Free Chamber Music Tonight at Bar Marco
Classical Revolution Pittsburgh does Schubert
Lynn Cullen Live 05/20/14
Video Archive Marriage equality…coming to PA today?; northeastern states not as progressive as you think; machine politics in PA not welcoming to women; Pgh voted 2nd safest city for pedestrians; more on Benghazi; VA spending; Richard Mellon-Scaife diagnosed with terminal cancer; comparing middle classes; Callers: Dave, Washington / Unknown. Audio Only Archive
UK’s Fear of Men will play Club Cafe Sunday
Eleanor Hardwick Fear of Men will play Club Cafe in South Side Sunday, May 18 This Sunday, UK band Fear of Men will play Pittsburgh for the first time. With their soothing yet upbeat blend of indie rock, the Brighton band is not one to be missed. The band is a trio at times and…
Advisory panel to Port Authority: Appeal to millennials
“The millennials are coming in force.” That was top among Pittsburgh’s major economic trends noted by Bill Lawrence, one of nine panelists who spent the last week touring the region and meeting with interest groups to help Port Authority come up with a long-term vision. And it turns out many of the panel’s recommendations for…
City partners with Nextdoor neighborhood social network
When the residents of Fineview in the North Side saw an increase in the number of daytime burglaries in their neighborhood, they took to Nextdoor, a neighborhood social networking site, to put a stop to them. The tool proved invaluable. Nextdoor served as a way for residents to share information and with the help of…
Assemble’s MakerDate Auctions Dates with Artists is Saturday
Proceeds benefit education initiative
Inaugural Pittsburgh Fringe Fest Breaks Even
Attendance lower than expected, but audiences pleased, says founder
Coalition continues fight for Medicaid expansion
Nursing student Britt Lawson was supposed to be the featured speaker at a press conference on expanding Medicaid held at the Consumer Health Coalition earlier today. But Lawson was unable to make it, said Rev. Sally Jo Snyder, because the 24-year-old’s crippling medical debt forced her to have to work a double shift. “We hear…
New ad offers up familar dynamic in Readshaw/Molchany race
As a wise man once said: History repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce, and finally as a campaign advertisement. For proof, I refer you to the primary race between Democratic state House representatives Harry Readshaw and Erin Molchany, where the two sides are pounding away on a small set of by-now familiar themes.…
PSO Benefit Show Friday in Wilkinsburg
Low-cost concert includes Beethoven, Haydn and more
Critics’ Picks: May 15 – 21
[FREE JAZZ] + THU., MAY 15 Some books lend themselves to being made into musicals. James Joyce’s Ulysses may not generally be considered to be one. But it all depends on the kind of music you’re looking to set it to: Michigan-based Kirsten Carey, who studied jazz at the University of Michigan, had the right…
On the Record with Robert Pollard
GUIDED BY VOICES. 7 p.m. Sat., May 17. Mr. Small’s Theatre 400 Lincoln Ave. Millvale. $25. 412-821-4447 or mrsmalls.com JUNK COLLECTOR AND SCRABBLE KING runs through May 23. Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, 5006 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. 412-924-0634 Guided by Voices plays Pittsburgh on Sat., May 17. Robert Pollard, the Ohio band’s über-prolific songwriter, currently…
Lost Bill: As a city councilor, Bill Peduto fired a shot for gun control. Was he shooting blanks?
When Bill Peduto talked about fighting crime during his run for mayor last year, he touted a measure he’d supported while on Pittsburgh City Council — a 2008 ordinance requiring gun-owners to report the loss or theft of handguns. On his campaign website, “Enforcing the Lost and Stolen Gun Laws” was listed as one of…
Transit Route: PAT looking for input on the agency’s future direction
For the first time in years, the conversation about Port Authority’s future is no longer about service reductions or fare hikes — it’s about what kind of public-transportation system the region should have and how to get there in the next few decades. And this week, the authority is tapping experts from around the country…
Class Warfare
By the time she graduated from Chatham University in 2008, Sarah Ford says, she’d learned “how to speak up for what I believe in.” After returning to campus May 1, however, she wondered how serious Chatham was about the lesson. Ford was one of roughly 20 alumnae protesting a Board of Trustees decision to admit…
Savage Love
I’m a 21-year-old straight male. I’m mildly autistic and have difficulty picking up on social cues. I’ve learned to manage my disability in most areas, but I’ve become concerned about how it pertains to hooking up. My approach to hooking up is how I imagine most other people’s must be: find someone I can have…
Short List: May 14 – 20
MAIN EVENT: Sat., May 17 — Art The Andy Warhol Museum turns 20, and celebrates with what’s made it a cultural linchpin: a big party, late-night fun and more Andy. Based on visitor feedback, says museum director Eric Shiner, the seven-story venue has been overhauled to spotlight a chronological portrait of Warhol: Over its top…
City Theatre’s Hope and Gravity
HOPE AND GRAVITY continues through May 25. City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., South Side. $15-55. 412-431-2489 or citytheatrecompany.org I’m not sure how people who’ve never tried writing a play might feel, but Michael Hollinger’s Hope and Gravity, receiving its world premiere at City Theatre, is a lovely piece of playwriting. Hollinger imagines a group of…
Salud Cuban American Restaurant and Lounge
Salud Cuban American Restaurant and Lounge 4517 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-605-0233 Hours: Tue.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Fri.-Sat.11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Prices: $4-14 Liquor: Full bar Yes, Pittsburgh does now have a spot for Cuban cuisine: Salud, in Lawrenceville. Occupying a traditional deep, narrow bar along Butler Street, its decor makes a few nods to the Cuban…
The Devil’s Arithmetic at Prime Stage
THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC continues through Sun., May 18. Prime Stage Theatre at the New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $10-20. primestage.com Is the Holocaust becoming forgettable? At first, I questioned Lisa Ann Goldsmith’s director’s notes about the need for “Holocaust education,” as printed in the program for Prime Stage Theatre’s world premiere…
Mount Washington’s The Summit popular with neighbors and pros alike
I’m sorry, Mount Washington. I started writing this weekly column in September 2011, and I’ve never once mentioned your neighborhood. No excuses. However, over the last few months, quite a few bartenders and chefs who live in Mount Washington told me that I needed to visit The Summit. The year-old bar at the corner of…
Doubt, A Parable at Stage 62
DOUBT continues through Sat., May 17. Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Ave., Carnegie. $12-15 412-429-6262 or stage62.com In the sermon that opens John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, A Parable, Father Flynn says, “Only God knows our secrets.” And secrets abound in this drama, the current offering from Stage 62. Did Father Flynn molest…
The pop-up monthly Cornucopious market lets purveyors and eaters explore the local food scene
There’s little doubt the Pittsburgh food scene has grown in size and sophistication, but breaking into it without much knowledge or cash can be tricky. That’s partly why Kit Mueller has set up an open-air “pop-up artisan-food flea market” called Cornucopious, which will feature food from some of the city’s trendiest chefs at more reasonable…
Pittsburgh Artists Against Fracking sounds an alarm
PITTSBURGH ARTISTS AGAINST FRACKING continues through June 1. Garfield Artworks 4931 Penn Ave. Garfield. 412-361-2262 or garfieldartworks.com The exhibit Pittsburgh Artists Against Fracking was organized in support of Protect Our Parks, a coalition fighting to prevent hydrofracturing for gas in Allegheny County’s public parks. Protect Our Parks distributes information, speaks out, meets with officials and…
Acclaimed actor Edwin Lee Gibson splits time between Pittsburgh and New York to help at-risk youth here
From January through April of this year, actor Edwin Lee Gibson has spent only about a month total in his Hill District apartment. It lacks any furniture except for an air mattress. Gibson has been working in New York City, doing some TV work or performing in shows like Minetta Lane Theatre’s recent production of…
God’s Pocket
God’s Pocket Directed by: John Slatterly Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, John Turturro Starts Fri., May 16. Harris. God’s Pocket opens during a funeral, while a voiceover sets the stage: “The working men of God’s Pocket are simple men. They work, they follow their teams, they marry and have children, who rarely leave the…
Reviews of recent poetry by Jessica Server and Robert Walicki
Two recent chapbooks by local poets deal extensively with different sorts of filial trauma. Many of the 25 poems in Jessica Server’s Sever the Braid (Finishing Line Press) depict domestic disorientation. In poems like “Dorothy Moves to 866 E. Turquoise,” the narrator describes a family’s move to Arizona in terms of an alien landscape possessing…
Million Dollar Arm
A struggling sports agent named J.B. Bernstein (Jon Hamm) works a gimmick: Hold a contest in India to recruit a pitcher or two from among the country’s cricket enthusiasts, then reap the publicity in two countries when these newly trained Indian players are signed by an American baseball team. This is the plot of Craig…
Mandolin Orange brings Appalachian tradition into modern times
MANDOLIN ORANGE with WILLIE WATSON. 7 p.m. Thu., May 15. Club Café, 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $12. 412-431-4950 or clubcafelive.com Emily Frantz, sundress-clad and barefoot, squinted in the afternoon sunlight, crooning over her fiddle. On the last day of the Spoleto Festival, in Charleston, S.C., the sun was roasting an audience too bloated…
James Jackson Toth wants you to think about the words
WOODEN WAND with STONE JACK JONES, COUPLER, LYLAS, MICHAEL DAWSON. 7 p.m. Tue., May 20. Club Café, 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $10. 412-431-4950 or clubcafelive.com Last December, NPR’s music blog ran an essay titled “That’s a Bad Lyric and You Know It.” In it, writer James Jackson Toth (who releases music under the…
Bastard Bearded Irishmen keep it (mostly) Irish on new album
BASTARD BEARDED IRISHMEN CD RELEASE with TRIGGERS, THE MISERY JACKALS. 7 p.m. Sat., May 17 Altar Bar, 1620 Penn Ave., Strip District. $10. All ages. 412-206-9719 or thealtarbar.com Having a name like Bastard Bearded Irishmen can present a few issues for a band. Beyond the obvious (like occasionally being asked to censor your name for…
MP3 Monday: City Love Story
City Love Story Hey all! A few weeks ago, we featured a review on a new-ish band called City Love Story; it’s actually the same folks who used to be in Rising Regina, but they took another direction and, with it, a new name. It’s all on the up-and-up, I think, and you can judge…
MP3 Monday: No Bad JuJu
No Bad JuJu No Bad JuJu has been one of Pittsburgh’s pre-eminent bar and party bands for years now; recently, the group released a new album, No Covers, which, of course, consists of all original tunes. Led by singer Sabrina De Matteo and guitarist (and sometimes singer too) Mark Matteo, the band brings the funk,…
