Peduto goes outside of the department to hire new police chief
During a series of public forums over the past few months, a committee charged with selecting Pittsburgh’s next police chief reiterated that their ideal candidate would be able to repair the relationship between the community and police department. Today Mayor Bill Peduto and public safety director Stephen Bucar announced they had selected Cameron McLay to…
Lynn Cullen Live 09/02/14
Video Archive Phone guest: Susan; Angelina’s wedding dress; Shailene Woodley makes her own toothpaste from clay; eating dirt keeps you young; # of poll respondents are dropping; culture & perception; Callers: PJ, Greensburg / Unknown. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio…
MP3 Monday: The Lampshades
photo courtesy of Nate Smith The Lampshades Happy Labor Day! It’s late, but it’s still Monday – a holiday Monday, even – and we’ve got a special MP3 Monday for you: A new track from a yet-to-be-released album from The Lampshades. The band, originally from Altoona, released its most recent EP last year, but hasn’t…
City ignores, then rejects CPRB recommendation to fire officer who was found to have violated police policies
Back in March, I wrote a story about the years of neglect foisted upon the Citizen Police Review Board, and the hopes some police accountability experts had that the Peduto administration might take civilian oversight of law enforcement more seriously than his predecessors. And while it’s probably still too early to tell exactly how seriously…
Lynn Cullen Live 08/29/14
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Rivers Casino workers continue fight for union
Employees at the Rivers Casino say their employer has been cutting its workers’ hours to avoid providing them with health insurance. Under the Affordable Care Act, employees working 30 hours or more must receive health insurance, but those at a protest outside of the casino earlier today say management has been trying to skirt the…
The Moth at the Byham
Simple storytelling, complex emotions for a sell-out crowd
Lynn Cullen Live 08/28/14
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Fast Learners: The Steelers’ linebackers are younger and faster, but will that make them better?
The 2013 season raised a host of questions about the Steelers’ once-vaunted defense — and summer training camp made it pretty clear where they hope to find the answer. “Speed is your weapon! Speed is your weapon!” bellowed Joey Porter, the outstanding former linebacker and first-year defensive assistant coach, as the linebacking unit drilled on…
Declining Diversity: In the wake of Ferguson, activists look at Pittsburgh’ own failures in police diversity
Renee Wilson Gray has memories of the police officer who lived three doors down from her childhood house in Homewood. “They cared about the community they were policing, because it was their community,” she says. “They knew who was the bad apples and they knew who was the good apples.” Gray was a teenager in…
Moving the Line: Munchak’s experience could bring O-line to next level
Mike Munchak’s approach to coaching can best be described as holistic. Which is not to say the former Tennessee Titans head coach — and new Steelers offensive-line coach — uses crystals and herbal concoctions or invokes spirit animals. It’s that he believes his players must understand the totality of each play call, and his overall…
Industrial Arts Co-op’s latest venture is the Mobile Sculpture Workshop for youths
On a sweltering Sunday morning in August, at Munhall’s Sunday Heritage Market, a couple of young men are trying to figure out the most efficient way to bend a piece of rusty rebar. Their instructor tells them there is more than one correct way, and that they need to choose their method to match the…
Savage Love
My boyfriend of two years cannot climax or maintain an erection unless his testicles are handled, squeezed, pulled or pressed on (preferably with my stockinged foot or knee). Needless to say, intercourse does not work very well, and our sexual repertoire is rather limited. His doctor says his ED is not physiological. I would love…
A Wood Street exhibit tests the lines between human, animal and machine
LA COUR DES MIRACLES AND DSM-VI continues through Sept. 7. Wood Street Galleries 601 Wood St. Downtown. 412-471-5605 or woodstreetgalleries.org In the not-too-distant future, it is easy to imagine, humans will not only have robot helpers and companions but will be robot hybrids themselves. Despite science-fiction depictions of evil robots, such machines are already enmeshed…
Short List: August 27 – September 3
SPOTLIGHT: Wed., Aug. 27 — Comedy Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez’s self-titled, hour-long comedy spectacular The Pajama Men — which begins its nine-show Pittsburgh-premiere run on City Theatre’s main stage on Aug. 27 —is pretty inexplicable, but there are still some leading theories. “People always tell me that because we’re wearing pajamas, they think our…
Bricolage’s In The Raw (R)evolution
IN THE RAW (R)EVOLUTION continues through Sat., Aug. 30. Bricolage Productions, 937 Liberty Ave. Downtown. $25 ($40 for both plays). bricolagepgh.org No, there’s nothing X-rated in In the Raw: (R)evolution. But the Bricolage Production Co.’s play-development festival is definitely adult entertainment — that is to say, for grownup intellect and perspicacity. What’s “raw” is the…
Stuff We Like: Football Edition
Upcycle Designs Steelers Skirt. Now your favorite little person can cheer on the Steelers in style. Each skirt is made from “pre-loved” shirts and is one-of-a-kind, though Pittsburgh sports teams make frequent appearances. www.etsy.com/shop/upcycleddesign Friday Night Lights Triple-Header. The heart and soul and controversy of small-town high school football. Pick your delivery system: 1990 H.G.…
Parade at Front Porch Theatricals
PARADE continues through Sun., Aug. 31. Front Porch Theatricals at The New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $20-30. 888-718-4253 or frontporchpgh.com A potent history lesson of a musical is eloquently staged by Front Porch Theatricals. Parade is the story of Leo Frank, a pencil-factory superintendent in Atlanta who in 1913 was falsely…
Pittsburgh Thai Restaurant by Boris
Pittsburgh Thai Restaurant by Boris 321 South Ave. Verona. 412-828-0339 Hours: Mon.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun. 4-9 p.m. Prices: Appetizers, soups and salads $4.50-8.50; entrees $14-17 Liquor: BYOB In a town near Pittsburgh named for a city in Italy, there is a Thai restaurant run by a man whose name sounds…
Bus Stop at The Summer Company
BUS STOP runs through Sat., Aug. 30. The Summer Company at Peter Mills Auditorium, Rockwell Hall, Duquesne University campus, Uptown. $10-15. 412-243-6464 or thesummercompany.com On my way to the Summer Company’s production of William Inge’s classic Bus Stop, I remembered a local college production last season, and the friend I’d coerced into going with me.…
Spoon beverage director John Wabeck creates a new classic gin
John Wabeck, the beverage director at Spoon, is obsessed with gin. He stocks 28 brands at Spoon’s bar and has over a dozen in his collection at home. Wabeck loves gin so much that he decided to create his very own. He and wine and spirits compadre Jared Slipp toyed with the idea of creating…
The Oddball Comedy Festival returns
THE ODDBALL COMEDY AND CURIOSITY FESTIVAL 2014 5 p.m. Sat., Aug. 30. $30-400. First Niagara Pavilion, 665 Route 18, Burgettstown. oddballfest.com Don’t be fooled by the name: There’s nothing particularly fringe about the comics on the Oddball Comedy Festival. Far from it. Topping this year’s bill are names like Sarah Silverman, Bill Burr, Jim Jefferies…
Meat is the word on this year’s Heinz Field menu
A marquee new-menu item at Heinz Field this year: the Bacon, Egg and Cheese Dog. (Like many of the higher-end options, it’s only available for Club Level ticketholders.) The dog is what it sounds like: a foot-long frank, wrapped in bacon and topped with cheese, chipotle mayo and a fried egg. “There are a lot…
When the Game Stands Tall
When the Game Stands Tall Directed by: Thomas Carter Starring: Jim Caviezel, Michael Chiklis, Alexander Ludwig Pretty much every inspirational sports movie has a speech about how winning doesn’t matter — it’s about the team, the sanctity of the game, the memory of the dead person they’re playing for, and so on. But when all…
Land Ho!
If you’re going to take an aimless road trip, you might as well go somewhere exotic. In Land Ho!, a low-key indie comedy written and directed by Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens, two older men amble across the rugged, gorgeous terrain of Iceland. Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson) is a garrulous, up-for-a-laugh retired surgeon from Kentucky,…
The November Man
Everything I know about espionage I learned from movies, and it seems to be a hard fact that there is no such thing as a “retired” spy. Former CIA operative Peter Devereaux (Pierce Brosnan, still looking very on-the-job suave) is just chillin’ in Switzerland when an old colleague comes to visit: Can Devereaux go to…
Four Chord Music Festival mixes national and local pop-punk and punk-ska acts
FOUR CHORD MUSIC FESTIVAL feat. THE WONDER YEARS, REAL FRIENDS, THE SPACEPIMPS, MANY MORE 2 p.m. Sun., Aug. 31. Xtaza Nightclub (formerly Club Zoo) 1630 Smallman St. Strip District. $28-35.All ages. fourchordmusicfestival.com The inaugural Four Chord Music Festival, taking place Sun., Aug. 31, will feature 13 bands playing two stages and will be headlined by…
Budapest’s East Gipsy band is augmented by Rolling Stones’ sax player
EAST GIPSY BAND feat. TIM RIES. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Sept. 3. Frick Fine Arts Auditorium Schenley Drive, Oakland. $20. All ages. 412-361-2262 or garfieldartworks.com Musical worlds collide with the East Gipsy Band. The group of musicians, hailing from Budapest, Hungary, plays music with a clear link to members’ ancestors. Vilmos Oláh’s cimbalom, a hammered dulcimer…
Full Color Illustrations makes its return at Brillobox
FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS with MORE HUMANS. 9 p.m. Sat., Aug. 30. Brillobox, 4104 Penn Ave. Bloomfield. $7. 412-621-4900 or brillobox.net It’s been a while since T.J. Fennell has lived in Pittsburgh — he followed his now-wife to the Boston area about three years ago — but he hasn’t pulled up his roots. As a member…
Five reasons the 2014 Steelers are destined for glory
Not much went right for the Steelers in 2013, least of all when it counted. They dropped the first four games of the season and six of their first eight before rebounding for a 6-2 record in the second half. And while their playoff hopes were alive — at least mathematically — until the last…
Critics’ Picks: August 27 – September 2
[ROCK] + FRI., AUG. 29 Not even a van crash could keep the Kings of Leon clan off the road — at least not for long. The brothers Followill were in a bus accident after a show in Boston, leaving drummer Nathan Followill with a broken rib. But the Nashville boys wouldn’t be down for…
Five Reasons the 2014 Steelers are headed for disaster
Prior to the start of the 2013 season, there were a lot of questions surrounding the Steelers, who had gone 8-8 the previous year. The running game had been nonexistent, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger spent a lot of time on his back and a lot of time arguing with offensive coordinator Todd Haley. There had been…
Strip Living: Will more residents change the Strip District’s historic landscape
A list of residential developers with projects planned for the Strip District: Oxford Development: 299 units on the riverfront between 26th and 27th Schreiber Real Estate: 59 units at Smallman and 11th Sampson Morris Group: 144 units at 1501 Penn Ave. Chuck Hammel: 11 units at 25th and Smallman Indovina Associates: 14 units at 3155…
Lynn Cullen Live 08/27/14
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