ICYMI: Conflict Kitchen Goes Cuban … Again
The restaurant that received threats for its Palestinian menu now has a Cuban theme
Arts Fest’s Juried Visual-Art Show
Strong show runs through Sunday
Dale Watson releases new record; announces July 19 Pittsburgh show
I came into the music of Dale Watson a little later than some folks. I had previously heard “Nashville Rash” — his well-known anti-Music City anthem — once or twice prior to 2006, but never really investigated the artist who wrote and recorded it. It was about that time that his latest single, “Whiskey or…
Allegheny County Health Department: First Round of Lawrenceville Steel Foundry Testing Finished
Allegheny County Health Department says more tests will be needed to decide on production level allowances in new operating permit.
Listen Up! June 10
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Concert announcements: Talib Kweli, Stars, Ghost, Surfer Blood, more
Bummed that yet another postponed concert turned into a full-one canceled concert? (lookin’ at you, Replacements and Interpol). Don’t worry, there are plenty of other things to look forward to … and most of them will probably happen, right? On July 14, Talib Kweli appears at Altar Bar with Space Invadas as part of Kweli’s…
Delta Foundation to host meeting to address Pittsburgh Pride backlash tonight
It hasn’t been advertised publicly and initially excluded its most vocal critics.
Iggy Azalea cancels Pittsburgh Pride appearance
The announcement comes after significant backlash form the local LGBT community.
Coming up this week: June 8-June14
This week council looks at liquor license, a rental registry ordinance and facilities maintenance.
Concert photos: Dave Matthews Band, June 6
This weekend, Dave Matthews Band returned to First Niagara Pavilion in Burgettstown. Our summer photo intern Mike Schwarz was at the front of the stage to catch all the action.
Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival
The Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, a production of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, is a celebration of the arts in downtown Pittsburgh unlike any other in the nation. Each of its world-class, multi-disciplinary performing and visual arts attractions is free to attend and open to the public! View the slideshow below to check out…
MP3 Monday: Dendritic Arbor
This week’s MP3 Monday comes to you from local metal troupe Dendritic Arbor. Last month, the band released its acclaimed second album, Romantic Love, which defies easy genre categorization. Take a listen below, download if you dig it, and check out our feature on Dendritic Arbor. This download has expired. Sorry!
Lynn Cullen Live 6/8/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. One of the editors at the PG defends decision to print Graham’s letter. Triple Crown winning jockey puts a letter on the grave of reknowned rabbi. Will head transplants be in the future of medicine? Hillary Clinton and the election. Audio Only Archive Listen to…
Faces of Resilience
Editor’s Note: As part of our coverage on gun-homicides this summer, City Paper will be featuring members of the communities where these shootings occur. A few blocks from where an unnamed 20-year-old was shot and killed on Tues., June 2, sits Righteous Beginnings, a daycare center started by Rhonda Owens eight years ago. Owens is…
Trailer for Sale or Rent: Insidious: Chapter 3
When films aren’t screened locally for critics, we review the trailers.
Quote of the week
“I’ve made up my mind that I need to try to be a little nicer to you guys. People think I’m crazy because I keep coming down here.” – Yvonne Brown If you’ve ever attended a Pittsburgh City Council meeting, you know Yvonne Brown. The regular to council chambers is a staunch critic of council…
Post-Gazette responds to readers over Caitlyn Jenner editorial
The Post-Gazette is defending its editorial on Caitlyn Jenner.
A conversation with Andrew W.K.
This coming week, #1 party animal Andrew W.K. plays two shows at the Mr. Roboto Project. After the June 7 show sold out immediately, a June 8 show was added (and sold out almost as quickly). The fact that he was playing such a small venue seemed (to some) odd enough, but what touring artist…
Review: Tame Impala at Stage AE, June 3
“So Tame Impala walks into a bar…”: It sounds like the set-up for a groan-worthy indie rock joke, but it was actually the subject of some rare Kevin Parker-stage banter last night at Stage AE. He claimed that the band walked into a Pittsburgh bar the night before the show and heard “Elephant,” the song…
Lynn Cullen Live 6/5/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Graham gets her comeuppance. Edward Snowden in the NY Times and your internet security. Female “viagra” approved by FDA. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Local Activists Form ‘Roots Pride’ for Queer and Trans People of Color
A group called “Roots Pride Pittsburgh” announced an alternative set of pride events that they say will be more inclusive of queer and trans people of color.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette takes on Caitlyn Jenner’s gender, looks really, really hateful in the process
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is getting pounded on social media this morning for a backward-thinking, close-minded, inappropriately breezy Op-Ed piece on Caitlyn Jenner.
Lynn Cullen Live 6/4/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. 3 people hauled out and charged for yelling during graduation in Mississippi. Disney World brings in immigrants on temporary visas to replace American workers. Uber and CMU. The PG and Caitlyn Jenner Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple…
On the heels of the band’s 13th release, Wire’s Colin Newman wants fans to look beyond Pink Flag
WIRE with JULIAN LYNCH 8 p.m. Sun., June 7 Mr. Small’s Theatre 400 Lincoln Ave. Millvale $20-22 412-821-4447 or mrsmalls.com Wire emerged during the first wave of British punk in the late ’70s and became one of the most influential bands of that era. The group’s debut album, Pink Flag, pounded out 21 songs in…
CP Weekend Podcast – June 5 – 7, 2015
This week on the CP Weekend podcast: Enjoy the kick-off of ten days of art in the city, show your Pennsylvania pride with a local microbrew, or buy some treasures (or cool junk) at the Mexican War Streets yard sale.
Local rapper Sovren approaches his craft with an artistic mind
Long before Sovren ever dreamed of becoming a rapper, he had visions of rock stardom. After hearing Drake’s 2007 project “Comeback Season,” his perspective changed, helping him find the path he leads now. “I feel like people look at hip hop and see kind of what rock used to be. That outlet for the youth…
Soaked in Bleach
Benjamin Statler’s new docu-drama looks at the life and death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, drawing from the investigative work of private detective Tom Grant, who was hired by Courtney Love to track down the missing musician days before he was found dead. Statler combines contemporary interviews with dramatic recreations and audio tapes Grant made…
Critics’ Picks, June 4-10
[LOCAL ROCK] + FRI., JUNE 5 Local rockers The Me Toos have a new collection of bluesy, country-tinged rock ‘n’ roll — which is entirely different from “rock” or “indie rock” — to share with their friends and fans tonight. The brand-new self-titled EP, which follows full-length album When Wilkes Met Barre and the All…
On the Record with Molly Rankin of Alvvays
ALVVAYS 7:30 p.m. Sun., June 7 Dollar Bank Stage Downtown Free 3riversartsfest.org Last year, Toronto’s Alvvays burst down the aisle with an infectious single (“Archie, Marry Me”) and debut album. This weekend, the band plays a free show at the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival. CP talked to lead singer Molly Rankin about a…
Up in Smoke?: Despite stalling in the state house, medical-marijuana legalization could still rise from the ashes
Any euphoric feelings occurring May 12 after the Pennsylvania State Senate overwhelmingly passed its second medical-marijuana bill in eight months didn’t last long before the hangover set in. Days after the senate voted 40-7 to pass legislation legalizing the use of cannabis extracts for medicinal purposes, House Speaker Mike Turzai sent the bill to the…
The arts festival explores the theme “Unseen/Unheard.”
DOLLAR BANK THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL Fri., June 5-June 14 Downtown Free Complete schedule at trustarts.org /TRAF For visual or performing artists wishing to be seen or heard in Pittsburgh, it’s hard to top the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival. The free fest, now in its 56th year, draws an estimated 400,000 during its…
New City Paper project will track summer gun homicides
ShaVaugn Wallace, a pregnant 18-year-old; Clayton Brunson, a 27-year-old father of one; Kaamil Arnold, a 36-year-old shot and killed on the Fourth of July; Tina Crawford, a 34-year-old witness in a federal drug case; and Deondre Kenney, a 15-year-old who was found shot to death in a car. These are just some of the lives…
Diane Grguras gives vivid life to her plein-air pastels
NEW WORKS: PASTEL PAINTINGS BY DIANE GRGURAS continues through June 20 Gallery on 43rd Street 187 43rd St. Lawrenceville 412-683-6488 or www.galleryon43rdstreet.com The plein-air tradition is revived in an excellent exhibit of Diane Grguras’s new pastels at the Gallery on 43rd Street. Working mostly in the long tradition of landscapes, Grguras is inspired by the…
Stuart Day Guitars is making a play for the big time
Stuart Day will be the first to tell you that archtop guitars are something of a niche market. For starters, not everyone plays guitar, and those who do aren’t necessarily in the market for a jazz guitar. Fewer still are willing to shell out for one made by hand with prices that range from $5,000…
How The Other Half Loves at PICT Classic
HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES continues through June 13. PICT Classic at the Stephen Foster Memorial Theatre 3901 Forbes Ave. Oakland $13-48 412-561-6000 x207 or picttheatre.org British playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn has written more than 70 full-length works, and I’ve seen enough to recognize the Ayckbourn schematic. There’s usually a bit of stagecraft manipulating time…
Savage Love
I’m a 35-year-old divorced man. I’ve been on plenty of dates since my marriage ended, but I invariably get asked this question on or before date No. 2: “Why did you get divorced?” This is where everything goes to shit. I’m honest: “We got divorced because I cheated on my wife. A lot.” This usually…
The Best of Everything at Little Lake Theater
THE BEST OF EVERYTHING continues through July 3 Little Lake Theatre 500 Lakeside Drive Canonsburg $18-20 724-745-6300 or littlelake.org The Best of Everything, now at Little Lake Theatre, is the type of community-theater-friendly production that could easily turn soapy. The 2012 play revolves around a secretary who strives to achieve editor status (and love) while…
The Dance on Widow’s Row at New Horizon Theater
THE DANCE ON WIDOW’S ROW continues through June 14 New Horizon at the Carnegie Library of Homewood 7101 Hamilton Ave. Homewood $15-20 412-431-0773 The pace of youth is fast, if that makes sense. From beach-party movies to skateboarding videos, the stories of the youth of one decade are often incomprehensible to youth of the following…
Five or Six Therapists Ago
one of the best I ever had said she could help but this scared me — We had just met, and she couldn’t see the cage inside my chest where black snakes knotted and twisted like those at a strip shopping mall when I was three and it rained hard, so that the fair was…
Women’s-empowerment theme makes for a strong evening of dance from fireWALL
fireWALL Dance Theater’s Admission continues through Sat., June 6 Off the Wall PAC 25 W. Main St. Carnegie $5-20 888-718-4253 or insideoffthewall.com Familiar themes of self-acceptance, female empowerment and sisterhood are the driving forces behind fireWALL dance theater’s latest production, Admission. The 50-minute intermissionless dance work, choreographed by fireWALL artistic director/dancer Elisa-Marie Alaio, was staged…
Stuff We Like
Urban Gardener. Ask the friendly staff for advice while purchasing flowers and herbs from this independent garden center. They’ll help you choose the best fit for even the trickiest city landscapes. 1901 Brighton Road, North Side Apple Fritters from Paddy Cake. Bigger-than-a-hand super-donuts, enhanced with apple chunks and cinnamon. And for just $1. 4763 Liberty…
San Andreas
San Andreas Directed by: Brad Peyton Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario In 3-D, in select theaters In Brad Peyton’s San Andreas, a giant earthquake tears apart California, prompting Los Angeles Fire rescue-helicopter pilot Ray (Dwayne Johnson) to collect his estranged wife (Carla Gugino) and head to San Francisco to rescue his daughter (Alexandra…
Short List: June 3 – 11
FREE EVENT: Thu., June 4 — Summer This is the month that free, in-city summer stuff starts in earnest, and we don’t just mean the Three Rivers Arts Festival. Pittsburgh Citiparks’ annual slate of unticketed amusements, recreations and inspirations gets rolling on June 4, as the weekly lunchtime Mellon Square Concert Series begins with party…
Marie’s Story
In rural France in the late 1800s, a young nun in fragile health insists on schooling an adolescent girl who, blind and deaf from birth, has neither language nor any sense of how to live among people. So yes, Marie’s Story can be fairly described as “The Miracle Worker in a convent,” with dauntless Sister…
Senti Restaurant and Wine Bar
Senti Restaurant and Wine Bar 3473 Butler St. Lawrenceville 412-586-4347 Hours: Tue.-Sat. lunch 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.; dinner Tue.-Thu. 5-9 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 5-10 p.m.; Sun. 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Prices: $8-21 Liquor: Full bar Barrels of ink have been spilled on the gentrification of Lawrenceville, but the neighborhood’s identity as a haven for the young, the alternative,…
Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World
The best part of Belinda Sallin’s loose bio-pic about H.R. Giger is all the wandering around viewers do in the Swiss artist’s home. It’s as murky and cluttered and packed with weird artifacts as one would expect from the master of darkly themed, sort of erotic, sort of sci-fi-ish surrealist art. (Bonus: It sits in…
Wigle Distillery releases its first bourbon
Don’t panic, but rumored bourbon shortages are real. With companies like Buffalo Trace and Maker’s Mark acknowledging that their stores look a bit low to meet consumer demand, it would be easy for brown-liquor enthusiasts to despair. Fortunately, Pittsburghers won’t have to suffer. On May 29, Wigle Whiskey released its first bourbon. “We said we’d…
Love and Mercy
Bill Pohlad’s bio-pic about Beach Boy Brian Wilson is two films of unequal appeal stitched together. One takes place in the 1960s, when Wilson (Paul Dano) is transitioning the group’s sound from carefree melodies about sun and surf to the complex, weirdly gorgeous soundscapes of Pet Sounds and Smile. The music flows, but Wilson’s mental…
Wood Fired Flatbreads is a traveling enterprise specializing in super-fast pizzas
If timeliness is next to godliness, then Kerien Fitzpatrick is a saint. Of pizza. Standing on the back patio of Arsenal Cider House, Fitzpatrick is manning what he calls an “open-air pizzeria” — a mobile pizza unit that he boasts can churn out a pizza in 90 seconds. “People are amazed when they see us…
Accomplished rapper Kate Tempest is, above all, a storyteller
KATE TEMPEST with CHRISTIANE D. 9:30 p.m. Wed., June 10 Brillobox 4104 Penn Ave. Bloomfield $10-13 412-621-4900 or brillobox.net There’s one way to describe Kate Tempest, which is as a Ted Hughes Award-winning poet, rapper, playwright and novelist who was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize for her debut album Everybody Down. This way is complex,…
Unpacking state Rep. Matt Baker’s medical-marijuana research
In his staunch opposition of legislation that would legalize medical marijuana in Pennsylvania, state Rep. Matt Baker (R-Wellsboro) has consistently said that he has read more than 150 “scientific studies showing the dangers of marijuana.” Baker, whose opposition to the legislation is highlighted elsewhere in this issue, shared an email with City Paper last week…
Lynn Cullen Live 6/3/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. TSA epicly fails test. Open Streets PGH gains compliments and complaints. Iggy Azalea, Pittsburgh Pride and what it has wrought. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
