News+Features
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- News
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Gas Relief: New Braddock fueling station working to move customers toward biodiesel
"There's a benefit of collecting and recycling vegetable oil and reusing it as fuel"
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- News
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Point of Law: Do 'safe passing' regulations really make it safer for cyclists if they're not enforced?
"From day one we suspected it would be very hard to write citations, because it's a judgment call."
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- Last Word
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Make or Break
Could an upstart apprenticeship program hold the key to Pittsburgh's future?
Food+Drink
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- Dining Reviews
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San Lorenzo Ristorante
The menu at this Lawrenceville restaurant straddles traditional and updated approaches to Italian food
- On The Side
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Some 75,000 bees are the latest residents of Downtown Pittsburgh
The Duquesne Club is sharing its roof with beehives — and collecting the honey
- On The Rocks
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Shrubdown offers the lowdown on shrubs, an do-it-yourself cocktail trend
"The confidence that comes from making things yourself is really empowering."
Music
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- Music Features
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Chancellor Warhol brings his art-rap to the Warhol Museum
"It's like playing the biggest venue in the world to me. Like performing at Madison Square."
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- Music Features
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Washed Out releases a visceral Paracosm
Ernest Greene's authorial presence is never more than a fleeting silhouette
- Local Beat
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Benefits planned for Karl Hendricks after cancer diagnosis
Tim Midyett and Andy Cohen of Bottomless Pit headline a show at Brillobox on Friday
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- Critics' Picks
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Critics' Picks: August 20 - 26
Local shows by OFF!, The Soil and the Sun, and Bombadil, plus the sixth edition of Skull Fest
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New Releases
Recent music from Girl Scout and Jackie McDowell
Screen
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- Movie Reviews + Features
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Mood Indigo
Michel Gondry's new film is slight, but whimsical and charming
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- Movie Reviews + Features
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The Giver
Phillip Noyce's adaptation of Lois Lowry's novel begins with an interesting premise but fails to follow through
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- Movie Reviews + Features
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The Expendables 3
This aimless actioner is only for the Expendables completist
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- Movie Reviews + Features
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If I Stay
Teenage girl tackles life, love and tragedy in this fairly low-key melodrama
Arts
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- Art Reviews + Features
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Matt Gondek and Brian Gonnella draw together
"We both grew up in comic books and cartoons of the same nature, so our styles just blend well together."
Views
- Green Light
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Ashes to Ashes: New plan to deal with Mansfield plant's coal residuals isn't much of an improvement
"They want to use that exact same ash in a different way."
- Lynn Cullen Live
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Lynn Cullen Live 08/20/14
Audio & Video Archive
- Lynn Cullen Live
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Lynn Cullen Live 08/21/14
Audio & Video Archive
- Lynn Cullen Live
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Lynn Cullen Live 08/22/14
Audio & Video Archive
- Lynn Cullen Live
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Lynn Cullen Live 08/25/14
Audio & Video Archive
- Lynn Cullen Live
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Lynn Cullen Live 08/26/14
Audio & Video Archive
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Stuff We Like
Biking, pork chops and ginger beer
Books
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- Book Reviews + Features
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A local author's new book on Lucky Luciano
"People glorify the mob because there is an undoubted humanity in it, but we have so few facts about it."
Stage
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- Theater Reviews + Features
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The Gospel Singer at The Lab Project
This scrappy little troupe needs encouragement, but this production isn't doing them any favors.
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- Comedy
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Judah Friedlander is among the headliners at the inaugural Pittsburgh Comedy Festival
"I cannot wait to see footage of myself on YouTube that was shot on a [drunken] stranger's shaking flip phone."
Listings
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- Short List
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Short List: August 20 - 27
The Moth is back in town; Bricolage gets Raw; Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree 2; and the National Air Sex Championship.
Spotlight Events
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Abraham Lincoln Exhibit @ Photo Antiquities Museum of Photographic History
- Mondays, Wednesdays-Saturdays. Continues through Dec. 31
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Before We Were Born @ BoxHeart Gallery
- Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Wednesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sundays, 1-5 p.m. Continues through June 30 Free
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Black & Blue @ BoxHeart Gallery
- Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Wednesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sundays, 1-5 p.m. Continues through June 30 Free
