Worn In Red rock Roboto August 11th
Virginia punks Worn In Red play at the Mr. Roboto Project on August 11th.
Even a verdict in civil case doesn’t necessarily mean the end of the line for Miles case
Jurors in the Jordan Miles civil case reported Tuesday afternoon that they are having “difficulty in reaching a unanimous verdict,” according to federal judge Gary Lancaster. The judge gave the jurors further instructions to continue deliberating and told jurors, “each of you should decide for yourself” but they should “be open to other positions.” The…
Three Sisters at Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre
Chekhov is typically pegged as gloomy and “Russian.” But while lots of horrible things happen in this classic, it’s easy to forget that the note the play ends on is that of the sisters’ resolve to go on. (That in itself is ironic, of course, as these well-off siblings have spent the whole play complaining,…
Black Moth Super Rainbow: New video, Kickstarter still going
Happy Tuesday! Just wanted to point you in the direction of the brand new Black Moth Super Rainbow video: The from-the-North-Hills band has been running a Kickstarter project for its new album; it’s already backed, but if you want one of those creepy masks from the video, you have to pledge $75 there, so take…
Anamanaguchi comes to Garfield Artworks Wed., Aug. 8
The chiptune punk foursome known as Anamanaguchi closes out their summer with a show at Garfield Artworks this Wednesday.
Lynn Cullen Live 08/07/12
Video Archive Phone Guest: Susan; Obit: Marvin Hamlisch; what people are voting for today; MoMa; shootings & the angry white male complex; Americans don’t learn about people who are “different” until after we slaughter them; NRA; Mars landing; how Titanic went against human nature; Mitt Romney & Harry Reid: Mormon on Mormon; Jordan Miles jury…
Local Producer’s TV Hunting Show
How does a guy who’s never picked up a rifle in earnest end up as producer and cameraman for a TV hunting show? If he’s Keith Parish, it’s because he senses there’s good TV to be made, and he goes out and does it. Parish is a Reading native who launched his production company, Parish…
Lynn Cullen Live 08/06/12
Video Archive Guest: Charlie Deitch, CP News Editor; Jordan Miles Civil Case; Miles’ cognitive damage; waiting for jury verdict; only one black person on the jury; a case similar to Gammage, Cooperstein; impossible to convict a cop of anything in Pittsburgh; people who can’t believe the police hurt innocent people; distrust between black community &…
New Wax Fang track debuts on SoundCloud
Ex-Pittsburgher and one-time Shopping personnel Scott Carney now heads up Louisville, KY’s Wax Fang. Yesterday, Karate Body announced the October release of Wax Fang’s latest, Mirror, Mirror. The title track — sometimes baroque, sometimes rockin’, definitely epic — is streaming now via SoundCloud; take a listen:
Warhol announces fall Sound Series
Five shows comprise the 2012 fall Sound Series presented by the Andy Warhol Museum.
Lynn Cullen Live 08/03/12
Video Archive Guest: Vanessa German, artist, activist, opportunist; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts’ Emerging Artist of the Year; Love Front Porch & the Art House; why Homewood?; what happens on the front porch; Point Breeze vs. Homewood; examples of Vanessa’s spoken word opera; raising money to manage the Art House; revitalizing Homewood through art; Vanessa’s…
Miles case in jurors’ hands as plaintiff’s attorney makes final argument,
The jury in the Jordan Miles civil lawsuit began deliberating at about 3 p.m. after a day spent hearing case summations from attorneys representing Miles and Officers Michael Saldutte, David Sisak and Richard Ewing. We reported some highlights from the officers’ attorneys here. They told jurors that common sense would lead them to find for…
Toonseum Director Attempts Drawing World-Record Maze
For most people, mazes are brief but amusing distractions. For Joe Wos, executive director of Pittsburgh’s ToonSeum, they’re opportunities to test one’s limits. Barring any major mistakes, Wos will finish creating what he believes will be the world’s largest hand-drawn maze in the next two weeks or so. He began it on July 27, in…
Police in Miles case make their final pitch to jurors
Jordan Miles’ version of his January 2010 altercation with three Pittsburgh police officers is based on lies, defense attorneys told jurors Thursday morning during closing arguments. And while they portrayed Miles as “150 pounds of dynamite” at the outset of the trial, a defense attorney today likened him to “the little boy who cried wolf.”…
Bear Hands to play Brillobox Saturday August 4th
Indie rock quartet Bear Hands will be touring in support of the digitally released Songs From Utopia Volume One, released on July 4th via Greedhead Records (owned by Das Racist member Heems). The tour will see the Brooklyn band playing Brillobox on Saturday August 4th. Bear Hands was an idea hatched while members were at…
Lynn Cullen Live 08/02/12
Video Archive Guest: Tom Sokolowski; Frick & Schenley Park vs. Central Park; what will London do with the Olympic dorms after the games?; Olympics re-cap; onomatopoeias; greusome songs & fairy tales from childhood; more on Gore Vidal; Alfred Hitchcock sexually harassed Tippi Hedren; Yul Brynner became impotent after eating chow mein; Warhol & CMU; Warhol…
The Luna Park Project at the Brew House
This carnivalesque new performance work by Murphi Cook and Zach Dorn attempts to recreate, or at least revivify the memory of, the fabled amusement park that once occupied a big swath of North Oakland. Luna Park lasted only a few years before burning to the ground in 1908. The grandly columned entrance was at the…
Turn Me On, Dammit!
Turn Me On, Dammit! In Norwegian, with subtitles. Starts Fri., Aug. 3. Harris Fifteen-year-old Alma (Helene Bergsholm), the protagonist of the low-key comedy Turn Me On, Dammit!, hates living in her tiny rural Norwegian town. (She and her friends ritually flip off the town’s road sign.) But her real obsession is sex, about which she…
The Magic of Belle Isle
The Magic of Belle Isle Starts Fri., Aug. 3. Hollywood, Dormont Rob Reiner’s gentle comedy is very familiar fare — lonely and dinged-up people tossed together for a summer at a resort lake re-discover their spark for life. As such, it turns out to be a good summer for a bitter, wheelchair-bound writer (Morgan Freeman)…
Step Up Revolution
Step Up Revolution In 3-D at select theaters. The fourth iteration of the Step Up street-dancing franchise is set in sunny Miami, and opens with a crackerjack set piece in which dancers shut down the main drag in South Beach. Well-toned, limber young people materialize out of the crowd, mount glossily painted low-riders and shakeshakeshake…
Flood City Music Festival brings a deluge of talent
FLOOD CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL Fri., Aug. 3-Sun., Aug. 5. Peoples Natural Gas Park 90 Johns St. Johnstown. Single-day tickets $10-25, weekend passes $45-130. All ages. 814-539-1889 or floodcitymusic.com Perhaps it’s a tad macabre to name a music festival after a natural disaster that killed thousands, but let’s be fair: The great flood of 1889 is…
MV & EE journey to places unknown
MV & EE with PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT, HIDDEN TWIN, MIKE TAMBURO. 8 p.m. Tues., Aug. 7. Garfield Artworks 4931 Penn Ave. Garfield. $8. 412-361-2262 or garfieldartworks.com Within the sweaty confines of folk-and-blues rock and its crowded dirt-box of sound, MV & EE — Matt Valentine and Erika Elder — make crystalline sandcastles that stand the test…
Pop-up beer garden brings life to unused spaces
Summer is a terrific time to drink outdoors with friends and strangers, and Pittsburgh is full of empty lots and unused spaces. Building a beer garden seems like a perfect way to take advantage of both of those opportunities. That’s what Michael McAllister, who recently earned a master’s degree in real-estate development, was thinking. He…
On the Record with Adam Cohen
ADAM COHEN with RUFUS WAINWRIGHT 7 p.m. Sat., Aug. 4. Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead 510 E. 10th Ave Munhall. $39.50-49.50. All Ages. 412-368-5225 or librarymusichall.com Like most children of famous musicians, Adam Cohen — son of Leonard — has long struggled to forge his own identity. After success as a songwriter and frontman of…
Troy Hill is the site of Pig Hill Brewery, home to Red Star Kombucha
Kombucha is a slightly sweet, slightly vinegary beverage made by fermenting tea with a culture, known as a “mother” or a “SCOBY” (“symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast”). And being fermented, it contains alcohol. Not enough to get you drunk — just enough to put it under the purview of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. …
Critics’ Picks: August 1 – 7
[PUNK] + THU., AUGUST 2 After a surprising jump to the predominantly deathcore label Rise Records, punk veterans The Bouncing Souls released Comet, their ninth album. Despite the change of stable, the band isn’t in bad company: The label also boasts punk stalwarts Hot Water Music and others. The songs on Comet are nothing short…
Short List: August 1 – 6
Bicycling keeps growing here, and so does BikePGH. In its 10th year, the advocacy group has taken over Pedal PGH, a day-long event showcasing biking, the city and biking in the city. (The event was founded in 1994 by the Community Design Center of Pittsburgh.) Starting from the SouthSide Works, the Aug. 5 event (formerly…
Chevy Woods goes from Hazelwood to worldwide
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MUSIC TOUR feat. WIZ KHALIFA, MAC MILLER, CHEVY WOODS. 5:30 p.m. Sat., Aug. 4. First Niagara Pavilion 665 Route 18 Burgettstown. $33-79. All ages. 724-947-7400 or livenation.com Growing up in Hazelwood, rapper Chevy Woods could be found in the trenches of street life. Today, as a member of the Taylor Gang…
Improvised musical theater is the specialty of a cadre of new local troupes
WUNDERSTUDIES performs at 8 p.m. Sat., Aug. 4. THE LUPONES perform Aug. 11 and Aug. 25. All shows at SCIT 808 Tripoli St. North Side. $5. 412-322-1000 or steelcityimprov.com At Downtown’s CLO Cabaret, in June, a performer with improv group Wunderstudies strode onstage, surveyed the packed theater and asked for a prompt. “The dream she…
Shaken Faith
“I’ve done bad things,” Joshua Miller admits, sitting inside a visiting room at the State Correctional Institute in Somerset. “People know I’ve done bad things.” But Miller, 33, maintains that he didn’t do the worst thing he’s been accused of — the thing that has landed him in prison. He did not, he says, shake…
Quantum Theatre stages The Golden Dragon on the water.
Quantum Theatre presents THE GOLDEN DRAGON Aug. 2-26 Lake Carnegie Lake Drive Highland Park $18-48. 888-718-4253 or quantumtheatre.com Inside a small, ragged circle of oil drums, 5-gallon buckets and wire baskets, all perched on the concrete lip of a wide pond, five actors whirl, a cyclone of action. The cast of Quantum Theatre’s production of…
Lynn Cullen Live 08/01/12
Video Archive Guest: Chris Potter; Obit: Gore Vidal, writer, relative of Jackie Kennedy & Al Gore, screenwriter; Vidal quotes; Sparticus reading — snails & oysters; job #’s up from last month; Obama over Romney in latest PA poll; independent voters; other poll results; new CP out today: shaken baby sentencing; people without proper ID &…
Mistaken Identification?
See the full-sized image here. A: In a legal battle, a “stipulation” is a list of things both sides agree not to argue about in court. This document was filed days before attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups went to court, hoping to overturn Pennsylvania’s new “Voter ID” law, which requires…
Savage Love
As a matter of courtesy to my wife, I always clear the browser history on whatever device (computer/iPad) I may have used to view pornography. I have always assumed that she doesn’t want to see “Teen Anal Adventures” or “Lifestyles of the Deep and Fisted” in the browser history. However, the other day, she noticed…
Three Sisters
THREE SISTERS continues Aug. 8-26. Henry Heymann Theatre Stephen Foster Memorial Oakland. $25-48. 412-394-3353 or picttheatre.org There is a scene, in the middle of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, in which Vershinin and Masha are alone. The way Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre has staged it, this scene is the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen on…
Thai Spoon
Thai Spoon 1409 Potomac Ave. Dormont. 412-563-1409 Hours: Tue.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; 4:30-9:30 p.m.; Sat. noon-9:30 p.m.; Sun. 2-9 p.m. Prices: Appetizers, soups and salads $3-10; entrees $10-17 Liquor: BYOB When it comes to restaurants, we have been known to apply the “cookie-cutter” epithet to some chains. But we see no reason to penalize a…
Shooting Star
SHOOTING STAR continues through Sat., Aug. 4. South Park Theatre Corrigan Drive and Brownsville Road South Park. $10-12. 412-831-8552 or southparktheatre.com A man and woman who once lived together cross paths at an airport 25 years later … and wouldn’t you know it, but outside a blizzard is settling over the land and flights are…
After a successful run in East Liberty, the Conflict Kitchen seeks a new home
The mouth waters recalling the lechon asado — pork slow-roasted after sitting in a mojo marinade (fresh orange juice, garlic, oregano and onion are key ingredients) — with a cabbage, carrot, cucumber and tomato salad. Delivered within minutes of ordering through the take-out window at East Liberty’s Conflict Kitchen, the Cuban-influenced lunch plate costs just…
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST continues through Sun., Aug. 5. Little Lake Theatre 500 Lakeside Drive Canonsburg. $12-20. 724-745-6300 or littlelake.org It’s impossible to see a stage play of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest without thinking of Jack Nicholson — which is sort of absurd. The story began as a 1962 novel by…
It’s not really treasonous, but Commission for Treasonous Strategies is a provocative exhibit exploring American history.
COMMISSION FOR TREASONOUS STRATEGIES continues through Aug. 19 707 Penn Gallery 707 Penn Ave. Downtown. 412-325-7017 Pittsburgh doesn’t see a lot of overtly political art. But a quirky two-person exhibit at 707 Penn Gallery by Tesar Freeman and Shaun Slifer is a welcome addition. As with the work of Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative (of which Slifer…
The Queen of Versailles
The Queen of Versailles Directed by Lauren Greenfield Starts Fri., Aug. 3. Manor The 2008 financial collapse resulted in several fascinating and occasionally infuriating documentaries. You can add Lauren Greenfield’s The Queen of Versailles to the list, though its subject matter, profiling one American family caught in the mess, is considerably smaller. “Small” is a…
