Pennsylvania Democratic U.S. Senate candidates discuss Citizens United ruling
Fetterman, McGinty and Sestak all want to overturn the Citizen’s United Supreme Court ruling. Read their thoughts and discover some of their questionable campaign donors.
Recent baseball documentray Fastball screens at CMU, plus panel discussion
Jonathan Hock’s new basebll documentary Fastball screens at Carnegie Mellon University.
Music Inspired by Rachel Carson Premieres at Pittsburgh’s New Hazlett Theater Tonight
Trillium Ensemble performs multimedia work “The Silent Spring Project”
Listen Up! April 13
A Spotify playlist of artists mentioned in our current issue
Anti-Donald Trump protests planned in Pittsburgh this evening
There are multiple anti-Trump protests planned in response to the presidential candidate’s visit to Pittsburgh today.
A conversation with this week’s Pittsburgh City Paper cover illustrator Vince Dorse
Pittsburgh City Paper’s Lisa Cunningham talks to illustrator Vince Dorse about his Donald Trump political cartoon on the cover this week.
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre offers more spectacle with the classic pirate epic Le Corsaire
PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE PERFORMS LE CORSAIRE 8 p.m. Fri., April 15; 8 p.m. Sat., April 16; and 2 p.m. Sun., April 17. Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave. $28-110. 412-456-6666 or pbt.org Continuing its string of “big ballets” over the past few seasons, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre sets sail with the high-seas epic Le Corsaire (“The Pirate”),…
Pittsburgh’s equal-pay-day rally highlights local equality efforts
Today’s annual equal-pay-day rally highlighted local efforts for equality and workers’ rights.
Lynn Cullen Live 04/12/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Trump comes to town. Goldman Sachs fine. Zika virus. Beer pong in Princeton, NJ. Tech culture. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Pittsburgh-Shot Indie Murder Mystery Seeks Funding
Finishing funds needed for drama by local filmmaker
MP3 Monday: Supervoid
Stream or download a new track from Supervoid
Lynn Cullen Live 04/11/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Golf Masters and more on Wendy Bell. On welfare. Charlie Deitch on PGH and financing. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Attendees of Tekko 2016 take over the streets of Pittsburgh
Thousands descend on Pittsburgh for Tekko 2016
What you need to know about Pittsburgh news this week
This week, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stumps in Pittsburgh; Vice President Joe Biden talks sexual assault prevention at the University of Pittsburgh; and Pittsburgh city councilor Dan Gilman announces private breast-feeding rooms in city buildings.
Pittsburgh LGBT group calls for writers, artists to share experiences
Arts Out Loud seeks submissions from LGBT writers and artists and allies for its inaugural event
Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale says forensic audit of Pittsburgh ICA ‘very likely’
Auditor General Eugene DePasquale says forensic audit of Pittsburgh’s Intergovernmental Cooperation Agency “very likely.”
Dance performance highlights gallery event in Downtown Pittsburgh tonight
Gia T. Cacalona performs at exhibit by Jennifer Nagle Myers at 707 Penn
Lynn Cullen Live 04/08/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Good doctors. Bernie on qualifications. Don Blankenship’s sentencing. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Private lactation rooms now in two of Pittsburgh’s city buildings
There are now private lactation rooms for nursing mothers in two Pittsburgh city buildings
The Rex Theater, in Pittsburgh’s South Side, re-opens after a minor fire
The Rex Theater returns to normal schedule after minor fire
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visits Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University rally
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton rallies thousands of supporters at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.
Video: Hillary Clinton rallies supporters in Pittsburgh
Hillary Clinton speaks on climate change, equal pay and job creation at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
JFilm
The 23rd annual JFilm, formerly known as the Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival, opens its 11-day run on Thu., April 7. The festival offers 21 recent films from Israel and around the world representing Jewish experiences from the comic to the dramatic, as presented through narrative features and documentaries. Films screen at the following venues: Manor,…
Grant Bar and Restaurant
Grant Bar and Restaurant 114 Grant Ave., Millvale. 412-821-1541 Hours: Mon. 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Tue.-Fri. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sat. 4-10 p.m. Prices: Appetizers, soups, salads, sandwiches $3-10; entrees $13-25 Liquor: Full bar In case you missed the latest love letter to Pittsburgh from The New York Times, it focused on the relationship between the city’s…
Demolition
In Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition, Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a sleek Wall Streeter who suddenly loses his wife in a car accident. At the hospital, he has an incident with a vending machine; he writes requesting a refund, and uses the letter to explain his various dissatisfactions and his current state of numbness. He ignores the…
I Can’t Make Cookies When I’m Dead
Everything is stainless steel, preheating unnecessary. Nothing sticks to anything. But all saved souls must share one big kitchen, color-coded, alphabetized. Every 1/16 tsp has a cubby. Such perfection cannot be measured precisely, beauty that makes me weep because ugliness is love, the ugliness of that pie when you forgot to add sweetened condensed milk,…
City of Gold
Laura Gabbert’s wide-ranging documentary ostensibly profiles Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic for the Los Angeles Times who specializes in hole-in-the-wall ethnic restaurants and street food. Gold was an early booster of such on-the-margins cuisine, and likely had a hand in making it de rigueur for the contemporary foodie. And, as he explains, Los…
Red Star Kombucha opens a growler shop in Downtown Pittsburgh
Last spring I wrote a column about the Red Star Kombucha bar in the Pittsburgh Public Market. Now I’m writing to tell you that the “glob” — as owners Naomi Auth and Joy Toujours affectionately call the symbiotic cultures of bacteria and yeast (SCOBYs) that ferment their tea — has moved into a new space in…
Eye in the Sky
Gavin Hood directs this timely ensemble thriller about our multifaceted war on terror. The mission is to apprehend a group of known terrorists in Kenya, but over the course of this real-time film, that shifts from a “capture” to a “kill” situation. The joint operation takes place in three locations: an al-Shabaab-controlled area of Nairobi;…
Pittsburgh-based baker Dena Stanley runs MadDezSweetz
The last place I expected to get good food was in a conference room at the University of Pittsburgh, where I was part of a panel on the use of the word “they” as a gender-neutral singular pronoun. But a fellow panelist, Dena Stanley, a trans woman and LGBT activist, brought along a box of…
Film Kitchen, Pittsburgh’ monthly screening of local short films and video
The monthly series for local and independent artists features local alterna-celebrities Phat Man Dee and Tommy Amoeba. The main attraction are episodes from “Take It to the Bridge With Phat Man Dee,” a video series in which the jazz vocalist, during her recent trip to Europe, performs duets with musicians and dancers on literal bridges…
Critics’ Picks, April 7-13
[FOLK] + SAT., APRIL 9 Carrie Newcomer is as much a humanitarian as a musician. She has traveled to India and Kenya as a cultural ambassador. Her worldly, folk-influenced music has a Christianity-influenced message (she’s a Quaker), but it’s a refreshing one. While Christians at large can get a bad rap sometimes for being bigoted,…
Wysocki takes Ultimate Disc Frisbee for a spin
People have to try new things. It’s always been beyond my comprehension, for example, why people will not try a new food. The worst-case scenario is having an unpleasant taste in your mouth for two to four seconds. Although, I still will never try cottage cheese because it looks like it’s curdled and been regurgitated…
Pittsburgh hip-hop duo Grand Buffet makes a rare appearance at Spirit’s one-year anniversary party
GRAND BUFFET with THE GOTOBEDS, JORDAN WEEKS, FOSTER CARE, SHAKEY SHRINES, more 7 p.m. Fri., April 8. Spirit, 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. 412-586-4441 or spiritpgh.com It’s been more than two years since Grand Buffet played a show in Pittsburgh. But Jackson O’Connell-Barlow is happy to give fans an idea of what to expect when the…
Norway’s Kvelertak filters black metal through a classic-rock lens
KVELERTAK with TORCHE, WILD THRONE 7:30 p.m. Fri., April 15. Altar Bar, 1620 Penn Ave., Strip District. 412-263-2877 or thealtarbar.com Kvelertak works best on a visceral level. Sure, the band’s lyrics are unintelligible to most audiences outside of its native Norway, but there’s something deeply universal about blistering riffs and shout-along choruses. A Kvelertak record…
Monroeville cantor Henry Shapiro puts guitar at the center of his new crowdfunded klezmer album
If you know the term at all, klezmer might seem nearly synonymous with “Jewish music.” That’s a fair starting point; the word is Hebrew — “kle” for “instrument” and “zmer” for “song” — and the genre grew out of traditional songs played at weddings and other ceremonies in Eastern European Jewish communities. But klezmer’s reach extends…
UPMC plans to raise starting hourly wages to $15 by 2021, but what does that mean for unionization efforts?
Two years ago, UPMC executive Gregory Peaslee told The New York Times that employees at UPMC facilities would never see a minimum-wage increase to $15 an hour. He reasoned that raising the minimum wage that high would cost UPMC $600 million annually and “wipe out its operating margin of 1 percent to 2 percent.” “There…
Job fair at Pittsburgh Steelers’ Heinz Field helps veterans get to work
On March 24, a battalion’s worth of veterans came to the Recruit Military Veterans Job Fair at Heinz Field. The veterans who came to the event were looking to overcome the unique challenges faced by those returning from active duty, or those trying to balance their current military obligations with returning to the civilian workplace. …
This Week in City Paper History
The Bad Old Days (April 9, 2009) Writer Adam Fleming took a look at the Pittsburgh Pirates’ miserable losing streak and asked the question that fans asked every year: “Is this the season when things start to go right?” There were a lot of interesting things about this particular piece. First, it argued whether it…
City Paper Podcast – Episode 012
This week on the City Paper podcast, Bernie Sanders visits Pittsburgh, and we visit a hop farm.
Bernie Sanders played well in Pittsburgh last week, but will it translate into votes?
I have to admit it: I kind of “Feel the Bern.” Politically, I see where he’s coming from and agree with a lot of it. But I would say I’m “berning” more like a Bic lighter than a raging brush fire. In the early days of his campaign, I talked to a lot of friends…
A Carnegie Mellon researcher applies game theory to parenting
If Malcolm Gladwell and 18th-century philosopher David Hume joined forces to discuss raising children, the result might resemble the new book co-authored by Carnegie Mellon University professor Kevin Zollman, The Game Theorist’s Guide to Parenting (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). This tool bag of parenting strategies uses aspects of game theory to illuminate the complicated task of…
Short List: April 7 – 13
SPOTLIGHT: Fri., April 8 — Dance San Francisco-based Sean Dorsey Dance returns to the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater April 8 and 9 with The Missing Generation (2015), the third in a trilogy of works exploring our contemporary relationships to censored, buried or forgotten parts of LGBT history. For the 65-minute work set to an award-winning sound score,…
Artist residency highlights Latino artists from around the world
CAFÉ CON LECHE at Most Wanted Fine Art. 5015 Penn Ave., Garfield. 412-440-8923 or mostwantedfineart.com For creative entrepreneur Tara Sherry-Torres, Pittsburgh was the perfect place to situate Café Con Leche — an art project drawing on her Latino roots. That might seem counterintuitive. After all, Pittsburgh’s Latino community is among the smallest of any major…
Savage Love
I am a twentysomething, straight, cis-female expat. How long do I have to wait to ask my German lover, who is übersensitive about the Holocaust, to indulge me in my greatest — and, until now, unrealized — fantasy: Nazi role-play? He is very delicate around me because I am a secular Jew and the descendant…
A review of the 2016 Solo & Collaborative Exhibits at the PCA
2016 SOLO & COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITS continues through April 17. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside. 412-361-0873 or pfpca.org The 2016 Solo & Collaborative Exhibits at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts is a vibrant and varied program, at times almost explosively so. In fact, you might think it’s an explosion greeting you in…
Stuff We Like
Robin Hill Park. Enjoy the well-kept forest trails of Robin Hill Park, in Moon Township. All trails lead to a confluence of small streams and little wooden bridges. 949 Thorn Run Road Word Exchange. This science-fiction book by Alena Graedon depicts a future world where the death of print has become a reality. Tea at…
Lynn Cullen Live 04/06/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. PA Senate race. Antonin Scalia Law School. Racism in a Gap ad. The Orange Street News. RIP Joseph Medicine Crow. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Lynn Cullen Live 04/05/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Legislation for the bible to be the state book in Tennessee. The PGs coverage of a trans child in Monaca. The NYT crossword puzzle. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Lynn Cullen Live 04/04/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. The ethics around lost money. Fancy weddings. How we’re dealing with poop. Presidential pardons. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
