New website lets residents check how close they live to Allegheny County’s top ten polluters
By typing in an address, Allegheny County residents can receive information on how many miles they live or work from the PennEnvironment-ranked top-ten polluters.
Labor Union also takes issue with Pittsburgh’s Delta Foundation
Protests during this year’s pride were not only about Iggy Azalea and exclusivity of minorities within the LGBT community, some labor organizations also objected to Delta’s practices.
Extended Q&A with Big K.R.I.T.
Big K.R.I.T. talks to Pittsburgh City Paper about touring and what’s next.
Local janitors vote to strike if contract demands aren’t met
A vote by SEIU janitors today gave union leadership the authority to call for a strike if workers’ demands are not met in contract negotiations.
Listen Up! Oct. 28
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists covered in the current music section. Listen below!
Pittsburgh Planning Commission approves zoning change for Penn Plaza, residents say public input should have happened first
The rezoning of Enright Parklet and Penn Plaza narrowly goes through and residents say the process was hurried by outside pressure.
Campaign 2016 Silly Season: GOP Debate No. 3 B-I-N-G-O!
The Republican presidential candidates line up for their third debate.
Phat Man Dee and Friends Share European Jaunt Tonight at Mr. Smalls
Performance, video of overseas trip featured at Creative.Life.Support
Concert announcements: Glassjaw, Chevy Woods, Scott Kelly, more
It’s Tuesday, which means its time to get out your calendars and make note of a few recently announced concerts: Coheed and Cambria, Glassjaw and Silver Snakes play Stage AE on March 1 ($28.50-30, on sale Friday). Looking further ahead, Twenty One Pilots will be at Stage AE on June 1 ($39.50, on sale Friday)…
Final Week for Psychedelic Monster Maze at Spirit in Lawrenceville
Live music accompanies artist Ian Brill’s walk-through attraction
MP3 … Tuesday!: Katie Hate
This week’s track comes (a little later than usual) from pop-punk band Katie Hate, who will release its new record, Let’s Pretend Again, at Mr. Small’s Theatre on Oct. 30. Stream or download the anthemic “Independence” below. This download as expired, sorry!
Lynn Cullen Live 10/27/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Trivia questions with Susan. A booze spewing comet. Show horse butchered in stable. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
U.S. Senate candidate Katie McGinty visits Pittsburgh, declares her support for $15 minimum wage
U.S. Senate hopeful Katie McGinty declares her support for the Fight for Fifteen.
Lynn Cullen Live 10/26/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Joan Weill withdraws donation after being denied what she wanted. Richard Heck, Nobel Prize winner, denied medical care and dies as a result. Correlations between voice pitch and testicle size. Hillary’s handling of the hearing. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with…
Black Man Walking
black man walking down the street; black man sitting to wait for his kids from school; black woman kissing her white boyfriend on a Hollywood street which cops take to be a reason to put her in handcuffs; black man gasping I can’t breathe; black woman driving a red Nissan with her four children stopped…
Campaign 2016’s Silly Season: A Weekly Tweet Round-Up Oct. 23
Campaign 2016’s Silly Season: A Weekly Tweet Round-Up Oct. 23
Global Links’ Dia De Los Muertos Fundraiser on Saturday
Medical relief group holds annual party.
CP Weekend Podcast – Oct. 23 – 25, 2015
This week: Find your way through the woods, sing along to The Wizard of Oz and take a peek into a chef’s kitchen.
Critics’ Picks, Oct. 22-28
[HIP HOP] + FRI., OCT. 23 In 2012, Surface Level Records was founded as a collaboration between local hip-hop artists Proseed and Fortified Phonetx. Subsequently, more names have been added to the roster, including Stillborn Identity, The Latebloomer and The Dads. Tonight, at the Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Surface Level Records, along with N.U.C.…
Emerging Artist of the Year Seth Clark nails it at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
SETH CLARK: 2015 EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR continues through Nov. 1. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside. 412-361-0873 or pfpca.org Seth Clark is the recipient of the 2015 Emerging Artist of the Year award from the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, and the breathtaking exhibition now on view in the gallery…
New Releases
The Semi-Supervillains Here Comes Trouble (Self-released) www.semisupervillains.com Why is this power-pop outfit called The Semi-Supervillains? Is it because their plans for global domination didn’t pan out? They couldn’t manage to get the death ray to work? Here Comes Trouble is the newest five-song EP from the group; its sound recalls early-2000s garage rock, a la…
Andrew Conte’s new book on Bill Nunn is a secret history of the ’70s Steelers
THE STEELERS’ SECRET STRATEGY: FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO THE SUPER BOWL, WITH ANDREW CONTE 6 p.m. Thu., Oct. 29. Point Park University’s Lawrence Hall, 201 Wood St., Downtown. Free. Register at eventbrite.com. Andrew Conte’s new book, The Color of Sundays (Blue River Press), chronicles the impact of scout Bill Nunn Jr. on the rise of…
A progressive Democrat takes on a far-right Republican in Pennsylvania State Senate Showdown
In the final month before the Nov. 3 special election to fill the 37th District State Senate seat, Democratic candidate Heather Arnet has been door-knocking in Bridgeville. She’s also appeared before the Operating Engineers State Council conference and visited a microbrewery in Mount Lebanon. Her opponent, Republican candidate Guy Reschenthaler, has been spotted at the…
The Night Alive at City Theatre
THE NIGHT ALIVE continues through Nov. 1. City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., South Side. $15-61. 412-431-4400 or citytheatrecompany.org Sometimes, it’s a disadvantage to see a play on opening night. A friendly house, crackling with a second-beer giddiness, can make mundane lines humorous, and push tragedy toward comedy. Such seemed to be the case during…
37th State Senate District
After former Pennsylvania state Sen. Matt Smith announced he was stepping down to take a position with the Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, the Allegheny County Republican and Democratic committees scrambled to select candidates for his replacement. Now, Democratic nominee Heather Arnet will face off against Republican Guy Reschenthaler in a special election for Smith’s…
Tunnel Vision at Off the Wall
TUNNEL VISION continues through Oct. 31. Off the Wall Performing Arts Center, 25 W. Main St., Carnegie. $25-40. 724-873-3576 or insideoffthewall.com In Off the Wall Productions’ world premiere of Andrea Lepcio’s Tunnel Vision, the premise is simple enough. Two women arrive in an abandoned, junk-filled tunnel; neither knows how she got there, and though both…
Allegheny County Council District 11
While it at first seemed like a “why bother” race — the winner will sit on Allegheny County Council for just six weeks — this special election has turned into a “why not me?” race. District 11, which includes Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, Greenfield and Homestead, has two green candidates opposing sort-of incumbent Terri Klein. However,…
Into the Woods at Point Park Conservatory
INTO THE WOODS continues through Sun., Oct. 25. Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. $12-24. 412-392-8000 or pittsburghplayhouse.com In the words of Johnny Mercer, let’s ac-cent-chu-ate the positive and review Point Park Conservatory’s Into the Woods. This 1987 Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical combines extant fairy-tale characters (Cinderella, Rapunzel, Little Red, et al.) with a few…
Allegheny County Council District 13
With the departure of Democratic Allegheny County Councilor Amanda Green Hawkins and the primary defeat of a candidate backed by County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, the door is open for a fresh face. The district encompasses Lawrenceville, the Strip District, Downtown, Bellevue, all of the North Side and sections of the South Side. View the larger…
Bridge of Spies
Bridge of Spies Directed by Steven Spielberg Starring Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies is a handsomely produced Cold War tale, “inspired by true events,” in which an American lawyer negotiates an exchange of prisoners between then-adversaries the Soviet Union and the United States. The story opens in 1957, with the arrest…
Outside The Box
We know what you’re thinking: “City Paper, you’re so stodgy, always wearing formal black and never letting your hair down.” But since many of our writers, editors, photographers and designers tend to wear superhero T-shirts and their best thrift-store jeans to work, we know you’re talking about our distribution boxes. And for the fourth year…
An art tour of Allegheny Cemetery
ALLEGHENY CEMETERY ART WALKING TOUR Noon, Sat., Oct. 24. 4734 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $8. pittsburghartscouncil.org Standing 10 feet tall with a 9-foot wingspan, the Porter monument bronze angel sits atop a small bluff in Allegheny Cemetery, where it has attracted visitors for more than 100 years. Despite modern associations with the grim and ghastly, cemeteries…
Voting for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Nov. 3 might be the most important ballot you cast
Video by Charlie Deitch & Ashley Murray I don’t need a crystal ball or tarot cards or the prognostication powers of Karl Rove to know that voter turnout for the Nov. 3 General Election will be low. This is a municipal primary filled with town-council candidates from far-flung communities and judicial races, which never draw…
Freeheld
Peter Sollett’s drama Freeheld takes viewers back to the early 2000s, when equal rights for gay partners was still a messy patchwork of local regulations. So it was for Ocean County, N.J. police detective Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore), who, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, fights to have her pension transferred to her domestic partner,…
Stuff We Like
Houses of Pittsburgh. This Instagram account regrams photos of interesting local architecture for a great virtual tour of the city. Submit a photo by tagging your pics with #housesofpgh. instagram.com/housesofpittsburgh Tacopedia. An informative and fun read on the history and complexity of Mexico’s most dynamic dish, the taco. The Jakobs Ferry Stragglers. This young local…
Crimson Peak
Guillermo del Toro’s gothic romance has all the trappings of an excellent thriller: love, murder, ghosts and beautiful scenery. The fairytale begins when an American aspiring writer, Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), falls into the arms of a visiting English aristocrat, Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston). From the beginning it’s clear that Sharpe and his quiet…
Wysocki: Robert Morris skating toward NCAA hockey dominance
Despite having the word “island” in its name, Neville Island continues to be one of the nation’s least popular spring-break destinations. A newspaper ad in 1903 invited people to settle there, speculating that it would be the next Manhattan Island. Obviously, that never panned out and the island continued to be the subject of mediocre…
Extraordinary Tales
Halloween time means loads of scary movies making the rounds, but fans of horror owe plenty to one of its early masters, Baltimore author Edgar Allan Poe. Raul Garcia’s new anthology presents animated versions of five of Poe’s tales; each is done in a unique style and features different narrators. The narrations are adapted closely…
Short List: October 21 – 28
SPOTLIGHT: Fri., Oct. 23 — Dance Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre opens its season in ambitious style with a bill of three masterworks by three of dance’s greatest choreographers. Mixed Repertory #1, Oct. 23-25 at the Benedum Center, brings back George Balanchine’s energetic Americana ballet “Western Symphony” (1954). Last performed by the PBT in 1997, the non-narrative, Old…
Goosebumps
The biggest shocker in Rob Letterman’s new film, based on R.L. Stine’s eponymous children’s horror series, is that it’s funny: It’s successful enough in that comic vein that its failures probably won’t bother you. Dylan Minnette plays Zach, a teenager begrudgingly relocated to suburban Delaware. There he encounters a cute next-door neighbor, Hannah (Odeya Rush), and…
Savage Love
I’m a straight guy, married for 16 years, kids in school. My wife cannot find a way to be intimate with me. We’ve had therapy individually and together. I nearly divorced her, but we decided to stay together — we do love each other, and the economics and child-rearing favor it. After I asked for…
Trailblazing British artist Joan Armatrading embarks on her last major world tour
JOAN ARMATRADING with MARTI JONES & DON DIXON 7:30 p.m. Wed., Oct. 28. Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown. $45-65. 412-456-6666 or pgharts.org Joan Armatrading is a formidable woman. If not for her warm British lilt and a gracious chuckle served after each matter-of-fact remark, she might even seem cold. Her words are straightforward, unsentimental.…
My Thai
My Thai 3024 W. Liberty Ave., Dormont. 412-207-7507 Hours: Mon.-Thu. 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sun. 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Prices: Appetizers, soups and salads $2-9; entrees $11-17 Liquor: Full bar Anticipate it or hate it, there’s no way around it: “Pumpkin spice” season is here. Pumpkin-spice coffee, pumpkin-spice beer, pumpkin-spice air freshener, pumpkin-spice…
On his new record, Josh Ritter tackles prophesy and the Golden Rule
JOSH RITTER and THE ROYAL CITY BAND 8 p.m. Sun., Oct. 25. Mr. Small’s Theatre. 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $25. 412-821-4447 or mrsmalls.com Last Friday, Josh Ritter released his latest project, Sermon on the Rocks, an album sure to top many “Best Of 2015” lists. The album is aptly named: It does seem to be…
Arsenal Cider House keeps expanding
It’s been a big year for Arsenal Cider House. Really, it’s been one big year after another for the cidery, which celebrated its fifth anniversary in June. Turning your personal residence into your business comes with challenges (time, money and space, to name a few), and Bill and Michelle Larkin keep stepping up to meet…
Lynn Cullen Live 10/22/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Phat Man Dee delights us with tales of her adventures. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Relive the best parts of your emotionally fraught youth at Emo Night Live!
EMO NIGHT LIVE! 10 p.m. Thu., Oct. 22. Altar Bar, 1620 Penn Ave., Strip District. $5. EMO DJ NIGHT 10 p.m. Thu., Oct. 29. Lava Lounge, 2204 E. Carson St., South Side. $3. emonight.com If shouting the sweet poetry of your melodramatic youth is your thing, or if you’re nostalgic for the era of Instant…
A new take-out spot, African Taste Cuisine, brings West African cuisine to town
AFRICAN TASTE CUISINE Hours vary Mon.-Fri. 250 S. Pacific Ave., Bloomfield. 412-927-6657 or eatafricanpittsburgh.com Though Pittsburgh’s restaurant scene is booming, one region scantly represented has been West Africa. That changed Oct. 5, with the opening of take-out and delivery spot African Taste Cuisine. If it’s fufu (a mash of cassava and plantains) or Davi Red-Red…
Lynn Cullen Live 10/21/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Brooklyn Museum of Food and Drink. Cow dung and how it’s related to vanilla. Ted Cruz. Motorcycle grandmas. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Lynn Cullen Live 10/20/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Trudeau elected in Canada. Misophonia and its repercussions. Restaurants and sexism. Marriages can allowed by judge for children as young as age 10. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
