring Brothers are playing a show tonight at the Thunderbird Cafe. Their latest album “Canary Row” incorporates some country elements to compliment the jazz and rock the group is known for. Having moved from Detroit to Nashville, it’s clear where the influence is coming from. They’ll be performing with The…
Port Authority piloting on-bus audio ads
A Port Authority awareness card being installed on buses this week to explain audio advertising. You hear a lot of things on the bus. Now, advertising is one of them. On June 16, the Port Authority began piloting 15-second, GPS-based audio advertisements that play automatically at specific stops. Megabus advertisements can be heard on buses…
Last Week for The Kreutzer Sonata
One-man Show Concludes Saturday
Lauren Byrne: “I haven’t talked to anyone, and all of the sudden I was running”
Continuing our admittedly somewhat pointless speculation about who will vie to be Patrick Dowd’s successor on City Council, we now turn toward another community leader widely rumored to be interested: Lawrenceville United executive director Lauren Byrne. It’s no surprise that her name has surfaced: Byrne has been a mayoral staffer, working as a community liaison…
Will Ferlo run for Dowd’s seat ?
As we reported earlier this week, within hours of Patrick Dowd’s decision to resign from council next month, names for potential replacements began circulating. Among the most frequently mentioned: state Sen. Jim Ferlo, who formerly held that council seat himself. Ferlo faces the prospect of a tough re-election battle: His district was recently reconfigured to…
Bridge Toll: Business owners taking a hit during intrusive, but necessary, South Highland Bridge project
It’s not unusual for the Timebomb Shop to pulsate from the bass and drums in the music playing throughout the clothing store. So when the other noise started in March — the drilling, the bulldozing, the scraping, the digging — owner Brian Brick naturally set those scenes to music, too. On Timebomb Shop’s Vine —…
Despite its wide array of style and subjects — or maybe because of them — the AAP’s 102nd annual show has plenty of rewards.
ASSOCIATED ARTISTS OF PITTSBURGH 102nd ANNUAL EXHIBITION continues through June 23. Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. 412-622-3131 or www.cmoa.org The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh’s 102nd Annual Exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art is a mixture of styles, mediums and subject matter. Like most shows of this type, it has no main…
Lynn Cullen Live 06/19/13
Video Archive Guest: Bill O’ Driscoll, CP writer; Chris Potter’s messy desk; Ravenstahl’s former bodyguard in front of the Grand Jury; sequester chatter; Knit the Bridge project coming up; latest UPMC ad basically says, help us or die; electricity provider choices; environmental factors & renewable energy; Callers: George, Moon / Unknown. Audio Only Archive
In the midst of redevelopment, East Liberty loses two more eclectic venues
The irony does not escape Justin Strong, owner of AVA Bar & Lounge, who announced last week that he was closing up shop in East Liberty after a decade of waiting for the neighborhood’s revival. “We grabbed [AVA’s space] anticipating development,” he says. Strong is often credited as one of the pioneers who drew interest…
Scott Hove’s luscious cake sculptures have teeth — and jaws
SWEET MORTALITY continues through June 29. Gallery 4, 206 S. Highland Ave., Shadyside. 412-363-5050 or www.thegallery4.us A sidelong glance at the work of San Francisco-based artist Scott Hove might make your mouth water. Swirls and roses of pastel buttercream top what appear to be creations better suited to a bakery than a gallery. But Hove…
The Bling Ring
It was a great story, a crazy intersection of fame, wannabe-fame and a lot of stolen property. The so-called “Bling Ring” was a group of affluent teen-agers from the Los Angeles suburbs who, in 2008-09, robbed the homes of such TMZ-faves as Paris Hilton, Audrina Patridge and Lindsay Lohan. They took cash, drugs, jewelry and…
Pittsburgh Playwrights’ Radio Golf
RADIO GOLF continues through June 29. Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co., third floor, 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $20-30. pghplaywrights.com Radio Golf, August Wilson’s final play — and the conclusion of his Century Cycle series — is perhaps his most complex. With its references to other characters in other plays (especially Gem of the Ocean, the “first”…
Monsters University
Learn how the gang of professional scarers came together in this prequel to the 2001 Pixar hit Monsters Inc. Short answer: They met in college. Billy Crystal and John Goodman once again provide voices for Mike and Sulley, respectively, in Dam Scanlon’s digitally animated comedy. Naturally, the two don’t get along — until they do…
Sylvia at Little Lake Theatre
SYLVIA continues through June 29. Little Lake Theatre, 500 Lakeside Drive South (off Route 19), Canonsburg. $12-20. 724-745-6300 or www.littlelaketheatre.org Taking a break from his usual routine — chronicling the decline of the Eastern-seaboard WASP — in 1995, A.R. Gurney wrote the bittersweet comedy Sylvia, now onstage at Little Lake Theatre Company. It’s set in…
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
With the Snowden/NSA imbroglio on the front page, the timing is perfect for Alex Gibney’s latest doc, this one about the rise (and fall) of WikiLeaks, its star leaker, Pfc. Bradley Manning, and its telegenic frontman, Julian Assange. Gibney excels at these summary films, taking a topic that we’ve digested only in bits and pieces,…
Unseam’d Shakespeare’s The Tempest, or The Enchanted Isle
THE TEMPEST, OR THE ENCHANTED ISLE continues through June 29. Unseam’d Shakespeare Co. at the Studio Theatre, Cathedral of Learning, Forbes Avenue at Bigelow, Oakland. $12-25. www.unseamd.com There are two important things to remember when approaching Unseam’d Shakespeare Co.’s production of The Tempest, or The Enchanted Isle. First, this isn’t Shakespeare, but Oregonian playwright Scott…
Healthier Outlets
In the 30 months since deregulation made it possible to choose where your electricity comes from, a lot in the market has changed. But switching suppliers remains fairly easy, and if you want to clean up your power supply, there are more options than ever for supporting renewable energy. Deregulation lets you pick not only…
Two new biographies run different basepaths to Willie Stargell
Ask a baseball fan to name the greatest player ever to wear a Pittsburgh Pirates uniform, and you’ll likely get one of two names — Clemente or Stargell. Much has been written about Roberto Clemente, who died in a plane crash in 1972. Now, the man known affectionately as “Pops” gets his due in two…
Pride of Place
Although Pennsylvania doesn’t recognize same-sex marriage — yet — neither that fact nor Sunday’s rain dampened this weekend’s Pride events Downtown. This year’s theme was “I Wanna Marry You,” and while there was less overt political content this year, thousands of Pittsburghers let their relationships speak for themselves. There was also at least one engagement:…
Man of Steel
Man of Steel Directed by Zack Snyder Starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe In 3-D in select theaters A lot of stuff blows up or is otherwise epically destroyed in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel. Another thing that might also crumble is your expectation for a decent summer popcorn film, because this…
Savage Love
I’m a straight guy with an amazing girlfriend of two years. A few months ago, I felt open enough to share my taboo fantasy: father/daughter incest. My GF not only understands the fantasy but enjoys participating in it! I have ZERO interest in this kind of thing actually happening. I understand the damage that sexual…
Much Ado About Nothing
In the canon of William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing is probably the most difficult work — to mess up: It’s charming and familiar, a diptych love story with two happy endings, albeit with a slightly dark middle as conflicts play out. Joss Whedon’s new filming takes place in the California present, but the language…
Short List: June 19-25
SPOTLIGHT: Sat., June 22 — Exhibit For the next few months, the roads of Arabia lead to Pittsburgh. Starting June 22, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History will become one of five North American venues to host Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. More than 200 ancient artifacts will…
Eleanor Friedberger goes for a new record
ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER with TEEN, CASSANDRA JENKINS. 9:30 p.m. Wed., June 26. Brillobox, 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. $15. 412-621-4900 or www.brillobox.net After releasing eight albums in six years, it made sense that The Fiery Furnaces would take a break. Siblings Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger often wrote complex pieces that would insert an entirely different tune or…
Everyday Noodles
Everyday Noodles 5875 Forbes Ave., Squirrel Hill. 412-421-6660 Hours: Mon.-Thu. lunch 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., dinner 4-9:30 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. lunch 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., dinner 4-10 p.m.; Sun. 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Prices: $4-11 Liquor: BYOB Dinner and a show is an enticing promise, but when the two are combined in the same venue — whether it’s banquet…
Cheap Time’s Jeffrey Novak on his recorded output and his relationship with Jay Reatard
CHEAP TIME opens for SOCIAL DISTORTION. 6:30 p.m. Wed.,June 26. Stage AE, 400 North Shore Drive, North Side. $30-34. All ages. 412-229-5483 or www.stageae.com In Cheap Time, Jeffrey Novak fuses punk-rock fuzz with glam-rock swagger. Since its inception, in 2006, and with a variety of line-ups, Novak has led Cheap Time on the road with…
Welcome to Food City
On the North Side, on the border of the Spring Garden and East Deutschtown neighborhoods, about a quarter of an acre of vacant land has been fenced in and a sign welcomes those who pass to “Food City.” A few pepper plants, tomatoes and herbs dot the lot, but the vision of Kim Bracken, youth…
Champion DJ JayCeeOh remembers his Pittsburgh roots
He was born in Los Angeles and spends much of his time on the road these days, but Jake “JayCeeOh” Osher spent his middle and high school years living in Pittsburgh — and the nationally known DJ still thinks of the city as where he got his start. By the time he was in middle…
Sharp Edge festival brings Old World beer back to Pittsburgh
Sharp Edge Beer Emporium parking lot 302 S. St. Clair St. East Liberty. 412-661-3537 or sharpedgebeer.com Beer trends come and go. Once-popular but comically over-hopped IPAs, for example, are now giving way to mellow, spicy-sour farmhouse ales. But the allure of European beer is timeless — at least according to Jeff Walewski, owner of the…
Lynn Cullen Live 06/21/13
Video Archive Obits: James Gandolfini, actor / Michael Hastings, journalist; Supreme Court decisions made / in the making; photo of Saturn to be taken on July 19; Paula Deen is a racist; Tea Party anti-immigration rally, what Michelle Bachmann had to say; without the worker, there would be no wealth; Caller: Joe. Audio Only Archive
Mandy’s Pizza owner Steve Negri takes his gluten- and allergen-free recipes seriously
The Italian hoagie that I’m sharing with Mandy’s Pizza owner Steve Negri is fantastic, but it’s the crisped, golden-brown roll that deserves a special shout-out. The roll — made at a local bakery using Negri’s recipe — has been made for food-allergy sufferers. If you suffer from allergies to foods like nuts, dairy, gluten and…
Critics’ Picks: June 19-25
[REGGAE] + FRI., JUNE 21 The Wailers were, of course, the backing band for the best-known reggae artist of all time, Bob Marley — and the group at one time included some other huge names, like Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh. These days, the band is held down by Aston “Family Man” Barrett, the bassist…
On the Record with Billy Price
BILLY PRICE CD RELEASE. 8 p.m. Fri., June 21. Club Café, 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $15.412-431-4950 or www.clubcafelive.com New Jersey-born singer Billy Price relocated to Pittsburgh in the ’70s after a stint on the road with guitar virtuoso Roy Buchanan; he’s been a fixture on the soul and R&B scene here ever since.…
