Pittsburgh Steelers Training-Camp Schedule Released
Since the Pirates are starting to have their struggles, maybe it’s time to start looking ahead to Pittsburgh Steelers training camp at St. Vincent’s College, in Latrobe. The team will open camp on July 28, with the first public practice on July 29. The Steelers were 10-6 last season, and any hope of bettering that…
Listen Up! July 20
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists mentioned in the current music section. Listen while you read!
Photographs from Day 2 at the Republican National Convention
Aaron Petan’s photographs from Day 2 at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
Pittsburgh City Paper’s Republican National Convention Live Blog: Day 2
Continuing Coverage of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Alex Jones, Tamir Rice, Westboro Baptist Church, Second Amendment, Dana WHite, Ivanka Trump,
Brief conversations at Warped Tour 2016 with Less Than Jake and Real Friends
“Some people are put in positions where they are like, “OK, we’re gonna get signed and gonna do this,” and I’ve been in bands like that and it never works. When I was in a band where it was just like, ‘This is fun,’ then it worked.”
Pittsburgh City Paper: A roundup from around the Web of Day 1 of the Republican National Convention
Stories from across the web on Day 1 of the Republican National Convention
CP‘s photo coverage from Day 1 at #RNCatCLE
Photographs by Aaron Petan.
Pittsburgh City Paper: Scenes from Day 1 of the Republican National Convention
A look at Day one protests from the Republican National Convention.
Steely Dan brings tour to First Niagara Pavilion
A crowd of all ages enjoyed Steely Dan at the First Niagara Pavilion on a summer Sunday night.
Pittsburgh officials asking for input on ‘Complete Streets’ and bike-lane plans
Pittsburgh officials have drafted new bike-and-pedestrian-friendly policies, the first of their kind in the region, and are seeking input from the community.
MP3 Monday: Uncle Fresh & Shem the Pen
This week’s MP3 comes from’90s-throwback-ish hip-hop duo Uncle Fresh & Shem the Pen; stream or download the catchy, goofy, sample-heavy “Bachelor Therapy” from their new record, Duck Logic, below. To download, right-click here and select “save as.”
Lynn Cullen Live 07/18/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. First day of the RNC in Cleveland. Mike Pence announced as running mate for Trump’s VP. Baton Rouge police officers killed. 14 year old boy delivers poetry slam. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or…
Allie Contreras takes us back through a recent history of bartending in Pittsburgh
This week, we talk to bartender Allie Contreras about her career as a bartender in Pittsburgh and her love of flaming drinks. Correction: Contreras was born in Tampa but moved to Pittsburgh at a young age.
Pittsburgh entrepreneur starts first Pokemon ride-hailing application
Pittsburgh resident Tom Larkin has released a ride-hailing app for Pokemon Go users.
What you need to know about Pittsburgh news this week
This week in Pittsburgh, Bernie and Hillary delegates make nice; faith leaders meet to discuss race and policing; the Allegheny County health board says no to HPV-vaccine mandate; and Steelers Bettis and Ward spread the Picklesburgh word.
Allegheny County Board of Health says no to HPV-vaccine mandate
A contentious meeting this week led the Allegheny County Board of Health to abandon an idea to mandate the HPV vaccine.
Lynn Cullen Live 07/15/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Attacks in Nice. Lynn’s aspirations for a cooking class. 50th high school reunions. Mic Jagger to be a father again. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Faced with steep renovation costs, Pittsburgh’s James Street Gastropub launches #SaveJamesStreet campaign
“In order to #SaveJamesStreet we need to raise approximately $30,000.”
Pittsburgh Steelers greats Bettis and Ward in town to promote Picklesburgh
Pittsburgh football legends Jerome Bettis and Hines Ward joke about whose newly endorsed pickle flavors are best in run up to Picklesburgh event.
Pittsburgh’s Inaugural Homewood-Brushton Self-Guided Arts and Culture Tour this Saturday
Sites associated with Billy Strayhorn, Teenie Harris and more on this free art tour in Pittsburgh.
Bernie supporters disappointed, but most express no appetite to ‘gamble’
Clinton campaign holds “Pennsylvania Together” event in Pittsburgh where Sanders delegates voiced support, some with heavy hearts.
Lynn Cullen Live 07/14/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Things you can’t have at a protest. RBG and Hillary get different standards because they are women. Bikers For Trump and the New Black Panther party plan to attend the RNC armed. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple…
Pittsburgh faith leaders to hold community hearing to discuss action and Black Lives Matter
Religious leaders in Pittsburgh are holding a community meeting July 21 to discuss further action in the Black Lives Matter movement.
Listen Up! July 13
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists mentioned in the current music section. Give this week’s extensive offering a listen, below:
An extended conversation with Gillian McCain, co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored History of Punk
“I think it was just a time period that people were ready to talk. “
Apteka brings vegan Eastern European food to Bloomfield
Apteka 4606 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. 412-251-0189 Hours: Dinner menu Wed.-Sun. 5-10 p.m., late-night kitchen Wed.-Sat. 10 p.m.-1 a.m., Sun. 10 p.m.-midnight Prices: $6-11 Liquor: Full bar Faced with a world of international cuisines, vegans know the safest routes —Asian, Middle-Eastern and Mediterranean cuisines offer plenty of options. But few would point to the meat- and…
A conversation with Gillian McCain, co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored History of Punk
PLEASE KILL ME: THE UNCENSORED HISTORY OF PUNK 20TH ANNIVERSARY BOOK TOUR 8 p.m. Ace Hotel, 120 S Whitfield St., East Liberty. Free. 412-361-3300 or acehotel.com Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain provided the first detailed document of the New York punk scene with Please Kill Me: The Uncensored History of Punk. Beginning with the Velvet…
Hip-hop artist Blak Rapp Madusa brings her mix of art and activism to Ladyfest Pittsburgh
BLAK RAPP MADUSA with JACQUEA MAE, LOVE DUMPSTER, more. 9 p.m. Fri., July 15. Howlers, 4509 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. $8. 412-682-0320. Part of LADYFEST PITTSBURGH. Fri., July 15 through Sun., July 17. Various locations and admission prices. Visit facebook.com/Vulvapalooza for more information and full schedule. “True repair comes from reparation/Blak Madusa tryna save the nation.”…
A review of Daniel W. Coburn’s The Hereditary Estate and Megan Ledbetter’s Homo Bulla at Silver Eye
THE HEREDITARY ESTATE and HOMO BULLA continues through July 30. Silver Eye Center for Photography, 1015 E. Carson St., South Side. 412-431-1810 or silvereye.org If Daniel W. Coburn’s The Hereditary Estate suggests a family album from somewhere between hell and purgatory, it’s purely intentional. The exhibit at the Silver Eye Center consists of 18 black-and-white…
Anna in the Tropics at Little Lake
ANNA IN THE TROPICS continues through July 23. Little Lake Theatre, 500 Lakeside Dr., Canonsburg. $13.75-21.75. 724-745-6300 or littlelake.org The romance of literature is at the forefront of playwright Nilo Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics. In a smoldering Florida cigar factory circa 1929, newly arrived lector Juan Julian (Erik Martin) disturbs the tenuous status quo…
The Gin Game at Apple Hill
THE GIN GAME continues through Sat., July 16 (note: 7:30 p.m. curtain). Apple Hill Playhouse, Delmont. $15-40. 724-468-5050 or applehillplayhouse.org The more one sees The Gin Game — i.e., the older one gets — the more relevant are its twangs of loneliness and other aches and pains of senior citizenry. Donald L. Coburn’s one-set, two-character…
On its new record, Pittsburgh’s Come Holy Spirit provides catharsis for troubled hearts
COME HOLY SPIRIT 4 p.m. Sat., July 16. Spirit, 242 51st St., Lawrenceville. $10 (part of Ladyfest). 412-586-4441 or facebook.com/Vulvapalooza; Sun., July 17. Dobson & Brereton St., Polish Hill (part of the Polish Hill Arts Festival which runs noon-4 p.m.) www.phcapgh.org; And 8 p.m., Mon., July 18. Belvederes, 4016 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $10. 412-687-2555 or…
As of Aug. 2, Polish Hill’s Mind Cure records becomes Cruel Noise Records
There’s a changing of the guard in the Pittsburgh punk scene. As of August, Mind Cure Records in Polish Hill will become Cruel Noise Records. John Villegas, who has operated various other projects under the name Cruel Noise, will relieve owner Michael Seamans of his day-to-day retail responsibilities, giving him a chance to focus on…
A Look at Tea in Booze
I’ve never given tea much thought. You drank it hot for a sore throat, cold to wash down barbecue, and that was about it. A few years ago, however, I came across Lapsang souchong, a Chinese smoked black tea that kept finding its way into my cocktail shaker. Tea was suddenly a lot more interesting.…
Now Lawrenceville offers the Spirit Sunday Brunch Buffet
If Spirit is where you spent the very late hours of Saturday night, it might also be the place to spend your Sunday afternoon. Every week, the bar and music venue — which is also home to pizza shop Slice Island — hosts the Spirit Sunday Brunch Buffet from noon to 4 p.m. Pizza has…
Eff.Ul.Gents explores the paradoxes of sexuality
FIREWALL DANCE THEATER’S EFF.UL.GENTS continues through Sat., July 16. Carnegie Stage, 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $5-30. 724-873-3576 or firewalldance.com Beauty. Sex. Power. Dancer/choreographer Elisa-Marie Alaio looks at what those terms can mean to a woman in her latest work for fireWALL dance theater, Eff.Ul.Gents. The provocative production running through July 16, at the troupe’s home at the Carnegie Stage, is a potent…
Critics’ Picks, July 14-20
[ALTERNATIVE] + THU., JULY 14 Few artists match the mystery and power of Philly’s Abi Reimold, appearing tonight at the Mr. Roboto Project. Reimold’s intimately dark songs and twinkly, layered delivery will crawl under your skin and swim around your brain for days. On tour with Reimold is Brooklyn-based indie pop artist Emily Yacina. Local…
Savage Love
I’m in my mid-40s, straight, never married. Ten months ago, my girlfriend of three years dumped me. She got bored with the relationship and is generally not the marrying type. The breakup was amicable. I still love her and miss her. Last week, I wrote her a letter saying that I still love her and…
Dheepan
It’s not hard to understand why Dheepan, by the French director Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone), won the Palme d’Or at Cannes: It’s at once a drama, a polemic, and a work of sociology, moody and exotic, but just familiar and relevant enough. The title character is a Hindu Tamil insurgent from Sri Lanka (where…
De Palma
Director Brian De Palma was one of the much-heralded “kids” of 1970s Hollywood — upstarts like Lucas, Spielberg and Coppola, who combined a disregard for the hidebound ways of the studio system with a profound respect for those who had transformed classic cinema into a visual art form. Now 75, De Palma sits down for…
Gurukulam
Spend the better part of two hours at a remote ashram in a lush part of Southern India, via Jillian Elizabeth and Neil Dalel’s documentary. It’s an experiential work, as the camera captures students and others going about their daily lives, from the mundane (chopping vegetables and sweeping the yard) to the profound (praying together,…
A new proposal would reduce emission limits at Cheswick power plant outside Pittsburgh
One of the biggest sources of air pollution in Allegheny County is about to become more regulated. A proposed permit from the Allegheny County Health Department would significantly reduce permitted annual emissions at NRG Energy’s coal-fired Cheswick power plant. The plant would also be required to run pollution-reducing equipment most of the time. “We’re very…
The Pittsburgh Chamber of Cooperatives is raising awareness about the benefits of co-ops.
It’s Co-opoly night at the Pittsburgh Chamber of Cooperatives, a kind of chamber of commerce founded this year to encourage worker-owned businesses. Tonight players of the Co-opoly board game are trying to achieve the opposite goal of Monopoly: They’re trying to win together. It’s confusing for the 20-plus players, since there is only one piece,…
Yellow Cab is doing away with its iconic and tarnished brand in favor of zTrip
After two-and-a-half years battling two ride-hailing companies that moved onto its turf, it looks like Yellow Cab of Pittsburgh has finally conceded defeat to Lyft and Uber. In a move best described as “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em,” Yellow Cab’s parent company, Pittsburgh Transportation Group, announced in June that it’s switching gears…
Mount Washington and Allentown
Fun For All Seasons Some of our favorite special events and happenings, organized by season Neighborhoods Bloomfield, Friendship and Garfield Downtown East Liberty Lawrenceville Mount Washington and Allentown North Side Oakland Shadyside South Side Squirrel Hill Strip District and Polish Hill Other Fine Neighborhoods One Day in Town Mount Washington and Allentown are hilltop neighborhoods…
City Guide 2016
You’d think by this point that it would be easy to put out this annual guide to the best Pittsburgh has to offer. But it is, in fact, quite an undertaking every year because this dynamic city is constantly changing. Sure, we have stuff that’s been around forever, like the inclines and Point State Park.…
North Side
Fun For All Seasons Some of our favorite special events and happenings, organized by season Neighborhoods Bloomfield, Friendship and Garfield Downtown East Liberty Lawrenceville Mount Washington and Allentown North Side Oakland Shadyside South Side Squirrel Hill Strip District and Polish Hill Other Fine Neighborhoods One Day in Town Though widely considered a unit, Pittsburgh’s North…
Fun for All Seasons
Fun For All Seasons Some of our favorite special events and happenings, organized by season Neighborhoods Bloomfield, Friendship and Garfield Downtown East Liberty Lawrenceville Mount Washington and Allentown North Side Oakland Shadyside South Side Squirrel Hill Strip District and Polish Hill Other Fine Neighborhoods You never have to worry about being bored in Pittsburgh, regardless…
Celebrating Strawberry-Rhubarb Shrub
Shrubs, commonly referred to as “drinking vinegar,” are rich in history. Records indicate that this beverage rose to popularity during the colonial era as a refreshing drink for farmers. Nearly spoiled fruit is preserved, sweetened, consumed and celebrated. In our age of perfectly shaped ripe fruit that is often thrown away when the slightest blemish…
Skinny Girl
When I was 13 I read Seventeen like it was the Bible and Ann Shoket was Jesus reincarnated, dressed my fruit-salad shaped apple-pear-orange under-ripened body like it told me to because I wanted to define my flat-chested, heavy-hipped, not-skinny-girl body like I was supposed to. And when I was 13 I ate the word “skinny” …
Oakland
Fun For All Seasons Some of our favorite special events and happenings, organized by season Neighborhoods Bloomfield, Friendship and Garfield Downtown East Liberty Lawrenceville Mount Washington and Allentown North Side Oakland Shadyside South Side Squirrel Hill Strip District and Polish Hill Other Fine Neighborhoods One Day in Town On the surface, Oakland may seem like…
Pittsburgh City Paper Booze Battles: Bakersfield vs. Round Corner Cantina
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…
Collefrisio Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo Rosé
Retail Price: $20.32/750ml We call it our “summer water.” It’s dry, not super-sweet, and made with Montepulciano grapes. It can go from brunch to after-dinner drinks and pairs well with everything from strawberries and waffles to grilled chicken. It has a cult following here. Our customers love it. — Recommended by Jill Weprich, bartender at…
It’s time we learned how to properly treat the victims of sexual assault
In light of the revelation last week that Pirates third baseman Jung Ho Kang is under investigation in Chicago for an alleged sexual assault, I penned an online column calling for Kang to be benched while the investigation played out. I’ll recount some of that column in this piece, but the long-and-short of my rationale…
This week in City Paper History
On May 4, 2011, frequent Pittsburgh City Council critic Yvonne F. Brown surprised everyone in council chambers when she hauled a cat out of her bag and presented it to Councilor Bruce Kraus. While Brown wasn’t much of a fan of Kraus (still isn’t, in fact) as a representative, she knew he was a cat-lover…
Shadyside
Fun For All Seasons Some of our favorite special events and happenings, organized by season Neighborhoods Bloomfield, Friendship and Garfield Downtown East Liberty Lawrenceville Mount Washington and Allentown North Side Oakland Shadyside South Side Squirrel Hill Strip District and Polish Hill Other Fine Neighborhoods One Day in Town With its restored Victorian mansions and high-end…
Weird Pittsburgh
It took 53 years, but Grove City College, the right-wing Christian college in Mercer County, has been taken off the censure list of the American Association of University Professors. In 1963, the college fired history professor Larry Gara at the behest of the chairman of its board of directors — industrialist J. Howard Pew —…
Stuff We Like
Cinema in the Park. This Citiparks program shows free movies outdoors all summer long at eight different city parks. The Saturday-night screenings in the North Side’s Riverview Park are preceded by free jazz music. www.citiparks.net Forty Years Stoned: A Journalist’s Romance. Former Washington Post reporter Tom Huth’s memoir covers global travel, weed and becoming a…
Bloomfield, Friendship and Garfield
Fun For All Seasons Some of our favorite special events and happenings, organized by season Neighborhoods Bloomfield, Friendship and Garfield Downtown East Liberty Lawrenceville Mount Washington and Allentown North Side Oakland Shadyside South Side Squirrel Hill Strip District and Polish Hill Other Fine Neighborhoods One Day in Town The East End neighborhoods of Bloomfield, Garfield…
South Side
Fun For All Seasons Some of our favorite special events and happenings, organized by season Neighborhoods Bloomfield, Friendship and Garfield Downtown East Liberty Lawrenceville Mount Washington and Allentown North Side Oakland Shadyside South Side Squirrel Hill Strip District and Polish Hill Other Fine Neighborhoods One Day in Town The South Side is a part of…
Downtown
Fun For All Seasons Some marquee stops for your next Pittsburgh adventure: places for which the city is well known, and others we should be known for. Neighborhoods Bloomfield+Vicinity Downtown East Liberty+Vicinity Lawrenceville+Vicinity North Side Oakland Shadyside South Side+Vicinity Squirrel Hill+Vicinity Strip District+Vicinity Other Fine Neighborhoods One Day in Town It’s hard to believe that…
Short List: July 13 – 19
FREE EVENT: Mon., July 18 — Talk In August 1936, a 14-year-old Hazelwood kid named Herbert Douglas Jr. followed the Berlin Olympics in the papers. To him, the big story was that “Hitler’s Olympics” became Jesse Owens’: The American track legend led a group of nine African-American medal-winners. Thanks largely to Hitler himself, the next…
East Liberty
Fun For All Seasons Some of our favorite special events and happenings, organized by season Neighborhoods Bloomfield, Friendship and Garfield Downtown East Liberty Lawrenceville Mount Washington and Allentown North Side Oakland Shadyside South Side Squirrel Hill Strip District and Polish Hill Other Fine Neighborhoods One Day in Town Big changes continue to occur in this…
Squirrel Hill
Fun For All Seasons Some of our favorite special events and happenings, organized by season Neighborhoods Bloomfield, Friendship and Garfield Downtown East Liberty Lawrenceville Mount Washington and Allentown North Side Oakland Shadyside South Side Squirrel Hill Strip District and Polish Hill Other Fine Neighborhoods One Day in Town Squirrel Hill is one of the city’s…
Lynn Cullen Live 07/13/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Historians and SCOTUS justices jump in on politics. Alton Sterling’s son speaks. San Francisco PD shows it’s discriminatory side. Change over in English Parliament, Theresa May takes the seat. Gender wage pay gap still definitely a thing. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives…
Strip District & Polish Hill
Fun For All Seasons Some of our favorite special events and happenings, organized by season Neighborhoods Bloomfield, Friendship and Garfield Downtown East Liberty Lawrenceville Mount Washington and Allentown North Side Oakland Shadyside South Side Squirrel Hill Strip District and Polish Hill Other Fine Neighborhoods One Day in Town Get on your bike! Parking in this…
Lawrenceville
Fun For All Seasons Some of our favorite special events and happenings, organized by season Neighborhoods Bloomfield, Friendship and Garfield Downtown East Liberty Lawrenceville Mount Washington and Allentown North Side Oakland Shadyside South Side Squirrel Hill Strip District and Polish Hill Other Fine Neighborhoods One Day in Town Frankly, you’d need more than a day…
Other Fine Neighborhoods
Fun For All Seasons Some of our favorite special events and happenings, organized by season Neighborhoods Bloomfield, Friendship and Garfield Downtown East Liberty Lawrenceville Mount Washington and Allentown North Side Oakland Shadyside South Side Squirrel Hill Strip District and Polish Hill Other Fine Neighborhoods Music Jergel’s. At 17,000 square feet, the two-floor venue capitalizes on…
Lynn Cullen Live 07/12/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Working on police culture. Women in office. Pokemon Go. Dispute in the South China seas, the Hague finds China in violation of international law. What does “cage free” really mean? Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android…
Lynn Cullen Live 07/11/16
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Police and protesters clash, confusion abounds. ESPN bodies issue. Abdul Sattar Edhi, “Father Theresa”, of Pakisan dies Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
That time when baseball players rebelled by forming their own league
Bob Ross would like to tell you that the subject of his new book was a life-long preoccupation, but it was more of a serendipitous accident. The Point Park University professor of global cultural studies was researching the 1856 Republican Convention, which was no doubt thrilling, but just wasn’t engaging him. “I was bored researching…
The Hunt for Wilderpeople
The Hunt for Wilderpeople Directed by Taika Waititi Starring Julian Dennison and Sam Neill Starts Fri., July 15. Hollywood and Manor Films like The Hunt for Wilderpeople give me hope: There is still life in the dusty, cliché-laden, coming-of-age genre. It’s possible to make a film that is laugh-out-loud funny, touching without being sappy, and…
Weiner-Dog
In writer/director Todd Solondz’s new film Weiner-Dog, four stories are linked by one dachshund passing through. In the first, the dog, known simply as Weiner Dog, is befriended by a little boy, who could use a pal in his uptight family situation. Later, Weiner Dog takes a road trip to the Midwest, before returning to…
