Lynn Cullen Live 06/24/14
Video Archive Phone guest: Susan. Eagle cam like a reality show. Smartphone etiquette. VA underfunded, but execs getting bonuses. No sense of community in America. Luke Bryan concert trash problems. Casinos exploit poor, they are basically computerized pick-pockets. Audio Only Archive
Final weekend for Orlando at Unseam’d Shakespeare
Three performances remain of delightful adaptation
Solar Festival Debuts Tomorrow
Day-long event includes live music, food trucks, electric cars
White Hinterland comes to Club Cafe tonight
Photo credit: Derrick Belcham White Hinterland Vocalist White Hinterland will play Club Cafe tonight, in support of her new album, Baby. Hinterland self-recorded Baby, released in April, in her parent’s basement in Scituate, Ma., after recording for two and a half years in Montreal and Portland, Ore. After five months home, she built her own…
Lynn Cullen Live 06/20/14
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Pittsburgh Independent Film Festival starts Fri., June 20
The Pittsburgh Independent Film Festival offers film-goers 63 short and feature-length films over the weekend
Activists say state’s waterways are a ‘polluter’s dumping ground’
State’s toxic discharges rank seventh nationally
Transitional housing program to close
Azar House, a transitional housing program in Mt. Oliver, has barely been open one year. But in that time, the program for homeless women age 18 and up has been a safe haven, providing shelter and guidance to a variety of women, some who have been recently released from prison, and others who have been…
Flood City Music Festival launch t-shirt design contest
The AmServ Flood City Music Festival is Aug. 1-3 and organizers want you to design their festival’s t-shirt. The annual Johnstown music festival will be held in Peoples Natural Gas Park, with around 35 acts on four stages of American roots music and more. This year’s headliners include Boz Scaggs, Leftover Salmon (featuring Bill Payne…
Food, Music, Crafters at Market Square for World Refugee Day
UN-designated day honors those who must flee
Lynn Cullen Live 06/19/14
Video Archive > Guest: Tom Sokolowski; academics are mumblers; either a person has style or they don’t; our obsession with smelling good; top scents to turn on men / women; nightclubs buy cannabis scent to pump through vents; Central American kids fleeing to the US to escape violence. Audio Only Archive
Venue Correction for Found Footage Festival, Tue., June 24
The touring Found Footage Festival, hitting town on Tue., June 24, is happening at Regent Square Theater, not at Melwood, as listed in the print edition. The updated preview follows: FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL. The curators of odd and funny found videos return for an evening of laughs, as Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett show off…
Trash Talk to play free show tonight
Trash Talk Sacramento hardcore band Trash Talk will make a stop in Pittsburgh tonight as part of the G Pen Free Tour. The band will play Cattivo in Lawrenceville alongside Odd Future’s Left Brain and Pittsburgh hardcore band Killer of Sheep. The free show starts at 5 p.m. and is first come, first served. (There…
2014 Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival
Pittsburgh City Paper was on-site at the 2014 Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival from June 6 – June 15. Three Rivers Arts Festival quickly grew from the “little outdoor art show” to what is today the region’s largest multidisciplinary showcase of free visual art and performing arts. This year there were performances by Kaiser…
Grist House Brewing opens just across the river from town
Kyle Mientkiewicz and Brian Eaton, owners of Grist House Brewing, are hoping that there’s no truth to the old meme about Pittsburghers not crossing a river for an evening out. “Millvale is really just seconds away from Lawrenceville,” says Mientkiewicz. The two began drawing up the plans for Grist House nearly four years ago, after…
Mary Menniti’s Italian Garden Project seeks to document and celebrate a horticultural tradition
Severio Strati’s 300-by-30-foot garden boasts grids of peppers, garlic and eggplant, with 130 tomato plants. There’s a grape arbor, peach trees and a few figs that survived winter. “I cover good. That’s why I didn’t lose them,” he says. For 60 years, the Hazelwood resident — who spent most of his working life in J&L…
Mike Vallely talks about Black Flag, then and now
BLACK FLAG with HOR, CINEMA CINEMA 7 p.m. Wed., June 25. Altar Bar, 1620 Penn Ave., Strip District. $20-25. All ages. 412-206-9719 or www.thealtarbar.com Even in the best of times, internal turmoil was implicit in the description of legendary hardcore outfit Black Flag. (See one-time frontman Henry Rollins’ essential tour diary, Get in the Van.)…
The Affordable Care Act has changed the landscape for artists documented by the Healthy Artists project.
Between Oct. 1 and April 30, according to federal statistics, about 318,000 Pennsylvanians acquired private health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Among them was Gabe Felice, one of the artists profiled by Julie Sokolow in her online video series Healthy Artists. By spotlighting low-income artists, the series addressed the wider struggle for health-care…
Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz on writing, hip hop and the band’s next record
COUNTING CROWS with TOAD THE WET SPROCKET. 6 p.m. Fri., June 27. Stage AE Outdoors, 400 North Shore Drive, North Side. $37.50-40. All ages. 412-229-5483 or stageae.com Adam Duritz is the voice and mind behind the 20-year career of Counting Crows. Before the band’s current tour, he spoke with CP about songwriting, the possibility of…
Dancer and choreographer André Koslowski launches the Kelly-Strayhorn’s East Liberty LIVE! series with a work-in-progress.
This summer, the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater continues serving as one of the region’s leading incubators of new dance work and artist development with three installments of its East Liberty LIVE! series. Up first, former Dance Alloy dancer André Koslowski returns to Pittsburgh to further develop his Wiegenlied (“Lullaby”), an evening-length dance-theater piece exploring themes of loneliness…
Sharon Van Etten branches out on Are We There
SHARON VAN ETTEN with JANA HUNTER. 7 p.m. Thu., June 19. Mr. Small’s Theatre, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $16-18. All ages. 412-821-4447 or mrsmalls.com With three acclaimed albums already under her belt, it would have been easy for Sharon Van Etten to deliver her fourth, Are We There, in a similar vein — a move…
Evil Dead: The Musical at No Name Players
EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL continues through June 28. No Name Players at Off the Wall Theater, 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $15-20. www.nonameplayers.org People are funny. No Name Players presents Evil Dead: The Musical, and because of the amount of stage blood sprayed over the audience, the entire theater is covered…
JazzLive International Festival welcomes Puerto Rican salsa ambassadors
PITTSBURGH JAZZLIVE INTERNATIONAL June 20-22. Multiple venues Downtown; outdoor stages: Penn at Eighth, Penn at Garrison. Free. All ages. pittsburghjazzlive.com Jazz music has been closely connected to social change throughout its history, and this year’s Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival is no exception. The event, which runs June 20-22, coincides with the launch of ¡Hola Pittsburgh!,…
Legally Blonde: The Musical at Pittsburgh CLO
LEGALLY BLONDE continues through Sun., June 22. Pittsburgh CLO at the Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown $10-65.75. 412-456-6666 or
Critics’ Picks: June 19 – 26
[INDIE POP] + THU., JUNE 19 Tegan and Sara have that “chemistry” thing down. At age 15, the sisters Quin were already playing guitar and writing songs. Now, the indie pop/rock duo is playing festivals, headlining tours, and in the fall, will be opening for longtime supporter Katy Perry. The pair’s popularity had been building…
At James Gallery, 11 artists fruitfully explore the possibilities of abstraction
RESPONSE continues through July 12. James Gallery 413 S. Main St., West End. 412-922-9800 or jamesgallery.net On one side of a freestanding wall at James Gallery, almost like an afterthought, hangs a small but bold blood-red piece by Carrie Seid called “Red Boba.” It’s easy to miss, but stand in front of it for a…
Bill Peduto wants a fitter Pittsburgh … and he’s trying to lead by example
When Bill Peduto became Pittsburgh’s 60th mayor on Jan. 6, he was carrying a special burden. And it wasn’t the weight of new responsibility. “The day I got sworn in, I was the biggest I’d ever been — 240 pounds,” Peduto says. “I could feel it.” They call it “running” for office, but politics can…
The Double
The Double Directed by: Richard Ayoade Starring: Jesse Eisenberg Starts Fri., June 20. Harris. A man enters a subway train, and tells its sole occupant: “You’re in my place.” That the seated man moves tells us much about Simon James, the protagonist of Richard Ayoade’s The Double. Simon (Jesse Eisenberg) is meek and easily cowed,…
After Obamacare gains, many low-income Pennsylvanians hoping for Medicaid expansion
Since the Affordable Care Act went into full swing last fall, those who’ve been able to acquire health insurance report a common symptom: feeling like a weight has been lifted off their shoulders. “I’m not panicked about getting injured or sick anymore,” says Julie Goodenough of Crafton, who says she previously couldn’t obtain insurance because…
22 Jump Street
If you’ve said, “What this summer needs is a nearly identical sequel to a previous bromance groaning with sight gags, vulgar jokes and self-referential winks that doubles-down on the meta-humor about being a bromantic sequel,” then you’re in luck. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s 22 Jump Street re-boots the undercover-cop duo portrayed by Channing Tatum…
A proposed law would make it easier for the mentally ill to be treated, but would it come at the expense of their rights?
While the spate of recent mass shootings has done little to shift the debate on gun control, it has sparked another discussion — about treating Americans suffering from severe mental illness. And a Pittsburgh-area congressman has been at the forefront. In December, shortly before the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shooting, Republican Tim…
The Rover
Maybe it’s that vast and desolate outback, or being a continent on the edge of the world, or starting modern life as a penal colony, but Australia has a penchant for creating unsettling films that double-down on bleakness and violence. This one, directed by David Michôd (Animal Kingdom), takes place in the blistering heat and…
On the Record: A conversation with Dr. Karen Hacker, director of the Allegheny County Health Department
Not even a year into her post as director of the Allegheny County Health department, Dr. Karen Hacker has faced her share of public health problems: startling obesity rates, an outbreak of lethal fentanyl-laced heroin and public outrage over the environmental effects of industry. Hired after County Executive Rich Fitzgerald ousted the 20-year health department…
Words and Pictures
Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche star in Fred Schepisi’s romantic dramedy about two prep-school teachers whose bantering leads to a relationship. He teaches English, she teaches art, so early battle lines are drawn between which art form is the more effective communication tool. But beneath this playfulness are two more serious problems: his destructive alcoholism…
Proud Occasion
Pittsburgh’s 2014 Pride celebration took place just weeks after the state’s ban on same-sex marriage was overturned by a federal judge. No surprise, then, that on June 15 Downtown’s streets sometimes resembled a giant wedding party (with entertainment provided by Chaka Khan); earlier that day, Mayor William Peduto presided over the wedding of some 19…
UPMC’s Musicians’ Hearing Center helps local musicians protect their ears
Chris Fazio plays violin and trumpet with local band The Hills and the Rivers now, but he’s played pretty much every instrument in his day, including drums, which he played in some loud bands as a kid. And while many musicians start to experience hearing problems later in life, it hit Fazio at age 16.…
Savage Love
I’ve always identified as a straight male into typical relationships. I’ve realized, after multiple unsatisfying long-term relationships, that monogamy isn’t for me. I would like to have a main, fulfilling and committed relationship without limiting myself sexually or emotionally. I don’t want to cheat on anyone. I just want the rules to fit me so…
Short List: June 19 – 26
Sun., June 22 — Dance What better way for Attack Theatre to kick off its year-long community dance project Remainder/Northside than with a free, family-friendly community day at the New Hazlett Theater? On Sun., June 22, the Pittsburgh-based, internationally touring troupe will launch the project and entertain audiences as only Attack Theatre can, with interactive…
Bartlesville, Oklahoma 1980
The summer before you were born was the hottest in 100 years. With no place to go your father and I moved into a tiny white farmhouse with his sister Jean. We overstayed our welcome by at least two months. The garden shriveled and burned no matter how much I watered. Under the straw mulch…
Cinco Mexican Restaurant
Cinco Mexican Restaurant Cinco Mexican Restaurant 1600 Painter’s Run Road, Upper St. Clair. 412-319-7772 Hours: Mon.-Thu. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sat. noon-10 p.m.; Sun. 3-9 p.m. Prices: Appetizers, soups and salads $2-20; entrees $10-16 Liquor: Full bar Some people always order their favorites from a menu; others like to try something new.…
Lynn Cullen Live 06/18/14
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