DIY Publishing Panel Tomorrow
Participants offer insights on podcasts, zines, web TV and more
Free Thursday nights at the Carnegie start this week
No charge for entry from 4-8 p.m. Thursdays through Nov. 21
Lynn Cullen Live 10/29/13
Video Archive Phone guest: Susan; World Series: Will St. Louis lose? What’s w/ Boston’s beards?; rise of Hispanics & Asians in baseball; difference between baseball & football; will football look different in 10 years?; making Peduto recoil; Masters & Johnson were really odd people; cemetery asking that a Spongebob monument at Iraq soldier’s grave be…
Free concert at Howler’s to support adjunct faculty
Adjunct faculty and adjunct-friendly bands will perform at Howler’s on Tuesday in conjunction with Campus Equity Week.
Lynn Cullen Live 10/28/13
Video Archive The problem w/ Halloween; don’t want to talk about the Steelers; just because gay people CAN marry doesn’t mean that they will want to; why say “gay” marriage when you wouldn’t say “inter-racial” marriage; the bitstrips app; people more likely to record an assault than call the police; anti-gypsy behaviour in Europe; only…
Five Questions with Brett Detar
“I’ve written more songs on an old acoustic that I bought in New Kensington in 1993 than probably every other instrument I own combined.”
Author of Book on Pennsylvania’s Witches Speaks
Thomas White, author of the new book Witches of Pennsylvania: Occult History & Lore appears —- er, speaks — at Mystery Lovers Bookshop tomorrow. Brett Wilson has details in Program Notes.
Author of Book on Pennsylvania’s Witches Speaks
Local author documents incidents dating to 17th century
The Pigeoning and It’s Dark Outside at Festival of Firsts
A short review of these two paired shows — both employing puppets, live actors and multimedia — that ran last week, in Program Notes.
Lynn Cullen Live 10/25/13
Video Archive Guest: Chris Potter; UPMC’s new $50 million jet; who hired Jeffrey Romoff?; NSA listening to world leaders’ phone calls; the cloud & the weird world we live in; rogue cows menace hikers in California; Obamacare website is down. Audio Only Archive
Our Town at Pittsburgh Public Theater
There’s more to the Thornton Wilder classic than you might recall from high school. A brief take in Program Notes.
Our Town at Pittsburgh Public Theater
There’s more to this classic than you might recall from high school
New York Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off happening tonight!
New York Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off is happening tonight at Remedy.
Lynn Cullen Live 10/24/13
Video Archive Guest: Tom Sokolowski; it’s winter coat weather; dementia testing; aging & vanity; plastic surgery makes you less empathetic; St. Louis vs. Boston in the World Series; coach passengers squeezed together tighter than ever now; Banksy halting NY art, hiding from police; Pope suspends German priest for spending too much money; Callers: PJ, Greensburg…
Measure Back at the Festival of Firsts
This interactive, sometimes confrontational show explores the origin of warfare, from The Iliad to modern occupations. A review in Program Notes.
Measure Back at the Festival of Firsts
Interactive theater work explores the origins of war
Candidates Respond to “Percent 4 Art” Movement
Mayoral candidate Bill Peduto and city-council aspirants were recently sent questions about Pittsburgh’s public-art funding law, as submitted by a local activist group. Answers in Program Notes.
Extended interview: Randy Weston
A longer version of our talk with the jazz pianist.
Candidates Respond to “Percent 4 Art” Movement
Discussion over enforcement of arts-funding law
Geri Allen takes over the Pitt jazz program from Nathan Davis
43RD ANNUAL PITT JAZZ SEMINAR CONCERT featuring GERI ALLEN. 8 p.m. Sat., Nov. 2. Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. $10-25. 412-624-4187 or music.pitt.edu/jazz-sem Geri Allen is pretty busy these days. In the midst of a tour with ACS — a trio with drummer Terri Lynn Carrington and bassist Esperanza Spaulding — the pianist…
Supervoid finds its voice in singer Brian Urban
SUPERVOID RECORD RELEASE with ORANGE GOBLIN, HOLY GRAIL, LAZER/WOLF. 8 p.m. Sat., Oct. 26. Rex Theater, 1602 E. Carson St., South Side. $16-20. 412-381-6811 or rextheater.com If the sight of dozens of zombies meandering toward Arsenal Park a couple of weekends ago wasn’t enough to draw the attention of neighbors, the sound of Supervoid booming…
Pittsburgh bands represent at Gainesville’s The Fest
The most significant Pittsburgh punk-rock event of the season may actually take place thousands of miles away. On Oct. 31, over 10,000 punk, hardcore, and indie-rock fans will invade Gainesville, Fla., for a four-day music festival named The Fest. In its 12th year, the event differs radically from typical overcrowded, sun-baked outdoor music shindigs. “The…
Critics’ Picks: October 23 – 29
[POP] + FRI., OCT. 25 What better way to start your Halloween festivities than with a tribute to Michael Jackson’s iconic album Thriller? Head over to Mr. Small’s tonight for Thriller: A Tribute Show to catch The Ruckus Bros. — a 21-member supergroup of Pittsburgh musicians — covering the entire album. The group is composed of…
On the Record with Randy Weston
RANDY WESTON’S AFRICAN RHYTHMS QUINTET. 8 p.m. Sat., Oct. 26. New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side. $30. 888-718-4253 or kentearts.org Randy Weston grew up in Brooklyn, with friends like Thelonious Monk inspiring him to play piano. He has traveled throughout the world, incorporating numerous influences into his playing.He comes to the New…
Lynn Cullen Live 10/23/13
Video Archive Guests: Dave Ninehouser, Hear Yourself Think / Helen Gerhardt, Pittsburghers for Public Transit; 75th anniversary of War of the Worlds broadcast & Americans’ reaction to it; being hoodwinked by the news & parallels to today; power of narratives; Zombies vs. Martians event at Brillobox; possibility of buses being cut out of the downtown…
An ambitious art installation both revivifies and comments on the old Carrie Furnaces site
ALLOY: PITTSBURGH closes on Sat., Oct. 26. Carrie Furnaces National Historic Landmark, Rankin. 724-840-2257 or alloypittsburgh.blogspot.com Though artists have by no means given up on the semi-domestic, semi-corporate spaces of gallery and museum, it’s no longer surprising for an art exhibit to be presented in a locale such as a park or an abandoned prison.…
Bleak House
One of the happiest days in Michael Clark’s life, he says, came in 2001, when his parents separated: It meant, he realized, that his father wouldn’t be coming home anymore. For years until that point, Michael and his three younger siblings contend, they’d lived in fear of Michael’s father, Dr. Kevin Clark. “It got to…
Drag performers of decades past reunite for one last ball.
ONE MORE TIME DRAG BALL 7 p.m.-midnight. Sat., Oct. 26. Bulgarian-Macedonian Cultural Center, 449 W. Eighth Ave., West Homestead. $20-25 (includes buffet and open bar). onemoretime.brownpapertickets.com Thanks to vehicles like RuPaul’s Drag Race, drag has gotten pretty mainstream. But it wasn’t always so. And audiences can witness living proof of Pittsburgh’s rich, if largely hidden,…
Water Foul
A guerrilla-art troupe attempts to float a can of duck soup — only to find that paper wasn’t the best material for a shell.
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at City Theatre
VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE continues through Nov. 3. City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., South Side. $15-55. 412-431-2489 or citytheatre company.org Take a group of remarkably talented theater artists such as playwright Christopher Durang, director Tracey Brigden and actresses Sheila McKenna and Helena Ruoti, put them to work on one play and what…
Operation Shutdown
It was just 10 months ago that Western Pennsylvania’s own congressman Keith Rothfus took his first high-profile stand: voting against aid for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Now look at him: voting against funding government services for the rest of us. Congresspeople grow up so fast. Or actually, not at all. On Oct. 17, Rothfus…
God of Carnage at Little Lake Theater Co.
GOD OF CARNAGE continues through Nov. 2. Little Lake Theatre, 500 Lakeside Drive, Canonsburg. $12-20. 724-745-6300 or littlelake.org Yasmina Reza’s plays are so irredeemably French that the best way to enjoy the English translations is to ignore the pretense that these sophisticated but non-litigious people could ever possibly be American. Given that inoculation, the Little…
Savage Love
My girlfriend always responds positively when I initiate sex, but she hardly ever initiates sex with me. I realize that this can be a sensitive topic, and I don’t want to scare her by saying, “Please initiate sex more often!” So I do small things to let her know that I want her to initiate.…
Rage of the Stage’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY continues through Nov. 2. South Park Theater, Brownsville Road and Corrigan Drive, South Park. $15. 724-292-8427 or www.facebook.com/rageofthestage Rage of the Stage Players’ The Picture of Dorian Gray, adapted from Oscar Wilde’s novel by writer/director James Michael Shoberg, is a largely attractive play about largely attractive people doing profoundly ugly…
Self-Portrait, 19
and hungry sitting naked in front of a mirror in West Virginia with a tube of red lipstick, feeling the thrill from the lines of Dreamsicle-orange Adderall I did on the coffee table next to a half-smoked pack of Camel #9 menthols and empty cans of Diet Coke. I exhale thick smoke into blankets trying…
Oklahoma! at Point Park Conservatory
OKLAHOMA! continues through Sun., Oct. 27. Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. $18-20. 412-392-8000 or pittsburghplayhouse.com OK. So Oklahoma! has been revived at least 3,578 times this past year. And why not? Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first collaboration was a smash hit when it debuted on Broadway, in 1943, and the musical, arguably their finest, continues…
Short List: October 23 – 31
SPOTLIGHT: Thu., Oct. 31 — Opera At a 2009 screening of Night of the Living Dead at Beaver County’s Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, Bill Hinzmann, who played “cemetery zombie” in the 1968 horror classic, suggested it might make a good stage musical. No, said the Center’s then-managing director, Stephen Catanzarite; it would make a…
Pittsburgh Ballet opens its season with two modern classics by Twyla Tharp
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre performs AN EVENING OF TWYLA THARP 8 p.m. Fri., Oct. 25; 8 p.m. Sat., Oct. 26; and 2 p.m. Sun., Oct. 27. Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $25.75-86.75. 412-456-6666 or pbt.org Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre kicks off its 44th season with An Evening of Twyla Tharp, a salute to the irrepressible Emmy-…
Matteo’s
Matteo’s 3615 Butler St., Lawrenceville. 412-586-7722 Hours: Tue.-Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Prices: Appetizers, soups, sandwiches and salads $9-15; pizzas and pastas $13-26 Liquor: Full bar There’s something about red-sauce Italian. You’d think its fate would have been sealed a generation ago, when Northern Italian restaurants began to creep out of Little Italys and into malls…
The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate Directed by: Bill Condon Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Bruhl Oh, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks — you seem so yesterday. Now, there’s a new high-profile leaker with his own pulp-novel intrigue (Edward Snowden, our man in Moscow), Bradley Manning is Chelsea behind bars, and we’re on Twitter complaining that the NSA stole…
With help from Salt, Garfield Community Farm celebrates the harvest
If autumn hayrides and cider call to you, then there’s good news: This Sunday, Oct. 27, Salt of the Earth is turning its parking lot into an all-out harvest festival. A $40 entrance fee admits adults (kids get in free) into the Fall Festival, which runs from 1 to 6 p.m., and features such beloved…
Carrie
There is some epic mayhem in the final reel of Kimberly Peirce’s re-do of Carrie, and it’s likely enough to satisfy audiences who have come to revel in the film’s violence. (The infamous bucket of pig’s blood is dumped in slow motion, again and again, as if anticipating the modern inclination to make gifs of…
Local restaurant pros take Sunday-morning wine-drinking seriously
A multi-glass drinking session that begins 11 a.m. on a Sunday usually marks the beginning of some kind of debauchery-filled “Funday.” But for a select group of restaurant professionals, Sunday-morning drinking can be serious business. That business involves tasting, evaluating and identifying at least six wines — all tasted blind. “I’ve been hosting these every…
Birth of the Living Dead
Think you know everything about George Romero’s 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead? Even the most diehard fan will probably learn something in this affectionate doc from Rob Kuhns that looks at how the zombie classic was made, what movie-making conventions it broke, how it resonated with audiences upon release, and what influence…
Constellation helps guide gourmet-coffee fans
Celestial navigation has existed for thousands of years, but it’s easy to miss Constellation, a new Lawrenceville coffee and espresso shop on Penn Avenue. But owner Amy Weiland is busy making the shop more visible (a new logo on the front window and outdoor seating), and she’s hoping to build an atmosphere that will reflect…
