Winter Music
Whenever Adult Mom performs, the band’s gentle, warm indie pop surrounds you like a tender hug. Adult Mom is joined by the ever-charismatic, endearingly goofy power-pop artist Chris Farren. Feb. 4. Mr. Roboto Project, Bloomfield. www.therobotoproject.com The Warhol’s Sound Series brings multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Rostam to the ‘Burgh. Melt the winter blues away while…
Winter Art and Exhibitions
In the United States, nearly all of us or our forebears came from another country. A new photographic exhibit, Emigration-Immigration-Migration, highlighting the work of five Pittsburgh photographers, looks at how immigration and migrants have helped form the American experience. Through April 22. Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg. 412-837-1500 or www.thewestmoreland.org Continuing the Carnegie Museum’s…
City Paper’s Winter Guide provides reasons to leave the house
Did somebody say that this winter’s weather has been abominable? Well, that’s no problem for our cover model — the Abominable Snowman just gets out there and makes his own fun. Follow in his oversized tracks: City Paper offers this handy guide, in which we list plenty of things to see and do, from plays…
Winter Stage
Evil Dead: The Musical is the bloody, uproarious musical-comedy version of the cult-classic Evil Dead movies. It’s the first installment of Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s late-night After Hours series. Feb. 2-10. West End. 412-539-0900 or www.pittsburghmusicals.com In 1962 Alabama, an African-American detective from California tries to solve a small-town murder; Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co. stages Matt…
Winter Literary
As Valentine’s Day draws near, who doesn’t have a story to tell about heartbreak? Or maybe you just want to feel better by hearing other people’s woes? Swing by the Rex Theater for The Moth’s live story-telling event fittingly titled “Love Hurts.” Feb. 6. South Side. www.themoth.org Min Jin Lee’s latest novel, Pachinko, tells the…
Winter Outdoors
Is it snowing? Good. Now, go outside and make a snowball. Put the snowball in a safe place in the freezer and wait until June 21, the first day of summer. That’s the day that your snowball gets you pay-what-you-want admission to Carnegie Science Center, plus a chance to launch it into the by-then-unfrozen Ohio…
Winter Kids
Kids and sports are a natural fit — and a great way to stay fit. The popular NFL PLAY 60 Training Camp returns to Heinz History Center. The indoor event offers a mini-combine, with speed and agility drills. Wear your favorite jersey and practice your touchdown dance. Sat., Jan. 27. Strip District. 412-454-6000 or www.heinzhistorycenter.org…
Other Fun Winter Events
A fine place to warm up and maybe learn a little something about tropical plants and tiny trees is the Orchid and Tropical Bonsai show at Phipps Conservatory. New this year: 5-foot-wide hanging orchid spheres. Schenley Park, Oakland. 412-622-6914 or www.phipps.conservatory.org The Andy Warhol Museum is hosting a get-together at the Ace Hotel, where folks…
