7 Days of Concerts
From trippy indie pop (of Montreal) to unhinged, performance art punk (Nobunny) to aggressive hardcore (Control Top), there’s a different mood to indulge every single night in our musical city. Wednesday
Bike Pittsburgh calling for more possible regulation of driverless cars in light of fatal crash in Arizona
After a video shows the crash of a driverless car in Arizona, bike and pedestrian advocates want to see increased safety measures in Pittsburgh
Local animal-rescue aviation company is getting a new plane courtesy of the Rachael Ray Foundation
“… no animal should be euthanized for a lack of space when they are merely a flight away from freedom.”
Morcilla finishes construction early and re-opens March 28
After being closed due to flooding, Morcilla returns to the Pittsburgh dining scene with an updated menu and look.
Lynn Cullen Live – 3/27/18
Video Archive Lynn and her sister, Susan, discuss gun control and more. Audio Only Archive Stream or download the last 5 shows on the MP3 downloads page.
After Pittsburgh’s March for Our Lives, legislators hoping new attention paid to Pennsylvania’s gun-reform laws
Pennsylvania state Sen. Wayne Fontana is hoping the 30,000 who people took to Pittsburgh streets will help support his gun-control legislation.
MP3 Monday: Clara Kent
This week’s free local MP3 is a smooth R&B number that details the struggles of a workaholic, by Clara Kent
Lynn Cullen Live – 3/26/18
Video Archive It’s the beginning of a new week. We’re discussing the Parkland students, this past weekend’s march, and their impact on the future. Don’t miss a moment. Audio Only Archive Stream or download the last 5 shows on the MP3 downloads page.
Southwestern Pennsylvania Republicans targeted in ad campaign over GOP push to impeach state justices
Some state Republicans are calling for the impeachment of state justices following the new drawings of congressional maps, and area Republicans are taking the heat.
Lynn Cullen Live – 3/23/18
Video Archive On today’s show, guest author Dennis Palumbo. Audio Only Archive Stream or download the last 5 shows on the MP3 downloads page.
Lynn Cullen Live – 3/22/18
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Lynn Cullen Live – 3/21/18
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Pittsburgh filmmakers release YouTube series about leaving Christianity
A refrain among some politicians is that “America is a Christian nation.” And according to a 2015 Pew research study of 35,000 Americans, there is some truth to this. In 2014, about 70.6 percent of those surveyed claimed Christian beliefs. However, this was a decline from 78.4 percent in 2007. The Pew study attributes some…
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The Pittsburgh-shot third season of Alex Spieth’s [Blank] My Life comes home
A story as old as time: You accidentally shoot and kill your best friend with an antique revolver, so you move to rural Ohio with your boyfriend to take a teaching job, where the dead, still-blood-covered best friend comes back in ghost form to haunt and help you, while dipping his toes in the local…
Top 5: Harmless Twitter Bots That Won’t Affect Any Elections
1. Ice T SVU “Medical examiner says she was high on somethin’ called Mannequin Time Warp. It’s a nootropic for sloths.” Simple: computer-generated Ice T dialogue for Law & Order SVU, by @icetsvu. 2. TV Helper Closed captioning is an imperfect science, and @TVCommentBot highlights some of its oddest and funniest failures. 3.…
Savage Love
I’m a 26-year-old cis queer woman. My best friend has identified publicly as asexual for the past two years. She constantly talks about how since she doesn’t “need” sex, this means she is asexual. She does have sex, however, and she enjoys it, which I know isn’t disqualifying. But she also actively seeks out sex…
Is the proposed hyperloop taking the focus away from advancing feasible transit solutions in Pittsburgh?
Headlines in the Rust Belt region for the hyperloop, a proposed high-speed pod that promises to shuttle passengers at speeds up to 700 mph, would have readers believe that the futuristic project is already in the works. A Feb. 22 article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was titled “Proposed hyperloop to Chicago could be in line…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The “School of Hard Knocks” is an old-fashioned idiom referring to the unofficial and accidental course of study available via life’s tough experiences. The wisdom one gains through this alternate approach to education may be equal or even superior to the knowledge that comes from a formal university or training program.…
Kaibur Coffee takes over former Lili space in Polish Hill
Kaibur Coffee 3138 Dobson St., Pittsburgh, PA website Lili Cafe was long the touchpoint for punks in Polish Hill. The cafe shared a building with Cruel Noise Records and The Copacetic Comics Company, making up a nerdy, punk trifecta. A few months ago, when Lili’s owner, Heidi Tucker, decided she wanted to close her business,…
A new trend finds wine increasingly available in cans
Wine drinkers are used to buying wine by the glass, the bottle and, yes, by the box. But now there’s a new option: wine by the can. Recently, wine packaged in cans has been gaining popularity among wine drinkers who want to try something new or indulge in a more casual method of imbibing. Wine…
Two separate Pittsburgh comedy shows make for diverse offerings
This weekend two comics hit town in separate shows, highlighting the diversity of national talent that swings through local clubs and theaters. Actor, writer and comedian Deon Cole will do five shows at the Pittsburgh Improv on March 22-24. On March 23, drag queen and insult comic extraordinaire, Bianca Del Rio plays Stage AE. Deon…
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Citizens Market at City Theatre
It’s not uncommon for people working in close quarters, for long hours and under stressful circumstances, to forge strong bonds, friendships, romances and even a surrogate sense of family. And there’s no shortage of workplace dramas in film, television, theater and literature to remind us of that phenomenon. While some of those stories can veer…
Conor Lamb’s special-election victory created a roadmap for victory in midterm elections
Make no mistake — Democrat Conor Lamb’s win in last week’s special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District was a landslide. It may sound strange to call an election decided by fewer than 700 votes a landslide, but consider this. Since the district was redrawn in 2000 to intentionally favor GOP candidates, Congressman Tim Murphy…
Pittsburgh native Paul Mellon and Rachel Lambert Mellon’s art collection comes to The Frick
Pittsburgh’s native son, Paul Mellon, might not be as well remembered as his father, banking titan Andrew Mellon, but the contributions he and his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon, made to the art community are widely recognized. Over the years, the pair donated more than 1000 works to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.…
Eat Me: Jumbo chocolate-chip cookie from Cakery Square
Location: Cakery Square, 159 E. Bridge St., The Waterfront, Homestead Ambiance: A bakery offering cakes, cookies, cupcakes, boozy cupcakes and gelato What I ate: Large-size chocolate-chip cookie Cost: $1.75 Hot take: The mark of a good chef is not facility with the extravagant, but perfection with the simple, where there is no room to hide.…
Pittsburgh Bike Share is expanding and hoping to get more minority and low-income riders on bikes.
For all the criticism of bikes, bike lanes and bike-riders, there is one legitimate bike-related criticism that sticks: Bike-share systems often don’t help low-income and minority neighborhoods. In Washington, D.C., in 2016, only 4 percent of bike-share riders were African-American, despite being 50 percent of the city’s population. In Pittsburgh, the one Healthy Ride bike-share…
Former Pirates pitcher Curt Raydon needs to be the last Major League retiree to die without getting his due
Eighty-four-year-old Curt Raydon went to his grave March 3 no doubt believing that the “suits” who run our national pastime had turned their backs on him. Raydon was a pitcher for the 1958 Pittsburgh Pirates. In 31 games, 20 of which he started, Raydon won eight games, one of which was a shutout; saved one…
Pennsylvania’s maple-sugaring season is heading toward its goal of maple syrup
It’s the nearing the end of Pennsylvania’s maple-sugaring season, so put down the Log Cabin and spring for the real stuff. Nearby Somerset County has a collection of maple camps, but closer to the city in Fox Chapel, there’s a small educational operation run by Scott Detwiler, an environmental educator for the Audubon Society at…
Sharon Dilworth’s Two Sides, Three Rivers
Sharon Dilworth Two Sides, Three Rivers Bridge and Tunnel Books www.bridgeandtunnelbooks.com A cemetery picnic. A quaint home in the Mon Valley. The settings in Sharon Dilworth’s new short story collection will be familiar to Pittsburgh-area readers. But the themes in the collection are universal. Many stories explore how people deal with grief. In several, characters…
42nd Street at the Pittsburgh Playhouse is a proper send-off
Next season, the Pittsburgh Playhouse disappears. It won’t vanish, but it will cease to exist as a performing-arts space when the theater and dance students of Point Park University move to a newly-built space Downtown. There are a few more shows left in the season, but the current production, 42nd Street, is the last musical…
The Death of Stalin
When it comes to deliciously and wickedly eviscerating politics, Armando Iannucci is a master. He’s the profane and barbed pen behind In the Thick of It, In the Loop and Veep, and now he climbs back into the director’s chair for this pitch-dark satire on the palace intrigue in the days after Soviet leader Josef…
More New Films
IN BETWEEN. From writer-director Maysaloun Hamoud comes this drama about three young Palestinian women sharing an apartment in Tel Aviv, and the challenges of balancing modern life with religious tradition. Two of the women are leading lively secular lives, while the third is a devout Muslim. In Arabic and Hebrew, with subtitles. Starts Fri., March…
What’s Playing on Pittsburgh Screens: March 21-28
SPACEBALLS. In Mel Brooks’ 1987 spoof of Star Wars, Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and Barf the Mawg (a furry John Candy) set their intergalactic RV to hyperspeed in order to save the Druish Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) and her robot, Dot Matrix (voice of Joan Rivers), from the evil clutches of Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis).…
The 12th annual Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of (In)Equality opens in Pittsburgh
The Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of (In)Equality runs Thu., March 22, through April 8, with more than a dozen feature films and documentaries. Unless noted, films screen at McConomy Auditorium, on the CMU campus, in Oakland, and tickets are $10 ($5 students/seniors). The opening-night film, Life and Nothing More, Antonio Méndez Esparza’s drama…
The first Talk & Rock: A new workshop teaches people how to tour DIY-style
The world of do-it-yourself music can seem foreign and daunting to those not born into it. Sure, you could mine punk and riot-grrrl zines from the 1990s, or heed the adage of “ask a punk.” But all of that can be intimidating, especially if those punks don’t look like you. Brenda Leeds, of local rock…
Bad Custer releases distorted, clever self-titled CD
Bad Custer Bad Custer Self-released www.badcuster.bandcamp.com Bad Custer’s self-titled debut begins with the song “We Don’t Play Rock ’n’ Roll,” a curious title for a record of nine distorted-rock tracks. This statement is comically amplified in the final chorus, as Jesse Davis (guitar/vocals) and Phil Giammattei (bass/vocals) belt out the title of the track over…
Pittsburgh’s IonSound Project bring music to area workers
Over the past several weeks, musicians with IonSound Project have been popping up in retailers around Pittsburgh. One day you might find them at Costco, another day, the melodious notes coming from their instruments can be heard wafting through the aisles of Trader Joe’s. But the musicians aren’t playing for the customers at these stores…
MP3 Monday: Venus In Furs
This week’s free MP3 is a grimy, synth-tinged alternative-rock number that oozes longing. It would sound at home in a neon-lit warehouse club full of sweaty bodies.
