Vol. 26, No. 35
Killer Heels combines history and fashion
Frick show isn’t just for stiletto afficionados
By Natalie Spanner
Affordable-housing advocates to boycott Pittsburgh’s Whole Foods
“The issue will be whether the dispute fueling the boycott of Whole Foods will be important enough to customers to create economic damage.”
By Ryan Deto
New running program gets local homeless-shelter residents active
“Every time we get out there and run and walk together, when they come back, they feel good.”
By Rebecca Addison
Weird Pittsburgh this week: Kylo Ren masks, Ek Tha Tiger, more naked running
Kylo Ren masks, Ek That Tiger hacks, more running in the nude
By Nick Keppler
Pittsburgh City Paper Booze Battles: Brillobox vs. Spoon
It’s a sloe-gin slugfest
By Celine Roberts
Terra Vecchia Reserve Vermentino-Chardonnay 2014
Retail Price: $10/glass
By Alyssa McGrath
Cocktails should be fun
If beer and wine are the bread and butter of American imbibing, then cocktails are the banana split
By Drew Cranisky
The Elbow Room returns to its original spot on Ellsworth Avenue in Shadyside
The menu now blends new recipes, dishes from the former Tavern 1947 and Elbow Room classics
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
Pinakbet
“Like most comfort foods, pinakbet can be contentious.”
By Eme Truechild Pfleegor
The Nepali Bazaar, in Brentwood, is a popular shop for Pittsburgh’s growing Bhutanese community
The grocery stocks flours, spice and less-common fruits
By Ashley Murray
Sound Bite goes foraging for chanterelle mushrooms with Tom and Cavan Patterson
“These are not new mushrooms. They’ve been growing here for probably hundreds, if not thousands, of years.”
Local history professor explores the 19th-century origins of the Ku Klux Klan
Though they failed as the Confederacy, these men felt that had this new thing, this new invisible “nation”
By Jody DiPerna
Local comics creator seeks funds for new universe centered on superheroes of color
“I want to produce positive role models.”
By Tyler Dague
Charlie Brice’s debut poetry collection impresses
Flashcuts Out of Chaos offers memory cultivated into narratives acting as cinematic moments
By Fred Shaw
Brian Wilson brings Pet Sounds to the Benedum Center
“I had in my mind exactly what I wanted when I got to the studio.”
By Bill Kopp
On the Record with Moon Baby
“I felt a little bit more free to just be crazy.”
By Margaret Welsh
Pittsburgh-based bands Mariage Blanc, Delicious Pastries, Sleep Experiments and Host Skull join forces to create the Golden Magnet musical collective
“The objective is to join together and pool our collective resources and challenge one another to continue to put out high-quality art.”
By Brian Conway
Critics’ Picks, Aug. 25-31
Performances by Korn and Rob Zombie, Tarana, Sheila E. and a visit from the Sonic Unrest Tour
By Meg Fair
The inaugural FEST FEST FEST at City Grows seeks to break free from the male-dominated festival mold
“We definitely aimed to have the lineup be a bit more diverse, since we’re very tired of the boys’ club.”
Wild Kindness Records, Spirit and Penn Brewery join up to benefit local bands with a new microbrew, Toasted Sessions Lager
A portion of sales of the beer will be donated by Penn Brewery and Spirit to mitigate the recording expenses of Wild Kindness artists.
By Ian Thomas
Loot at Little Lake
The less Orton-like the production became, the more the audience loved it
By Ted Hoover
A History of the American Film at The Summer Company
There’s so much coming so quickly that plenty will surely tickle a funnybone
By Michelle Pilecki
Equity
A new financial thriller looks at how powerful women fare on Wall Street
By Al Hoff
Kubo and the Two Strings
Perhaps best of all are the film’s ravishing visuals and lyrical sensibility
By Bill O'Driscoll
The Innocents
Polish nuns, who suffered violent assaults during the war, find redemption through kindness
Southside With You
Richard Tanne’s sweet, low-key film recreates the Obamas’ first date in the summer of 1989
Little Men
Gentrification threatens the friendship of two boys in Ira Sachs’ latest drama
War Dogs
This comedy about war profiteers is all bro and no bite
Penn State and Pitt meet again, but is it a real rivalry?
Rivalries are all about creating an identity through a nemesis
By Alex Gordon
Pittsburgh bocce traditions are alive and well in Bloomfield
“Everybody gets together, and usually there’s a little bit of wine involved.”
Mike Wysocki’s ranking of the best Pittsburgh sports statues
In Pittsburgh, our statue game is pretty solid.
By Mike Wysocki
Savage Love
By Dan Savage
U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey shouldn’t get off so easy on for-profit education ties
“Schools like the one Toomey invested in are bad for Americans.”
By Charlie Deitch
This Just In: A look at local news online and on the tube.
By Frances Sansig Rupp
Lynn Cullen Live 08/22/16
Audio & Video Archive
Lynn Cullen Live 08/23/16
Lynn Cullen 08/24/16
Lynn Cullen Live 08/25/16
Lynn Cullen Live 08/29/16
Bocce tournament keeps the 'amicizia' going (and wine flowing) at Bloomfield's Little Italy Days
City Paper Podcast - Sports Rivalries
"Some of these countries are playing soccer instead of shooting each other."
Short List: August 24 - 31
Pittsburgh Comedy Festival returns; a Neu Kirche art showcase; Free Jesus Poems About Jesus; the Moth Mainstage at the Byham
By CP Staff
By Mars Johnson
A love letter, via Stormy Daniels, to the women and femmes who did not say no
By Jessie Sage
Pittsburgh loved its disco days, and Thomas Jayson packed the clubs
By Rachel Wilkinson
Pittsburgh’s heaviest hardcore band No Reason to Live will never die
By Eli Enis
Pittsburgh’s top 420 events
