Lynn Cullen Live 08/13/13
Video Archive Knit the Bridge disappointment; no more downtown in Green Bay; bikers vs. drivers, pedestrians; E-cigarettes; racist blowout at the Missouri State Fair Rodeo; judge tried to un-name couple’s son, Messiah; Callers: George, Moon / Joe / Unknown. Audio Only Archive
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Doctor Speaks Tonight on Health Effects of Fracking
Pitt asssistant professor visitsCafe Scientifique
Local Women In Fashion Recognized At Style & Steel Awards Ceremony
Style & Steel Presents First ‘Superwomen In Heels’ Awards Ceremony
Before you go out for the weekend, here are some things to do
Some things to do this weekend!
Port Authority detours for Liberty Mile tonight
The Port Authority has announced detours for about 40 bus routes that will have temporary stop changes due to tonight’s GNC Live Well Liberty Mile footrace event in Downtown Pittsburgh. Liberty Avenue and Penn Avenue from Stanwix Street to 11th Street will be closed tonight, detouring buses from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Riders can…
Author of Acclaimed Debut Novel Visits Big Idea
Chris L. Terry is on his Zero Fade Book Tour
Comic Steve Byrne at the Byham
Sullivan & Son Comedy Tour Comes Downtown
Style Week Launches
Inaugural showcase of style-themed events begins Downtown
Lynn Cullen Live 08/08/13
Video Archive Guest: Tom Sokolowski; Warhol’s 85th birthday; earth cam on Warhol’s grave; helicopter parenting; Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s marijuana documentary to air on CNN; can’t die ODing on weed; Caller: Les Ludwig Audio Only Archive
Graveface Records fundraiser
Graveface Records faces grave danger of closing.
Here comes the corpse flower!
The stinking mess of a plant is about to bloom. Run! Run for your life!
Warhol Grave Site Gets Live-Streaming Web Cam
Images from the artist’s Castle Shannon plot are online 24/7 via Figment. Olivia Lammel has a report from yesterday’s opening ceremony in Program Notes.
Warhol Grave Site Gets Live-Streaming Web Cam
“Figment” to capture memorials and more at Castle Shannon cemetery plot
Burning Down the House
On one level, you can’t blame the Fraternal Order of Police for wanting to end the city’s residency requirement: Like most of us, police want to choose where they live, and where their kids go to school. But they seem to be in such a hurry to leave town, they’re running yellow lights to do…
Comedian Davon Magwood keeps busy taking on Westboro Baptist Church and other bullies.
AN EVENING OF COMEDY FEATURING DAVON MAGWOOD 7 and 10:30 p.m. Sat., Aug. 10 (hosted by Jordan Weeks). Club Café, 56-58 S. 12th St., South Side. $10. 412-431-4950 or clubcafelive.com Curse his hometown and Davon Magwood will not hesitate to hump you. And if the Westboro Baptist Church shows up to picket his homecoming show,…
Savage Love
I’m a 25-year-old male. After a tragic set of circumstances, I am now the legal guardian of my 15-year-old brother. He’s gay. Fortunately, our parents took care of "the talk" and taught him how to use condoms. Unfortunately, he has started dating a senior who is about to turn 18 and is a fucking sleazeball.…
Local photographers document the aftermath of an attack on an Indian village.
THE KORAPUT SURVIVORS PROJECT continues thru Sept. 1. 707 Penn Gallery, 707 Penn Ave., Downtown. 412-456-6666 or trustarts.org You don’t hear a lot about mass violence in India. Poverty, yes. Floods and famine, yes. But we rarely see headlines about the kind of incident that took place in eastern India in 2008: a group of…
Short List: August 7 – 15
SPOTLIGHT: Sat., Aug. 10 — Stage Rewatching Twin Peaks in recent years, Michael McGovern was reminded why the show was so refreshing when it premiered on network TV back in April 1990. "It pulls you in immediately. … It was a perfect show," especially that first season, he says. "There was none of that formula…
Oedipus and the Foul Mess at Thebes at No Name Players
OEDIPUS AND THE FOUL MESS IN THEBES continues through Aug. 17. No Name Players at Off the Wall Theater, 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $15-20. nonameplayers.org It’s a very tricky thing Chicago playwright Sean Graney has done with Oedipus and the Foul Mess at Thebes, now making its world premiere under the aegis of No…
Thai Hana
Thai Hana 3608 Fifth Ave., Oakland. 412-621-1100 Hours: Mon.-Sat. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Prices: Soups, salads and appetizers $2.50-10, entrees $12-14 Liquor: BYOB All the years we’ve been eating out in Pittsburgh have taught us to view certain streets as dining destinations. Corridors like Craig Street, in Oakland, East Carson Street on the South Side, and…
New York-based Pittsburgh-favorite choreographer Sidra Bell brings her latest work in progress
SIDRA BELL DANCE NEW YORK presents a work-in-progress showing. 8 p.m. Fri., Aug. 9. Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Ave., Friendship. Pay what you can; limited seating, RSVP required. 412-363-3000 or kelly-strayhorn.org Pittsburgh’s dance community over the past several years has had a love affair with New York-based choreographers. Artists such as Nora Chipaumire, Camille A.…
California-based homebrew supplier opens Ambridge warehouse
Pittsburgh homebrewers are now a mouse-click away from next-day delivery of malt, hops, yeast and a wide array of specialty brewing items. That’s because the Concord, Calif.-based MoreBeer! has just opened a 30,000-square-foot warehouse in Ambridge. Distribution manager Ryan Barto, who moved here to oversee the new operation, says Pittsburgh was chosen over Baltimore and…
I’m So Excited!
I’m So Excited! Directed by: Pedro Almodovar In Spanish, with subtitles. Starts Fri., Aug. 9. Regent Square. Pedro Almodovar’s I’m So Excited! is a throwback to the livelier stuff he did in the late-early part of his career, after he became known for darker films like Matador and Law of Desire. Call this Passengers on…
Quik It Chicken has an unlikely home in a North Side gas station
Don’t pass by Quik It Chicken too rapidly. This North Side eatery, which incongruously shares a building with a Valero gas station/convenience store and a wig-and-beauty shop, might look unimpressive. But inside there’s good food and a good story, too. Owner Eugene Thomas, a Manchester native, launched Quik It as a Federal Street storefront in…
The Hunt
Thomas Vinterberg’s quiet, provocative drama, The Hunt, explores the devastating effects an accusation of child sexual abuse can have, both on those intimately involved and on the wider community. Lucas (Mad Mikkelsen) lives alone in a small Danish town; he’s divorced, with sporadic custody of his teenage son. But he enjoys the male company of…
Lynn Cullen Live 08/07/13
Video Archive Guest: Chris Potter; Art Bedway pleads guilty; Luke Ravenstahl not showing up for work at all these days; August is a bad news month; Bezos & the Washington Post; escalating ad war between UPMC & Highmark; current congress is doing nothing; new City Paper out today; Davon Magwood takes on Westboro Baptist Church;…
2 Guns
The first 15 minutes of Baltasar Kormákur’s comic actioner aren’t bad: Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, respectively an undercover DEA agent and an undercover Navy intelligence officer, get breakfast in a small Texas border town. The two have an easy, amusingly prickly chemistry; they spar about eggs and donuts, and leave the worst tip ever:…
Pittsburgh native Buku does trap music his way
LIGHT UP THE TRAP featuring BUKU, FRZY, QUESTKAEY. 7 p.m. Fri., Aug. 9. Rex Theater 1602 E. Carson St., South Side. $18-20. 18 and over. 412-381-6811 or rextheater.com Electronic music is everywhere right now, and with composition easier than ever thanks to laptop production and nontraditional instrumentation, everyone is trying their hand — leaving listeners…
Rock All Night Tour lights up Lawrenceville for a second year
ROCK ALL NIGHT LAWRENCEVILLE. 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Sat., Aug. 10. Various venues, Lawrenceville. Free. Some events all ages, some over-21. www.rantlawrenceville.com Last year was the inaugural ride of the Rock All Night Tour in Lawrenceville, an all-day-and-into-the-night free festival of local bands of all stripes. At the time, the festival — run by DJ Zombo…
Frank and Sarah Cunniff go from punk rock to comic art
As of a few years ago, Frank Cunniff was known mostly for his bass work with Incommunicado (or singing with Hipsterdeathmachine). But more recently, it’s been words (and drawings) on paper that make the Polish Hill resident notable. Going from punk bands to comic books has been something of an adjustment, but it’s got its…
Critics’ Picks: August 7 – 13
[SOUL] + FRI., AUG. 9 Jesse Dee impressed in June at WYEP’s Summer Music Festival; tonight, the Boston-bred blue-eyed-soul singer returns to the area for a show at Johnstown’s Peoples Natural Gas Park. The man’s got a set of pipes and a healthy respect for Van Morrison, which, in combination, can — and do —…
New Releases
Mario Dones 10 Summers (Self-released) New mixtape from the local MC, with an old-school vibe helped along by some production tricks from Nice Rec. While he subscribes to a largely old-school aesthetic, Dones starts off the mixtape evaluating the new school in a track that promises to be on his forthcoming album. At times, it…
Class Dismissed: Carnegie pulls plug on adult studio-arts program
"Join a class act," read the web page touting the Carnegie Museum of Art’s adult studio-arts program. "Let us become your art studio. … A draw-what-you-see class in the middle of the great Hall of Architecture. A portraitures class. Or a study in watercolors. Our studio classes have something for everyone." The page, since deleted,…
Giving a Voice: "Queer and Brown" podcast sparking conversation for a marginalized community
Ayanah Moor and Raquel Rodriguez have a cozy living room, big enough for a cocktail party but small enough to keep all its occupants in listening range. A compact loveseat sits before a coffee table, and a glass breakfast table stands in a corner. Some of the art on the walls is from students taught…
… And a Side of Lies
1) "Highmark needs 41,000 patient admissions to leave UPMC and community hospitals to go to theirs," this oddly knowledgeable diner patron tells us in a UPMC spot. Indeed, when the state Insurance Commissioner approved Highmark’s acquisition of the ailing West Penn Allegheny Health System, its ruling said flatly that "for Highmark’s … strategy to work,…
