Vol. 25, No. 45
With a strong community-input process, a North Side residential project moves forward
Garden Block plans have frequently changed based on concerns and objections
By Charles Rosenblum
Pittsburgh Westinghouse will welcome Wilkinsburg students in 2016, but will the benefits outweigh the drawbacks in the long run?
“We have an opportunity to offer children more than what they have right now.”
By Rebecca Nuttall
Hiking trails throughout Allegheny County are growing, but property owners still hold the final say.
“The trail system is a big asset that has drawn a lot of people to this county.”
By Ryan Deto
A Conversation with U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee
“A large percentage of the public really understands that we should not be in a state of perpetual war.”
By Bill O'Driscoll
Getting your drank on with celebrity vodka-endorser 50 Cent
I walked away wondering whether 50 Cent had even had time to have a sip
By Celine Roberts
Bakn
A bacon-themed restaurant, offering breakfast, sandwiches and more, opens in Carnegie
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
ExtraVEGANza offers Pittsburghers a slow-food brunch
“Everything was big in size, but so diluted in flavor.”
By Ashley Murray
A Conversation With Steve Hallock
Author’s Justice Delayed explores a murder it took 32 years to solve
By Kelechi Urama
Mr. T: Convention Center, St. Paul, Minnesota, early ’90s
By Deena November
John Lydon talks creativity, human nature and being misunderstood
“If you expect everyone to love you all the time, then you’re a very, very foolish person who’s going to really have a miserable life.”
By Mike Shanley
The Bach Choir of Pittsburgh opens its 81st season with America: Makers and Dreamers
“I always hope to stir up people’s interest in their own heritage.”
By Margaret Welsh
Critics’ Picks, Nov. 5-11
Concerts by TesseracT, Wild Moth, Malthusian and Dilly Dally
By Andrew Woehrel
1984 at Bricolage
While I was wishing for much more, what Bricolage has created is up to its usual standards
By Ted Hoover
The Crucible at Prime Stage
The revelations issue out of the agonies of the well-played characters, not just the playwright’s hand
By Stuart Sheppard
Acclaimed dancer Aakash Odedra blends classical Indian and contemporary styles
Odedra to dance program of four solos in his Pittsburgh debut
By Steve Sucato
The new documentary Crocodile Gennadiy opens the 34th annual Three Rivers Film festival
The film about a Ukrainian pastor who rescues street kids is the second doc from the Pittsburgh-based team behind 2013’s Blood Brother
By Al Hoff
The 34th annual Three Rivers Film Festival kicks off with four opening-night films
Among them: an adaptation of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything and a jaundiced look at India’s judicial system, Court
By Al Hoff and Bill O'Driscoll
The Keeping Room
Three young women face privation and violence at the end of the Civil War
Our Brand Is Crisis
The film functions as an OK-but-not-great political romp before losing focus at the end
Suffragette
A well-produced if predictable docudrama about women fighting for the right to vote in early 20th-century Britain
The Three Rivers Film Festival
CP staffers review films screening this weekend
By CP Staff
Hockey Talk: Buy Wysocki a beer, and get his dog one too!
“I should contact my old fake-ID guy and see if he can whip me up a college ID, just so I can get into the games for cheap.”
By Mike Wysocki
Savage Love
“Leaving my sexless marriage was what I needed to do to stay sane.”
By Dan Savage
Stuff We Like
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane needs to go before things somehow get worse
Kane is running around indiscriminately firing bullets at her enemies like a drunken assassin
By Charlie Deitch
Lynn Cullen 11/03/15
Audio & Video Archive
Lynn Cullen 11/04/15
Lynn Cullen 11/05/15
Lynn Cullen 11/06/15
Lynn Cullen 11/09/15
CP Weekend Podcast - Nov. 6 - 8, 2015
By Celine Roberts, Aaron Warnick and Ashley Murray
Election night
Behind-the-scenes with Heather Arnet, the Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania’s 37th District State Senate seat, on Election Night 2015
Best Local Stage Production
Morose & Macabre's Atrocity Exhibition
Short List: November 4 - 11
Ailey II dance at the Wilson Center; ModernFormations’ Last Exhibition at Unblurred; Sunset Baby at City Theatre; Bo Burnham at Carnegie Music Hall
By Mars Johnson
Big screen, little lies: Pittsburgh is being gaslit about IMAX theaters
By Rachel Wilkinson
Move over, Pittsburgh Dad, “Cig Mom” is here
By Kate Oczypok
Pastoli's is secretly Squirrel Hill's best pizza
By Colin Williams
Drink and be merry at these Pittsburgh holiday pop-up bars
By Amanda Waltz
