Contraband kitties: A chat with Jolie Holland
It’s been just over two years since I last spoke with the enigmatic ANTI- recording artist Jolie Holland. Late last week, we caught up a bit, chatting about her forthcoming cookbook, early gospel recordings, rogue cats and the upcoming Super Bowl. So what have you been up to in the past two years? I started…
Bill Daniel in Scale
The road-tested but locally rooted artist and filmmaker has one of the more intriguing pieces in Scale, a show at Downtown’s Space Gallery. Scale, curated by Ally Reeves (an occasional CP contributor), is broadly about people figuring out how to live in the new normal of limited resources and the patent social and environmental failure…
Post-Gazette’s Dennis Roddy to leave, take job in Corbett administration
Dennis Roddy, a fixture of Pittsburgh journalism for nearly four decades, is leaving the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and taking a job in the fledgling Corbett Administration. “It was time for me, at age 57, to find out if I possess any transferable skills,” says Roddy. Roddy’s job will be in communications. And while he says his…
MP3 Monday, Super Bowl edition
Happy Monday! In observance of this most celebratory holiday week, we at FFW>> are proud to bring you one of our favorite Steelers-related songs. It was our MP3 Monday a couple years ago — actually, right around the time the Penguins won their last Stanley Cup. We’re bringing it back because, well, this is the…
News on Dreaming Ant … and county executive dreams of greatness
In case you missed it, our very own Chris Young has a piece wrapping up the Dreaming Ant raid we reported here last week. This piece — in the current print edition — focuses on some of the legal concerns arising from the case. Also, I’ll take this opportunity to satisfy some requests we’ve had…
Somebody alert Bruce Kraus! Eljay’s Used Books to move this spring
OK, this really isn’t a political post — I’ll have some more of that stuff before the day is out. But if you’re a sucker for bookstores, as I am, it’s just as important. Eljay’s Used Books is moving from its East Carson Street location to … Dormont, which owner Frank Oreto calls the place…
My Dog Tulip
Paul and Sandra Fierlinger’s adaptation of J.R. Ackerley’s 1956 memoir that will charm dog-people. In it, a lonely middle-aged man finds true companionship with a rescued Alsatian named Tulip. The exuberant dog barks, poops, pees, bites, humps, wrecks homes and still, “The 15 years she lived with me turned into the happiest of my life.”…
The Good Life
New Pittsburgh sports fans are spoiled by success
French, but not fussy
A simple, straightforward French menu, combined with a casually refined atmosphere
How to land the lead in Warhol’s only play, Pork
“Being recognized as an actress by Andy Warhol was huge and anointing … It meant that you yourself were art in some way, as precious as any of Andy’s soup cans, Brillo boxes, dollar bills or cows.”
Talk on the Wild Side: Glam, Punk and Warhol
Cherry Vanilla talks about life, art, and performing in Warhol’s Pork, a transgressive play that influenced the glam rock and punk of the 1970s.
Critics’ Picks: Eilen Jewell, Joan of Arc, Leon Russell, Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt
Music highlights for the week of Jan. 25-Feb. 2, from dark Americana to classic rock.
Short List: Week of January 27 – February 3
Artist Ian Brill’s Transmission 1 is among the works and performances at nearly 20 Downtown venues during the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s next Gallery Crawl (5:30-9 p.m. Fri., Jan. 28). The room-sized installation at 707 Gallery places viewers between four walls of racing and flickering squares of colored lights, with an electronic soundtrack. Brill, 33, based…
The Mechanic
You know, a mechanic? A guy who fixes things, like people who need to be killed. Bishop (Jason Statham) is such a professional, and he’s well compensated for his inventive and discreet skills. (Less clear is who exactly is paying him to take out assorted people, and why. But this is an action flick, not…
Zenith
Viewers juggle two narratives in writer-director Vladan Nikolic’s moody sci-fi thriller In the present day, we follow a former priest named Ed as he tries to uncover a conspiracy known as “Zenith.” The other plotline unspools in 2044: Ed’s son, Jack, a drug-dealer in a messed-up world, finds his father’s videotapes. Nikolic’s low-budget indie is…
CD Reviews
Reviews of albums by Big Hurry, Paquito D’Rivera, Benito Gonzales, and Anthony Braxton & Ben Opie.
