ALCOSAN Will Text or Email You if Sewage Overflows into the River
ALCOSAN is now alerting residents via text and email about sewer overflow into the rivers.
Kickstarter Campaign for Local Artist’s New Book
Campaign for this unique take on London ends Sunday
Listen Up! May 6
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists covered in the current music section. Think of it as the soundtrack to this week’s issue!
A Roundup of City Paper’s 2015 Primary Election Coverage
A roundup of all of our #Election2015 coverage
Transit advocates critical of public BRT meeting
City and Port Authority officials hosted the first of two meetings this week on the status of Bus Rapid Transit.
Concert announcements: Pink Martini, Girl Band, Waxahatchee, more
Bumming about the Replacements show getting rescheduled? Distract yourself by thinking about these OTHER upcoming shows. On July 7, Portland’s loungy little orchestra Pink Martini comes to the Byham Theater ($52.75-72.75, on sale Friday) On May 22, the Creative.Life.Support Revival Series presents: The Fusion Revival Showcase feat. Beauty Slap, Eastend Mile, Rachel B, Rich Robbins…
The Magnetic Chart of 2016 Primary Awesomeness Welcomes Mike Huckabee
The Magnetic Chart of 2016 Primary Awesomeness Welcomes Mike Huckabee
Song/Video Premiere: William Fitzsimmons, “Ghosts of Penn Hills”
Though he’s now based in Illinois, singer-songwriter William Fitzsimmons was born and spent his formative years in Pittsburgh. Last October, when his grandmother died, he returned for a few days, and – in tribute to her, and his native city – wrote a seven-song album called Pittsburgh, which comes out May 12. Today, we’re premiering…
Lynn Cullen Live 5/5/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. The birth of the royal baby. Letter to the Texas governor about calling out the Texas Guard. Ted Cruz says he understands the worry, which makes me worry. Oliver Sacks and his new autobiography. “Join or Die” cartoon by Ben Franklin. Was there anything he…
The Magnetic Chart of 2016 Primary Awesomeness Welcomes Carly Fiorina
The Magnetic Chart of 2016 Primary Awesomeness Welcomes Carly Fiorina
The Magnetic Chart of 2016 Primary Awesomeness Welcomes Ben Carson
The Magnetic Chart of 2016 Primary Awesomeness Welcomes Ben Carson
Lynn Cullen Live 5/4/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. 6 Baltimore cops are charged. Baltimore neighborhoods have a lower life expectancy than some 3rd world countries. Texas governor orders a ‘special watch’ on U.S. military exercises under the suspicion that they might be after their guns. Black mother on parenting. Audio Only Archive Listen…
Final Weekend for Kinetic Theatre’s “Dance of Death”
Three performances remain of this little-seen classic by August Strindberg, at the New Hazlett Theater.
Final Weekend for Kinetic Theatre’s “Dance of Death”
The show has three more performances tonight through Sunday.
Photo Exhibit on Local Labor Heritage Opens Tonight at Pump House
Photo exhibit celebrates both art and May 1’s heritage.
Lynn Cullen Live 5/1/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. More on Baltimore and “nickel rides”. Obits of Ben E. King and Peter Kronkite. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Update on Energy-Conserving Pittsburgh 2030 District
Project leaders say they’re on track to meet 2015 goals in energy, water
The Magnetic Chart of 2016 Primary Awesomeness Welcomes Bernie Sanders
The Magnetic Chart of 2016 Primary Awesomeness Welcomes Bernie Sanders.
Music video premiere: The Lampshades, “Restless”
Last year, local fuzz-rockers The Lampshades put out an excellent record called Numbskull Nothinghead; today, we’re premiering the video for the song “Restless,” from that release. Directed by Camila Centeno (daughter of exiled Venezuelan author Israel Centeno, who you can read about here), the video skillfully captures that unique brand of frustrated isolation one feels when surrounded…
Lynn Cullen Live 4/30/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. RIP Jack Ely, the incomprehensible singer of “Louie, Louie”. Hospitals are scary and unclean. Toto toilets, are the a superior experience? NY Times article on media coverage of Baltimore. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps…
CP Weekend Podcast – May 1 – 3, 2015
This week: Get fierce at the International Queer Burlesque Festival, enjoy a May Day brass serenade at Pittonkatonk and stop to smell the roses at the “100 Flowers Bloomed” exhibition.
Viva Valezz talks about bringing her International Burlesque show to Pittsburgh – CP TV
Video by Ashley Murray
In its second year, the Pittonkatonk May Day Brass BBQ is more than a music festival
PITTONKATONK: A PITTSBURGH MAY DAY BRASS BBQ 2 p.m. Sat., May 2 Vietnam Veterans Pavilion Schenley Park Free; potluck contributions encouraged pittonkatonk.com For one day, Pittonkatonk will transform Schenley Park into a whirling convergence of horns, trombones, drums and barbecue. The all-ages brass music festival returns for its second year, this time with even more local…
Pokey LaFarge discusses his new record and making something new from a traditional sound
POKEY LAFARGE with CAROLINE ROSE 7 p.m. Thu., April 30 The Rex Theater 1602 E. Carson St. South Side $15-18 All ages 412-381-6811 or rextheater.com Ask Pokey Lafarge about his musical influences and you’re more likely to get names like Mark Twain and John Steinbeck than Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers. And for this Midwestern…
Local author explores the rhythm section as “a musical virus.”
To musicologist Victor Grauer, the rhythm section is a mystery hidden in plain sight. For millennia, humans got along fine without percussion, guitars and, especially, bass keeping strict time in tightly structured, harmonically familiar chordal patterns. In The Life and Times of a Musical Virus: A Critical History of the Rhythm Section, Grauer explores how…
Local organizer brings touring Fierce! queer burlesque festival to town
FIERCE! INTERNATIONAL QUEER BURLESQUE FESTIVAL Thu., April 30 – Sun., May 3 Various venues $8-12 fiercequeer burlesquefest.com Viva Valezz seductively strips off her full-length opera gloves and black gown to Peggy Lee’s “Fever.” Slowly dancing as she removes each piece of clothing, Valezz finishes the number in pasties and a G-string. She raises her hands…
Critics’ Picks, April 30-May 6
[ROCK] + THU., APRIL 30 Seventeen years after releasing its self-titled debut record, … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead still manages to prove it has some gas left in the tank. The band has endured near-seismic shifts over the years, after the major label powers-that-be chewed and spit them out.…
Antoine Catala: Distant Feel looks for a new path to empathy
ANTOINE CATALA: DISTANT FEEL continues through May 18 Carnegie Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Ave. Oakland 412-622-3131 or cmoa.org According to a recent New York Times article, 64 percent of Tumblr users say they care about social causes. Social-justice furors grow quickly in cyberspace, and while that passion doesn’t always translate into direct action, there’s…
New Releases
Mariage Blanc No Autobiography [Self-released] www.mariageblanc.net Mariage Blanc has been something of a constant in the Pittsburgh music scene since its formation some seven years ago, though that constancy hasn’t extended to the structure of the band itself. On its new full-length, Rich Kawood takes over on drums, subtly steering the band away from the…
Off the Wall’s The Whale
THE WHALE continues through May 9 Off the Wall Performing Arts Center 25 W. Main St. Carnegie $5-35 724-873-3576 or insideoff thewall.com Off the Wall Theater has a track record of choosing difficult but powerful writing: Its artists have demonstrated good taste and strong interpretive ability. But with Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale — first performed…
Activists say Pittsburgh needs to find a place for more low-income families to call home
Written and created by Rebecca Nuttall; Produced by Ashley Murray For nearly three months earlier this year, Tanelle Robinson visited a dozen houses and met a dozen landlords. She asked the usual questions. Is the neighborhood safe? Are utilities included? Is there a park nearby? But she always waited until the end to ask the…
Othello at Pittsburgh Public Theater
OTHELLO continues through May 17 Pittsburgh Public Theater 621 Penn Ave. Downtown $15.75-62 412-316-1600 or ppt.org If anyone ever asks your favorite Shakespeare play, tell them it’s Othello. It stands as the Bard’s undercover best work, unencumbered as it is by the unreasonable hype of Hamlet, the ubiquity of Romeo and Juliet, or the constant…
Pittsburgh City Paper launches monthly comics journalism feature
Em DeMarco wasn’t always a journalist. In fact, when she left Pittsburgh for Syracuse University, she studied printmaking and painting. Her first jobs out of school included seamstress, model-maker, carpenter and bread baker. But after working for two years as an investigative journalism fellow at Pittsburgh’s PublicSource, DeMarco decided to combine reporting with her artistic…
Peter Pan at Pittsburgh Musical Theater
PETER PAN continues through May 3 Pittsburgh Musical Theater at the Byham Theater 101 Sixth St. Downtown $12.75-49.75 412-456-6666 or pittsburgh musicals.com There’s something to be said for charm, as demonstrated by Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s production of Peter Pan. This 1954 Broadway adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s 1904 play, with music by Mark Charlap and Jule…
An Introduction to Gender Pronouns
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A choreographer brings her dancers outdoors for PLAYGROUND: blacktop
STAYCEE PEARL dance project performs PLAYGROUND: BLACKTOP 8 p.m. Sat., May 2 201 N. Braddock Ave. Point Breeze (outdoors, limited seating); rain location: PearlArts Studios $10-12.75 pearlarts studio.com A recent string of dance works with weighty themes led choreographer Staycee Pearl to take a lighter approach on her latest project. In 2011’s OCTAVIA, for instance,…
Savage Love
My partner is 31 years older than I am. I know the math: He’ll be 60 when I’m 29. But that isn’t the problem. The issue is he’s been a lifelong bachelor and never been monogamous. He’s fucked hundreds of women and is close friends with a lot of his former fuck buddies. Because of…
The Salt of the Earth
The Salt of the Earth Directed by: Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado In English, and various languages with subtitles Starts Fri., May 1 Regent Square Wim Wenders describes renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado as “a social photographer and a witness to the human condition.” And he ably makes the case in his documentary profile, The…
Short List: April 30 – May 3
SPOTLIGHT: Sun., May 3 — DANCE The ever-expanding Pittsburgh dance scene gets a little bigger on Sun., May 3, with the debut of Amanda Tarr & Company at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater. The fledgling professional modern-dance troupe, made up of recent graduates of Slippery Rock University’s Department of Dance, will premiere the Tarr-choreographed Retail, set to R&B…
The Age of Adaline
You’ve probably seen enough movies to know that living forever is kind of a bummer. Everything changes but you, and day-to-day becomes more of a chore than an exciting adventure. Plus, forget about getting to know other people — they just get old and die. And so it is in The Age of Adaline, Lee…
Stuff We Like
The Pittsburgh Marathon. ActiveTimes.com ranked it No. 8 in its recent list of The World’s 25 Best Marathons, but it’s not just for runners. It’s a 26.2-mile street party of cheerers, bands and good times. www.pittsburghmarathon.com Courtney Brennan’s home-renovation blog. This WPXI news reporter’s personal blog, documenting the home renovations she and her husband are…
Aspie Seeks Love
It isn’t often that autism is presented as a difference in neurology as opposed to a disorder in need of medical remedy. But that’s exactly what local filmmaker Julie Sokolow does in her first documentary feature, which focuses on Aliquippa native David Matthews’ search for love. The film follows 49-year-old Matthews, who was diagnosed with…
Circolo Woodfired
Circolo Woodfired Location: 2100 E. Carson St., South Side Hours: Sun.-Wed. 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m.; Thu.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-2 a.m. Prices: Starters, soups, and salads $5-13; panini, pasta and pizza $9-18 Liquor: Full bar A recent mini-trend is multi-story restaurants with multiple identities. Of course, basement lounges and upstairs banquet halls are nothing new, but we’re talking…
Clouds of Sils Maria
Filmmakers love turning the mirror back on their art, and writer-director Olivier Assayas’ drama is a worthy contribution to this canon. Its center is noted actress Maria (Juliette Binoche), who agrees to appear in a revival of The Maloja Snake, the dramatic work that launched her career two decades earlier. But now, Maria will portray…
New craft-beer doc features Brew Gentlemen
With the current abundance of good will toward craft beer, opening a brewery seems a bit like printing your own money. Though there are a zillion of them already (I counted), it’s rare to find a new brewery having trouble moving beer or filling taproom stools. According to the Brewers Association, 615 craft breweries opened…
Hyena
Michael Logan (Peter Ferdinando) is our grubby guide through London’s seedy underworld of drugs, sex slavery and murder, in Gerard Johnson’s indie thriller. That he’s a corrupt, drug-addicted vice cop trying to play both sides of the fence is just going to complicate things, especially now that some particularly nasty Albanian criminals are making their…
Indulge your taste for bottled soda pop at Grandpa Joe’s
Hearing Adam Cannon talk about the beverages in front of him, you’d swear he still worked at Sharp Edge serving one of the joint’s numerous craft beers. But this is not a bar. We’re standing in a quaint, colorful, old-time candy store in the heart of Beaver, and the drinks he’s describing are bottled sodas…
Kung Fu Killer
Somebody is killing the great kung-fu masters of Hong Kong, defeating them with their own specialties (kicking, weapons, grappling). It could only be another kung-fu master (Baoqiang Wang), and it’ll take yet another kung-fu master (Donnie Yen) to find and defeat him. And if that avenging master is in jail, well, the cops will just…
Misery Loves Comedy
Kevin Pollak sits down with dozens of well-known standup comics, comic actors and other assorted funny-business folks to find out: who becomes a comic; why comedy works (or sometimes doesn’t work); and how life is a feedback loop for good material. It’s not much visually — it’s all talking heads — and plenty of it…
Black Migration in Pittsburgh – CP TV
Written and created by Rebecca Nuttall; Produced by Ashley Murray
Lynn Cullen Live 4/29/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Adoptive mother of two abuses children and goes free. Baltimore riots and the presence of the media. Gloria Steinem and Lynn’s mother. Grammerly and the NFL. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer…
