Gone Fishin’: St. Peter Parish at Our Lady, Queen of Peace Church
Writer Celine Roberts reviews a local fish fry for every Friday of the Lenten season.
As part of National Walkout Day, Pittsburgh-area students demonstrate, call for stricter gun laws
Students at more than two dozen schools in the region walked out in protested of gun violence and others organized action.
People who live outside of Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District are trying to vote in special election
Election officials blame TV ads for confusing Southwestern Pennsylvania residents, and some say it could be a sign of increased turnout.
MP3 Monday: Rave Ami
Today’s track: a bouncy, fuzzy rock track, with catchy melodies and melancholy lyrics from the band formerly known as Honey
Lynn Cullen Live – 3/13/18
Video Archive All this and more today on the show. You can listen live at the link below. Audio Only Archive Stream or download the last 5 shows on the MP3 downloads page.
Lynn Cullen Live – 3/12/18
Video Archive All this and more today on the show. You can listen live at the link below. Audio Only Archive Stream or download the last 5 shows on the MP3 downloads page.
Lynn Cullen Live – 3/9/18
Video Archive Hello everyone, and happy Friday! Hope your are enjoying the show’s redesign. But we have some new equipment to are trying to bring Lynn into the 21st Century. We’re starting today with a little rant on Trump’s Korea negotiations. Lynn’s angry that while we now have North Korea at the table, with two…
Fans are upset that Pittsburgh Pirates president spoke at a fundraiser for congressional candidate Rick Saccone
Pittsburgh Pirate president Frank Coonelly spoke at a Republican fundraiser for Rick Saccone and also brought along the Pirate Parrot.
Update: Statement on March 7 City Paper cover story
Further statement on City Paper’s March 7 cover story
You can now buy a bobblehead of Pittsburgh Steelers receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster on his bike
Smith-Schuster set off a social-media firestorm last fall when his bike was stolen, then returned. Now you can commemorate that moment with a bobblehead.
Lynn Cullen Live – 3/8/18
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City Paper editor’s statement on March 7 cover story
City Paper editor’s statement on March 7 Cover Story
Lynn Cullen Live – 3/7/18
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Five Star Hotel releases solar hexagoness
Five Star Hotel solar hexagoness Self-released www.fivestarhotel.bandcamp.com Footwork-techno artist Five Star Hotel makes music that crawls into your muscles, forcing your body to move in strange, compulsory movements. It’s a sound that makes you want to give yourself entirely over to the pulsing beats and electronic sounds that build upon each other before collapsing and…
Eat Me: Iron Born Pizza
Location: Iron Born Pizza at Smallman Galley, 2016 Smallman St., Strip District Ambiance: Busy food hall perfect for grabbing a slice and adult beverage What you ate: Two-sauce pie Cost: $16 Hot take: Eating Iron Born’s pizza is like eating a whole loaf of incredibly tasty bread and wishing you had room for more. The…
Ann Curran’s new poetry chapbook, Irish Ayes, recalls times in Ireland
It’s been a decade since I studied writing in Ireland, but local poet Ann Curran’s new chapbook, Irish Ayes (Main Street Rag), nearly transports me, capturing imagistic moments in its 40 pages. “Magic Hour” shows readers “this thing that happens / when day meets night and sky presses sea. // … Just ribbons of light…
Hump! Film Festival returns to Pittsburgh
The Hump! Film Festival is back to celebrate sexuality in all of its forms. Started in 2005 by Dan Savage, the editorial director of Seattle’s alt-weekly The Stranger and nationally syndicated sex columnist, this festival shows porn that falls outside of the heteronormative, vanilla status quo (but there is some of that, too!). There are…
Submission
The sexual politics and power dynamics on a college campus get a work-out in Richard Levine’s adaptation of Francine Prose’s novel, Blue Angel. Ted Swenson (Stanley Tucci) is a writing teacher at a small liberal-arts college in New England; years ago, he had a mildly successful novel, but now he’s just treading water, bored. He…
Film Kitchen
FILM KITCHEN. In honor of “women’s month,” the March program for the monthly screening of short films and videos will feature local women artists who are who are also members or faculty at Pittsburgh Filmmakers and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. The films include two comic works by the S’nS Twins: “Donut With Sofia:…
More New Films: These films are opening on March 9 in Pittsburgh
BREAKING BALLS. John Vourlis’ new documentary follows three colorful figures as they compete in Cleveland’s Challenge Cup of Bocce tournament. The somewhat leisurely game — in which balls are rolled into proximity to others — is popular in Italian-American communities, and can take the form of a casual afternoon among friends or a fierce competition.…
Musician Tom Griesgraber makes beautiful music from an unorthodox instrument, the Chapman Stick
Eighteen months after graduating from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, Tom Griesgraber was “hungry to find my own voice in music.” He grew up playing piano and then guitar, and he realized at an early age that he wanted to have a music career. “I was writing a lot on my guitar, but I felt…
When I Didn’t Believe in Drowning
I imagine my body looked blurry beneath the surface — bloated belly full of bubbles and chlorine. I was 6 when I cannon-balled into aunt Janet’s pool and let my back touch the bottom lined-blue, opening my mouth to swallow the liquid around me — I just kept sipping until I felt myself slowly slipping,…
American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition exhibit at Heinz History Center
Travel back to the Roaring 1920s at the Heinz History Center, with its new exhibit, American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. This traveling exhibit, in collaboration with the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, is making Pittsburgh its final stop. But before it packs up, it offers visitors lively, interactive sets and artifacts which…
What’s Playing on Pittsburgh Screens: March 7-15
BLADE RUNNER 2049. Denis Villeneuve’s sequel to the 1982 sci-fi classic finds that life in future Southern California is still fraught with man, machine, men who are machines and those who don’t know which they are. Ryan Gosling stars in this beautifully filmed work. Read CP’s full review here. 1:20 and 9:10 p.m. Wed., March…
BBGuns releases Thirst; performs at Level Up Studios Fri., March 9
In the age of Tinder, Bumble, Grindr and ever more dating apps, thirst is a pervasive part of the culture. Thirst for attention and affection, be it romance or physical connection. But that hunger, that insatiable desire, can take on other forms. “We are all, in some way shape or form, thirsty,” explains Lazy JP,…
Top 5: Sci-Fi Shows to Stream Now
Altered Carbon In the year 2384, humans can store their memories on hard drives and download them into new bodies. Netflix The Handmaid’s Tale Set in a dystopian society, global infertility has relegated some women to little more than baby factories. Hulu The Expanse Hundreds of years in the future, humans have colonized the solar…
Pittsburgh indie-punk band Honey changes its name to Rave Ami
Breaking News: For the first time in recorded history, honey didn’t stick. The Pittsburgh indie-punk trio that’d been recording and playing under the name Honey since 2010 held a “new-name-reveal” gig last Thursday at Spirit to announce its new moniker, Rave Ami. Although it may come as a surprise to fans of the group, considering…
Gab Cody’s Inside Passage takes the audience on an immersive adventure
Two years in the making, Gab Cody’s multimedia Inside Passage, as presented by Quantum Theatre, is both epic and intimate, smashing the fourth wall and coloring outside the lines. This autobiographical adventure defies easy description. Director Sam Turich and Cody have worked together on “immersive theater” (most recently in Bricolage’s DODO), and incorporate that interactive…
Savage Love
I’m an 18-year-old cis hetero girl from Australia, and I’ve been listening to your podcast and reading your column since I was 13. Thanks to you I’m pretty open-minded about my sexuality and body. Having said that, I do have a few questions. I started watching porn from a youngish age with no real shame…
Introducing City Paper’s new look
You may have noticed a few changes to this week’s edition of Pittsburgh City Paper. OK, to be honest, there are a lot of changes, but we think you’re going to like what you see. Every newspaper goes through aesthetic and/or content changes every now and again. Last year, the staff began talking about “small…
7 Days of Concerts
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A Fantastic Woman
A Fantastic Woman Directed by Sebastián Lelio Starring Daniela Vega In Spanish, with subtitles. Starts Fri., March 9. Regent Square Early in Sebastián Lelio’s quiet Chilean drama, A Fantastic Woman, we are introduced to a couple — an older businessman Orlando (Francisco Reyes) and Marina (Daniela Vega), his considerably younger partner. Orlando collects Marina at…
Self-portraiture exhibit centers on the artist behind the lens
Despite the contributions of female artists throughout history, women artists make up only 3 to 5 percent of major permanent collections in the United States and Europe, according to the National Museum of Women in the Arts. It’s yet another glaring example of the gender inequity that permeates our society, and one that Pittsburgh-based artist…
O’Leary’s Diner and Breakfast at Shelly’s are a mother-daughter diner dynasty
Cheryl Parsons and her daughter, Shelly Moeller, believe in family business. Parsons owns O’Leary’s Diner, in the South Side, and Moeller grew up there, doing her homework at the counter and helping out with customers. Now in her thirties, Moeller owns her own diner in Allentown called Breakfast at Shelly’s. “This is what I know…
Cornelius performs at Carnegie Lecture Hall on Sat., March 10
While trying to come up with a name for his band, Keigo Oyamada was watching the original Planet of the Apes movie, a traditional end-of-the-year broadcast on Japanese television. “Later on, I found out that it was [inspired by] the experience of the director during the war as a POW, and Cornelius was the character…
Free Will Astrology
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): According to my assessment of the astrological omens, you’re in a favorable phase to gain more power over your fears. You can reduce your susceptibility to chronic anxieties. You can draw on the help and insight necessary to dissipate insidious doubts that are rooted in habit but not based on objective…
Neat: The Story of Bourbon
Although this region is the birthplace of rye whiskey, the Pittsburgh-based film production company, Vinegar Hill Creative, decided to explore the sweeter side of whiskey in its new documentary, Neat: The Story of Bourbon. Three years in the making, the documentary was released to iTunes last month. The process of creating the film was intensive,…
Lynn Cullen Live – 3/5/18
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