Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra reaches an agreement with management
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra musicians have reached an agreement with management
Listen Up! Nov. 23
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists mentioned in the current music section. Give it a listen below:
Advocates for Martin Esquivel-Hernandez rally at Philadelphia immigration office
U.S. immigration officials are hinting they won’t release the Pittsburgh undocumented immigrant facing deportation, so his advocates rallied outside their office in Philadelphia.
Pittsburgh organ donor’s family meets the lives he saved
Three organ-donation recipients met the family of their organ donor in Pittsburgh this week.
Certain Women
The lives of four women in and around the Montana town of Livingston are the focus of Kelly Reichardt’s latest drama. The work, which unfolds slowly and with limited action and dialogue, has been adapted from Maile Meloy’s short stories. The film is divided into three parts. In the first, a lawyer (Laura Dern) patiently…
How did progressive Josh Shapiro win the Pennsylvania attorney general race in a GOP-dominated election?
Pennsylvania voters chose Republicans for the top two positions on the ballot, but Democrats for three down-ballot statewide seats.
MP3 Monday: Brown Angel
This week’s mp3 comes from sludgy doom/experimental metal trio Brown Angel. Stream or download “Fair and Lovely” from the band’s latest release, Shutout, below; you can also pick up a copy of the full record from Sleeping Giant Glossolalia (and if you need more convincing, check out our review). This download has expired, sorry!
Lynn Cullen Live 11/21/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Rudy the Rooster is caught. Alt Right holds a confab in D.C. Mike Pence gets told by Hamilton cast. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Steel City Holiday Pop-Up Shop comes to Downtown Pittsburgh
Steel City clothing an accessories retailer launches pop-up shop Downtown
Two arrested during student-debt protest at University of Pittsburgh
Protesters unhappy with student debt and the election of Donald Trump marched through Oakland.
Lynn Cullen Live 11/18/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Rooster still on the loose in the Hill District. RIP Ruth Gruber, a woman who lived on the right side of history. Trump appoints Jeff Sessions to Attorney General and Michael Flynn to head of national security. Higbee points to Japanese internment camps as a…
Part Two: The agony and the ecstasy of Pittsburgh Brewing Company, brewers of Iron City Beer
Editor Charlie Deitch tells us about diving into the long and tumultuous history of Pittsburgh Brewing Company, nine years after its contested move out of the city to Latrobe. Listen to part one here.
Hundreds in Pittsburgh march from Oakland to the Birmingham Bridge
Peaceful protesters call for equality in Pittsburgh march.
Pittsburgh City Paper: Fighting the good fight for 25 years and counting
When the idea of doing a cover story to celebrate Pittsburgh City Paper’s 25th birthday came up, I was pretty reluctant. In fact, even as I write this, I’m not sure it’s something that we should be doing. The whole goal of a newspaper/multimedia outlet is to cover the stories that happen, not become the…
The Three Rivers Film Festival marks its 35th year in Pittsburgh
This year, the long-running Three Rivers Film Festival occupies fewer days, but still offers two dozen narrative and documentary features (all new to Pittsburgh), as well as events and guest speakers. The 35th annual festival, a partnership between Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Film Pittsburgh, runs from Wed., Nov. 16, through Sun., Nov. 20. Except for the…
Covered Story
This month marks the 25th Anniversary of City Paper and elsewhere in this issue I wrote about some of the news stories we’ve written over the years. And while CP’s sports page is a new creation, you can’t have a paper in Pittsburgh without doing some sports coverage. Here’s a list of some of my…
Word Up
It’s been a week since Donald Trump was elected President, so we thought it would be interesting to get to the core of what people are saying. Below in the flag are the words used in City Paper’s news coverage of the protests following the election. Below in the circle are the words used by…
Since Donald Trump is apparently bringing the steel industry back to Pittsburgh, maybe he’ll revive Schenley High as well
Since politicians are known for dutifully keeping campaign promises, we the people of Pittsburgh await the return of yesteryear. According to president-elect Trump, the steel mills are coming back. “We’re bringing them back, we’re bringing them back,” was the extent of Trump’s brilliant, specific one-point plan. Good-paying steel jobs are just around the corner, and…
Marc Nieson’s School House: Lessons on Love and Landscape
There is little in School House: Lessons on Love and Landscape (Ice Cube Press) that could be taken for lessons on writing. This is surprising, considering that the author, Marc Nieson, is a creative-writing professor at Chatham University. But School House reads like the first draft of an unedited book. Like it was spoken into a…
The political always finds its way into Ted Leo’s music … even when it’s hard to write about
TED LEO (SOLO) with IAN SWEET. 8 p.m. Fri., Nov. 18. Club Café. 56 S. 12th St., South Side. $13-15. 412-431-4950 or clubcafelive.com For Ted Leo, politics and art are almost inextricably entwined. “I’m never not thinking about politics,” he says over the phone, the day before the presidential election. “It always finds its way…
Arrival
If you’re looking for the action found in Denis Villeneuve’s prior two works, Prisoners and Sicario, you won’t find it in his latest, the alien-contact think-piece Arrival. It’s a quieter sci-fi thriller, more akin to 2001: A Space Odyssey or The Day the Earth Stood Still, in which the nature of humans, not space men,…
Short List: Nov 16-20
Thu., Nov. 18 – Stage A decade since he had last written a play, Patrick Marber, the British playwright noted for works including Closer, was commissioned to adapt Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. The 150-year-old work depicts how a love affair between a rich woman and her son’s tutor disrupts life on a…
DATA MATRIX at Wood Street Galleries
DATA MATRIX continues through Dec. 31. Wood Street Galleries, 601 Wood St., Downtown. 412-471-5605 or woodstreetgalleries.org Ryoji Ikeda’s DATA MATRIX, at Wood Street Galleries, is by turns stimulating, calming, absorbing and challenging. While brief in duration and seemingly visually simple, it carries a heavyweight punch its bantam stature belies. A series of 10 projections, evenly spaced…
Because it’s Safe to Walk Here at Night
And because it’s mid-July, the dog and I walk long, late, after the moon’s up and the heat settles, pretending we’re invisible. Two kids in front of us are sharing a cigarette and playing Pokémon Go. You can tell. They keep stopping, starting, looking around. Their cigarette smells really good, the way cigarettes did once,…
Pittsburgh-based Claye Green’s Warrior trilogy is hardcore relaxing
Claye Greene can’t remember the name of the song that launched his music career. It might have been “Instrumental 1” or something equally vague. It was among a batch he sent to a production house on spec in 2009, all instrumental, all within his wheelhouse of smooth jazz and R&B (though “smooth” is a bit…
The Edge of Seventeen
Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld) is a bit of an oddball, but her adolescence is survivable because she has her awesome best friend. But when her BFF suddenly starts dating her older brother, Nadine has a series of social (and social-media) crises, and melts down. Humorously, of course, because writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig’s coming-of-age tale is a…
New Releases
WOLVES IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING RELEASE SHOW 8:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 19. Pittsburgh Winery, 2815 Penn Ave., Strip District. $12-15. 412-566-1000 or pittsburghwinery.com Brown Angel Shutout (Sleeping Giant Glossolalia) brownangel.bandcamp.com In an exceptionally shitty year, this pessimistic record might not do much to cheer you up. But, like iodine on a cut, it might do you…
The Love Witch
It’s an age-old story: Heartbroken beautiful woman becomes a witch and uses her newfound skills to entice and ultimately destroy other men. In writer-director Anna Biller’s film, the newly widowed Elaine (Samantha Robinson) moves to a coastal Northern California town, and sets herself to bewitching some of the men. Fortuitously, the town already has a…
Weird Pittsburgh: Dental heists, pistol-packin’ mascots and driving on the government teat
The Pennsylvania Turnpike is $13 million in debt and has doubled the cost of tolls since 2008, but it isn’t cutting corners for a certain commissioner perk. The five members of the turnpike commission — the state secretary of transportation and four citizens appointed by the governor — are each entitled to a car funded…
Pittsburghers are choosing different paths in their fight against Trump’s presidency
Everyone has stories about where they were at key moments in our nation’s history. Maybe your grandfather has told you where he was when the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Your aunts and uncles have shared where they were when they learned Martin Luther King Jr. was shot. And most Americans can tell…
Lynn Cullen Live 11/17/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Neo-fascism. Jewelry hawking. post-truth. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Batched drinks for happier holiday parties
Halloween candy supplies are diminishing, the clocks are rolled back and we’ve elected a new president. That can mean only one thing: It’s officially time to start freaking out about the holidays. Though some people already have their gifts wrapped and party invitations in the mail, just typing those words gives me anxiety. I have…
Pittsburgh immigrants fearful in wake of Donald Trump’s election victory
In just the few days following Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, stories of abuse by Trump supporters across the country have been spreading like wildfire. The hate is directed at Latinos, Muslims, Asian Americans, LGBTQ individuals and other marginalized populations. A Twitter feed from New York Daily News writer Shaun King showcases hundreds…
With a new book, climate scientist Michael E. Mann continues his battle against denialism
For a guy who knows more about the subject than almost anyone, Michael E. Mann sounds surprisingly upbeat about climate change. The widely quoted atmospheric scientist based at Penn State University just released a new book with cartoonist Tom Toles, but its title — The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet,…
Tempranillo, Rioja
Editor’s note: Tempranillo is the grape varietal used in many of the wines from the Rioja region of Spain. “Tempranillo is one of the oldest grapes in the world from one of the most well-known valleys for wine production. There are red and white wines from Rioja that pair well with a wide range of…
On Gotta Get Back, North Carolina-born Seth Walker gets in touch with his roots
SETH WALKER with DAN BUBIEN 9 p.m. Thu., Nov. 17. Pittsburgh Winery, 2815 Penn Ave., Strip District. $15-20. 412-566-1000 or pittsburghwinery.com Before Seth Walker started working on his latest release, he had to step back. Releasing eight albums in 14 years is no small feat, and all that recording and touring can wear on a…
Savage Love
I’m a longtime fan — reader and listener — and part of the 47 percent of white women who did NOT vote for Donald Trump. To say I’m disappointed, horrified, scared and mad about the election is woefully insufficient. I donated $100 to Planned Parenthood this morning because I honestly felt like there was nothing…
Pittsburgh City Paper Booze Battles: Butcher and the Rye vs. The Allegheny Wine Mixer
Each week, we order the same cocktail at two different bars for a friendly head-to-head battle. Go to the bars, taste them both and tell us what you like about each by tagging @pghcitypaper on Twitter or Instagram and using #CPBoozeBattles. If you want to be a part of Booze Battles, send an email to…
The Sea at Point Park Conservatory Theatre Company
THE SEA continues through Dec. 4. Point Park Conservatory Theatre at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. $10-24. 412-392-8000 or pittsburghplayhouse.com Point Park Conservatory Theatre Company’s production of The Sea, a 1973 work by Edward Bond, is a study in strange dichotomies. It’s neither comedy nor tragedy, realistic nor surreal, modern nor Edwardian, but…
Pittsburgh’s Steel City Yellow Jackets still getting buzz in their third season
When Western Pennsylvanians think about professional basketball, they’re likely to think about the Cleveland Cavaliers or the Philadelphia 76ers (that is, if they think about it at all). But since 2014, local hard-court fans have had a semi-pro team of their own to follow. The Steel City Yellow Jackets were founded in 2014 by Averill…
Burger for the Brokenhearted
I highly recommend electric grills for anyone with an irrational fear of house fires. There’s no open flame, it warms and cools quickly, and it’s perfect for this dish to get you through your next breakup. Also, with all the money you’ll save not eating out with that “someone special,” it’s wise to invest in…
Hair at University of Pittsburgh Stages
HAIR continues through Sun., Nov. 20. University of Pittsburgh Stages at the Charity Randall Theatre, 4301 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $12-25. 412-624-7529 or play.pitt.edu I saw Hair at University of Pittsburgh Stages on Nov. 10 — a day when, the show’s joyous opening number notwithstanding, the world actually did not seem to be experiencing “the dawning of…
Café 33, in Squirrel Hill, brings Taiwanese cuisine to Pittsburgh
Café 33 1711 Shady Ave., Squirrel Hill. 412-421-2717 Hours: Mon.-Thu. 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Fri.-Sun. 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Prices: $4-16 Liquor: BYOB We’d be lying if we said we’d ever imagined dining in the laundromat behind the Shady Avenue Starbucks in Squirrel Hill. But now that it has become a Taiwanese restaurant, Café 33, we had…
Last Train to Nibroc at Little Lake
LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC continues through Nov. 26. Little Lake Theatre, 500 Lakeside Drive South, Canonsburg. $13.75-21.75. 724-745-6300 or littlelaketheatre.org. Playwright Arlene Hutton sets herself a near-impossible task with her 1999 play Last Train to Nibroc, making its Pittsburgh debut at Little Lake Theatre. In 1940, two strangers meet on a train. May is a…
DiAnoia’s Eatery in the Strip District makes a play for breakfast, lunch and dinner
One of the first things you’ll notice about DiAnoia’s Eatery is the décor. From the stylized bar cart by one of the entrances, to the blue- and green-bottle chandeliers, the colorful details in this Strip District space pop against a mostly white backdrop. “Our influence came from Murano Venetian glass,” says owner Dave Anoia. “It’s…
The Music Man at Stage 62
THE MUSIC MAN continues through Sat., Nov. 19. Stage 62 Productions at The Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Ave, Carnegie. $15-20. 412-429-6262 or stage62.org After one of the most bruising and bitter elections in modern American history, there’s something truly charming in Stage 62’s production of The Music Man. Some impressive singing…
Historian Douglas Brinkley talks about Franklin Roosevelt’s environmental ethic
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY 7:30 p.m. Mon., Nov. 21. Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $15-35. 412-622-8866 or pittsburghlectures.org Ask Americans which President Roosevelt was the biggest conservationist and most would say “Teddy.” But as historian Douglas Brinkley demonstrates in his book Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America, a better answer might…
Lynn Cullen Live 11/16/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Trump and the cabinet. Vote with your dollar. What passes for a presidential tweet. Catholic bishops move to resettle refugees and protect immigrants. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Lynn Cullen Live 11/15/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. #Thisisnotnormal. Steve Bannon, clearance for Trump’s children and appointing a cabinet. RIP Gwen Ifill. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
