Bike Pittsburgh and Healthy Ride offering incentives to promote Bike to Work Day
Pittsburgh bike groups are pulling out all the stops for 2016 Bike to Work Day.
Correction: Alison Knowles event at the Carnegie is tomorrow night
Pioneering artist’s Celebration Red is in the Hall of Sculpture
Latest Honors for Pittsburgh-based Poet Terrance Hayes
Pitt professor receives literature award, is elected to prestigious organization
Pittsburgh Public Schools names superintendent candidate
The Pittsburgh Public School District board of directors selected Anthony Hamlet as next superintendent.
Listen Up! May 18
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists mentioned in the current music section. Listen below!
A conversation with this week’s Pittsburgh City Paper Summer Guide cover illustrator Emily Traynor
Pittsburgh-based artist Emily Traynor talks about her art style and her favorite neighborhoods in Pittsburgh in our Q&A.
Pittsburgh’s tiny house keeps popping up on Airbnb, could be a violation of its URA loan
The tiny house in Garfield keeps appearing and disappearing on rental site Airbnb, which could lead to a violation of the home’s loan and original purpose.
Urban Land Institute releases initial recommendations from study on East End development
The Urban Land Institute release preliminary recommendations for maintaining affordability in the East End.
Planned Parenthood Action Fund rallies supporters to ‘Pink Out the Vote’ at Pittsburgh conference
Planned Parenthood’s Pittsburgh “Power of Pink” conference trained volunteers to engage voters and media on issues of reproductive health.
MP3 Monday: Maytide
This week’s MP3 comes from local garage-y, power pop-y rock band Maytide. Stream or download “Pretty Little Fool” from the group’s new four-song demo, for free below. Download link has expired, sorry!
Concert review: The Avett Brothers at Stage AE, May 12
The Avett Brothers show off their genre-mixing skills at Stage AE
Pittsburgh Children’s Theater Festival continues in Downtown Pittsburgh this weekend
The 30th annual EQT Children’s Theater Festival brings productions of beloved tales and outdoor activities suitable for all ages.
Free play reading on Pittsburgh’s South Side tomorrow and Sunday
Creators of Braddock “Saints Tour” offer “a play with dance breaks.”
PennDOT Bike/Ped coordinator visits Pittsburgh, vows to update and improve Pennsylvania’s bike and pedestrian policies
The state’s new bike/pedestrian coordinator give “encouraging” talk to bike advocacy groups, community leaders and planners at a Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission meeting.
What you need to know about Pittsburgh news this week
This week the Pittsburgh Penguins advance to the conference finals; Pittsburgh Filmmakers fires three staffers; and City Paper adds two new features and wins seven Golden Quill journalism awards.
Pittsburgh City Paper staffers win seven Golden Quill awards from Press Club of Western Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh City Paper wins seven Golden Quill Awards from Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, including best-in-show
Lynn Cullen Live 05/13/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Trump moves closer to Republican ideals. Cops with blacked out windows. Lynn on bike lanes. Russia stole the Sochi Olympics. Petition for Bernie to step down and dedicate efforts to defeating Trump. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple…
Some Homewood residents say they’re being left out of redevelopment process
Some East End residents say they’re being left out of an initiative to maintain affordable housing in their neighborhoods.
Concert review: Ms. Lauryn Hill at Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall, May 11
A review of Ms. Lauryn Hill’s performance at Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall
Pittsburgh City Paper to Debut New Strange-News Column and Weekly Comic
WaynoVision to launch in Pittsburgh’s alt-weekly alongside new weekly column “Weird Pittsburgh” starting May 18
City Paper Podcast – Episode 017
This week on the City Paper podcast, music editor Margaret Welsh talks about that one time she sang on a kid’s Christian-music album.
City Paper Weekend Calendar – May 12 – 15
Here are the top five things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend.
Lynn Cullen Live 5/12/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Tom Huth on the benefits of life long marijuana use. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Bienvenidos a Pittsburgh: El crecimiento de la población latino ayuda a revitalizar la vecindad de South Hills.
English Version: Bienvenidos a Pittsburgh: The growth of the city’s Latino community is contributing to the revitalization of the South Hills En las últimas décadas, la zona de South Hills llamada Beechview no era considerada una vecindad de destino popular. Pero en un reciente sábado, las calles estaban llenas de coches parqueados, y docenas de…
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at McKeesport Little Theater
THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS continues through May 22. McKeesport Little Theater, 1614 Coursin St., McKeesport. $18. 412-673-1100 or mckeesportlittletheater.com Whenever a whorehouse opens in town, I am the first in line. And I’m not dickering around. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is based on the true story of a legendary Texas brothel that operated from…
With WZUM-AM 1550, Pittsburgh Public Media brings jazz back to the radio
Last month, jazz returned to the Pittsburgh airwaves, in a limited capacity. On April 2, Pittsburgh Public Media, a volunteer organization made of former employees of WDUQ-FM, purchased WZUM-AM 1550 and changed its format from R&B oldies to jazz. Bill Hillgrove, best known as the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pitt Panthers, introduced the…
Pennsylvania Democrats have a rare shot at taking down state House Speaker Mike Turzai in November
There’s something I admire about Republican Pennsylvania state Rep. Mike Turzai. In 2012, just a few months before the presidential election, Turzai and his fellow Republicans enacted the infamous Pennsylvania voter-ID law. The law required photo identification to vote. And while the Republicans tried to spin some tale about it cutting down on voter fraud…
Bienvenidos a Pittsburgh: The growth of the city’s Latino community is contributing to the revitalization of the South Hills
Spanish Version: Bienvenidos a Pittsburgh: El crecimiento de la población latino ayuda a revitalizar la vecindad de South Hills. For the past few decades, the South Hills neighborhood of Beechview has not really been considered a destination community. But on a recent Saturday, the streets were jammed with parked cars, and dozens of Pittsburghers took…
The Flying Squirrel in Carnegie offers local ice cream, retro candy and a green ethos
Ice cream, candy, toys and games. The Flying Squirrel in Carnegie is like Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory or something out of a childhood fantasy. But it’s also more adult than meets the eye. “Everything we do is green. Everything’s compostable. We don’t do any plastics,” says Melanie Luke, who owns the shop, which will be…
Will the city’s rental-permit law be held up in court or be the newest piece of unenforceable legislation?
Last year, Pittsburgh City Council passed an ordinance to create a residential rental-permit program. The ordinance would require landlords to obtain, for a fee, a permit to rent units to tenants, and to be subject to regular inspections. “In my office, calls about building inspection, rental issues are near the top of the list,” says…
A look at Rick Bach’s first solo exhibit in Pittsburgh in nine years
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE continues through May 21. Percolate Art Space, 317 Trenton Ave., Wilkinsburg. 412-606-1220 I first saw Rick Bach’s work as a college student sitting on a Mad Mex barstool in Oakland. During the long journey to the bottom of an oversized margarita, I noticed bug-eyed faces leering from the paintings on the wall — part Día de…
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: Civil War Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo Starring Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. In 3-D, in select theaters I don’t want to be that guy who loves every superhero movie that hits the multiplex because he loved them as a child and is trying to recapture his boyhood by announcing that…
This week in City Paper History
The 2013 Pittsburgh mayoral primary between Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, Bill Peduto, Michael Lamb and former state Auditor General Jack Wagner was shaping up as one for the ages. But despite a host of new scandals — a slush fund in the police department and a federal investigation of his administration, for starters — many pundits…
Stuff We Like
Unexpected views. The top of California Avenue in Brighton Heights provides stunning views of the Ohio River through a smoke stack and an industrial complex; classic Pittsburgh. A Brief History of Seven Killings. This novel by Jamaican author Marlon James explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley and takes the reader through decades of tumultuous…
Sing Street
The coming-of-age Irish comedy Sing Street is as simple as a pop song: Sensitive teenage boy forms a band hoping to impress a pretty girl. Spoiler alert: It works. Cosmo (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) charms Raphina (Lucy Boynton), and he’ll win you over too. Writer-director John Carney struck gold in 2007 with the offbeat musical rom-com Once,…
Wysocki on the best nicknames in Pittsburgh sports history
Everybody loves a good nickname. Here in Pittsburgh we’ve had a wide array of nicknames for our beloved Steelers, Penguins and Pirates. They range from great names like Jerome “The Bus” Bettis to considerably less stellar monikers like Nyjer “Tony Plush” Morgan. When you don’t know what you’re getting, it’s generally a bad nickname. “Dr.…
Elstree 1976
Jon Spira’s documentary catches up with 10 extras and bit players who worked on George Lucas’ Star Wars. (The film takes its title from the studio outside London where much of the film was shot, and the year of its production.) These nine men and one woman portrayed stormtroopers, pilots, cantina patrons and various assorted…
Savage Love
Straight male, 48, married 14 years, three kids under age 10. Needless to say, life is busy at our house. My wife and I have stopped having sex. It was my decision. I get the obligation vibe combined with a vanilla sex life, and it just turns me off. For the past two months, I’ve…
The Man Who Knew Infinity
This British biographical drama from Matthew Brown fills in a long-ago chapter in the history of advanced mathematics. In the years immediately before World War I, a young self-educated math whiz from Madras, India, is grudgingly invited to Cambridge University on the strength of theories he submitted. Once there, Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) is mentored…
Margaret Cho brings her Psycho Tour to Pittsburgh
MARGARET CHO Thu., May 12-Sat., May 14. Pittsburgh Improv, 166 Water St., The Waterfront, West Homestead. $25. 412-462-5233 or pittsburgh.improv.com Margaret Cho’s current Psycho Tour — “There’s No ‘I’ in Team, But There’s ‘Cho’ in Psycho” — coincides with the release of her new album, American Myth. The 12 songs co-written by Cho cover characteristically…
Short List: May 11 – 18
SPOTLIGHT: Stage — Thu., May 12 Many stage productions these days offer special sensory-friendly performances for folks on the autism spectrum — without bright lights, loud noises and such. Now Bricolage Productions is premiering the first local work of immersive theater designed specifically for children on the spectrum. Welcome to Here is a 45-minute linear…
Critics’ Picks, May 12-18
[HIP HOP] + SAT., MAY 14 Large Professor is all about repping his fellow Queens, New York-based hip-hop artists. As the hook to his track “In the Scrolls” goes, “Nobody does it better than Nas.” But Nas couldn’t have done it without Large Professor, who was part of the production team responsible for that rapper’s…
A look at recent and ongoing projects that have advanced discourse on art locally
It’s a time of cultural plenitude — multiplexes of movies, binge-able television, ziggurats of books, crashing waves of music. It’s now pretty much impossible to be a completist in any field unless one has a narrow focus. But that also means that there’s plenty of whatever you’re looking for in quantity as well as variety.…
Cellist Mikhail Istomin’s long musical journey to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
In 1988, when Mikhail Istomin was studying to be a cellist at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Yo-Yo Ma was scheduled to perform at the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Tickets were sold out within a day, so Istomin and his classmates concocted an elaborate plan. An acquaintance who actually had tickets would enter the women’s restroom and…
U.K. post-punk band Savages on chaos, strength and adoring life
SAVAGES, HEAD WOUND CITY 8 p.m. Tue., May 17. Mr. Smalls Theatre, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $20. All ages. 412-821-4447 or mrsmalls.com “I’m not going to hurt you ’cause I’m flirting with you,” Savages vocalist Jehnny Beth confronts listeners on “Sad Person,” a track that equates love with disease, an addiction, a rush of cocaine.…
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) at Off the Wall
THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS (THE MUSICAL!) continues through May 21. Off the Wall Productions at Carnegie Stage, 25 W. Main Street. Carnegie. $25-40. 724-837-3576 or insideoffthewall.com People who retain incredibly arcane sports statistics always amaze me. In my charmingly smug way I always wonder what sort of empty lives they have. Never mind that I…
With a fresh line-up, The Obsessed head out on their first full-fledged tour in more than a decade
THE OBSESSED, KARMA TO BURN, THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX, MONOLITH WIELDER 8:30 p.m. Sat., May 14. Altar Bar, 1620 Penn Ave., Strip District. $20-23. 412-206-9719 or thealtarbar.com Scott “Wino” Weinrich, of The Obsessed, possesses the air of a man built to withstand time: His face looks like it was chipped from stone, perpetually stern, with a…
Two Tales of Terror at PICT Classic Theatre
TWO TALES OF TERROR continues through May 20. PICT Classic Theatre at Stephen Foster Memorial, 4301 Forbes Avenue, Oakland. $15-50. 412-561-6000 or picttheatre.org PICT Classic Theatre’s production of Two Tales of Terror, based on the writings of Edgar Allen Poe, should really be called One Tale of Fear, and One Tale of Somnolence. The first…
Insurrection AleWorks in Heidelberg offers lively beer and sandwiches
Insurrection AleWorks 1635 E. Railroad St., Heidelberg. 412-276-2030 Hours: Tue.-Thu. 4-11 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. noon-midnight; Sun. noon-8 p.m. Prices: $5-16 Liquor: Full bar The Whiskey Rebellion is a natural hook for local distillers. Located just a few miles up the road from Western Pennsylvania’s own flashpoint of sedition, Heidelberg’s Insurrection AleWorks pays homage to the great…
New Releases
No Time You’ll Get Yours (Six Feet Under Records) notimepgh.bandcamp.com After dropping one of the best pure hardcore-punk records of the decade in the form of Blood Pressure’s April release Need to Control, you’d think the guys involved would be content to lay low for a bit. But some of them have gotten together in…
Ice is an overlooked but all-important cocktail ingredient
At a recent celebratory dinner, my girlfriend and I tore our way through the menu at one of Pittsburgh’s hottest new restaurants. The food lived up to the hype, each course more enchanting than the one before. The cocktails were just as lovely, meticulously garnished and presented in elegant glassware. And they tasted great —…
Lynn Cullen Live 05/11/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Rodrigo Duterte wins Filipino presidency. Welfare benefits. Campaign support. Does Hilary believe in UFOs. UFOs are renamed UAP or unexplained aerial phenomenon. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Lynn Cullen Live 05/10/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Trump supporters. Belly button beer. RNC to be produced by Hollywood. West Point cadets under investigation. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
First-of-its-kind learning celebration starts May 9
Remake Learning Days, a series of more than 250 events slated for May 9-15, will celebrate learning innovation in southwest Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Are you ready to experience the future of learning? If you’re a student, parent, or innovator in the Pittsburgh region, you’ll get your chance during Remake Learning Days, a week-long celebration…
