Quick review: Night Beats (playing Brillobox this Friday)
While we weren’t able to fit anything about this Friday’s Night Beats show at Brillobox into this week’s paper, freelancer Ian Thomas walks us through the band’s latest record here: Adventurous listeners interested in exploring the surf/psychedelic revival that has been picking up steam recently, thanks to bands like The Black Lips and Thee Oh-Sees,…
Lynn Cullen Live 03/27/12
Video Archive Phone guest: Susan; Jane Orie guilty on 14 counts & her sisters aren’t far behind; people who are for/against Obamacare; being a woman in this country is expensive, they’re charged more for everything from deoderant to insurance; Obits of the day: Priscilla Buckley, sister of William F. / Bert Shugar, boxing historian /…
Lucky Street Tour comes to Altar Bar
Check out this review of The Lucky Street Tour’s show at Altar Bar.
Macadelic and the state of Mac Miller
Some thoughts on Mac Miller’s trajectory upon the release of Macadelic.
Lynn Cullen Live 03/26/12
Video Archive Guest: Stephen Hirtle, Steel City Skeptics; Jane Orie trial; Dick Cheney’s new heart; North Side Connector open, free rides today; violence in this country is going down; since 9/11, Islam in the US has flourished; James Cameron taking first photos EVER of the sea depth he’s reached; Reason Rally in DC, a “coming…
Diespace at the Dutch Festival
This funny, satirical show by Dutch multimedia performance troupe PIPS:lab sends up social media using slick digital technology. But much of the cleverness of this U.S. premiere resides in the format, which suggests a cheesy 1970s TV game show, complete with theme music and audience participation. The premise is that the performers are entrepreneurs seeking…
Lynn Cullen Live 03/23/12
Video Archive Guest: Bill O’ Driscoll, CP writer; article in new CP ( out now! ) about climate scientist Michael Mann, his “hockey stick study,’ & global warming deniers; Tom Sokolowski update; cocaine contributed to Whitney Houston’s death; car sales soaring & unemployment rates dropping; Romney = Woody Allen in Zelig; We Are All Immigrants…
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Sounding Board [Local Music Series] Photos
Check out photos from Sounding Board [Local Music Series]!
Sounding Board: Local Music Series.
Pittsburgh City Paper presented Sounding Board [Local Music Series] on March 21st at Peters Pub in Oakland. Attendees paid $6 and received two free Iron City Beers and also were able to see 3 local bands: Host Skull, SolSis and Dazzeltine including DJs Lauren G and Nikkels
Death-Penalty Exoneree to Speak Here
Juan Meléndez, who spent nearly 18 years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit and who now works to end the death penalty, speaks here next Tuesday. In 1984, Meléndez was accused of a brutal murder in Florida. He could not afford an attorney and within a week, according to a press release…
Lynn Cullen Live 03/22/12
Video Archive Guest: Susan again!; new downtown cab service to select neighborhoods; parents of killers; how Susan fixed Lynn’s electronics; Bill Maher doesn’t want to live in a country where no one gets offended, that’s why we have Canada; 1/2 of PA’s prisons are filled w/ ex-legislators; Bristol Palin wants an apology; Saints coach suspended…
All Jazzed Up: Former DUQ staffers’ online venture off to a quick start
The Pittsburgh Jazz Channel pghjazzchannel.org Daily Schedule 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.: Chuck Leavens 6 p.m. to midnight: Tony Mowod Midnight to 10 a.m.: John Lasanich When Essential Public Media announced in January 2011 that it had purchased the former WDUQ, many observers had the same initial reaction: Will they still program jazz? Unfortunately for…
To join the latest social-media site from Dutch troupe PIPS:lab, you have to be dead
p>PIPS:lab performs DIESPACE 8 p.m. nightly Thu., March 22-24. 805-807 Liberty Ave. Downtown. $30. 412-456-6666 or culturaldistrict.org Like death itself, Diespace is impossible to understand unless you experience it firsthand. The idea, as described by media releases, is that Diespace is “the first active Internet community for the deceased,” and the joke is that “you…
Pittsburgh’s Original Punks: The Pittsburgh Symphony
For musicians, it’s a familiar script: Defy “traditional values” … scandalize the establishment … and when humorless fundamentalists begin to squawk, milk the PR for all it’s worth. It worked for Madonna, Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga. But none of these pioneers had anything on the city’s original jukebox heroes, the Pittsburgh Symphony. Far from…
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games Directed by: Gary Ross Starring: Jennifer Lawrence Josh Hutcherson Starts Fri., March 23. In some dystopic future, America is divided into 12 districts, and run by an elite central city. Each year, in a twisted bit of patriotism, the Capitol stages The Hunger Games. A teen-age boy and girl from each district…
Savage Love
I am a 21-year-old male and a senior at an Ivy League school. Despite my academic success, I’ve battled a lot of stuff in the past few years: anxiety, depression, substance abuse and porn addiction. It’s a load of shit to wade through, but I’m getting better. About sex: Before I even knew what I…
Being Flynn
Nick (Paul Dano) is a directionless young man living in a glorified squat who maybe wants to be a writer. After years of neglect, his feckless, delusional and troubled father re-connects with him; dad Jonathan (Robert DeNiro) fancies himself the greatest American novelist, who needs only to be published. Their rocky relationship grows more complicated…
Climate Warrior: A Penn State professor attacked for his climate research strikes back with a new book.
In November 2009, an anonymous hacker stole thousands of emails from the climate-research unit of the U.K.’s University of East Anglia. Twenty of the emails were then released online, but they’d been deceptively edited to suggest that the scientists who’d written them were conspiring to trick the public into believing in global warming. The furor,…
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
The only thing worse than being a loser is being a loser and a dreamer. For how do you make dreams come true if you can’t stop sucking on your monster bong or get off the couch in your mother’s basement (where you live)? Jeff (Jason Segel) is 30 and that’s his dilemma. His brother,…
A Climate Scientist Fights Back
Penn State University climate scientist Michael Mann is among the world’s most prominent researchers in his field — and thus also among the top targets for deniers of climate change. He’s fighting back with a new book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (Columbia University Press). In 2001, the…
Rampart
Set in 1999 Los Angeles, against the backdrop of the LAPD’s Rampart investigation that revealed systemic abuse of police power, Oren Moverman’s drama depicts the unraveling of an L.A. cop after his brutal assault on a civilian is caught on tape. Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson) is an unrepentant corrupt cop whose outsized exterior masks a…
Cucina Bella
Cucina Bella 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. Bridgeville. 412-257-5150 Hours: Tue.-Sat. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun. 4-9 p.m. Prices: Antipasto, soups, salads and sandwiches $8-11; pizza $12-17 Liquor: BYOB One of the pleasures of Italian food is how well it satisfies, whether prepared at its simplest or its most sophisticated. From all-American pizzeria-style pies to refined regional recipes,…
21 Jump Street
Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum star as undercover policemen posing as high schoolers, in this comic re-boot of the popular 1980s TV series, directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. In many respects, it’s the same raucous, R-rated comedy you see every other week at the multiplex: nonstop profanity, sex chatter, boozing and drugging, and…
Scrapple
Where I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, a hearty Sunday breakfast was not complete without a side of scrapple accompanying my eggs and home fries. A creation of the Pennsylvania Dutch, scrapple is a breakfast meat enjoyed primarily in the Middle Atlantic region. Outside of the “Scrapple Belt,” however, it’s a relatively unheard-of…
Lynn Cullen Live 03/21/12
Video Archive Guest: Chris Potter; HD makeup; new CP + CP Music Guide out today; Lynn’s harpsichord days; Republican Party Area Assessments; Morticia Addams was hot; crazed reverend introduces Santorum, announces that our country belives in God’s son; Treyvon Martin & the Stand Your Ground Bill; Robert DiNero: is America ready for a white First…
Local homebrewers face off for honor
The Three Rivers Association of Serious Homebrewers (TRASH) just held its 22nd annual brewing contest, and competition was fierce. There were 600 entries from 148 individual competitors, nearly twice as many entries as last year. Organizer Mike Beattie cites the rise in popularity of homebrewing as a primary factor for the large number of entries.…
Tracksploitation takes DJing to another dimension
TRACKSPLOITATION opens for SHABAZZ PALACES. Sun., April 8 10 p.m. Shadow Lounge 5972 Baum Blvd. East Liberty. $10-15. Age 18 and up. 412-363-8277 or shadowlounge.net Dateline: Pittsburgh. Time-traveling DJs have landed in the year 2012, and they’ve come to rid the world of bad music. They go by the names Professor ASAP and JCT 45,…
Short List: March 23 – 29
As hosts of Mythbusters, now in its ninth season on the Discovery Channel, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage test the validity of rumors, movie scenes and popular myths — would a bull really cause destruction in a china shop? — often with explosive, unexpected results. They hear two things from fans. “One is, ‘Your show…
1971
at seven my mother taught me how to make a bed with hospital corners taught me how to smooth the sheets from top to bottom be sure to pull at the top sheet tight, tuck it under at the bottom and make the folds crisp like an angle on both sides i watched and thought…
Music Guide 2012: How to (and how not to) start a band in Pittsburgh
Earlier this year, Time ran a piece in its Entrepreneurial Insights column by a pair of brothers in a Brooklyn-based band called Two Lights; in it, the two estimated that the grand total they (and their parents) had sunk into trying to make it as an indie band was about $100,000. It was, of course,…
Music Guide 2012: Resource Guide
Listed below are some notable venues, promoters, studios and stores that might be of use to a new musician in Pittsburgh. It’s by no means comprehensive, but is meant to give a sample of what’s available to aspiring artists. Venues listed are those that regularly host all-local bills or add local openers to touring packages.…
A monumental Carnegie Museum show views the 20th century through the lens of Teenie Harris.
TEENIE HARRIS, PHOTOGRAPHER continues through April 7. Carnegie Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Ave. Oakland. 412-622-3131 or cmoa.org The Carnegie Museum of Art’s long-running Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story closes April 7. Chances are you won’t have to wait long to see the famed Pittsburgh Courier photographer’s work again. The exhibit’s 987 (!) images…
Jon Quest takes on new adventures
MONSTERS OF THE MIC with JON QUEST. 9 p.m. Sat., March 31. Z:Lounge 2108 E. Carson St. South Side. 412-431-1800 When you attend a hip-hop show that features Jon Quest, you’re sure to be jumping out of your seat and to the stage. A 25-year-old graduate of Penn Hills High School, the MC (real name:…
Overlapping Memories explores what was left behind
OVERLAPPING MEMORIES continues through April 1. Space Gallery 812 Liberty Ave. Downtown. 412-325-7723 or spacepittsburgh.org At Space Gallery, guest curator Carolina Loyola-Garcia offers Overlapping Memories. Its 15 works reflect an exchange between 19 artists in Pittsburgh and Quart de Poblet, Spain, exploring memory and introspection through digital forms of collage, from video to prints. A…
CD Reviews
Vulture Oblivious to Ruin (Innervenus) Snarling, plodding sludge fills the band’s first full-length. (Vulture’s first EP came out in 2008.) If you’re waiting for the fast breakdowns, you’ll be waiting a long time; now and then, the band speeds up to a trot, but most of the album is spent downtempo and downtuned. Fans of…
The Monster in the Hall
THE MONSTER IN THE HALL continues through April 1. City Theatre 1300 Bingham St. South Side. 412-431-CITY or citytheatrecompany.org If you drew a graph charting my enjoyment of David Greig’s The Monster in the Hall — the new show at City Theatre — it would start out as a very flat line. During the first…
Critics’ Picks: March 22 – 27
[INDIE ROCK] + THU., MARCH 22 While Canada might have thrust Justin Bieber upon the world’s pop scene, the Great White North also generously gifted the talents of Said the Whale to the indie-rock universe. The 2011 Juno Award-winning band, which performed at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, excels at producing splashy hooks, especially on its…
The House That Carol Built
THE HOUSE THAT CAROL BUILT continues through March 31. Kuntu Repertory Theatre in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh 7101 Hamilton Ave. Homewood. 412-648-7814 or proartstickets.org After 37 years at the helm of Kuntu Repertory Theatre, founder and artistic director Vernell A. Lillie is preparing for retirement yet a second time, with a reprise of last…
