Lawrenceville is one of nation’s fastest growing millennial neighborhoods
The tide has changed in Lawrenceville and there’s data to prove it. Once a pass-through neighborhood known for blight and crime in the 1990s, Lawrenceville has emerged as one of Pittsburgh’s fastest growing areas and is attracting millennials in droves. According to census data compiled by apartment rental site RENTCafé, the 15201 zip code, which…
Stormy Daniels’ lawyer tweeted about Ben Roethlisberger. Why?
The worst part about the current presidential administration is that nothing makes sense and everyone is a shady swamp demon. On Tuesday, at 12:31 p.m., celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti tweeted “We have no further comment at this time regarding the details relating to Ben Roethlisberger in the book.” The book to which he is referencing…
Ross Township passes LGBTQ non-discrimination ordinance
Allegheny County’s fifth largest municipality has joined some of its neighbors in protecting its LGBTQ residents from discrimination. On Monday, Ross Township Board of Commissioners voted 5-2 to create an Equal Opportunity Board and extended civil-rights protections to people based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Pennsylvania civil rights law includes protections for people based…
Le’Veon Bell is not public enemy No. 1
Le’Veon Bell skipped training camp. It doesn’t make him a pariah. He shouldn’t be public enemy No. 1. It makes him human. I was at the Steelers’ training camp. It rained every day. By the final day, it smelled like a wet frat party. I suppose being around sweaty men is part of Bell’s job…
Kinetic Theater’s The Father submerges its audience in the exasperating, heartbreaking reality of living with Alzheimer’s
The traditional portrayal of Alzheimer’s disease on screen or stage often presents suffering characters as vegetative and blank, or zanily scatterbrained, all misremembered names and detached paranoia. Florian Zeller takes a different approach in his 2012 play, The Father. Here, the audience shares in the character’s confusion. The events on stage are as confounding and…
Concert photos: Paul Simon at PPG Paints Arena
Legendary singer/songwriter Paul Simon brought his Homework Bound — The Farewell Tour to PPG Paints Arena last night for his assumed last concert stop in Pittsburgh. “I’ve often wondered what it would feel like to reach the point where I’d consider bringing my performing career to a natural end,” Simon says of his farewell tour.…
#MusicMonday Wrap-up: Sept. 17
A new live music collection at Carnegie Library, In Bed By Ten, plus updates on various beefs
Pylon Pics: Kansas City Chiefs 42, Pittsburgh Steelers 37
The story of a Steelers’ loss in their home opener through the eyes of Jared Wickerham.
Lynn Cullen Live – 9/17/18
Video Archive A lot has happened and Lynn is trying to cover most of it today. First up she is talking about the Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford, and reactions to her accusations. Lynn believes they should hear her in open session. Audio Only Archive Stream or download the last 5 shows on the MP3…
Lynn Cullen Live – 9/14/18
Video Archive Lynn is starting off today’s show talking about what people are calling Trump’s most despicable tweet. Yesterday he tweeted that 3,000 people did not die in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria. She is also discussing Outer Banks history, and who used to live along the coastline. Long before the area…
Preview: Broad Squad Comedy – A Night of Female Comics
On Friday, Pittsburgh-based comedian Chrissy Costa brings kickass comics Samantha Bentley, Alonna Breisch, Helen Wildy, Paige Polesnak, and Amanda Averell together for an estrogen-filled night of laughs and camaraderie at Club Café (10 p.m., Fri., Sept. 21). Before all the fun, City Paper staff writer Jordan Snowden had a quick chat with Costa about the…
Lynn Cullen Live – 8/13/18
Video Archive Hurricane Florence has become a Category 2 storm, and Lynn is talking about the 24 hour waiting for the storm coverage on cable news. She is also discussing coastal climate studies, and the laws passed to ignore data in order to allowed the build up on the coasts. In addition to that, Lynn…
Joyce Carol Oates on ethical compromise in literature, fantasy, and Twitter
Since publishing her first novel, With Shuddering Fall in 1962, Joyce Carol Oates has become one of America’s most accomplished and prolific writers. Winner of numerous literary honors, including a National Humanities Medal in 2010, Oates recently released Beautiful Days (Ecco) a short-story collection that showcases her knack for exploring the intricacies of human behavior.…
Fans, friends, and family remember Mac Miller at Blue Slide Park
“He made this simple park, this place of childhood innocence into a pure way to have fun.”
Lynn Cullen Live – 9/12/18
Video Archive Lynn is starting the show off talking about the hurricane watch, and how we, as in humans, are the most destructive force on the planet other than natural occurrences. She is also discussing the EPA’s proposal to roll back methane regulations. Then there is Woodward’s new book “Fear.” Lynn isn’t going to read…
Gabby Normal: Job description
I think I might be a professional athlete. That statement might seem confusing. Up to this column, you’ve all been semi-wondering how this “Gabby Normal” character makes a living. I’m a full-time artist. By day, I perform an original, anti-bullying assembly program at schools across the country. By night, I entertain adults with an absurdist…
Fall Road Trips Just Hours from Pittsburgh
There’s no better time than fall for a road trip. The weather isn’t too hot or cold. School’s back in session, which means fewer folks crowding roads and kids screaming at rest stops. And when leaves start to change, that trip along picturesque highways can be just as enjoyable as a destination. Just a few…
Is fall disappearing?
When most Americans think of fall, they picture a season of crisp air, a warm cup of cider, colorful foliage, pumpkin patches, and scarecrows for some reason. It’s a season to wear hats and scarves and jackets, but more as fun accessories as opposed to the dead of winter when outerwear is worn like armor. …
Rege Behe’s PGH Pages: Baby Teeth breaks Zoje Stage
Zoje Stage was working part-time at a bookstore in Rochester, N.Y., her existence supplemented by disability payments, when she finished her sixth novel. Five prior novels had been rejected or ignored by agents and publishers. Stage hoped Baby Teeth, a psychological thriller about a 7-year-old girl, unable or unwilling to speak and plotting to kill…
Talking Oktoberfest with Peter Kurzweg of Lorelei
Revelers have plenty of spots to celebrate Oktoberfest, including Lorelei in East Liberty. This recently opened dual-concept bar draws inspiration from Germany and Alpine Europe in both its food and drink menus and its atmosphere, complete with long, beer garden-style communal tables. “We’re taking what I think is the best of European drinking culture and…
Pittsburgh has a lot to offer horror fans beyond the Living Dead
Pittsburgh goes by many names — Steel City, Renaissance City, and, at one time, Blitzburgh — but one stands out: Unofficial Zombie Capital of the World, a moniker owed to the locally filmed Night of the Living Dead and its sequel, Dawn of the Dead. But the city’s horror roots reach farther than its undead…
Previewing Attack Theatre’s 24th season
Attack Theatre opens its 24th season, dubbed “The Year of Music,” with a slew of events —beginning with a Season 24 Kickoff Party on Friday, Sept. 14. The following two days, it joins forces with City of Asylum in presenting jazz saxophonist, poet, and composer Oliver Lake’s Stoop is a Verb at Alphabet City. This free, spoken…
Fall TV/Streaming Guide
They say the television landscape has new rulers: streaming platforms. Statistically, it’s hard to know if that’s true, because services such as Netflix are notoriously cagey about audience data, which will probably lead to consequences in the future. Anyway, here are streaming shows and movies to look out for this fall. Last year, the first…
(Some) change is good at Riggs Lounge & Restaurant
Change in Pittsburgh tends to elicit mixed reactions. Some mock and deride the self-cheerleading. Some criticize the gentrification. Some are ambivalent. Some love it. Sure, Pittsburghers hold on hard to tradition, but renewal is a crucial part of the city’s character as well. Sometimes changes come in bursts, and sometimes they’re gradual. But they’re always…
Fall Music Preview
7 – David Guetta Arguably one of the main reasons electronic music started to mix with pop is because of David Guetta. He’s back with his first album since 2014 release, Listen. Guetta’s seventh studio album, fittingly named 7, drops September 17. Back in August, Guetta teased the album by releasing the upcoming track list,…
How to best enjoy Pittsburgh’s best Oktoberfests
This region was built on the backs of many hardworking German immigrants. Let’s pay them some respect by participating in some real Oktoberfest traditions. Oktoberfest is a German beer festival that typically runs from mid-September to early-October. Pittsburgh has several fall beer festivals, but City Paper wanted to guide readers to the most authentically German…
7 Days of Concerts
Thursday Parkway Drive 6 p.m. Stage AE, North Side. promowestlive.com Friday Propaganda and Liz Vice 8 p.m. Cattivo, Lawrenceville. cattivopgh.com Saturday Naughty Professor with The Clock Reads 9 p.m. Rex Theater, South Side. rextheater.net Sunday Iron Chic 7:30 p.m. The Smiling Moose, South Side. smiling-moose.com Monday Paul Simon 8 p.m. PPG Paints Arena, Downtown. ticketmaster.com…
Vanessa German takes the stage for the title role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
The Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company travels back to 1920s Chicago when it presents August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at the Highmark Blues and Heritage Festival Highmark. Directed by Mark Clayton Southers, the dramatic take on legendary real-life blues songstress Ma Rainey features Vanessa German in the title role. German, a renowned Pittsburgh-based artist, writer and…
100 things to do this fall
Forget what you’ve heard; there are a lot of seasons in Pittsburgh. We’re claiming specific dates for Fall: Sept. 12-Nov. 14. That gives everybody nine weeks to make most of cooler air, colorful leaves, the spice battle between pumpkin and apple, Halloween, and all the other things that make for a perfect fall around here.…
National names are speaking in Pittsburgh this fall
Autumn breezes are rolling into Pittsburgh and the college kids are back on campus. It’s time to spend a bit more time indoors and flex those intellectual muscles. Luckily, Pittsburghers have opportunities to do just that. Prominent national names are visiting this fall to speak on topics such as government, immigration, and inequality. Put down…
Fall Book Preview
Small Fry – Lisa Brennan-Jobs In Small Fry, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, daughter of the late Steve Jobs, gives readers a glimpse into what it’s like growing up in Silicon Valley with a complex, powerful, and often absent father. This memoir debuted September 4, and it has already sparked lively discussions about her portrayal of the Apple…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your keynote is the Japanese word shizuka. According to photographer Masao Yamamoto, it means “cleansed, pure, clear, and untainted.” One of his artistic practices is to wander around forests looking in the soil for “treasures” that emanate shizuka. So, in his definition, the term isn’t about being scrubbed or sanitized. Rather,…
Taste-testing pumpkin spice selections
It’s 2003. Hilary Duff is still Lizzie McGuire, Finding Nemo is teaching a generation to “just keep swimming,” and cargo pants are a fashion statement. But something’s missing: pumpkin. And not just any pumpkin, but rather pumpkin spice, the blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and hopeless dreams — a pumpkin imposter. Starbucks released its Pumpkin…
Fall Road Trips Just Hours from Pittsburgh
There’s no better time than fall for a road trip. The weather isn’t too hot or cold. School’s back in session, which means fewer folks crowding roads and kids screaming at rest stops. And when leaves start to change, that trip along picturesque highways can be just as enjoyable as a destination. Just a few…
