Tereneh Idia on fear, attraction, repulsion, and admiration of the Black form in America
In 2012, I unfurled my Terrible Towel near the mouth of the largest cave entrance in the world, determined to be the fan furthest afield in the Steeler Nation. I was at Deer Cave, in Mulu National Park, Borneo, Malaysia, over 9,000 miles away from Pittsburgh. As my friend snapped the photo, a gentleman in our…
Summer Stage
NOW ON STAGE Dogfight. Set in 1963, the show centers on three young Marines setting out for a night of debauchery on the eve of their deployment to Vietnam, through Sun., May 20 (Stage 62). A Flea in Her Ear. Laura Chandler believes her husband Victor is having an affair with another woman and tricks…
Hidden Gems: Howard’s Park Place Pub
Some bars are liminal spaces. They appear mundane but give off extraordinary energy. Everything about them seems unremarkable except for some curious aspect that can’t quite be identified. They’re simultaneously common and unexpected. And they’re the type of environment that shifts your perception. Howard’s Park Place Pub is one of those bars. Surrounded by a…
Savage Lovecast comes to the Steel City!
Pittsburgh City Paper and AIDS Free Pittsburgh are bringing nationally syndicated columnist, Dan Savage to Pittsburgh for a live taping of his podcast, Savage Love.
New editorial leadership announced at Pittsburgh City Paper
Rob Rossi will take over as the Editor of City Paper.
MP3 Monday: André Costello and the Cool Minors
André Costello and the Cool Minors’ grooving indie rock track is the perfect soundtrack to the birth of summer.
Lynn Cullen Live – 5/14/18
Video Archive We’re starting out the week reminding everyone in the area that tomorrow is the primary. It seems that local races are being covered in the national news, and not locally. For example; the New Yorker has an article on Summer Lee who is running to unseat Paul Costa in the 34th District. Today…
Fans cheer Andrew McCutchen’s return to PNC Park
Photo highlights from Andrew McCutchen’s first game at PNC Park as a San Francisco Giant
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto supports legalizing recreational marijuana
Peduto joins a small, but growing, cohort of Pennsylvania politicians calling on the state to fully legalize cannabis
Lynn Cullen Live – 5/11/18
Video Archive We’ve made it to Friday, but next Tuesday is the primary election. Lynn is starting off today talking about groups of women who are now becoming active/creating grass-root organizations, and are determined to get control of the democratic state committees. A couple of local groups are Indivisible Wexford and 412 Resistance. Audio Only…
Lynn Cullen Live – 5/10/18
Video Archive Lynn and Joanne Rogers are having a great conversation on today’s show. Tune in to hear what they have to say. Audio Only Archive Stream or download the last 5 shows on the MP3 downloads page.
State Rep. Dom Costa, campaigning as ‘progressive’ Democrat, also wants to get on the Republican ballot
Costa, a Democrat, sent out mailers to Republican voters asking them to write-in his name so he can run on the Republican ballot in November.
Jarrell Brackett, Pittsburgh’s first openly gay fighter, makes pro debut on May 25
When a person is the first to do something, that achievement tends to become part of their identity. For some people, that identity forces them into a box, one they can never get out of. When Jarrell Brackett steps into the ring on May 25 he will become the city’s first openly gay professional boxer.…
Pittsburgh hip-hop staple Selecta celebrates his 45th birthday with a roast and dance party at Spirit
Ask James Scogletti, the DJ, radio host and hip-hop head known as Selecta, about the state of music in Pittsburgh and he’s quick to clarify that he doesn’t have his finger to the pulse like he used to. He’s in his 40s and even in his earlier days, his career focused more on celebrating classic…
Meet the man who’s shucked a million oysters
In his 45-year career, Angelo Galioto estimates he’s shucked about a million oysters. From his time in Florida as a vegetarian restaurant owner, to his current position as a friendly oyster aficionado at Merchant Oyster Co. in Lawrenceville, Galioto has learned a lot about life, friendship and food. City Paper spent a cozy afternoon with…
Eat Me: Cinnamon NY Stick
Location: Oakmont Bakery, 531 Allegheny Ave., Oakmont Ambiance: I ate this at my desk beside a pile of paper, a dirty keyboard, a half-full Coke can and various highlighters. What we ate: Cinnamon NY Stick Cost: $1.70 Hot Take: Packed solid with a cinnamon filling and topped with icing and sugar, this sucker is heavy!…
Local bartender and artist launches a night for the arts
Bars have always been a place for people to gather. Labeled “third places,” bars are spaces that aren’t home or work where people congregate to be together and share experiences. Whether a bar is hosting trivia nights, workshops, special themed events, fundraisers, shows or meet-ups, it invites patrons to connect over something important to them.…
Two sour wheat beers from Northern Germany that have made a surprising comeback in recent years
What do you picture when you hear the words, “summer beer”? Perhaps it’s a glistening Corona, garnished with the requisite lime wedge, nestled in the sand. Or maybe you imagine a cooler of ice-cold Miller Lite stationed beside a grill or a pool. But let me submit for your consideration a couple unlikely candidates for…
Resonance Works closes out its fifth season with Dvořák’s Rusalka
The title character in Antonín Dvořák’s opera Rusalka is a water-nymph who wants to become human. She’s immortal, and lives a safe life in a lake with her family and a cast of other nymphs, sprites and goblins. But after falling in love with a human prince, she decides she’d rather be a mortal human…
Top 5 Best-known Pittsburgh Mothers (real or fictional)
Shirley Jones (aka Shirley Partridge) The actress and Charleroi native was a real life mom/stepmom to four sons: Shaun, Patrick, Ryan and David Cassidy. Then, on the Partridge Family TV show, she played mother to a musical group consisting of three sons and two daughters. Now, prepare to have your mind blown: Her oldest son…
Savage Love
First let me say that I think you give excellent advice, even if it is a bit pedestrian at times. I have a small problem: Last fall, my penis bent up and to the left at an almost 90-degree angle. I know from Google that this is not an unusual problem. And at 59, I…
Meet new Pittsburgh City Paper columnist, Tereneh Idia
Editor’s Note: Tereneh Idia’s column will appear twice monthly on the second and fourth Wednesdays. I am a Black woman who was born in a South Side hospital and whose design studio sits across the street from said place of birth — the exact birthplace. It’s surreal/so real. I was born where I now birth…
Bill Shannon’s “Touch Update” headlines the return of KST’s newMoves Contemporary Dance Festival
After taking a hiatus from performance programs in 2017, the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater’s annual newMoves Contemporary Dance Festival returns in full with two weekends of movement workshops, conversations and dance performances. Headlining this year’s festival on May 11 and 12 will be the world-premiere of KST Creative Artist-in-Residence Bill “Crutchmaster” Shannon’s “Touch Update,” a 70-minute interdisciplinary…
Six places to honor Stephen Foster without being racist
On April 26, the Stephen Foster statue was removed from its post in Oakland. The statue depicts an elegantly dressed Foster sitting above Uncle Ned, a black man sitting barefoot and holding a banjo at Foster’s feet. Calls to remove the statue have been around for years and the city’s art commission voted to remove…
Adman: Warhol Before Pop at the Andy Warhol Museum continues through Sept. 2
The looping layout of the second floor of The Andy Warhol Museum can sometimes feel disorienting. But in Adman: Warhol Before Pop, it works in the exhibition’s favor by presenting multiple narratives simultaneously. The exhibition, which opened April 27, layers Warhol’s commercial work with his personal life during the 1950s while living in New York…
7 Days of Performances
We at City Paper would like to think of our publication as a reminder that there’s always something going on in Pittsburgh, and if you think there isn’t, just check out this handy list and challenge yourself to go to a different performance every day of the week. Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Remembering Pittsburgh’s Winky’s Burger Franchise
From May 13-19, City Paper will be hosting its second annual Pittsburgh Burger Week at participating restaurants. I’ll be honest, there are some good-looking burgers being featured in this year’s event. Burgers, like a lot of the food and drink we enjoy today, have been elevated to miniature works of art. The burgers often contain…
Jason Kendall releases When at Last We Saw the Sunrise
Jason Kendall When at Last We Saw the Sunrise Self-released jasonkendallproductions.com The trajectory of a Pittsburgh band can take many roads: low-key gigs, big time concerts, CD releases, breakups, along with shots at “making it,” whatever that means. Jason Kendall — formerly of the band Déjà Vu and now a regular at AcoustiCafe — tackles…
Daniel Borzutzky’s Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan Daniel Borzutzky University of Pittsburgh Press In National Book Award winner Daniel Borzutzky’s latest release, Lake Michigan, the author takes an unflinching look at law enforcement. The Pittsburgh native’s poetry collection focuses in particular on one story ripped from the headlines: From 2004 to 2015, Chicago police ran a secret facility called Homan…
Free Will Astrology
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Born under the sign of Taurus, Edmund Wilson was a renowned twentieth-century author and critic who wrote more than 30 books. He also served as editor for Vanity Fair and The New Republic, and influenced the work of at least seven major American novelists. When he was growing up, he spent…
Millvale Music Festival takes place Fri. and Sat., May 11-12
Landmarks like Mr. Smalls and Attic Record Store have made Millvale a destination for music enthusiasts for years, but leaders in the borough and community members want to draw even more folks in. Last year was the first Millvale Music Festival, and this year the festival is returning to bring live music, libations and fanfare…
Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s Avenue Q continues through Sun., May 13
Avenue Q debuted on Broadway in 2003, four years before the great recession hit and left many struggling to find work. But its prescient plot tells a story that has become all too familiar in the last decade — maybe it always was. The musical centers on bright-eyed college grad Princeton who arrives in “the…
Filmmakers shows queer films for kids and adults
Calling all queer babies and babes (straights, you can come too!). This week, the Luna Experimental Film Series presents two days of films that focus on queer experiences through folklore, shorts and cartoons. The program is split into two film sets, called OUT OF THE WOODS: Queer Folk and Fairy Tales for adults, and OVER…
The Damaged Pies celebrates 30 years as a band
In its 30-year tenure, The Damaged Pies has accomplished an awful lot. The band, helmed by Steve Bodner, has traveled to perform at legendary venues like CBGB in New York City, The Cavern Club in Liverpool, Whiskey a Go Go in Los Angeles and even Wrigley Field. There’s a Damaged Pies movie on YouTube titled…
