Music Club Holds CD Release Events
A local group for “music obsessives” has a CD of its own, the released marked with upcoming performances and film screenings. Read more about MM26 in Program Notes.
Music Club Holds CD Release Events
MM26 marked with live performances Thursday, films next Tuesday
Lynn Cullen Live 08/06/13
Video Archive Phone guest: Susan; smart toilet hackers; Washington Post bought by Jeff Bezos; who will buy the New York Times?; health care costs; future of print journalism; irritating voices. Audio Only Archive
Youth Group Gives Neo-folk Spin to Shakespeare
North Side-based Urban Impact Shakes brings original music and more to Much Ado About Nothing tomorrow and Wednesday at the New Hazlett. Olivia Lammel has more in Program Notes.
North Side Kids Present a Neo-Folk Take on Shakespeare
Comedy is fourth production of Urban Impact project
Lynn Cullen Live 08/05/13
Video Archive Segregation & racism in Pittsburgh during the 50s-60s; Jim Crow Pennsylvania; the Pastafarian & Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster; Pgh Pirates lookin’ good!; Reader’s Digest American IQ Quiz; Kentucky’s Fancy Farm Picnic; name the 13 original colonies; armed raid at a Wisconsin animal shelter; ultra-Orthodox are the greatest threat to Israel; the…
Judge shuts down South Side Bar at D.A.’s request
If you’re heading to the South Side this weekend, you might want to cross Levelz Sports Bar on East Carson Street off your bar-crawl list. The locks at the establishment, located at 1825 East Carson St., will be changed at 3:30 p.m. today by the Allegheny County Sheriff’s Department, and the bar will remain closed…
Local Photographer Develops New App
Function Allows Preset Modes for Smartphone Cameras
DJ Terry Lee passes away
Terry Lee Sad news in the local music world: Legendary DJ Terry Lee, who released records for local bands like The Swamp Rats and was synonymous with his “Music for Young Lovers” brand of romantic tunes, passed away Wednesday; he had been fighting lung cancer. The revered DJ — real name Terry Lee Trunzo —…
In dueling UPMC/Highmark diner ads, Highmark gets hometown advantage
Judging from the dueling ads that UPMC and Highmark have been airing, it seems like Pittsburghers have nothing better to do than sit around in diners and bitch about healthcare. Both healthcare titans have aired ads in which diner customers complain about how terrible the other healthcare titan is. It remains to be seen which…
Lynn Cullen Live 08/02/13
Video Archive UPMC shoots new ad in Columbus, OH; United States team wins geography bee; to keep your brain sharp, you have to do taxing activities; unemployment rate lowered a little more; Reza Aslan badgered on Fox News, but gets good reviews; historical / geographical facts about Jesus; reading of recently lost soldiers in Afghanistan;…
Legislators prepare preventive medicine in recurring UPMC/Highmark battle
As you may have noticed if you have, like, a TV set, UPMC and Highmark are gearing up for a reprise of their 2011 clash of healthcare titans. Now, as then, UPMC is threatening to drop patients with Highmark coverage, because Highmark has affiliated with UPMC’s long-suffering competitor, the Western Pennsylvania Allegheny Health System (recently…
Lynn Cullen Live 08/01/13
Video Archive Guest: Tom Sokolowski; Zimbabwe’s election; Pirates are unbelievable!; difference between Pirates crowds & Steelers crowds; Take Me Out To The Ballgame is like a dirge; Mr. Yuk is from Pittsburgh; Snowden has left the airport; the mosquito situation; Ruth B. G. beat multiple cancers, still doing pushups; thoughts on organized sports; baseball idioms;…
PWSA submits feasibility study on storm-water management.
PWSA interim executive director Jim Good The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority today submitted its Wet Weather Feasibility Study to the Department of Environmental Protection and Allegheny County Healthy Department. The plan, according to agency leaders, will ultimately reduce combined sewer overflows — which occur when storm water and sewage overload the sewer systems and…
Garfield Introduces Night Market this Friday
A street market for neighborhood-based and citywide vendors, including food trucks from Franktuary and other favorites, are a new feature of the Unblurred gallery crawl. More in Program Notes.
Garfield Introduces Night Market this Friday
Street market features food trucks and more
Stories We Tell
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley (Away From Her) turns the camera on her own family in this examination of secrets, truth-seeking and the ripple effects of both. Polley grew up in a lively household in Toronto: Her mother was an actress, her dad a cheery man who enjoyed capturing the family on film. Some…
Bea’s Taqueria
Bea’s Taqueria 2212 E. Carson St. South Side. 412-736-6779 Hours: Mon.-Thu. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri-Sat. 11 a.m.-3 a.m. Prices: $2.50-10 Liquor: BYOB Now that Pittsburgh has, at last, a selection of top-notch tacos vended from sidewalk stands and trucks, is there still a place for the humble taqueria? Can a forthright, inexpensive menu centered on…
The SpacePimps play an international brand of pop punk
THE SPACEPIMPS CD RELEASE with DASH CITY SKYLINE, MACE BALLARD, RED HANDS, PATENT PENDING. 7 p.m. Sat., Aug. 3. Altar Bar 1620 Penn Ave. Strip District. $10-12. 412-206-9719 or thealtarbar.com On the one hand, Rishi Bahl is finishing his Ph.D. in business and communications, working on a dissertation that deals with phenomenology and pop music.…
A Good Start
Unlike other area restaurants operating on its level, Lola Bistro, on the North Side, stays out of the limelight. Tucked away off North Avenue, in West Allegheny, the eatery will celebrate its first anniversary at the end of the month. “We’re just a touch off the beaten path,” says chef Michael Barnhouse. “But there is…
Meet Sneaky Mike — part yogi, part party
SNEAKY MIKE CD RELEASE with GET WEIRD DJS. 9 p.m. Fri., Aug. 2. Belvedere’s 4016 Butler St. Lawrenceville. $5. 412-687-2555 or belvederesultradive.com Michael Lubbert — he’s been known as “Sneaky Mike” since he was a teenager — is in the midst of explaining his recent turn toward the spiritual, and how he balances his life…
Pittsburgh bartenders go global
It’s 2 a.m. at the Carousel Bar in New Orleans, and Will Groves (the bar manager at Butterjoint) and Jason Endress (bartender at Harvard and Highland) know they should turn in for the night. They’ve spent the day chopping and juicing fruit, shaping endless garnishes, and batching thousands of cocktails. Later in the evening —…
J Bird Studio gets into video
J Vega knows of a local band that was offered a plum gig: opening for The Wallflowers on their Pittsburgh tour date. The band was all set to play, when the manager of the Jakob Dylan-fronted group asked for one more thing: to see a video of them performing. They didn’t have one and, because…
Coffee and pinball prove a felicitous combination at the Kickback Pinball Café
It’s not a huge secret that pinball is alive and well in Pittsburgh — the Professional and Amateur Pinball Association, after all, keeps its headquarters in Scott Township. But Lawrenceville’s Kickback Pinball Cafe, which opened in May, is unique in that it combines a passion for pinball with a passion for java. Twelve years ago,…
On the Record with Paul Hoffman of Greensky Bluegrass
GREENSKY BLUEGRASS plays the FLOOD CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL with TROMBONE SHORTY, ROBERT RANDOLPH & THE FAMILY BAND, STEPHEN KELLOGG, many more. Fri., Aug. 2-Sun., Aug. 4. Peoples Natural Gas Park 90 Johns St. Johnstown. Single-day tickets $10-20; weekend passes $45-60. 814-539-1889 or floodcitymusic.com When you started out, it was the early ’00s, right after O…
Beyond Limits: Campaign-finance reform was supposed to level the playing field in local elections, but $2.5 million raised in mayor’s race shows it was the same old ballgame
Philip Ameris, president and business manager for the Laborers’ District Council of Western Pennsylvania, is short and to the point. “We did what we had to do,” he says when asked about the $133,000 the council’s political action committee and a related PAC, WUF, gave to Pittsburgh City Councilor and Democratic mayoral nominee Bill Peduto…
The planning commission approves a sketchily detailed project by Point Park University.
On July 23, the City of Pittsburgh’s Planning Commission voted unamimously to give Point Park University permission to “deconstruct” buildings at 320, 322 and 330 Forbes Ave. These can now come down to make room for a project for a new Downtown theater complex for the Pittsburgh Playhouse on these and adjoining parcels, nestled tightly…
On the Record
Pittsburgh City Councilor Natalia Rudiak wants to make it easier for parents with young children to visit city-owned buildings. That’s why she recently introduced legislation to make baby-changing stations mandatory in restrooms in city-owned buildings and facilities. Baby-changing tables are not required by state law, but one national study cited in the proposed legislation found…
Local artist uses a jitney service as a vehicle for performance art.
“Hello, your jitney has arrived,” Laura A. Warman says by phone from the driver’s seat of her 2007 Honda Fit, parked outside Downtown’s Omni William Penn Hotel. It’s 10:30 on a Wednesday night, and the local artist awaits her next passenger. He needs to stop in Bloomfield before heading to Shadyside, but this ride isn’t…
In One Hour I Can Love So Much
the roofers outside my window shoveling shingles onto the street, the riding lawn mower’s precision and the clean smell of clippings colliding with the humidity’s haze. The sound of machines and people working remind me that we are in this together joined by bone and cinder we carry. Each baby dancing to an undiscovered beat,…
Italian American Reconciliation, at Little Lake
ITALIAN AMERICAN RECONCILIATION continues through Aug. 10. Little Lake Theatre 500 Lakeside Drive (off Route 19), Canonsburg. $12-23. 724-745-6300 or littlelake.org John Patrick Shanley is known for creating quirky, lovable Italian-American characters. Remember Moonstruck? In Italian American Reconciliation, at Little Lake Theatre, Shanley gives us five very quirky characters. Unfortunately, he forgot the “lovable” part.…
I Caught Christ
Defining moments and milestones That is the Ode to Joy Ode to Joy … I was an altar boy at St. Lawrence O’Toole And proud as a rooster in my cassock And this was in the days of Latin Mass Nuns swishing rosary beads And drunks singing loud and off-key Smell of cheap wine Smell…
A review of Judith Robinson’s orange fire
Years ago, when a guest speaker exhorted my MFA class to use family and friends as unique characters in our writing, I was intrigued. So when the speaker in Judith R. Robinson’s poem “Child’s Play” asks, “Where is Billy Applebee, our tormentor?”— I want to know more. Robinson’s new collection, orange fire (Main Street Rag),…
The Cost of Ignorance
Up until a few weeks ago, Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage was merely a moral outrage. Just your basic case of hidebound prejudice trumping civil liberties. Today, though, the ban may be costing my bosses some money. So never mind my usual weekly prattle about human rights: This shit is about to get real. In…
Adam Welch offers a solo show that looks like a group exhibition.
ADAM WELCH: TERMINAL MORAINE continues through Aug. 10. The Mine Factory 201 N. Braddock Ave., Point Breeze. 412-370-6916 or facebook.com/TheMineFactory Adam Welch’s is the first solo exhibit in the recently opened The Mine Factory, a gallery located in a building housing artists’ studios across from the East End Food Co-op. The exhibit’s title, Terminal Moraine,…
Savage Love
I am a 28-year-old gay man. I recently connected with a guy on a vanilla dating website, and we are quickly developing a real interest in each other. Our first conversation was through text messages for the better part of six hours. He stated that he is into “everything from mild to wild.” The comment…
The To-Do List
The To-Do List Directed by: Maggie Carey Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Bill Hader, Johnny Simmons In a summer-movie season dominated by men doing things while women stand by (if they are present at all), we finally get a film where a girl takes charge and does things. So many things that she’s gotta have a list!…
Lynn Cullen Live 07/31/13
Video Archive Guest: Chris Potter; GO PIRATES!; how a Cleveland newspaper laid employees off; Bradley Manning’s charges; journalism & leaking; gov’t can now extract location data without a warrant; Luke Ravenstahl & the Grand Jury; Upper St. Clair bullying / hazing situation; new, dangerous mosquitoes in Lawrenceville; Jesus: a radical who was a threat to…
Unfinished Song
The presence of one of my favorite actors, Terence Stamp, in Unfinished Song caused me more pain than pleasure: Why is this talented man starring in this thin, feel-good gruel of sentimental clichés? And dammit, why is he doing nice quiet work as the crotchety pensioner, Arthur, who doesn’t know how to share his feelings?…
Short List: July 31 – August 8
SPOTLIGHT: Wed., Aug. 7 — Fashion In 2011, GQ named Pittsburgh the “third worst-dressed city in America.” Gil Mansfield wrote, “There is no city on Earth that can equal the utter sloppiness of Pittsburgh.” Wadria Taylor, founder and CEO of event-planning company Style & Steel, agrees: She’s tired of seeing Pittsburghers in their pajamas. But…
“Obscuro” Art Show Opens Friday
Future Tenant spotlights underground artists working in comics and and more in Obscuro Bezango! Details in Program Notes.
“Obscuro” Art Show Opens Friday
Comics, zines and more are part of the exhibit
Pittsburgh Summer Beerfest
Pittsburgh City Paper was on-site at the Pittsburgh Summer Beerfest on July 26 & 27 at Stage AE. You could sample over 250+ Craft Beers in one awesome indoor/outdoor venue along with great local entertainment and Food Trucks.
