MP3 Monday: Mariage Blanc
This week’s MP3 Monday comes from local indie-rockers Mariage Blanc. Check out “Nowhere Town,” off of their newest release, No Autobiography, which the band released at the end of April. You can read our review of the record here. To download, right-click here and select “save as.”
Cardiologist to Present on Connections between Air Pollution and Heart Health
One of the largest health systems in the region as well as local air quality watch dogs will present the connection of air quality and heart health.
Final Week for Quantum’s “All the Names”
There are four more performances beginning with tonight’s.
Listen Up! April 29
Listen Up!, Pokey LaFarge, What Cheer? Brigade, White Mystery
Concert announcements: Down, Trombone Shorty, more
Hello, and welcome to this week’s concert announcements! Please enjoy this fresh new selection of upcoming shows. Everyone’s favorite heavy metal supergroup, Down, comes to Altar Bar on August 11 ($27-30, on sale Friday). Also at Altar Bar, Australian weirdos The Opiuo Band on June 6 ($15, on sale now); Hinder on July 11 ($21-23,…
Updated: Allegheny County Jail medical staff reach first contract with Corizon
What the contract means for quality of health care at the jail remains to be seen.
City Announces Public Meetings on Bus Rapid Transit
It’s your chance to chime in on transit planning.
“Pittsburgh Dad” Book Events Tonight and Saturday
Pittsburgh Dad promotes his new book at talks and signings in Homestead, Sewickley.
Lynn Cullen Live 4/28/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Baltimore riots. Earthquakes in Nepal. Privatizing of the police force. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Artisan Tattoo on Penn Avenue vows to keep moving forward as Indiegogo campaign winds down
The business on Penn Avenue in Garfield has less than 24 hours to go to raise money for renovations.
Lynn Cullen Live 4/27/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. The New York Times whites out the front on the sports section with one story. Animatronic lovers. White House Correspondents Dinner. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Trailer for Sale or Rent: Little Boy
This film was not screened for critics locally, so we took a look at the trailer.
History Center Exhibit Exploring Pittsburgh and World War II Opens Tomorrow
We Can Do It! WWII is the title of the new Senator John Heinz History Center exhibit exploring wartime Pittsburgh, during the 1940s.
August Wilson 70th Birthday Festivities Tomorrow
Afternoon of events at the Kaufmann Center honors the Pulitzer-winner’s birthday.
FutureFest 2015, Half-Price Phipps Admission Tomorrow
This free new festival on the Phipps Conservatory front lawn is dedicated to envisioning a fun and sustainable future.
Lynn Cullen Live 4/24/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Mayor Peduto and Lynn run the gamut on Pittsburgh bike lanes, public transportation and the history of our fair city. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Bloomfield residents up in arms over bike share stations
It’s a bike share kerfuffle in Bloomfield.
Play Art Bingo at Lawrenceville’s Art All Night
Tweet us a selfie of you and your winning card in front of the winning art piece for a chance to win a City Paper prize pack.
Lynn Cullen Live 4/23/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Headlights that adjust to your environment. Italians take in hundreds of refugees. Technology meets women’s lingerie. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
CP Weekend Podcast – April 24 – 26, 2015
This week on CP Weekend Podcast: Chinese Folk Dance, Ultimate Frisbee tournaments and Art All Night.
At the PCA, three artists take things apart to put it all together
NINE SOLO EXHIBITIONS continue through May 3 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts 6300 Fifth Ave. Shadyside 412-361-0873 or pittsburgharts.org The nine solo exhibitions by area artists now at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, curated by Adam Welch, are all quite different in appearance and intention, but three have interesting affinities. Terry Boyd, Vlad Basarab and…
For the past three years, the Steelers and the casino have been paying for rides to their front doors; now the ride could be on you
When Port Authority announced at its March board meeting that it had reached a $1.2 million deal to keep the T’s North Side station free of charge, it came with a glaring omission. There was no announcement of a deal to keep fares free at Allegheny Station — the final stop on the North Shore…
The Dance of Death at Kinetic Theatre Co.
THE DANCE OF DEATH continues through May 3 Kinetic Theatre Co. at the New Hazlett Theater 6 Allegheny Square East North Side $20-35 kinetic theatre.org If there’s a moral to the story of August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death, it’s “beware of house guests.” The notes for the Kinetic Theatre Co. production of the 1900…
Savage Love
I’m an American woman living abroad and have started a relationship with a wonderful man from a Middle Eastern country. We are having a great time exploring what is a foreign country for both of us. The looming issue is sex, of course. He is a moderate Muslim, but he grew up in a strict…
A Streetcar Named Desire at Point Park Conservatory
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE continues through Sun., April 26 Pittsburgh Playhouse 222 Craft Ave. Oakland $18-20 412-392-8000 or pittsburgh playhouse.com “They told me take a streetcar named Desire, and transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at — Elysian Fields!” So goes the immortal opening words of Blanche DuBois in…
Short List: April 22 – 30
FREE: Fri., April 24 — Art April 24’s Gallery Crawl includes a political touch: Students from the Pittsburgh chapter of the group MGR Youth Empowerment stage the #chalkedUNARMED Flash Mob, adorning Cultural District sidewalks with a series of chalk outlines to recall the deaths of unarmed black men and women killed by police. The flash…
Album at Duquesne Red Masquers
ALBUM continues through Sat., April 25 The Duquesne University Red Masquers at Peter Mills Theater Rockwell Hall Duquesne campus Uptown $5-10 duqred masquers.com The best point about having the Duquesne University Red Masquers tackling David Rimmer’s Album is that the undergraduate actors are wholly credible as high school kids. The down side is the 1981…
Stuff We Like: Music Edition
Opera on Used Vinyl. Great voices and great music are available in boxed sets, typically in splendid shape and often for $3 or $4 per disc. Tip: At local used shops, look for the beautifully packaged RCA Victor “Red Seal” stuff from the ’50s and ’60s. Free Jazz at the Fairmont Hotel. Wednesday through Saturday…
Dance elements don’t live up to an ambitious performance installation
THE PILLOW PROJECT performs (A) LONG HERE nightly through Thu., April 30 The Space Upstairs 214 N. Lexington St. Point Breeze $10-15 (unlimited access exhibit pass) pillowproject.org Live dance, dance on film and art combined in The Pillow Project’s long-form performance installation (a) Long Here, which opened last week at the company’s loft venue, The…
Altius
Altius 1230 Grandview Ave. Mount Washington. 412-904-4442 Hours: Mon.-Thu. 5-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 5-11 p.m.; Sun. brunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m., dinner 5-9 p.m. Prices: Starters $8-15; entrees $24-44 Liquor: Full bar It’s accepted that dining on Grandview Avenue comes at a premium price: It is, after all, a premium view. For a long time that meant…
Ex Machina
Ex Machina Directed by: Alex Garland Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander Starts Fri., April 24. Movies about robots, androids and other artificially intelligent humanoid creations are always fascinating explorations. Can we create machines that look like us, think like, feel like us? What responsibilities, risks and rewards come with such god-like power? Isn’t…
These two apps will make your next home cocktail night a little more fun
Drinking? There’s more than a few apps for that. As one of those people who (annoyingly) waxes poetic about the aesthetic experience of using actual books, I admit that even this Luddite has begun embracing the magic that a smartphone drink Rolodex can offer. Here are two examples sure to make your next cocktail night…
Unfriended
Plot-wise, Unfriended is standard teen horror: Kids do something dumb, don’t repent properly despite warnings and are killed off in variously baroque fashions (e.g., death by blender). In Levan Gabriadze’s film, the killer assumes the form of a blank Skype profile and torments its victims on a six-way video chat: five friends and “that creeper…
Bread and Salt Bakery is a new addition to Bloomfield
The new Bread and Salt Bakery is on Pearl Street, tucked behind Bloomfield’s busy Liberty Avenue business district, and is built on three ingredients: flour, salt and water. The bakery offers three kinds of bread — pane antico, pane casereccio and pane locale — distinguished by the ratio of organic white flour to local stone-milled…
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…
Behind-the-scenes of City Paper’s Music Issue cover shoots – CP TV
Video by Ashley Murray
Merchants of Doubt
Robert Kenner’s documentary looks at the rise of corporate disinformation and various PR strategies designed to counter potentially damaging research. Inspired by Big Tobacco’s success in slickly pushing back against concerns that smoking caused verifiable damage to health, now companies and even whole industries (like fossil fuels) employ many of the same sophisticated tactics to…
City Paper 2015 Music Issue
Navigation: Kid Rock So You Want to Make a Record … Perfect Pitch Tour Diary What’s on Your MP3 Player? What’s on our MP3 players: A look at what CP staffers listen to Behind the Scenes of the making of our four City Paper covers As you can see from this week’s covers (collect all…
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
“The personal is political” in Mary Dore’s documentary about the women’s-liberation movement of the late 1960s and early ’70s. It’s necessary and illuminating history for anybody who didn’t live through it — and it’s worth noting how much changed simply because ordinary people rose up and demanded it. Dore traces the movement back to the…
Music isn’t the only lesson students learn at rock camp
Navigation: Kid Rock So You Want to Make a Record … Perfect Pitch Tour Diary What’s on Your MP3 Player? What’s on our MP3 players: A look at what CP staffers listen to Behind the Scenes of the making of our four City Paper covers Onstage at the New Bohemian — a church-turned-venue/tattoo shop in…
Raul Malo and The Mavericks hit Pittsburgh with an eclectic sound, and a new record
The Mavericks 8 p.m. Sat., April 25 Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall 510 E. 10th Ave. Munhall $45-70 librarymusichall.com Ask anyone familiar with the band what kind of music The Mavericks play and you’ll likely hear one word: country. And when the band started out playing shows in South Florida 25 years ago, that label…
So You Want to Make a Record … A pro’s tips on how to handle your first studio session
Navigation: Kid Rock So You Want to Make a Record … Perfect Pitch Tour Diary What’s on Your MP3 Player? What’s on our MP3 players: A look at what CP staffers listen to Behind the Scenes of the making of our four City Paper covers Your band has written, arranged and rehearsed a new collection…
Malo on Mono
Musically speaking, Raul Malo is a selfish man. In a day when songs are basically constructed piece by piece, each part recorded separately, he and his band, The Mavericks, wanted to do something different. “We talked for a long time about wanting to record in mono,” Malo says of the band’s new record, Mono. “We…
Four Pittsburgh artists give their secrets to writing the perfect song
Navigation: Kid Rock So You Want to Make a Record … Perfect Pitch Tour Diary What’s on Your MP3 Player? What’s on our MP3 players: A look at what CP staffers listen to Behind the Scenes of the making of our four City Paper covers Intro: Sitting down to write a song can be a…
Todd Rundgren discusses his new record, artistic freedom, and his distaste for willful ignorance
TODD RUNDGREN 7:30 p.m. Sat., April 25 Stage AE 400 North Shore Drive North Side 412-229-5483 or stageae.com Even if you’ve never owned a Todd Rundgren record, you probably know his hits, including the bizarre anti-work anthem “Bang on the Drum All Day.” A songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and fearless experimenter, Rundgren has also produced records for…
Tour Diary: On the Road With Matt Miller
Navigation: Kid Rock So You Want to Make a Record … Perfect Pitch Tour Diary What’s on Your MP3 Player? What’s on our MP3 players: A look at what CP staffers listen to Behind the Scenes of the making of our four City Paper covers Editor’s Note: Johnstown-based singer-songwriter Matt Miller — who performs under…
Donnie Iris, Lou Christie, Porky Chedwick to receive Pittsburgh Legends Award
2015 Pittsburgh Rock ‘N Roll Legends Awards 5:30 p.m. Thu., April 23 Hard Rock Café 230 W. Station Square Drive South Side $155 (concert only: $52. VIP: $207) 412-481-7625 or PittsburghRockLegends.com Performers Donnie Iris and Lou Christie and a legendary DJ, the late Porky Chedwick, will be honored April 23 for their decades of contributions…
We ask six notable Pittsburghers to let us listen to their MP3 players
Navigation: Kid Rock So You Want to Make a Record … Perfect Pitch Tour Diary What’s on Your MP3 Player? What’s on our MP3 players: A look at what CP staffers listen to Behind the Scenes of the making of our four City Paper covers You can tell a lot about a person by the…
After becoming label-mates with Tech N9ne and E-40, Eddie Barnz dreams big
Dollar and a Dream is due out in September on RBC/E1. “Get Rich” is available now. See facebook.com/ eddie.barnz for more information. “Get Rich,” the new single from Eddie Barnz, is not the big-money celebration you might expect from its name. The song is a slow, catchy, minor-chorded single, but far from a party song.…
What’s on our MP3 players: A look at what CP staffers listen to
Navigation: Kid Rock So You Want to Make a Record … Perfect Pitch Tour Diary What’s on Your MP3 Player? What’s on our MP3 players: A look at what CP staffers listen to Behind the Scenes of the making of our four City Paper covers It’s only natural to throw yourself into your work. So…
Terrance Hayes’ new poetry collection a strong follow-up to his National Book Award-winning Lighthead
How to Be Drawn By Terrance Hayes Penguin Poets, $20, 95 pages In many ways, Terrance Hayes’ new poetry collection, How to Be Drawn, picks up where his previous book, 2010’s National Book Award-winning Lighthead, left off. In both, there’s the willingness to experiment with form, use of playful language and the confident voice of…
Critics’ Picks, April 23-29
[BENEFIT] + THU., APRIL 23 It’s as much a conversation as a music event tonight at the Altar Bar. Pittsburgh Artists for Social Change will present A Unity Concert to Benefit the Afro American Music Institute, which will include a diverse lineup featuring gospel, faculty jazz instructors from the Afro American Music Institute, Afro-Cuban duets,…
Behind-the-scenes of City Paper’s Music Issue cover shoots
Video by Ashley Murray For the first time ever, City Paper set out to produce four different covers for one weekly issue. We came up with the concept to recreate four iconic album covers and enlisted the help of four great photographers and 10 fantastic kids to make it happen. And after a little help…
Lynn Cullen Live 4/22/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. PG piece on the 4802 debate. Bestiality becomes fully illegal in Denmark. Shooter takes his family to the Bahamas. Customer service in the heroin trade. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio…
Lynn Cullen Live 4/21/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. The New Jim Crow: A black woman elected mayor, staff quits. Obituaries of Viv Nicholson and Irwin Schatz. Drone warfare and Britt McHenry’s disgusting display of vitriol. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the…
