Smallman Galley launches new cocktail menu complete with Twister spinner
Cocktails, Pittsburgh, food, drink, Smallman Galley, Twister, view finder, spring, beach party
Pittsburgh officials to create paid-leave policy for victims of domestic abuse
The policy seeks to offer city employees paid time off so domestic-abuse victims can access necessary services while maintaining job security.
Lynn Cullen Live – 4/3/18
Video Archive We’re covering a bunch of topics today. On the lighter side interesting words we don’t have in English like tsundoku, the act of buying books and letting them pile up without reading them. Then some heavy ones like Scott Pruitt, head of EPA’s $50 a day condo linked to Lobbyists. Tune in to…
CP Staff Reviews Pizza Week Pizzas
CP Staff try some of our Pizza Week pizzas. Turns out, they’re delicious!
Q&A: Jad Abumrad of WNYC’s Radiolab
“Our audience is a little confused, but it’s a good confusion.”
MP3 Monday: Jack Swing
This week’s MP3 Monday is a catchy rock jam with delicious riffs from Jack Swing.
Lynn Cullen Live – 4/2/18
Video Archive Our special guest caller today is Carol Kuniholm co-founder and chair of Fair Districts PA, a non-partisan, all-volunteer coalition working on redistricting reform in Pennsylvania. She’ll be talking to Lynn about trying to take redistricting out of the political realm. To learn more about what Lynn and Carol Kuniholm have been talking about…
Opening Day at PNC Park
CIty Paper correspondent Josh King and videographer Ryan McMahon are covering the Pittsburgh Pirates opening day at PNC Park. We’ll have more later, but for now here are some pregame sights and sounds. The Pirates took the Minnesota Twins down, 5-4.
Lynn Cullen Live – 3/30/18
Video Archive We’re covering a lot of topics on this gloomy Wednesday including the Roseanne reboot, additional ways China is monitoring their people (a follow up to yesterday’s discussion), and the death of Johan van Hulst, a Dutch man who saved hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust. Audio Only Archive Stream or download the…
Lynn Cullen Live – 3/29/18
Video Archive We’re covering a lot of topics on this gloomy Wednesday including the Roseanne reboot, additional ways China is monitoring their people (a follow up to yesterday’s discussion), and the death of Johan van Hulst, a Dutch man who saved hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust. Audio Only Archive Stream or download the…
Lieutenant governor candidate Nina Ahmad visits Pittsburgh; talks importance of an inclusive Pennsylvania
Ahmad believe that the success of Pennsylvania is tied to its openness to diverse ideas and diverse residents.
Ready Player One
If you don’t think too hard about it, Ready Player One can just be an entertaining silly movie, but at two hours and 20 minutes long (!!), you’ll likely find yourself with plenty of time to think. And then, things fall apart. The effects-heavy actioner, directed by Steven Spielberg and adapted from Ernest Cline’s eponymous…
Lynn Cullen Live – 3/28/18
Video Archive Lynn discusses how much of our private data we share with companies like Google and Facebook Audio Only Archive Stream or download the last 5 shows on the MP3 downloads page.
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): A few years ago, a New Zealander named Bruce Simpson announced plans to build a cruise missile at his home using parts he bought legally from eBay and other online stores. In accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you initiate a comparable project. For example, you could arrange a do-it-yourself…
Pittsburgh Pirates Preview 2018
City Paper asks a group of Pittsburgh Pirates superfans what they expect in 2018 Five faces to watch as the Pittsburgh Pirates begin their 2018 campaign City Paper’s 6 Bold Predictions for the Pirates and the 2018 MLB Season
In a new series, Pittsburgh’s Carnegie museums explore how climate change effects immigration
The World Bank estimates 143 million people will become “climate migrants” by the year 2050 to escape problems like crop failures, sea-level rise and water scarcity. Carnegie Nexus, a collaboration of the four local Carnegie museums, wants people to deeply understand what this means and is creating a new event series to showcase the physical…
City Paper asks a group of Pittsburgh Pirates superfans what they expect in 2018
Superfans: Jody DiPerna is a freelance writer, longtime City Paper sports contributor and lifelong Pirates fan. Javé Brown works for a local nonprofit and is also the special-teams coach for North Hills High School. Harvey Mazel is a sales representative for WTAE-TV and, despite growing up in Rochester, N.Y., he has been a Pirates fan…
Nineteenth-century cookbooks capture Pittsburgh’s culinary history
Local history can be dry, so spice it up by getting a taste of life circa 1885. Pittsburgh Tested Recipes, a cookbook prepared by “The Ladies of Trinity M.E. Church” in 1885, caught the eye of local history enthusiast John Schalcosky. He is the founder of the Facebook page The Odd, Mysterious & Fascinating History…
Dorothy Barresi’s What We Did While We Made More Guns
Dorothy Barresi What We Did While We Made More Guns University of Pittsburgh Press www.upress.pitt.edu Published on March 25, one day after the national March For Our Lives, Dorothy Barresi’s fifth poetry collection, What We Did While We Made More Guns, couldn’t be more timely. In it, Barresi takes on violence in its many forms…
Website hopes to add more informed choice to Pittsburgh’s diners
The age-old debate between friends and lovers of where to go out to eat may be solved with a new online service called chefs.cloud. Pittsburgher and technology consultant John Clifford founded chefs.cloud in 2016 as a way to help diners find more of what they want in restaurants. “We’re a technology company with food as…
The War and Treaty perform at the Roots Cellar on Tue., April 3
After Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Blount met in 2010 and went on their first date, they never parted ways again. “[Tanya and I] are togetherness at its peak — we’ve been that way since our first date,” laughs Trotter on the phone during an interview with City Paper. “I went to her house, and…
Eat Me: Kanapki
Location: Apteka, 4606 Penn Ave., Bloomfield Ambiance: Sage-scented air and large sprays of flowers and branches make this modern, sleek dining room feel cool and a little romantic. What I ate: Kanapki Cost: $6 Hot take: Described as tartines on the menu, these hearty toasts topped with three vegetable spreads are bursting with flavor and…
Pittsburgh-born comedian Anthony Jeselnik performs at Byham Theater on March 31
Comedy Central hasn’t held a “roast” since 2016, but it feels like it’s been way longer than that. The event, born out of the New York Friars Club tradition, features a stable of comedians and marginal celebrities making deliberately tasteless jokes at the expense of the roastee. Pamela Anderson, William Shatner, Flavor Flav, Larry The…
Some wine and spirits owe their origins to Christianity
Christianity has a decidedly complicated relationship with alcohol. On the one hand, wine flows freely throughout the Bible and plays an important role in Catholic ceremonies. On the other, some Christians preach total abstinence from alcohol, and the loudest among them succeeded (albeit briefly) in getting it outlawed entirely in the U.S. Regardless of your…
More New Films
A CIAMBRA. Jonas Carpignano directs this drama, cast with non-actors and family members playing versions of themselves, set in a Romani community in Calabria, Italy. The film’s focus is on 14-year-old Pio Amato, who is eager to grow up and thus challenged when his older brother and mentor goes missing. In Italian, with subtitles. Starts…
Until there’s realistic campaign-finance reform, potentially great candidates don’t stand a chance
Last year, Murrysville’s Aryanna Berringer was the first Democrat to step up and say she planned on running against Lt. Gov. Mike Stack in 2018. Stack was mired in controversy last year, when he and his wife were investigated for poorly treating state-funded employees assigned to tend to the lieutenant governor’s home, as well as…
What’s Playing on Pittsburgh Screens: March 28-April 4
LEGEND. Tom Cruise stars in Ridley Scott’s 1985 fantasy adventure about a young man who must stop a demon from destroying unicorns, sunlight and the woman he loves. The film screens as part of a series of earlier Tom Cruise films. 1:45 p.m. Wed., March 28; and 7:15 p.m. Thu., March 29. Row House Cinema,…
Why the Penn Plaza and East Liberty redevelopment should matter to everyone
I moved to Pittsburgh in August 2017, two months after the Penn Plaza Apartments were demolished. More than 6 months later, I learned the story of what happened to the complex and about the more than 500 residents who were evicted and displaced from their community. As a new faculty member at the University of…
Professional wrestler Chris Jericho’s rock band Fozzy performs at Jergel’s Rhythm Grille on April 3
They don’t call professional wrestler Chris Jericho the “Ayatolla of Rock ’n’ Rolla” for no reason. When he’s not performing in five-star matches in New Japan Pro Wrestling, locking in mad “Walls of Jericho” (his signature submission move) or putting “stupid idiots” on his infamous hit list (“The List of Jericho”) for the WWE, the…
Ephemeral, by Sara Catapano and Hannah Pierce, at BoxHeart Gallery explores life and death through clay
There are many balancing acts at play in the two-person show Ephemeral, by Sara Catapano and Hannah Pierce. Growth and decay, nature versus man, vice and virtue, death and birth. Even physically, Catapano’s and Pierce’s sculptures seem to twist and pull apart from each other in complicated compositions. It is this tension that unites the…
Heisenberg at Pittsburgh Public Theater
The connection between the title and the plot of Heisenberg may seem a little foggy at first, but it’s not quite as heady as you might think. Simon Stephens’ drama tells a meandering story about an unlikely romance (not a Breaking Bad musical, although that sounds terrific), in which the two leads are never quite…
Five faces to watch as the Pittsburgh Pirates begin their 2018 campaign
Starling Marte One of the first signs that the Pirates planned to dump Andrew McCutchen was replacing Cutch in centerfield with Marte. It was almost as if they were saying, “He’s the guy now, love him like you love McCutchen.” That operation didn’t quite go as planned, however, when Marte was suspended 80 games for…
Pittsburgh designer Elaine Healy debuts collection at Vancouver Fashion Week
Elaine Healy Instagram: @vixenscream. www.elainehealy.com Pittsburgh has come a long way since being named No. 1 on GQ’s Worst Dressed List in 2011. A string of boutiques offering local wares have popped up in neighborhood business districts. There is a cadre of local designers whose social-media followings have launched them onto a national stage. And…
Top 5: Podcasts
Heaven’s Gate Hosted by veteran podcaster and former Worldwide Church of God cult member Glynn Washington (Snap Judgment), this podcast explores why 39 Heaven’s Gate cult members took their own lives in 1997. Ear Hustle Head into San Quentin State Prison with Ear Hustle, and hear what life is like on the inside. Hosted by…
Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country recounts 1980s battle between the Rajneesh commune and the state of Oregon
If you’re under 40 or so, you may never have heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his cult-commune-religion-whatever that grabbed headlines in the early 1980s, before flaming out in quite spectacular fashion. But no worries: Wild Wild Country, a new six-part documentary on Netflix tells the saga, and it’s jaw-dropping. The series, directed by brothers…
Will recent protests by Pittsburgh Pirates fans have an impact on ownership?
Fans of the Pittsburgh Pirates are some of the most resilient baseball fans on earth. Twenty years of losing seasons from 1993 to 2012 didn’t keep fans from PNC Park when the Buccos finally made the playoffs in 2013. But the 2018 offseason, after two consecutive losing seasons, was an especially hard pill to swallow…
Pittsburgh illustrators create original pieces for Pittsburgh CLO’s Up and Away
Pittsburgh CLO’s Up and Away tells the story of the world’s first superhero. In it, five actors take on the heroic task of performing the roles of more than 50 characters. It’s an admirable undertaking, to be sure, but when local artist Lisa Rasmussen attended one of the rehearsals for the new musical, she spent…
Savage Love
My girlfriend of four months has unofficially moved in with me. We began as a long-distance thing; I live in New York City, and she lived in the Deep South. What began as her visiting me for the holidays ended up with her staying with me indefinitely. She comes from a very poor family, and…
City Paper’s Six Bold Predictions for the Pirates and the 2018 MLB Season
What good are pro sports if you can’t pretend you’re an expert and make loud, sometimes unrealistic prognostications? So, with that in mind, here are my six bold predictions for the Pirates and the 2018 Major League Baseball season. Jordy Mercer will win a Gold Glove Award Mercer is an extremely underrated shortstop whose offensive…
Buffalo Rose releases eclectic The Soil and The Seed
Buffalo Rose The Soil and The Seed Self-released www.buffalorose.bandcamp.com The Soil and The Seed by Buffalo Rose is a well-produced, cozy folk record with soulful harmonies. Vocalists Mariko Reid, Lucy Clabby and Shane McLaughlin join together to create a wall of sound, with the gently plucked guitar (McLaughlin), dobro (Malcolm Inglis), bass (Jason Rafalak) and…
