MP3 Monday: Brandon Locher
Stream or download a new track from Brandon Locher
Sketch comedy festival returns to Arcade tonight
Three-day festival at Pittsburgh’s Arcade Comedy Theater runs through Saturday.
Listen Up! May 25
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists mentioned in the current music section. Listen below!
Transportation issues remain uncertain for Pittsburgh’s Affordable Housing Task Force
Local transit advocates are concerned the city’s affordable-housing polices might leave public-transportation access out of the equation.
Final Week for “Cock” at Pittsburgh’s Kinetic Theatre
Edgy British play Cock has five performances remaining at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre.
A conversation with this week’s Pittsburgh City Paper cover artist John Hinderliter
John Hinderliter, this week’s cover illustrator, is a freelance artist from Bethel Park. He first arrived in Pittsburgh back in 1975 when he came here for art school and never left. He calls the local art scene “eclectic, diverse and incredibly welcoming.” We caught up with him over email after he completed this week’s cover illustration.…
MP3 Monday: Pet Clinic
Stream or download a new song by Pet Clinic
Lynn Cullen Live 05/23/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Lynn discusses homelessness in Pittsburgh, RT America, and balloons. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Lynn Cullen Live 05/03/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Lynn discusses homelessness in Pittsburgh, RT America, and balloons. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Allegheny County Jail Health Justice Project to document abuses at the county lockup
Advocacy group says that deaths being down at the Allegheny County Jail doesn’t excuse officials from ignoring alleged ongoing abuses inside the jail walls.
On tour in Berlin, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra streams live back to Heinz Hall
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will offer public live streaming of their performance in Berlin on Sunday.
What you need to know about Pittsburgh news this week
This week, Pittsburgh Public Schools names its new superintendent; Pittsburgh-based poet Terrace Hayes snags another prestigious award; and the tiny house in Garfield raises eyebrows when it appeared on Airbnb.
Lynn Cullen Live 05/20/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Lynn discusses homelessness in Pittsburgh, RT America, and balloons. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Smart Is Cool hosts health and wellness summit in Wilkinsburg
Pittsburgh area students participated in Smart Is Cool, an educational health and wellness summit, today in Wilkinsburg.
Inaugural 3 Rivers Screenwriters Conference begins tomorrow
Three-day event includes presenters from film, TV and the web
Lynn Cullen Live 05/19/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Flight hits Meditteranian. Overtime pay. Trees actually sleep! The Pope on “blood suckers.” Melania Trump doesn’t condemn racist attack of reporter. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Our Last Tango
Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes met as teenagers in an Argentine milango, or tango dance hall. For the next 50 years, they performed as a dance couple — internationally renowned as masters of the tango. They also maintained a romantic, if rocky, relationship, until a personal and professional split late in life. German…
Summer Stage
Summer Guide: Intro Summer Music Summer Film Summer Arts Summer Stage Summer Kids Summer Outdoors Summer Fairs, Festivals and Special Events NOW ON STAGE Two Tales of Horror. Adaptations of Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” through Fri., May 20 (PICT Classic Theatre). Jeeves Intervenes. Margaret Raether’s adaptation of…
Summer Films
Summer Guide: Intro Summer Music Summer Film Summer Arts Summer Stage Summer Kids Summer Outdoors Summer Fairs, Festivals and Special Events They call summer the “lazy days,” and the big studios sure do exhibit such tendencies: The number of sequels, remakes and reboots this season is epic. Let’s start with the sequels: Johnny Depp and…
Summer Music
Summer Guide: Intro Summer Music Summer Film Summer Arts Summer Stage Summer Kids Summer Outdoors Summer Fairs, Festivals and Special Events May 18 Highly Suspect. Altar Bar Texas Hippie Coalition. Hard Rock Café Sister Grotto. Howlers The Rainbow End. James Street Stacked Like Pancakes. Jergel’s Rhythm Grille Nahko and Medicine for the People. Mr. Smalls…
The Seen and the Unseen questions our sense of place
THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN continues through May 27. Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center, 1000 Madison Ave., North Side. 412-322-2224 or neukirche.org In her curatorial statement for The Seen and the Unseen, at Neu Kirche Contemporary Art, Hannah Turpin says that the show exposes “the manipulatable and transitory reality of position and placement.” The exhibition…
Tale of Tales
This lush, if slowly paced, production from Matteo Garrone presents three somewhat intertwined stories, inspired by the fairy tales of Giambattista Basile. In one, a queen (Salma Hayek) is so desperate for a child that she sends her husband (John C. Reilly) to the bottom of the sea in search of a sea monster’s heart,…
Short List: May 18 – 24
Thu., May 19 — Stage Uncumber Theatrics — known for smart interactive and immersive shows like Her Things and Professor Eldritch’s Asylum for Uncanny and Extraordinary Women — takes its latest production into the real world, after a fashion. Serpentine is an alternate-reality game styled after film noir and inspired by an actual Pittsburgh cold…
This week in City Paper History
There are certain issues of City Paper that we publish annually, and finding original concepts can be challenging. Take our Summer Guide. Each year we try to come up with a great image that says: “Hey, it’s summer; pick me up and see all the awesome stuff going on from now until Labor Day!” On…
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bernie sanders wants my daddy’s McMansion but the donald wants me and my sisters punished − Judith R. Robinson Judith R. Robinson is an editor, teacher, fiction writer and poet. A 1980 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, she is listed in the Directory of American Poets and Writers. She has published…
Savage Love
Over the years, I have consumed what I believe to be an average amount of porn for a 44-year-old hetero guy. I have never paid for it, and I am now facing a troubled conscience for that fact. I could obviously just subscribe to some site or other now, but that would benefit only one…
Gene Kelly Awards give Pittsburgh students a shot at the big time
In the Broadway musical 9 to 5, three women kidnap their sexist, egotistical boss before taking charge of his company. The plot makes for a lot of laughs, but for Pittsburgh sophomore Bryce Chisom, who played one of the three women in Obama Academy’s adaptation of the musical this spring, it’s also a story of…
Summer Kids
Summer Guide: Intro Summer Music Summer Film Summer Arts Summer Stage Summer Kids Summer Outdoors Summer Fairs, Festivals and Special Events ONGOING Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Branches of the library citywide offer kids’ and teens’ programs — from story time and puppet shows to gaming and literature discussions — throughout the summer. www.carnegielibrary.org Carnegie Science…
Summer Arts
Summer Guide: Intro Summer Music Summer Film Summer Arts Summer Stage Summer Kids Summer Outdoors Summer Fairs, Festivals and Special Events Current Associated Artists of Butler County. Annual Spring Art Show, through Fri., May 20. Future Tenant. Creative Byproducts: Dual Exhibition by Anna Brewer & Sam Berner, through Sat., May 21. North Hills Art Center.…
Weird Pittsburgh: Reporting strange, odd and just plain bizarre news from across Western Pennsylvania
As far as criminal pseudonyms go, Gingerbread Man doesn’t seem like it’d earn much respect on a cell block, or even among Spider-Man’s adversaries, yet that’s how Heath Emory Miller, wanted for a string of burglaries, described himself in social-media posts taunting police. Miller, 25, apparently spotted officers coming his way in a Springhill park…
A Conversation with Novelist Jennifer Haigh
JENNIFER HAIGH 6:30 p.m. Mon., May 23. Penguin Bookshop, 417 Beaver St., Sewickley. Free. 412-741-3838 or penguinbookshop.com Jennifer Haigh grew up in small-town Cambria County — coal country, though as a teenager in the 1980s she witnessed the region’s economic decline as mining faded. While Haigh now lives near Boston, she frequently returns to Western…
Summer Outdoors
Summer Guide: Intro Summer Music Summer Film Summer Arts Summer Stage Summer Kids Summer Outdoors Summer Fairs, Festivals and Special Events ONGOING City Pools. Citiparks pools are open June 14 through Labor Day. Programs include swimming lessons and swim teams. Purchase seasonal pool tags or pay a daily entrance fee. 412-323-7928 or www.citiparks.net Spray Parks.…
Wysocki ranks of the best Pitt footballers in the NFL
Congratulations to the Cincinnati Bengals for drafting University of Pittsburgh wide receiver Tyler Boyd in this past month’s NFL Draft. It’s not often that the Bengals make a good move; the last one was in 1980, when they drafted the franchise’s only Hall of Famer, Anthony Munoz. So every 36 years the Bengals don’t bungle.…
Summer Fairs, Festivals and Special Events
Summer Guide: Intro Summer Music Summer Film Summer Arts Summer Stage Summer Kids Summer Outdoors Summer Fairs, Festivals and Special Events ONGOING Pittsburgh Neighborhood Festivals. Held throughout the city through fall. 412-255-2493 or www.citiparks.net for complete list MAY 28-29 Pyrofest. Fireworks festival, Cooper’s Lake. www.pyrofest.com MAY 29 Open Streets. Recreate on more than four miles…
Knitting the Andy Warhol Bridge is Ann Curran’s observant valentine to a city
The title poem in Ann Curran’s new collection, Knitting the Andy Warhol Bridge (Lummox Press), alludes to the 2013 “yarn-bombing” of that local span. Curran writes: “loop troopers make tight blocks of magic / … The pattern pulls like a blanket in a shared bed.” Deft similes aside, Pittsburgh locales often serve as her backdrop…
LG Realty’s acquisition of public park and development rights in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood blocked
When LG Realty Advisors began evicting residents from its East Liberty Penn Plaza apartment complex last June, residents protested and the city intervened. The action highlighted the growing lack of affordable housing in the city. Subsequently, LG, which is owned by the Gumberg family, negotiated a deal with the city and Penn Plaza tenants. Language…
Money Monster
Money Monster Directed by Jodie Foster Starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell The financial crash of 2008 was too big, too complex and, perhaps, too painful to be transformed into popular but probing entertainment. Sure, we got some good stern-talking Frontlines and similar-style docs, and last year’s The Big Short found the sweet spot…
New Releases
Aubree Nicole Diary of Aubree (Taylor Way Entertainment) www.diaryofaubree.com It’s tempting at first to make shallow comparisons between Aubree Nicole and Adele: They both have “A” names and were born in the U.K. Nicole, however, moved to Pittsburgh to pursue a career as a pop singer (move over, Los Angeles!). And on this five-song debut…
New Pittsburgh-area event is looking to put the comics back in Comicon
3 RIVERS COMICON 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat., May 21, and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun., May 22. 3075 Clairton Road, West Mifflin. $10-$40. 3riverscomicon.com When the Philadelphia Comicon opens in a couple weeks, it will feature actors portraying Captain America, Thor, Falcon, Winter Soldier and other actors who play characters in the Marvel Universe. There will…
Pittsburgh-based Jump with Jill celebrates 10 years of making nutrition fun for kids
It’s easy to see why Jump with Jill, the internationally touring rock ’n’ roll nutrition show, appeals to kids. A music video for the song “Sweet Beat” features everything you’d expect from a chart-topping hip-hop hit: break-dancing, a DJ on turntables and a car displayed in the background. Another video, for “Get Me Going,” features…
While on its European tour, The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra brings Berlin to Heinz Hall with a live concert stream
PSO CONCERT LIVE STREAM 2 p.m. Sun., May 22. Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Free, reservations required. 412-392-4900 or pittsburghsymphony.org/berlin. Walk into Heinz Hall this Sunday and you’ll see a huge video screen over the stage in lieu of the musicians, dancers or comedians who usually perform there. Four-thousand-something miles away in Berlin, the musicians of the…
Cock at Kinetic Theatre
COCK continues through May 29. Kinetic Theatre at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater, 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $20-40. kinetictheatre.org Some writers strive to put real life on stage. British playwright Mike Bartlett probably uses those scripts to light his cigarettes. His aggressively-titled 2009 play Cock, now at Kinetic Theatre, is about as provocatively manufactured as they come…
Pittsburgh-bred synth duo Zombi demonstrates the power of working together in the same room
ZOMBI, TROXUM, BROUGHTON’S RULES 10 p.m. Sat., May 21. Spirit. 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. $12-15. 412-586-4441 or spiritpgh.com For most bands, a physical separation is the same as a breakup. For Zombi, it was just the beginning of a new era. After forming in Pittsburgh around 2000, Zombi spent several years making a name for…
Stuff We Like
Gardening. It’s time to plant those seedlings, so you can enjoy a bountiful harvest come summer and fall. Nothing says “local” like food grown in your backyard. We Were Liars. E. Lockhart’s 2014 novel relates a summer family holiday gone very wrong. For starters, the teenage narrator has amnesia. A page-turner, and a reminder that…
The Giver at Prime Stage
THE GIVER continues through Sun., May 22. Prime Stage Theatre at the New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $10-25. 724-773-0700 or primestage.com Prime Stage Theatre has created a new kind of experience that should be called “Intelligent Family Drama.” Its production of The Giver is just as challenging and entertaining for children…
Frankferd Farms in Saxonburg is offering a summer series of dinners in its barn
Farmer’s Fork Dinner Series. June 25, July 23, Aug. 20 and Sept. 24. $80-95. showclix.com The latest opportunity in dining farm-to-fork comes from Frankferd Farms in Saxonburg, Pa. What started as a small farm and flour mill in the mid-20th century is now a thriving organic-foods and -flour distributor. This summer, the more-than-100-year-old barn will…
Pittsburgh’s Grit & Grace is now G&G Noodle Bar
G&G Noodle Bar 535 Liberty Ave., Downtown. 412-281-4748 Hours: Mon.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sun. brunch 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m., dinner 4-9 p.m. Prices: $5-15 Liquor: Full bar Grit & Grace opened two-and-a-half years ago promising to “push opposites to the extreme,” as suggested by the name and demonstrated by a menu that…
Assassins at Stage 62
ASSASSINS continues through Sun., May 22. The Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Ave., Carnegie. $15-20. 412-429-6262 or stage62.org One of Stephen Sondheim’s numbers in Assassins contains the line, “Every now and then the country goes a little wrong. Every now and then a madman’s bound to come along.” First performed in 1990,…
Critics’ Picks, May 19-25
[POP] + FRI., MAY 20 Equal parts gloomy and charming, Peach Kelli Pop’s sound is overflowing with infectious melodies. The band has mastered the art of combining driving punk with pop sensibilities, and that combination allows for thrashy tunes like “Hundred Dollar Bill” to exist in tandem with the lilting waltz of “Stuck in a…
Employee Ownership for Voodoo Brewery
Voodoo Brewery in Homestead buzzed with excited employees on the night of May 4 when the company officially launched its new employee-ownership program. General Manager Jake Voelker and the ownership group spent a year working with financial advisers to develop the program that would best suit the company’s 17 employees. Eligible staff will now own…
Belladonna of Sadness
The gist of Eiichi Yamamoto’s 1973 animated tale Belladonna of Sadness is straightforward: In some long-ago time, a poor peasant girl named Jeanne, after being raped and degraded, makes a pact with the devil to gain power over those who would subjugate her. (The film is a loose adaptation of Jules Michelet’s 1862 work Satanism…
The History Center’s multigenerational toy exhibit
TOYS OF THE ’50s, ’60s and ’70s Continues through May 31. 1212 Smallman St., Strip District. $6.50-16. 412-454-6000 or heinzhistorycenter.org. A woman and her young daughter face a retro 1960s “Slick Chick” pinball machine. “This is pinball, do you want to see what that is?” the mother asks. The child picks up a token and…
The Meddler
Marnie (Susan Sarandon) is warm, generous and means well, but she simply can’t resist the urge to get up in other people’s business. She is, admittedly, at loose ends since the recent death of her husband. This has prompted her to relocate to Los Angeles, so she can micromanage the life of her screenwriter daughter…
Summer Guide 2016
Summer Guide 2016: Summer Music Summer Film Summer Arts Summer Stage Summer Kids Summer Outdoors Summer Fairs, Festivals and Special Events
Lynn Cullen Live 05/18/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. First penis transplant. Tv networks. Blue collar laborers on food stamps. The decline of the middle class. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
City Paper Weekend Calendar – May 19 – 22
Here are the top five things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend.
City Paper Podcast – Episode 018
This week on the City Paper podcast, we talk to illustrator Wayno about his new comics feature Waynovision, and we catch up with arts editor Bill O’Driscoll about a new novel Heat and Light.
Lynn Cullen Live 05/1716
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Baby bison picked up by tourists. A mystery caller from Lynn’s past. Creating a genome. Gun legislation for castle laws. How Trump says he’s going to take on Hilary. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps…
Lynn Cullen Live 05/16/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Trump and misogyny. Citizens United. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
