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A conversation with music critic Carl Wilson
“Let’s Talk About Love” author gives free talk here Wednesday
Listen Up! March 18
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists covered in the current music section or included in our concert listings or mentioned on the CP Weekend Podcast. Listen! Read!
Associated Artists Show Opens Friday
Group show “Black & White” kicks off with a reception
Q&A with Pittsburgh City Council District 5 Candidate Kimberly Kaplan
Kimberly Kaplan, of Squirrel Hill, will challenge incumbent Corey O’Connor in Pittsburgh’s City Council District 5 race.
Concert announcements: David Crosby, Wire, BTBAM, Kid Ink, more!
It’s Tuesday, which means the concert announcements are rollin’ in.
Mattress Factory Now Open Late on Third Thursdays
“MF After 5” goes till 8 p.m.
Lynn Cullen Live 3/17/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Isralis at the polls today. Wallstreet bonuses are twice as much as the combined annual sum of all minimum wage workers salaries. PA women in government or lack there of. Funding for PA schools create economic apartheid. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives…
MP3 Monday: As Ladders
This week’s MP3 Monday comes from local singer-songwriter Mike Berginc. “Don’t Take Yr Luv” is a hazy folk stomper from Berginc under the moniker As Ladders. Check out our review of his Yarns EP here, and take a listen below.
Lynn Cullen Live 3/16/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. The tyranny of youth and beauty. The Jinx about Robert A. Durst arrested on Saturday the 10th. Pope Francis alludes to retiring. Mugshot of police shooter looks just like Chris Rock. American flag on college campus incites debate. Michael Crichton on religious environmentalism. Billy Graham…
School-board candidate Tracy Link identifies budget as top issue
District 6 school-board candidate Tracy Link says she will focus on improving the school district’s budget if elected.
Locally tied Hammerstep Faces Kickstarter Deadline for Interactive Show
Interactive show, now seeking Kickstarter fudning, promises to make audiences characters in an action movie
Lynn Cullen Live 3/13/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Comprised security at the White House. PA doesn’t protect LGBT peoples rights in the workplace. Pittsburgh cop who was charged with pistol whipping a handcuffed man is promoted to Captain. Wilkinsburg cops break in to a couple’s home. 3 NFL players retire within 12 hours…
CP Weekend podcast for March 13-15: Fish fry tours, big-time hip hop and Spring!
The CP Weekend podcast for March 13-March 15: Take a fish fry tour, watch some VHS videos, hear a big-time hip-hop artist, and get psyched for spring.
Pittsburgh Pirates Spring Training Batting Practice Playlist
A Pirates playlist live from spring training
Lynn Cullen Live 3/12/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Deb and Susan Whitewood talk about marriage equality and their journey with the ACLU. The Dalai Lama suggests he may not reincarnate much to the Chinese governments’ rage. Hillary’s press conference goes poorly. MSNBC makes a huge blunder. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio…
CP Weekend Podcast – Mar. 13 – 15, 2015
This week on the CP Weekend Podcast: Take a fish fry tour, watch some VHS videos, and get psyched for spring.
Little-heralded cherry Heering adds depth to cocktails
Flipping through a classic-cocktail book can be an adventure into a world of unrecognizable ingredients and strange measurements. One such perusal led me to a liquor store and a bottle of ruby-colored Heering: The Original Cherry Liqueur. Rye, lemon, cherry Heering, ice, shake, glass and a sip later (an imprecise High Hat recipe), I realized…
Critics’ Picks, Mar. 12-18
[ROCK] + FRI., MARCH 13 The members of Beech Creeps are only kidding around — they swear. Hell, they even sport Animal Collective-like aliases (PP Colada, Yka Mofongo and Ron Llave) to prove it. But none of this changes that their self-titled, debut LP sounds straight-up mean. It’s an aggressive, noisy collection of feedback-laced rock…
Some local fish frys are donating their used cooking oil to alternative-energy companies
On Saturday mornings during Lent, when the latest weekly fish fry is history, several churches are letting their used oil cool down. Not to pitch it, but to donate it. “We try not to waste anything, that’s our big philosophy this year,” says Amy Goetzman, who coordinates the fish fry at St. Rosalia Parish, in…
On the Record With Will Butler
WILL BUTLER with TEEN 9:30 p.m. Thu., March 12. Brillobox 4104 Penn Ave. Bloomfield $11 421-621-4900 or brillobox.net Will Butler first came to prominence as a multi-instrumentalist in Arcade Fire. He’s also recorded soundtracks, and this week, he releases his solo debut, Policy, on Merge Records. Before hitting the road, Butler spent a week writing…
A groundbreaking film-industry worker turns impressive poet
THE GAFFER BOOK LAUNCH 5-7 p.m. Sat., March 14 Melwood Screening Room 477 Melwood Ave. Oakland Free RSVP to thegaffer.book @gmail.com A gaffer is the person in charge of the lights used when making films and TV shows. In Celeste Gainey’s highly anticipated debut poetry collection, the GAFFER (Arktoi Books, $18.95), illumination, both personal and…
Joe Sestak is preparing for another run at Pat Toomey, whether the Democratic Party likes it or not
His official campaign for U.S. Senate was barely two days old, and already Joe Sestak was working on a big bipartisan project. On March 6, he was walking west through Bucks County as part of a 422-mile trek across the state to “walk a mile in the shoes of Pennsylvanians.” “I came across a car…
How a pioneering film-industry worker turned to poetry — and to Pittsburgh
THE GAFFER BOOK LAUNCH 5-7 p.m. Sat., March 14 Melwood Screening Room 477 Melwood Ave. Oakland Free RSVP to thegaffer.book @gmail.com. Read the book review About 40 years ago, Celeste Gainey graduated from New York University’s film school. Though she’d studied lighting, as she was preparing to find work, her cinematography teacher suddenly suggested, “Why…
City’s decision to use clean-diesel legislation on Greenfield Bridge project hinges on the state
A few times a week, Stephanie Schott attends a “New Moms Coffee” group connected to her 13-month-old son’s pediatrician’s office. “It’s a moms’ group where moms with babies 1 year old and younger can go,” Schott says. “There’s even prenatal classes, yoga classes. It’s basically a meet-up place for families and moms.” KidsPlus Pediatrics and…
Under its new dance chair, the Conservatory Dance Company seems headed in a new direction
CONSERVATORY DANCE COMPANY presents At the Byham Fri., March 20-Sun., March 22 Byham Theater 101 Sixth St. Downtown $18-20 412-392-8000 or pittsburgh playhouse.com Audiences most often get a feel for a new dance-company director from his or her choices in repertory. In the case of Point Park University’s new dance-department chair, Rubén Graciani, an indication of…
Elemeno Pea at City Theatre
ELEMENO PEA continues through March 22 City Theatre 1300 Bingham St. South Side $15-61 412-431-2489 or citytheatre company.org City Theatre’s Pittsburgh-premiere production of Elemeno Pea is a lovely show about largely unpleasant people. Molly Smith Metzler’s 2011 one-act is high drama played as low comedy, as differently monied people clash about class. Well, it’s not…
Savage Love
When I was 15, I had a three-month-long sexual relationship with a 32-year-old woman. She was a friend of the family, and my parents were going through a divorce. I stayed with her for the summer, and she initiated a sexual relationship. Looking back, I can see that she had been grooming me. We used…
Young Frankenstein at Pittsburgh Musical Theater
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN continues through Sun., March 15 Pittsburgh Musical Theater at the Byham Theater 101 Sixth St. Downtown $12.75-49.95 412-456-6666 or pittsburgh musicals.com When Mel Brooks opened the musical version of The Producers, in 2001, the theater world went wild. The show won 12 Tonys, ran for six years and ushered in $400 and $500…
Innocent Man
I am an innocent man, going to college to clear my name, to prove to myself and others that I am smart. I am an innocent man. To them I am a retard. To them I am dumb. To me I am not. To them I am a mistake. To me I am not. To…
Animal Farm at Prime Stage
ANIMAL FARM continues through Sun., March 15 New Hazlett Theater 6 Allegheny Square East North Side $20 724-773-0700 or primestage.com Prime Stage Theater’s production of Animal Farm, adapted from George Orwell’s novel by Andrew Periale, has my admiration for one simple reason: All through the show, the human actors portray pigs and horses and so…
Short List: March 11 – 17
SPOTLIGHT: Thu., March 12 — Comedy Aaron Kleiber is in Philadelphia, prepping to portray an historical figure (he can’t divulge which one) in his latest Pennsylvania Lottery commercial. Kleiber also has a burgeoning career as a touring standup comic: After just six years in the game, the Munhall resident is working as far afield as…
At Silver Eye, two photographers challenge our notions of objective perception
FELLOWSHIP 15 continues through March 21 Silver Eye Center for Photography 1015 E. Carson St. South Side 412-431-1810 or silvereye.org The recent Internet frenzy over the color of a dress was compelling not just because it shows that each of us sees things differently, but also because it illustrates our relationship to digital media. Silver…
Stuff We Like
Shamrock Shakes. An early harbinger of spring, McDonald’s guilty-pleasure green shake is celebrating its 45th year. Irish Me, I’m KISS shirt. Commonwealth Press has 13 St. Patrick’s Day T-shirts for sale on its site, but this one is by far the weirdest. compressmerch.com Biddle’s Escape. What a neighborhood coffeehouse should be: tea, coffee drinks and…
Song of the Sea
Song of the Sea Directed by: Tomm Moore Featuring the voices of Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan, David Rawle and Lucy O’Connell Starts: Fri., March 13. Regent Square. Folk tales are meant to entertain, but also to convey necessary mores about family, life and death, living the best one can, and so on. Tomm Moore’s new…
Red Army
One benefit of the dissolution of the Soviet Union has been the revelation of all the history previously hidden behind the Iron Curtain. Now unfolding in Gabe Polsky’s documentary Red Army is a recounting of Russia’s fabled and feared national hockey team. Polsky’s film is less about the playing of the sport than it is…
Deli Man
Erik Greenberg Anjou’s entertaining new documentary recounts the history and current state of Jewish delis in the United States. Eastern Europe is the ancestral home of some of the deli’s staples, but it’s not that simple. As Jewish immigrants assimilated into a new country, the “traditional” deli was born of melting-pot cities, exposure to new…
Unfinished Business
Lately I’ve been thinking: If only there were an international-business comedy that also incorporated anti-bullying messages and gloryholes. Ken Scott has delivered, but alas, it’s an unfunny venture to which nobody seems committed. In the wafer-thin plot, three stereotypes — solid dude (Vince Vaughn), maudlin old guy (Tom Wilkinson) and possibly brain-damaged naif (Dave Franco)…
With Doomsday Student, members of Arab on Radar and The Chinese Stars return to their chaotic roots
DOOMSDAY STUDENT with NIGHT VAPOR, NATURAL BOTTOM, ENNEY 8 p.m. Mon., March 16. The Shop 4314 Main St. Bloomfield $8 All ages 412-951-0622 Doomsday Student has a way of getting to audiences. And while that particular band has only existed for a few years, its members have a tradition of musical agitation that goes back…
On his new record, Lace Curtains’ Michael Coomer explores the many sides of Los Angeles
LACE CURTAINS with GHOST GUTS, ANELLO 8 p.m. Thu., March 12 The Shop 4314 Main St. Bloomfield $5 412-951-0622 As a songwriter, Michael Coomer, who records as Lace Curtains, is interested in seeing all the angles. Lately, he’s had his eye trained on Los Angeles. The title of Lace Curtains’ second album, A Signed Piece…
Nak Kwon Garden
Nak Kwon Garden 5504 Centre Ave. Shadyside 412-904-4635 Hours: Mon.-Sat. 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Prices: Appetizers $6-15; individual entrees $11-17; casseroles, family-style and other shared dishes $26-36 Liquor: BYOB Just because Pittsburgh currently lacks a large immigrant population doesn’t mean we don’t have authentic foreign cuisine. We do still have immigrants, after all — if in…
Pittsburgh State of Mind explores the lesser-known corners of local hip hop
CD-RELEASE PARTY with YOUNG JUNNE, ASCO, OWEY, more 7 p.m. Fri., March 13. Rex Theater 1602 E. Carson St. South Side $15 Ages 17+ 412-381-6811 or rextheater.com DOCUMENTARY SCREENING 4 p.m. Sun., March 15 SouthSide Works South Side $10 412-381-7335 or cleveland cinemas.com Pittsburgh hip hop has a storied history, but aside from a few…
Sestak’s road to defeating Specter in the 2010 Democratic primary
Video by Ashley Murray
Lynn Cullen Live 3/11/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Senator’s letter is still causing a stir and affecting foreign policy. Jose Mujica, Uruguay’s president is a revolutionary. 3 more young, unarmed black men shot by police. Numbers of heroin users and deaths are up. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with…
