Allegheny General Hospital employees vote in favor of union
Allegheny General Hospital employees voted this week to join the SEIU healthcare union after organizing only a few months.
Final performances of Playhouse Jr.’s “Luna” this weekend
Award-winning play depicts the daughter of migrant workers
The Magnetic Chart of 2016 Primary Awesomeness Welcomes Lincoln Chafee
The Magnetic Chart of 2016 Primary Awesomeness Welcomes Lincoln Chafee
City council president blasts Delta Foundation, joins LGBT organizations in boycott of Pride festivities
Bruce Kraus is the latest to disavow the Delta Foundation.
Pittsburgh City Council approves new public safety initiative
Pittsburgh City Council meeting addresses public safety measures.
Bricolage’s “Saints Tour” in Braddock
Thoughts on an ambitious, sold-out show
First ever Latin@ Pride events hit Pittsburgh this weekend
Cafe Con Leche launches Pittsburgh’s first ever Latin@ Pride.
Listen Up! June 3
It’s Wednesday, which mean its time for our weekly Spotify playlist. Listen below to hear tracks from the various artists and bands covered in this week’s issue.
Rivers Casino workers take unionization efforts to the streets
Rivers Casino workers rallied at the Allegheny County Courthouse today as part of their campaign to unionize.
Concert announcements: PRYDE, Harm’s Way, Yo La Tengo, more
Just a few concert updates for you on this gloomy Tuesday … We Were Promised Jetpacks plays at Spirit on July 29 ($13-15, on sale Friday) Rapper PRYDE brings his Richvale Summer Tour to Altar Bar on August 19 ($18-20, on sale Friday) Parachute makes a stop at the Rex Theater on August 2 ($20-23, on…
Lynn Cullen 6/2/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Susan joins Lynn over the phone to talk cuckoos, lions and flying spiders. Also Caitlyn Jenner and Betsy Palmer. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Coming up this week: June 1-June 7
This week council will consider lawsuit settlements, Community Development Block Grants and new initiatives.
MP3 Monday: Grand Piano
This week’s MP3 Monday comes to you from Grand Piano. “Blowfish” is a quickie instrumental track on a new EP full of them — the band released Sea, which traverses everything from jazz to psychedelic rock, this past weekend at Cattivo. Take a listen below, and check out our Local Beat feature on Grand Piano…
2015 Shadyside Art & Craft Festival
The 19th Annual Shadyside Art & Craft Festival, which started out as a neighborhood street fair, is now regarded as one of the top shows in Pittsburgh. There will be a second festival in August! CP was on-site Saturday, May 30th & Sunday, May 31st giving away prizes and delivering City Paper’s to everyone enjoying…
The Magnetic Chart of 2016 Primary Awesomeness Welcomes Martin O’Malley
The Magnetic Chart of 2016 Primary Awesomeness Welcomes Martin O’Malley
Show added for barebones’ “American Falls” in Braddock
Barebones just announced a 2 p.m. matinee tomorrow.
Memorial Service Sunday for Point Park Dance Professor Ron Tassone
Point Park University remembers accomplished dance professor with memorial service this weekend.
Lynn Cullen Live 5/28/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. FIFA corruption. Ray on Irish decision. Bill O’Driscoll on the 2030 initiative. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Lynn Cullen 5/29/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Peduto visits Cuba. Ron Paul ads and more Republican candidates. Pittsburgh named one of the least diverse cities in the U.S. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Photo Nerds Invade Oakland for f295 Symposium
Today through Sunday brings some of the country’s most interesting practitioners together for the annual f295 Symposium & Workshop.
CP Weekend Podcast – May 29 – 31, 2015
This week on the CP Weekend Podcast: Attend a do-over prom, hunt for ghosts, or enjoy a striptease.
Wooly Woman gets in on the free music movement by giving away its new 7″
Wooly Woman, a project of pro-BMX-biker-turned-musician Gregory Smee, will release its official debut by the middle of this summer. And if the two tracks that appear on the 7″ that Smee is currently handing out for free is any indication of his talent and creativity, Wooly Woman will hit the ground running. Backed by some…
Critics’ Picks, May 28 – June 3
[INDIE POP] + FRI., MAY 29 Ahmed Gallab is a chameleonic musician: he’s surrounded himself with so many different collaborators and types of music, it can be impossible to predict where a track might be headed. When he’s recording as Sinkane, one song can channel free jazz, funk or even some country-flavored steel guitar —…
New Releases
Blood Pressure Promo Tape 2015 [Self-released] bloodpressurepgh.bandcamp.com This promo from locals Blood Pressure is five minutes of fast, traditional, no-nonsense U.S. hardcore. No solos. No breakdowns. No mosh parts (sorry, bro). No bullshit. Simple riffs are played at a breakneck pace and backed by pummeling drums and ultra-gruff vocals, creating fully formed songs that —…
The Pittsburgh Promise was supposed to get more city youths into college. So why are so many black males left out of the equation?
It’s less than one month before graduation, and Obama Academy student Donald Lewis can’t wait to begin college at Robert Morris University in the fall. It’s been a great senior year for the 17-year-old and, overall, he’s had a bright scholastic career. He was a member of both Obama’s swim team and wrestling team for…
What’s working in the energy-conserving Pittsburgh 2030 District?
The Pittsburgh 2030 District is among the city’s more ambitious green initiatives. This Green Building Alliance project has a quantifiable goal: getting participating buildings to reduce their energy and water usage by 50 percent by 2030. As importantly, the goal actually acknowledges the scope of larger environmental challenges. Scientists say that preventing the worst effects…
The Fight for $15
Click here to view PDF Story and Illustration by Em DeMarco
Two photographers create imaginary scenarios to get at the truth
A WORLD IMAGINED continues through June 13 Silver Eye Center for Photography 1015 E. Carson St. South Side 412-431-1810 or silvereye center.org Solitude, isolation, loneliness, purpose, connection, intimacy and the relationship with the self are explored with respectful tenderness and delicate reverence in A World Imagined. The show at Silver Eye Center for Photography, organized…
Savage Love
You often mention asexual people. I believe I may be one. I’m a 51-year-old woman. I’ve been separated from my opposite-sex partner for nearly nine years. I’ve been approached by a variety of men, each one interested in becoming “more than friends.” I haunt Craigslist’s “platonic m4w” section, but each time I reach out to…
A CMU professor’s new book on “parenting for technology futures”
In his 2013 book Robot Futures, Carnegie Mellon University roboticist Illah Nourbakhsh explored the dark side of high tech. He raised alarms about how increasingly powerful and ubiquitous robots and virtual realities might compromise our privacy, our safety and even our psychological well-being. But he says the biggest question the book generated came from parents:…
Short List: May 27-June 3
FREE EVENT – Sun., May 31 – Outdoors One Sunday last July, the inaugural OpenStreetsPGH closed Market Square, Sixth Street and the Clemente Bridge to cars for four hours. Offering yoga classes and dance lessons along with liberated blacktop, it drew 4,000 visitors. This year’s reprise will surely beat that number: On May 31, the…
Bricolage Productions’ Saints Tour
SAINTS TOUR continues through June 13 Bricolage Production Co. in association with Real/Time Interventions in Braddock $60 (free for residents of 15104 zip code) 412-471-0999 or bricolagepgh.org “Family friendly” usually does not appear in the same sentence with “Bricolage Productions.” The real question is why Saints Tour, produced in association with Real/Time Interventions, is not…
Stuff We Like
The Andy Warhol Museum’s Parking-Attendant Booth. The homage to Warhol’s art begins at the parking lot. 117 Sandusky St., North Side Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence. Bryan Burrough’s fascinating profile of several, now-sort-of-forgotten, homegrown terrorist groups of the 1970s, such as Weather Underground, the SLA,…
The Last Five Years at Front Porch Theatricals
THE LAST FIVE YEARS continues through Sun., May 31 New Hazlett Theater 6 Allegheny Square East North Side $24-30 frontporch pgh.com Up until now, Front Porch Theatricals has produced just three musicals (and two were co-productions.) This is its first year as a stand-alone troupe with an announced season. Given such a minimal production history,…
The Slippery Mermaid
The Slippery Mermaid 613 Beaver St. Sewickley 412-741-2459 Hours: Tue.-Sat. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Prices: $5-15 Liquor: BYOB Sewickley may be a riverside town, but it doesn’t quite offer an oceanfront vibe. Nonetheless, the owners of The Slippery Mermaid sushi house on the Florida panhandle chose this Pittsburgh suburb to open a second location. This explains…
Comedian Kyle Kinane hopes for average
KYLE KINANE with Ryan Thompson and Shannon Norman 7 p.m. Tue., June 2. Altar Bar 1620 Penn Ave. Strip District $15 412-206-9719 or thealtarbar.com “All a miracle is, is the world letting you know it can still surprise you,” comedian Kyle Kinane says on the opening track of his latest album, I Liked His Old…
A fledgling brewery’s blond ale is a hit at Beers of the Burgh
I often marvel at beer. Not just because it tastes great or because it can enliven a dull evening (though I do appreciate those qualities), but because four humble ingredients come together to create a bottomless well of possibilities. Tweak the malts, hops, yeast or water even slightly, and the end product is a completely…
Tomorrowland
Tomorrowland Directed by: Brad Bird Starring: George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Raffey Cassidy Oh, Tomorrowland. Like the future, I wanted you to be good. Who doesn’t enjoy a fanciful journey into times unknown, and director Brad Bird has delivered some excellent, smart-fun family sci-fi adventures before (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles). But Tomorrowland, an original story…
Mount Washington’s The Summit bar eschews traditional wings and burgers for better bar fare
Pittsburgh bars that also offer light fare tend to stick to the usual script: wings, burgers and deep-fried vegetables. But the menu at The Summit, a Mount Washington establishment on the corner of West Sycamore and Shiloh streets, seeks to break away from the pack. The Summit, which opened nearly two years ago, offers a…
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll
The first two-thirds of John Pirozzi’s documentary Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll are a delight. The last part is devastating, but no filmmaker can re-write the country’s tragic history. In the early 1960s, Cambodia was shaking off French colonialism and beginning to fashion itself into a new country. Part of its…
Poltergeist
In 1982’s Poltergeist, a little girl sits before a snowy TV set, hands on the screen patty-cake style, looking like she might be somehow pulled into it. (She is.) In Gil Kenan’s 2015 remake, the image is upgraded with fancier apparitions and a much thinner television. But the story is generally the same: handsome three-kid…
Local rock bands T-Tops and Night Vapor share a dark sensibility … and a record release show
T-TOPS/NIGHT VAPOR RECORD RELEASE SHOW with GANGWISH. 9 p.m. Sat., May 30 Gooski’s 3117 Brereton St. Polish Hill $5 412-681-1658 The official release of T-Tops’ self-titled debut record has been a long time coming. Long enough that, bassist Jason Orr says, “We already have another one ready to go.” That, singer/guitarist Patrick Waters interjects, is…
On its new record, Baltimore’s Noisem tackles some weighty issues
NOISEM with IRON REAGAN, ANGEL DU$T, KNIFE 8 p.m. Sun., May 31 Gooski’s 3117 Brereton St. Polish Hill $13 412-681-1658 or winterforge promotions .bigcartel.com Two things to keep in mind if you’re talking to Noisem: Don’t discuss how young they are and, more importantly, don’t compare them to Slayer. They get that a lot. “I…
Lynn Cullen Live 5/27/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Ireland legalizes gay marriage by popular vote. Texas in a state of disaster. Project Unfair Representation. Cybercrooks and identity theft. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
