Kathleen Kane: from first elected female attorney general in Pennsylvania to first convicted female AG in the country in just four years
This week Kathleen Kane became the first female convicted attorney general, but she’s the first person in the country convicted in the office.
Review: Dale Watson’s new ‘Live at Big T Roadhouse’ is more than a collection of live tunes, it’s an experience
Dale Watson’s new live record, Live at Big T Roadhouse — Chicken S#!+ Bingo Sunday, is mandatory listening
Japanese folk tales take center stage at Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum on Saturday
Storyteller Kuniko Yamamoto combines masks, musical instruments and origami to tell Japanese folk tales at City of Asylum.
Listen Up! Aug. 17
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists mentioned in the current music section. Grab a paper and listen along!
Wigle Whiskey starting crowdfund to create a new whiskey museum in Pittsburgh
The local whiskey distiller Wigle wants to “reclaim” Western Pennsylvania’s place in whiskey history with a Pittsburgh whiskey museum, and is seeking the community’s help to do so.
Democrat Katie McGinty and GOP Sen. Pat Toomey agree to two debates; Toomey wants more
Both Democrat Katie McGinty and Republican Pat Toomey share jabs even before they meet on stage for upcoming Pittsburgh and Philadelphia debates.
MP3 Monday: S.L.I.P.
This week’s track comes from Pittsburgh punk band S.L.I.P. Stream or download “Cruel Noise,” — which the band wrote and recorded as a cassingle to celebrate the opening of Cruel Noise Records in Polish Hill — for free below. Like what you hear? You can also catch S.L.I.P. this Saturday at Cattivo. To download, right-click here…
What you need to know about Pittsburgh news this week
This week in Pittsburgh, Snoop and Wiz light up on stage in Burgettstown; protesters show up for Mike Pence’s Pittsburgh stop; and Hillary Clinton’s local campaign doubles down on women voters.
Hillary Clinton campaign focuses on women in Pennsylvania
The Clinton campaign doubles down on women voters in Pennsylvania.
Review: “Driftless” at Pittsburgh’s New Hazlett Theater
Ambitious new play on fracking runs through Sunday.
Lynn Cullen Live 08/12/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. The Simones of the Olympics. Air travel. Trump’s long vacation. Kathleen Kanes’ trial. DEA refuses to reclassify marijuana. Air conditioning isn’t helping this heat wave. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio…
Gluten Free Baking with Jeanette Harris, owner of the Gluten Free Goat
“I read a lot about how a diverse grain diet can be good for anyone whether they have allergies or not.”
Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg light up First Niagara Pavilion
Representing two generations of hip hop hitmakers, Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg joined forces in Burgettstown last night for the High Road Tour.
House-sized artwork premieres at Pittsburgh’s Mattress Factory tomorrow
Opening reception includes tours of Buffalo-based artist Dennis Maher’s “A Second Home.”
Lynn Cullen Live 08/11/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Biography of Hedy Lamarr, her beauty and brains. Heat wave! More scandal in the election race. Older woman shot by cop in a demonstration. Airlines and profits. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the…
Burgeoning R&B singer Patience Roy’al performs as part of this year’s 1Hood Day
1HOOD DAY 5 p.m. Thu., Aug. 11 (Repair the World, 6022 Broad St., East Liberty) and 5 p.m. Fri., Aug. 12 (Anthony Rivers Park, East Liberty). Pay what you can. 412-404-2347 or 1hood.org Patience Roy’al supposes that her interest in music goes back even longer than she can remember. “Since I was in my mom’s womb,…
Weird Pittsburgh
Johnstown Wire Technologies is denying internet rumors that the employees present when Hillary Clinton visited were actually plants bussed in by the Democratic nominee’s campaign. Commenters on news station WJAC’s Facebook posts claimed the July 30 event “was all staged,” in the words of one MaryAnn Versmessen of Greensburg. “She even brought in her own…
A choreographer confronts eating disorders
ALEXANDRA BODNARCHUK AND COMPANY PERFORM SOMETHING PRETTY 8 p.m. Thu., Aug. 18, and 8 p.m. Fri., Aug. 19. Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave., East Liberty. $15 in advance at alexandrabodnarchuk.org or “Pay What Makes You Happy” at the door. kelly-strayhorn.org Like writers, choreographers are often advised to create work about what they know. Sometimes that…
Though they’re illegal, health advocates say needle exchanges are key to combating HIV and hep C in rural counties
When gay-men’s health advocate Dick Keiser moved to Washington County six months ago, he says he noticed a “hidden epidemic” tied to the area’s heroin crisis. HIV and hepatitis C infections in the county were spreading at alarming rates as a result of needle-sharing between intravenous drug users. According to reports from 2013 (the last…
Influential hip-hop duo EPMD comes to town for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s inaugural Multiple Choice event
EPMD: MULTIPLE CHOICE HIP-HOP EDITION 8 p.m. Thu., Aug. 11. August Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $5-25. 412-456-6666 or trustarts.org As the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s new director of dance programming and special events, it may seem surprising that Randal Miller’s first major event is a concert by influential hip-hop duo EPMD. “I can explain…
Summer mural project addresses gun violence in Pittsburgh
Ten years ago, as a teenager with a child of his own, Paris Wellons thought getting paid to participate in a summer program painting murals around the city was a pretty good deal. “I’ve always wanted to be an artist,” says Wellons, 26. “I started painting around my mom’s house, under the table. I probably…
Critics’ Picks, Aug. 11-17
[FESTIVAL] + FRI., AUG. 12- SUN., AUG. 14 Lawrenceville will be alive with the sound of music this weekend. More t han 30 neighborhood venues, some tried-and-true and others impromptu and unconventional, will pull together for the Rock All Night Tour (RANT) shindig. The event is entirely free and will kick off with a party…
Pittsburgh City Paper to launch new sports section Aug. 17
I love sports. That’s no secret to anyone. If there’s been a sports story in this paper since I joined the staff in 2005, there’s a good chance that I wrote it. [Editor’s note: I have not written every sports story since 2005, so there’s no reason to comb our archives to prove me wrong.…
Cosmos
Polish director Andrzej Zulawski’s final film adapts Witold Gombrowicz’s novel Cosmos, about a disquieting and occasionally absurd holiday. Two young French men — both failures — take lodgings at a family guest house near the sea. The inhabitants are cheery but odd — the middle-aged mother is prone to paralytic fits, her older husband is…
The antidote to Pittsburgh’s highfalutin’ food-scene: Frankie’s Extra Long
Walk into Frankie’s Extra Long on Butler Street in Lawrenceville, and you can see the whole menu in the works. The four sandwiches available — hot sausage, kielbasa, meatball and the signature foot-long — are all there behind the counter for you to see — and smell — the second you walk in the door. …
Indignation
In 1951, Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman), the only child of a kosher butcher in Newark, embarks on his college education at a small school in Ohio. Marcus doesn’t find campus life wholly satisfying: The school is conservative, he resents being lumped with the campus’ few other Jews, and he doesn’t find many friends. Still, this…
Saturday, Flamenco Music
Give me sticky Saturday afternoons when we drink beer and make love — the sun streaming through dusty blinds. Give me quiet evenings when the floor is swept and Flamenco guitarists sing of the exuberance of lovers in rooms without clocks. Let’s stay awake all night listening to the trains until sleep overtakes us and we dissolveinto the humid…
Phantom Boy
In this new animated adventure from French directors Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol (A Cat in Paris), Leo is an 11-year-old boy with a secret. He’s stuck in a New York City hospital being treated for a serious illness, but he’s discovered he has the capacity to disconnect from his corporeal form and fly around…
Pittsburgh rapper Hardo’s long walk to redemption
There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Joseph Barnett, of Wilkinsburg. If you’re a fan of Pittsburgh hip hop, however, you probably know the name Hardo. Barnett was a good student from a hard-working family who turned to slinging dope on the streets because the lure of big money was too much to ignore.…
Savage Love
Dear Readers: I’m on vacation for the next three weeks, but you won’t be reading old columns while I’m away. You’ll be getting a new column every week, all of them written by Dan Savage, none of them written by me. Dan Savage is a sports writer and the assistant director of digital content for…
Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad Directed by David Ayer Starring Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman In 3-D, in select theaters In English, and demon tongue, with subtitles The nature of the superhero comic-book business — with new issues sold constantly — means the troubles they recount never really resolve, but just bloom and fade month…
A proposed highway cap won’t help the Lower Hill
There are certain things we say so frequently about the destruction of the Lower Hill that they become almost ritual, and for many statements, the repetition is justified. Misguided development displaced 8,000 people and destroyed 1,300 buildings on 28 acres. With a few wide but ghostly streets and no actual buildings currently going in, those…
A new public artwork lights up the North Side
ACUPUNCTURE Mattress Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side. 412-231-3169 or mattress.org Dark skies need to be preserved so that we can appreciate our awesome universe, but there is also something magical about the sparkling lights of a cityscape at night. Due to its geography, Pittsburgh offers many vistas in which to enjoy its beauty. And…
The Revel half of Revel & Roost is a worthy destination for a casual dinner Downtown
Revel 242 Forbes Ave., Downtown. 412-281-1134 Hours: Sun.-Thu. 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m.-midnight; Sun. brunch 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Prices: Soup, salad, sandwiches and single starters $5-14; entrees and larger “communal” starters $15-25 Liquor: Full bar Like everything in the restaurant world, name trends come and go. Recently, we have seen a lot of the…
Southern Tier Brewing breaks ground on the North Side
Pre-gaming for a concert or Steelers game (or museum, if you like to make learning fun) on the North Shore often involves tiny grills and mountains of trash. All well and good, but if you want to class it up on your next visit, the options have never been better. Local Brewhouse and Burgatory opened…
The Land
“Do you even care about your future? … What are you doing with your time?” asks a guidance counselor at the vo-tech high school in the opening scene of the indie film The Land. The four teenage boys who sporadically attend the school shrug. Their focus and energy isn’t on welding class, but skateboarding. The…
Roasted Red Pepper Pasta
I first made this recipe for my mother years ago, and she encouraged me to break my normal devil-may-care kitchen attitude and write this recipe down. Since then, we’ve been enjoying this recipe as a hot, comforting pasta dish on a cold day, and as a cold, peppy summer pasta salad that pairs swimmingly with…
Mother Lode at Off the Wall Productions
MOTHER LODE continues through Sun., Aug. 15. Off the Wall Productions at Carnegie Stage, 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $25-35. 724-873-3576 or insideoffthewall.com Hats. They’re what strike the eye immediately upon entering Off the Wall Theater’s curtainless production of Mother Lode. Artistic director Virginia Wall Gruenert’s latest world premiere packs a lot into a one-woman…
Moonstomp Berliner Weisse Ale, East End Brewing Company
$6.25 / pint “I’m continuously surprised by how brewers can freshen up the idea of hops and hoppy beer. This beer has a light, tart flavor and champagne-like quality. It’s a collaboration with Pizza Boy Brewing in Harrisburg and has a low ABV, which makes it great for summer drinking.” — Recommended by Scott Smith,…
The Birds at 12 Peers Theater
THE BIRDS continues through Aug. 21. 12 Peers Theater at Studio Theater (Cathedral of Learning), 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. Admission is pay what you wish. 12peerstheater.org Even acknowledging the fame of Daphne du Maurier, it’s safe to say that her 1952 short story “The Birds” probably wouldn’t be remembered if not for the 1963 Alfred…
Pittsburgh City Paper Booze Battles: Spirit vs. The Yard
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…
South Pacific at Pittsburgh CLO
SOUTH PACIFIC continues through Aug. 14. Pittsburgh CLO at the Benedum Center, 237 Seventh St., Downtown. $25.75-85.75. 412-456-6666 or pittsburghclo.org A bright, shiny but very tuneful bauble — Pittsburgh CLO serves up a most enjoyable production of South Pacific. The 1949 Rodgers-Hammerstein multi-award-winner lives up to the definition of “classic,” with most of its songs…
Stuff We Like
Jenna Vanden Brink Ceramics. Each handmade piece by this local artist is thoughtfully created, from the contemporary colors to the sharply etched designs. Warning: Her lovely bud vases might outshine your flowers. www.jennavandenbrink.com Keepin’ It 1600 Podcast. Sure, Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer have a bias — they worked for candidate and President Obama — but…
Lynn Cullen 08/10/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. More on Trump gaffs. Olympics. First 7 jobs. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Lynn Cullen Live 08/09/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Olympics, salamanders, Sean Hannity and an emperor who wants to retire. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Lynn Cullen Live 08/08/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Evan McMullin announces third party candidacy. Olympics in Rio. Billie Nardozzi marches to his own drummer. Former CIA agent talks about Trump. Marco Rubio says no abortions for women infected with Zika virus. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new…
