Jul 8-14, 2015

News

• Community Profile

  With a new owner, and alterations under discussion, much-maligned Allegheny Center Mall faces the future

  The question remains whether planned changes will improve the fate of the greater neighborhood

  By Charles Rosenblum

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• Weed

  Jessica Hawkins breaks the law every time she gives her child her medical cannabis in Pa. and she has no intention of stopping

  "It comes down to either going to jail or a funeral."

  By Jessica Hardin

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• News

  Law changes will make urban farming easier in Pittsburgh city limits

  "This isn't about people toying with their hobbies. This is about food. This is serious stuff."

  By Ashley Murray

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• News

  Concert photos: Wiz Khalifa and Fall Out Boy

  Pittsburgh's own Wiz Khalifa played to a packed house July 2 at the First Niagara Pavilion for the Boys of Zummer Tour with Fall Out Boy. Our summer photo intern Mike Schwarz was right up front to catch the action.

  Jul 8, 2015

Food+Drink

• Drink

  A "wild beer" specialist expands production and adds a biergarten

  "We have yet to push what we can do in this field."

  By Drew Cranisky

  Jul 8, 2015
• Food

  Parker's PGH

  At this Dormont stop, it's all-day sandwiches made with care and locally sourced ingredients

  By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• Food

  Marshall-Shadeland chef starts neighborhood cafe

  "My passion is to build my community"

  By Bill O'Driscoll

  Jul 8, 2015

Arts+Entertainment

• Literary Arts

  Reviews of new chapbooks by Ellen McGrath Smith and Kristofer Collins

  "Forget you once had angles, let / your head engulf the rest of you"

  By Bill O'Driscoll

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• Music

  In its third year, the Deutschtown Music Festival continues to grow

  "We're doing this for the love of local musicians and the North Side."

  By Margaret Welsh

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• Music

  For Long Island's Mr Twin Sister, transition is the norm

  "We're always saying, ‘This next one is going to be where we arrive at our destination.'"

  By Shawn Cooke

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• Music

  On sophomore release After, Lady Lamb gains focus

  As always, Spaltro proves herself a deft surgeon, peeling just enough flesh away to reveal the vividness of the viscera

  By Ian Thomas

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• Music

  Locally based SingerBots founder Eric Singer leads the way in the world of robotic instrumentation

  In action, it looks like a haunted band room

  By Alex Gordon

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• Music

  Critics' Picks, July 9-15

  Concerts by Liturgy, Talib Kweli and some Nickelback stand-ins

  By Shawn Cooke

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• Theater

  Opera Theater's SummerFest features Rachel Carson-inspired work

  A New Kind of Fallout launches a "music that matters" series

  By Bill O'Driscoll

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• Theater

  Swingtime Canteen at South Park Theatre

  It's an enjoyable revue of 1940s pop music

  By Ted Hoover

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• Screen

  Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival

  A slate of more than two dozen recent Asian and Asian-American films

  By Al Hoff

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• Screen

  Amy

  Asif Kapadia's heartbreaking documentary profile of Amy Winehouse lays bare the complicated life of the late singer

  By Al Hoff

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• Screen

  A Poem Is a Naked Person

  The never-released Les Blank-Leon Russell musical and cultural journey is finally in theaters

  By Al Hoff

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• Screen

  Self/Less

  Interesting ideas about the mind-body and bioethics devolve into boring chase thriller

  By Al Hoff

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• Screen

  Stung

  What to do about 7-foot-tall wasps?

  By Al Hoff

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• Screen

  Terminator Genysis

  The saga of man-vs.-machine just gets more ridiculous, and incoherent

  By Al Hoff

  Jul 8, 2015

  

Columns

• Opinion

  Savage Love

  "I am ashamed of the person I was and have worked hard to be a better person."

  By Dan Savage

  Jul 8, 2015
• Opinion

  Stuff We Like

  By Charlie Deitch

  Jul 8, 2015

  

Podcasts

• Lynn Cullen Live

  Lynn Cullen Live 7/10/15

  Audio & Video Archive

  Jul 10, 2015
• Lynn Cullen Live

  Lynn Cullen Live 7/13/15

  Audio & Video Archive

  Jul 13, 2015
• Lynn Cullen Live

  Lynn Cullen Live 7/08/15

  Audio & Video Archive

  Jul 8, 2015
• Lynn Cullen Live

  Lynn Cullen Live 7/09/15

  Audio & Video Archive

  Jul 9, 2015

Web Only

• CP TV

  Pittsburgh Family on Frontlines of PA's Medical Cannabis Debate

  By Aaron Warnick

  Jul 8, 2015

  
• CP Weekend Podcast

  CP Weekend Podcast - July 10-12, 2015

  By Celine Roberts and Aaron Warnick

  Jul 9, 2015

Listings

• This Week's Top Events

  Short List: July 8 - 11

  Downtown Gallery Crawl and Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh; Sherlock's Last Case on stage; Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble season-opener; Stoop Is a Verb fetes the North Side

  Jul 8, 2015