Local Democratic officials and experts say Donald Trump’s economic plan would hurt Pennsylvania
Local Democratic officials and experts say Donald Trump’s economic plan would hurt Pennsylvania.
Trump and Clinton in Pittsburgh City Paper: Through The Years
Twenty years before this election, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had name recognition. Here’s (almost) every time they were mentioned in the pages of CP in that time.
Listen Up! Aug. 10
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists mentioned in the current music section. Give this week’s offering a listen, below:
Pittsburgh group protests vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence’s workers’-rights history and policies
A group of Democratic party members, labor organizers and community advocates rallied outside of Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence event in Pittsburgh
Short List: August 10-17
In 2013, fledgling theater troupe Hatch Arts Collective began exploring fracking; a short outdoor production led to a longer indoor work. Now comes Driftless, the final installment. In this evening-length play, a Washington County family and a Catholic priest confront the human and environmental impacts of deep-drilling for oil and natural gas. Hatch’s biggest solo…
Pittsburgh’s inaugural Re:NEW Festival to celebrate sustainability and reuse through art
Inaugural Re:NEW Festival, a month-long celebration of sustainability and reuse through art, announced its exhibits and events.
Pennsylvania Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Katie McGinty receives endorsement from former political rival Braddock Mayor John Fetterman
Progressive Braddock Mayor John Fetterman will now campaign with former U.S. Senate rival Katie McGinty
A Q&A with Jeffrey Toobin, author of a new book about Patty Hearst
Toobin will discuss the book and its story tonight at Carnegie Library Lecture Hall. CP called him to discuss the book a few hours prior.
MP3 Monday: The Blue-Hots
This week’s MP3 — which is likely to improve your mood on this hazy-ish Monday — comes from ’60s-style “exotica” jazz ensemble The Blue-Hots. Stream or download the winsome “Do You Think It Matters,” from the group’s release Collection Three: Spells, below. To download, right-click here and select “save as.”
Pittsburgh celebrates the return of the EQT Three Rivers Regatta
Pittsburghers got in on the Three Rivers Regatta action with the “Anything That Floats” race.
Prayer vigil held in Downtown Pittsburgh for undocumented immigrant Martin Esquivel-Hernandez
Advocates for undocumented immigrant facing deportation plan to hold prayer vigils for Martin Esquivel-Hernandez until his charges are dropped.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane loses appeal
Today, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled against Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s appeal.
What happened this week in Pittsburgh news
This week in Pittsburgh, a park dedicated to August Wilson opens, cops and residents grill together for National Night Out, and residents and employees testify about the Cheswick power plant’s future.
Pittsburgh’s Bricolage seeks holidays-themed radio plays
Two plays will be selected for a Bricolage production in December.
Lynn Cullen Live 08/5/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. What happened to Pittsburgh’s colorful characters? Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Revamped Pittsburgh park re-opens Saturday as August Wilson Park
Park named for famed playwright August Wilson opens with community celebration.
Lynn Cullen Live 08/4/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. The power of unplugging. A caller who doesn’t believe in age. Keeping things light. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
A conversation with Wye Oak’s Andy Stack
WYE OAK with TUSKHA 9 p.m. Sat., Aug. 6. Club Cafe, 56 S. 12th St., South Side. Sold out. 412-431-4950 or clubcafelive.com Wye Oak wants to manage your expectations. Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack have maintained that their latest release, Tween, isn’t the band’s fifth full-length, despite its eight tracks and 35-minute run-time matching what…
Critics’ Picks, Aug. 4-10
[GRRRL PWR] + SAT., AUG. 6 Every year, a team of amazing non-male-identified mentors organizes a camp for girls to learn how to play instruments, write music and express themselves through performance and collaboration. After a week of workshops celebrating the power of being loud and taking up space, campers get to show off their…
Umami brings the experience and fare of a Japanese izakaya to Lawrenceville
Umami 202 38th St., Lawrenceville. 412-224-2354 Hours: Tue.-Thu. 4:30 p.m.-midnight; Fri.-Sat. 4:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Prices: $2-16 Liquor: Full bar For almost six years, chef Roger Li was the mind behind Tamari, where the Asian fusion cuisine and polished interior evoked the sophisticated style of a global city. Last year, he moved across Butler Street to…
How one battleground state will factor into the upcoming presidential election
Wearing a Pittsburgh Penguins Sidney Crosby jersey, Pennsylvania 12th District delegate Mike McMullen hung around outside of the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland two weeks ago, watching a country-music band perform. McMullen was in town for the Republican National Convention. “It’s been a very tiring and eventful week. Speaker Paul Ryan spoke to our delegation…
Carmi’s keeps dishing out soul food
Carleen King counts 14 restaurants within two blocks of Carmi Soul Food Restaurant, the place she opened in 2011 with her husband, Michael King. That’s if you include fast-food joints — but Carmi’s is hardly fast food. In fact, the stewing and smoking of its ribs and other delicacies takes long enough that since the…
Advocates are working to address problems facing LGBT prisoners.
According to a 2014 survey compiled by the U.S. Department of Justice, about 25 percent of transgender prisoners reported being sexually assaulted by inmates while incarcerated. For all other non-trans prisoners, that number is only 2 percent. It’s this disparity that has motivated the Illegal Queers Collective to raise awareness about the plight of LGBT…
East End Brewing Company opens a tap room in the Strip District
After 12 years in business, East End Brewing Company finally opened its East End Taproom late in June. “We’ve been searching for a spot for a long time and we’re happy we’ve landed here. We’ve always focused on what’s in the glass and worked our way out,” says owner Scott Smith. Located in the Strip…
In his book Evicted, sociologist Matthew Desmond tells the stories of struggling families in Milwaukee and explores the causes and costs of unstable housing
MATTHEW DESMOND 7 p.m. Thu., Aug. 4. Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $10. 412-622-8866 or pittsburghlectures.org Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond’s new book Evicted reads like a novel, but tells the true and heartbreaking stories of tenants and landlords dealing with eviction and its effects on their lives. He’ll discuss the book at…
Pittsburgh City Paper Booze Battles: Hemingway’s Café vs. Le Mardi Gras
Each week, we order the same cocktail at two different bars for a friendly head-to-head battle. Go to the bars, taste them both and tell us what you like about each by tagging @pghcitypaper on Twitter or Instagram and using #CPBoozeBattles. If you want to be a part of Booze Battles, send an email to…
Savage Love
I can’t believe this is why I’m finally writing you. My husband is using Pokémon Go as an excuse to stay out until 5 a.m. with another woman. She is beautiful and about a decade younger than him, and he won’t hear me out on why this is bothersome. Our work schedules don’t match up,…
Pittsburgh Steelers fans are getting ready for the annual pilgrimage to Latrobe
As the sweltering late-summer sun beats down on the town of Latrobe, many residents seek air-conditioned sanctuaries. The local news gives a heat advisory, warning us to stay inside, wear light, loose-fitting clothing, drink only water, and look after the elderly, children and pets. It’s as if someone were planning to put on dark, tight-fitting…
A unique art exhibit includes 250 portraits of a single subject — who’s also the docent
JOHN RIEGERT continues through Sept. 4. SPACE, 812 Liberty Ave., Downtown. 412-325-7723 or spacepittsburgh.org At John Riegert, an exhibit at SPACE gallery, expect the unexpected. Conceived and curated by Brett Yasko, the show features work by about 250 local artists. A variety of media and styles convey the complexity of portraying a single subject: a…
Weird Pittsburgh
The Pennsylvania Game Commission has issued 16 citations to a Lancaster County restaurant-owner after an investigation allegedly showed that she had been scavenging, storing and selling deer meat from slaughter-house dumpsters. Investigators told PennLive.com that 54-year-old Shi Eng began approaching deer-processing plants for scraps, purportedly to feed her dogs, in 2013. In the next two…
Comics artist Marcel Walker gets a solo show
TO TELL THE TROOF opening reception: 7-10 p.m. Fri., Aug. 5 (free). Exhibit continues through Aug. 31. Most Wanted Fine Art, 5015 Penn Ave., Garfield. marcelwalker.com Few local comics artists get solo gallery shows. But Marcel Walker’s a bit different. He’s an African-American artist in an overwhelmingly white field, and much of his work addresses…
Short List: August 3 – 9
SPOTLIGHT: Thu., Aug. 4 — Stage Regan Linton is an accomplished stage actress, with national credits including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But the roles she’s offered cluster around characters like Laura from The Glass Menagerie: Laura limps, and Linton uses a wheelchair. So with all due respect, Linton (pictured) thinks Tennessee Williams’ 1944 classic needs…
Jason Bourne
Jason Bourne Directed by Paul Greengrass Starring Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent Cassel Oh hey, the ever-disappearing Jason Bourne is back. The reluctant spy chronicled in The Bourne Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum trilogy is still out there brooding. Now he’s crashing at an Athens flophouse, and doing some unsanctioned fist-fighting to tamp down his psychic…
Eat That Question
There are some good and bad things about Eat That Question, Thorsten Schutte’s new documentary about iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa. If you’re a fan, it’s a lively collection of archival footage, all featuring Zappa talking about himself, the entertainment industry, his creative processes and so on. But if you don’t already know much about Zappa,…
Life, Animated
This new documentary from Roger Ross Williams (who won an Oscar in 2010 for short documentary film) adapts journalist Ron Suskind’s eponymous memoir about raising his autistic son, Owen. At first, everything was great, Suskind explains, but when Owen was 3, he “disappeared,” regressing into silence and behavioral problems. There is no one way to…
Nerve
A young woman from Staten Island named Vee (Emma Roberts) joins a social-media-driven, truth-or-dare-style game where online “watchers” keep ramping up the intensity of dares (there is no truth option). It starts amusingly enough — for a few bucks, Vee has to kiss a stranger in a diner. Fortunately, he’s the rakishly handsome Ian (Dave…
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Little Lake Theatre
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE continues through Aug. 13. Little Lake Theatre, 500 Lakeside Drive, Canonsburg. $13.75-21.75. 724-745-6300 or littlelake.org With a new school year just around the corner, there might not be a more apt show to see than The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, now playing at Little Lake Theatre. Based on…
At the Society for Contemporary Craft, Fiberart International pushes boundaries
FIBERART INTERNATIONAL continues through Aug. 21. Society for Contemporary Craft, 2100 Smallman St., Strip District. 412-261-7003 or contemporarycraft.org Fiberart International 2016 defines its medium as anything “made of flexible, linear materials and/or constructed using textile techniques such as stitching, weaving, dying and embroidering.” The half of this venerable triennial that was housed at Pittsburgh Center…
Hermann J. Wiemer Dry Rieslings
Retail Price: $12.99-29.99 / bottle The best way to experience what makes Wiemer world-class is to compare its single-vineyard rieslings from the same year side by side. There is a 2014 vintage from each of its three vineyards, and it’s remarkable how different each expression is from its siblings. — Recommended by Tim Garso, bar manager…
A new production gives the August Wilson House back to Seven Guitars — and Wilson himself back to the Hill.
PITTSBURGH PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE presents SEVEN GUITARS Aug. 5-28. August Wilson House, 1727 Bedford Ave., Hill District. $25-35. pghplaywrights.com On July 27, shortly before dusk, Frank Hightower, a priest of Yemaja, the Yoruban deity of creativity, gathered in a circle the cast and crew of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co.’s new production of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars.…
In the wake of noise complaints, James Street Gastropub and Speakeasy is faced with $30,000 in soundproofing-related renovations
Will $30,000 be enough to keep James Street Gastropub and Speakeasy in operation? That’s the amount Kevin Saftner, the venue’s owner and manager, estimates it will cost to soundproof and refurbish the popular North Side spot’s upstairs ballroom to comply with Pennsylvania’s liquor laws. If not, and if complaints keep coming in, the bar faces…
Lynn Cullen Live 08/3/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. The worst year for American politics since 1968. Eric Von Fuckface. Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Stuff We Like
Lili Café Punk Toast. Avocado, Earth Balance and a sprinkle of nutritional yeast on perfectly toasted bread: You could make it at home, but somehow it just tastes better here. 3138 Dobson St., Polish Hill Clemente. David Maraniss’ acclaimed 2008 bio of Pirates great Roberto Clemente is the perfect primer on Clemente’s athletic prowess, role…
Ace Hotel and Martin Guitars partner with local group to award $10,000 in mini-grants to local musicians
If you’re a local artist trying to get paid to practice your art, applying for a grant might not be your first thought. The application process can be insular, political and complicated. But a new grant for musicians from Ace Hotel, Martin Guitars and The Good Peoples Group (which deals in “creative and cultural problem-solving”)…
