New Pittsburgh City Council legislation could increase availability of food trucks
Gilman proposes ordinance to limit restrictions on street vendors
Ingress game seeks players in Pittsburgh for this Saturday
Digitally enabled capture-the-flag contest starts Downtown
Fast-food workers joined by hundreds during rally Downtown Pittsburgh in protest for $15 wage
Hundreds of service workers rally at the City-County Building in conjunction with a nationwide fast-food strike for the on-going campaign for a $15 minimum wage and the right to unionize.
Reviews of upcoming Three Rivers Film Festival features
Reviews of Upcoming Three Rivers Film Festival Features
Photo exhibit at VA hospital in Pittsburgh gives veterans a voice
A photo exhibit at the VA hospital in Oakland sheds light on aspects of homeless veteran healthcare.
Point Park University hosts panel discussion tomorrow night on human trafficking
Project to End Human Trafficking hosts panel discussion to raise awareness
Pittsburgh Mayor and Allegheny County Executive celebrate region’s first official Diwali
The city and county recognize Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, signifying the the growing and long-standing south Asian immigrant communities.
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto’s budget proposal combines responsibility and innovation
The mayor’s proposed budget includes goals for pension contributions and debt reduction while increasing funding for tech innovations.
Lynn Cullen 11/09/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Big Pharma, Ben Carson and the “war on Christmas”. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Movies Playing This Weekend at Three Rivers Film Festival
CP staffers review films screening this weekend at the Three Rivers Film Festival
Campaign 2016’s Silly Season: A Weekly Tweet Round-Up Nov. 6
Candidates dress for Halloween and tweet about guns, pizza and doing laundry.
Sync’d – live music with local silent shorts – is tomorrow night at Neu Kirche
Seventh annual screening is at Neu Kirche
The Three Rivers Film Festival
The 34th annual Three Rivers Film festival starts Fri., Nov. 6, and runs through Sun., Nov. 15. More than four dozen films screen at Melwood, Harris, Regent Square and Waterworks theaters. Most tickets are $9, and complete schedule is at www.3rff.com. Write-ups for the opening-night films are on CP’s website: Crocodile Gennadiy, This Changes Everything and…
CP Weekend Podcast – Nov. 6 – 8, 2015
This week: Whether you love records or juggling, there is a festival in town this weekend for you.
Lynn Cullen 11/06/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Toy Hall of Fame inductions. H.W. Bush’s book and Republican infighting. The history of black hair. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Climate change, fracking and household toxins can impact pregnancy
Environmental factors like climate change, fracking and every day toxins can impact women’s reproductive health.
Director Penelope Spheeris to Present Punk Docs The Decline of Western Civilization Parts 1 and 3 tomorrow
Essential punk-rock docs screening at the Hollywood Theater
Election night
On Tue., Nov. 3, our photo intern Theo Schwarz joined state Senate candidate Heather Arnet for a behind-the-scenes look at what life is like for a candidate on election night. (City Paper previewed the race in our Oct. 21 issue.) Republican candidate Guy Reschenthaler beat Arnet by about 4,000 votes. However, the seat was only…
A conversation with Doug Paisley
“I’ve always felt that I’ve put a lot of stuff into songwriting that it might have served me better in the short term to put into my daily life.”
Lynn Cullen 11/05/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Is Ben Carson making things up? Forced patriotism at ball games and paid endorsements. John McCain steps up to bat. Sexist behavior in the Supreme Court and the military. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps…
The new documentary Crocodile Gennadiy opens the 34th annual Three Rivers Film festival
Crocodile Gennadiy Directed by Steve Hoover 7 p.m. Fri., Nov. 6. Melwood In English, and Russian and Ukrainian, with subtitles $15 and $20 (includes opening-night party). 3rff.com Who will do it?” asks Pastor Gennadiy Mohnkenko, referring to his work rescuing abused, neglected and drug-addicted kids from the streets of Mariupol, Ukraine. Mohnkenko is the focus…
Short List: November 4 – 11
SPOTLIGHT: Tue., Nov. 10 — Dance Founded in 1974 by dance icon Alvin Ailey as a vehicle for promising students of The Ailey School, Ailey II has, over four decades, developed its own identity as a world-class company. “It’s continuously growing,” says Ailey II artistic director Troy Powell by phone from Midland, Mich., where the…
The 34th annual Three Rivers Film Festival kicks off with four opening-night films
The 34th annual Three Rivers Film festival starts Fri., Nov. 6, and runs through Sun., Nov. 15. More than four dozen films screen at Melwood, Harris, Regent Square and Waterworks theaters. Below are two of the four films featured on opening night; the others are Crocodile Gennadiy (see right) and Tumbledown, a dramedy featuring Mount…
Bakn
Perhaps the most memorable food trend of the early 21st century has been baconmania — that moment when everything from chocolate to cocktails was colonized by smoked pork belly. The re-installment of fat and meat as components of a satisfying diet aligned tidily with a mass cultural agreement that bacon sure is pretty darn tasty.…
The Keeping Room
Most historical war dramas occur in male-only spheres, but Daniel Barber’s film places the viewer in an overlooked corner of the Civil War — in this case, a rural Southern homefront defended only by women. Property is to be protected, of course, but what gives the film its frisson is the omnipresent threat of sexual…
Getting your drank on with celebrity vodka-endorser 50 Cent
I’m crammed in line waiting for my brush with greatness. I’m sweating, I’m being touched from all sides and every second someone takes a selfie. What is this hell I’ve found myself in? It’s the shadow side of the booze-slinging business: the phenomenon of the celebrity endorsement. This go-round, it’s an Effen nightmare. In late…
Our Brand Is Crisis
David Gordon Green’s film about American political strategists working in a Bolivian presidential election is inspired by the 2005 documentary of the same name and covering the same subject matter. (The “star” of that doc was James Carville.) This new fictionalized version aims to be a cynical black comedy, pitting two take-no-prisoners political strategists against…
ExtraVEGANza offers Pittsburghers a slow-food brunch
ExtraVEGANza Pgh hosts the latest installment of its Intercontinental Superfood Brunch, on Nov. 7, at Schwartz Market on the South Side. “I want to help change other people’s lives,” says Mya Zeronis, the one-person operation behind ExtraVEGANza Pgh. Zeronis — who has dubbed herself “the 98-pound chef” — is an advocate of the slow-food movement.…
Suffragette
Sarah Gavron’s docudrama puts viewers into the mix of the burgeoning British suffragette movement in the early 20th century. There is a fleeting glimpse of the movement’s leader, Emily Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), but the story focuses instead on efforts to rally working-class women to the cause. Women like Maud (Carey Mulligan) and Violet (Anne-Marie Duff),…
John Lydon talks creativity, human nature and being misunderstood
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. 9 p.m. Thu., Nov. 12. Altar Bar, 1620 Penn Ave., Strip District. $31-33. 412-206-9719 or thealtarbar.com John Lydon has just loudly expectorated in my ear, via an overseas phone call. This act of nature is not meant as a commentary on our conversation. “Sorry,” he says, sounding sincere. “You know, I am…
The Bach Choir of Pittsburgh opens its 81st season with America: Makers and Dreamers
AMERICA: MAKERS AND DREAMERS 8 p.m. Sat., Nov. 7, and 4 p.m. Sun., Nov. 8. The Energy Innovation Center, 1435 Bedford Ave., Hill District. $9.95-30. 412-241-4044 or bachchoirpittsburgh.org Thomas Douglas, artistic director and conductor of the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh, has a deep curiosity about history. Sometimes, at social gatherings, he’ll throw out a question…
Critics’ Picks, Nov. 5-11
[DJENT] + SAT., NOV. 7 “Djent” is an emerging genre of progressive metal; its name is derived from the tone of the guitars, which sound like “djent, djent, djent.” It’s akin to the origins of the word “ska,” which, legend has it, was named after the “ska, ska, ska” sound of its guitars. An onomatopoeic…
Mr. T: Convention Center, St. Paul, Minnesota, early ’90s
My mother didn’t prepare me for Mr. T, for the cobalt blue spandex, tight bulge-big package yelled: “Get in the picture, little fool.” I held my fist, tight against my turtle in a blue pond t-shirt and looked into the Polaroid camera then turned eye-level to Mr. T’s blue bulge, he said, “I like your…
Pittsburgh Westinghouse will welcome Wilkinsburg students in 2016, but will the benefits outweigh the drawbacks in the long run?
On Oct. 28, Pittsburgh Public Schools approved a partnership with the Wilkinsburg School District that would send students in grades 7-12 to Pittsburgh Westinghouse for the 2016-17 school year. The following day, PPS Superintendent Linda Lane visited Wilkinsburg’s three schools to talk to the more than 200 students who will be filling her desks next…
Hiking trails throughout Allegheny County are growing, but property owners still hold the final say.
The Rachel Carson Trail Conservancy wants to create a hiking trail more than 170 miles long, stretching from Pittsburgh’s North Side all the way to the Allegheny National Forest, on the northern edge of Pennsylvania. It would traverse forestland and pass through county parks, over vistas gazing at green gorges, alongside the occasional rural road…
With a strong community-input process, a North Side residential project moves forward
Architectural renderings are meant to convey a sense of permanence. This is what the building will look like in real bricks and mortar for decades to come, so you know what you are going to get. If we are lucky, though, such images are really about change. The issue becomes whether you like what you…
A Conversation with U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee
Thomas Merton Award Dinner with Rep. Barbara Lee 6 p.m. Mon., Nov. 9. Sheraton Station Square, 300 W. Station Square Drive, South Side. $60 (scholarships available). 412-361-3022 or thomasmertoncenter.org In 2001, three days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee was famously the lone member of either chamber of Congress to vote…
A Conversation With Steve Hallock
On Sept. 1, 1979, Catherine Janet Walsh was found dead, lying face-down in her bed. Her hands were bound behind her back and a blue scarf was wrapped around her neck. Her death was ruled a homicide by strangulation. The responding officer, Andrew Gall, became committed to finding her killer. With five suspects with equally…
Savage Love
DEAR READERS: Two weeks ago, I announced I would be taking a nice long break from questions about miserable sexless marriages. I tossed out my standard line of advice to those who’ve exhausted medical, psychological and situational fixes (“Do what you need to do to stay married and stay sane”), and I moved on to…
1984 at Bricolage
MIDNIGHT RADIO: 1984 continues through Nov. 14. 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $35. 412-471-0999 or webbricolage.com I’m a big fan of Bricolage’s Midnight Radio series. At each installment, usually created around a theme, a group of actors and musicians stages a faux radio show replete with a dizzying array of sound effects. They’re bright, breezy evenings,…
Hockey Talk: Buy Wysocki a beer, and get his dog one too!
Pittsburgh hockey fans are the only fans anywhere, of any sport, who celebrate when their announcer exclaims, “She wants to buy my monkey.” We know that is good news, and if it’s quickly followed by “Shave my face with a rusty razor,” we know the Penguins are scoring goals. This is normal behavior in the…
The Crucible at Prime Stage
As the Rev. Hale states during the mania that fuels The Crucible, “These are strange times.” Indeed, the 1953 play by Arthur Miller, as produced by Prime Stage Theatre, reminds us how strange the times always are, whether the 17th century or the 21st. And that this story of the Salem witch trials is just…
Stuff We Like
Truths from the sides of Dumpsters “Pretty Pimpin,” by Kurt Vile. On the opening track of his new record, b’lieve i’m goin down, Vile has a chilled-out identity crisis and shows off his knack for weird, memorable song structures. Hedgehog Mug. The “Coffee is Critter-cal Mug” from online retailer ModCloth is a must for hedgehog-lovers…
Acclaimed dancer Aakash Odedra blends classical Indian and contemporary styles
AAKASH ODEDRA COMPANY PRESENTS RISING 8 p.m. Sat., Nov. 6. Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown. $19-55. 412-456-6666 or trustarts.org Though trained as a classical Indian dancer in the Kathak and Bharatanatyam disciplines, noted dancer/choreographer Aakash Odedra has found his biggest successes working outside those strict traditional dance forms. Grabbing a place in the contemporary…
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane needs to go before things somehow get worse
Several months ago, when the first few specks of shit involving Kathleen Kane started hitting the fan, I wrote a column saying she should not be forced to resign from office. I didn’t support her tactics and methods as Pennsylvania Attorney General and I firmly believed then, as I do now, that she was probably…
Lynn Cullen 11/04/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Ohio rejects pot bill. Pa gets Dems in court. Marathon runner found disoriented on the subway. Vatican bank and sainthood. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Lynn Cullen 11/03/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Election Day!!!! Kevin Drum on political correctness. The epidemic that’s sweeping white, middle aged people. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Best Local Stage Production
www.moroseandmacabre.com Not your average stage production, this “360 degree living art installation” is for those with a taste for vintage spookiness. The event, which has happened every spring since 2009, features a cabaret of fetish, sideshow and other unusual acts (think: burlesque, “pain-proof” performers, etc.) from around the country, as well as artisans offering a…
