Allegheny County 2016 budget proposed; council approves vehicle registration fee increase
Some Allegheny County council members argue the $5 vehicle-registration fee increase was pushed through too fast and with little public input.
An open letter to Pittsburgh Police Chief Cam McLay regarding the city’s new trans officer
A City Paper reader says city should get feedback from the right experts as as it prepares for its first trans officer.
Listen Up! Oct. 7
Every Wednesday, we make a Spotify playlist containing tracks from artists covered in the current music section. Listen below!
The Kelly-Strayhorn’s “Pay What Makes You Happy” Policy
The new approach to ticketing seems to be working
Concert announcements: Joanna Newsom, Killing Joke, Iron Butterfly
Later this month, Joanna Newsom will release her new record Divers, and whats even more exciting (if you’re into that kind of thing) is that on Dec. 12, she’ll bring her tour to the Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall ($29-49, on sale Friday). If I’m not mistaken, this will be the singer-songwriter-harpist-etc’s first appearance in…
Lynn Cullen Live 10/06/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Supplemental calcium reported to not have an effect on bone density. Gun control and mass shootings. Texas boy calls out racist textbook. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
City holds Pittsburgh Pirates rally ahead of Wildcard game
Video by Aaron Warnick
MP3 Monday: The Crew of the Half Moon
This week’s track comes from Johnstown-based three-piece, The Crew of the Half Moon. Stream or download “Birthday Song” — from the new EP Rays Hill — below. You can also check out our review of the record here. This download link has expired, sorry!
Stream Run Forever’s new self-titled album
Don’t wait until Run Forever’s album is released on Friday. Stream it right here on the CP website.
Lynn Cullen Live 10/05/15
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Lynn discusses Pittsburgh’s housing peculiarities, Jack Kelly’s healthcare column, sitting vs. standing, more.
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Campaign 2016’s Silly Season: A Weekly Tweet Round-Up Oct. 2
Campaign 2016’s Silly Season: A Weekly Tweet Round-Up Oct. 2
Singer-songwriter Brooke Annibale releases a highly anticipated new full-length
Pittsburgh native Brooke Annibale’s new release is out today.
Lynn Cullen Live 10/02/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Lynn discusses gun laws, Bernie’s money and poor old Josh Scobee. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
Free Thursday-night admission at the Carnegie this month
Starting tonight, the museums of art and natural history are free from 3-8 p.m. Thursdays
Lynn Cullen Live 10/01/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Banned material. The PG and its corrections. Russia and Syria. A long talk about Puff the Magic Dragon. Bernie Sanders reaches 1 million donors. Kevin McCarthy may become next Speaker of the House. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new…
CP Weekend Podcast – Oct. 2 – 4, 2015
This week: Zines, theater scenes and jazz queens
Pittsburgh City Paper obtains bipartisan state House task force recommendations on medical marijuana
A bipartisan workgroup of Pennsylvania House representatives recommends that, if approved, medical marijuana shouldn’t be smoked or sold in edible form, and should be distributed by at least 65 regional dispensaries across the state. It’s also recommending that any program be operated by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Those are just some of the seven…
A top Indian classical-dance troupe opens the Pittsburgh Dance Council season
NRITYAGRAM DANCE ENSEMBLE performs Samyoga: An Ode to Love 8 p.m. Sat., Oct. 3. Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown. $19-55. 412-456-6666 or trustarts.org The first of four dance programs included in the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s India in Focus festival welcomes one of India’s premiere classical-dance troupes. Nrityagram Dance Ensemble performs its work Samyoga: An…
Stuff We Like
Louisa Street Runnel. The city’s only runnel helps cyclists move their bikes up this Oakland staircase. The Rocks. Hang on to summer reading a while longer with this romantic mystery by Peter Nichols spanning 60 years. I Fought the Law. In this colorful and entertaining photo series, the Johnstown-born photographer Olivia Locher explores various wacky…
The Martian
The Martian Directed by Ridley Scott Starring Matt Damon Starts Fri., Oct. 2. In 3-D, in select theaters Things we knew about Mars: It’s 140,000,000 miles away, it’s cold as hell and it ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids. But after screening The Martian, we now know that you can raise potatoes,…
Short List: October 1 – 8
FREE EVENT: Fri., Oct. 2 — Words Richard Blanco calls Pittsburgh “the faraway home … I’ve never been to.” Indeed, the search for home is a key theme for the 2013 inaugural poet. Born in Madrid to Cuban emigrants, Blanco grew up in Miami, and his work has been heavily colored by his family’s sense…
Finders Keepers
In 2007, in a small North Carolina town, Shannon Whisnant bought the contents of a storage locker. Among the haul: a meat smoker, in which he discovered a partially mummified human leg. An inveterate huckster, Whisnant was delighted, sensing opportunities for fame and fortune. But it turned out the leg had an owner — amputee…
Heirloom
Heirloom 690 Third St., Beaver. 724-770-9062 Hours: Mon.-Thu. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sat. 2-10 p.m. Prices: Small plates, sharing plates, soups and salads $8-13; large plates $12-25 Liquor: BYOB Beaver is truly a standout among the county seats surrounding Allegheny — a riverfront city with an august history, small-town feel, impressive architecture…
The Intern
The stressed-out head (Anne Hathaway) of a hip New York clothing website gets a new intern, a well-dressed, well-organized 70-year-old man (Robert DeNiro), who turns out to be just the ticket. This latest relationship comedy from Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give) tackles friendship rather than romance, and is far less sugary for it. It burbles…
Pittsburgh’ Specialty Coffee Week is slated for Oct. 19-25
As far as Phil Johnson is concerned, there’s really only one goal for this year’s Pittsburgh Specialty Coffee Week, slated for Oct. 19-25: exposure. “This event is about building a community and getting people aware of the specialty-coffee industry,” says Johnson, roaster and buyer for Commonplace Coffee Company, which has several local locations. “There are…
The Resurrection of Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts
Jake “the Snake” Roberts was one of pro wrestling’s biggest stars in the 1980s and ’90s; he’s also been one of its biggest tragedies — a drug addict and alcoholic who has spent decades sliding into decline. Now Steve Yu’s new film documents Roberts’ struggle to climb out of that hole. In 2012, Roberts reconnects…
Brandy makes a comeback
When you hear the word “brandy,” the image that comes to mind is probably a bit musty. Old men in smoking jackets, perhaps, or snifters atop stacks of decaying leather-bound books. While rye and gin have become darlings of the American craft-cocktail world, that bottle of brandy has long remained at the back of the…
Time Out of Mind
Down-and-outer George (Richard Gere) becomes truly homeless and, with a fellow shelter denizen (Ben Vereen), tries to navigate New York City’s services and re-connect with his estranged daughter (Jena Malone). Not much more than that happens, and what does unfold does so very slowly and with deliberate distance. Director Oren Moverman (The Messenger, Rampart) shoots…
On its new self-titled record, local four-piece Run Forever hits its stride
RUN FOREVER RELEASE SHOW with OUTER SPACES, FUN HOME, TEETH LIKE YOURS 7 p.m. Sun., Oct. 18. Assemble, 5125 Penn Ave., Garfield. $5. 412-432-9127 or assemblepgh.org Around a table in Bloomfield’s bright, diner-like Thai Gourmet, the members of Run Forever laugh and tease over tom yum soup. It’s a birthday dinner for drummer Tom Moran,…
A conversation with Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch
BUILT TO SPILL with HELVETIA, CLARK AND THE HIMSELFS 8 p.m. Sun., Oct. 4. Mr. Small’s Theatre, 400 Lincoln Ave., Millvale. $22-25. 412-821-4447 or mrsmalls.com Boise, Idaho’s Built to Spill became one of a slew of once-indie rock bands that signed to major labels in the ’90s. Since 1997, the members have been workhorses for…
The first Layer Cake Music and Art Festival features a full day of music, comedians and live painters
LAYER CAKE MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL 1 p.m. Sat., Oct. 3. James Street Gastropub and Speakeasy, 422 Foreland St., North Side. $15-20. Ages 18+. 412-904-3335 or amesstreetgastropub.com When considering a music festival, certain images might spring to mind: hot mid-summer days in West Coast locales; big-name electronic acts and DJs playing all night, for days…
Critics’ Picks, Oct. 1-7
[POP/ROCK] + THU., OCT. 1 Although Alabama-based Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires is fairly new, forming in 2010, the band has been making some big noise. So much so that it caught the attention of semi-legendary Sub Pop Records, which released the band’s fantastic sophomore effort Deconstructed in May 2014. The album has…
Author and nurse Theresa Brown discusses hospitals, nursing and her new book, The Shift
Theresa Brown is trying something new. The local nurse and author is currently on a regional book tour for The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives (Algonquin Press Chapel Hill), her new memoir that takes place over one 12-hour shift in an oncology ward. Unlike her previous book, Critical Care: A New Nurse…
Pittsburgh is starting to seriously address the affordable-housing crisis, but is it too late for the people who ignited the issue?
The issue of affordable housing in Pittsburgh hit big this summer with the news that hundreds of residents were being evicted from the Penn Plaza Apartments in East Liberty. Officials responded promptly by holding a meeting to address anxious residents. City councilors, state representatives, county officials and Mayor Bill Peduto all attended. They seemed to…
Brenda Stumpf explores decay and rebirth at Boxheart
BRENDA STUMPF: BETWEEN WORLDS continues through Oct. 30. Box Heart Gallery, 4523 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. 412-687-8858 or boxheartgallery.com For her exhibit Between Worlds, Brenda Stumpf has created paintings, sculptures, charcoal sketches, ink drawings and elaborately dimensional works combining layers of acrylic, gesso, wire, leaves, flowers, fabric and lace. But although the media that she employs…
Independent candidate hoping to break up two-party election for state Supreme Court
Judge Paul Panepinto is the first independent candidate to run for the state Supreme Court since 1993. In campaigning for the upcoming November election, he says he’s offering voters 25 years of judicial experience on the bench and a nonpartisan approach to the highest court in the commonwealth. “This is an effort to say to…
Lower Ninth at Caravan Theatre
LOWER NINTH continues through Sun., Oct. 4. Caravan Theatre in the Kaufmann Center of the Hill House Association, 1825 Centre Ave., Hill District. $15-20. 412-392-4400 or www.showclix.com Ten years ago, the Lower Ninth Ward was still soaked in destruction following the flooding of New Orleans, one of the worst disasters in U.S. history. Beau Willimon’s…
LEARN Bus helps new immigrants navigate their new home
They pile off two standard yellow school buses, roughly 80 people, all sizes and ages, wearing sweats and T-shirts; on their heads, some wear ball caps while others wear traditional multi-colored dhaka topis. Their eager, expectant faces gleam in the late-afternoon sun. They know they’re in for a treat — their monthly visit to something…
Choir Boy at The REP
CHOIR BOY continues through Oct. 11. The REP at Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland. $25-30. 412-392-8000 or pittsburghplayhouse.com Before the lights dim, the songs of spirit welcome audience members with joyful noise; vows of jubilation; no more crying, no more tears; and the promise that Jesus will save our souls. Choir Boy promises hope. Tarell…
Savage Love
I’ve been dating this guy for almost two months. It’s been pretty good, except the sex isn’t really the best. I have this other male friend who has had a crush on me. Long story short: My friend made a move on me the other night. I told him I couldn’t, and he knew why,…
Dulcy at Pittsburgh Playwrights
DULCY continues through Oct. 11. Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co., 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $22.50-30. 412-687-4686 or pghplaywrights.com When folks say, “They just don’t write plays like that anymore,” it’s plays like Dulcy they’re talking about. Written in 1922 by Pittsburgh natives George S. Kaufman and Mark Connelly, Dulcy is three acts, nearly a dozen performers …
Mike Wysocki has seen the future and it involves soccer and Dippin’ Dots
So-called experts have long proclaimed soccer as America’s sport of the future. It is definitely the most popular sport in the world, but like the metric system, we refuse to adopt it. It’s kind of like the claims Dippin’ Dots has been making about the future of ice cream since the 1980s. So far, neither…
Jersey Boys at PNC Broadway Across America
JERSEY BOYS continues through Sun., Oct. 4. Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $40-130. 412-456-6666 or trustarts.org Big girls don’t cry. But at Saturday’s matinee of Jersey Boys, one apparently intoxicated big girl had big problems: She made so much noise, yelled and screamed and cried out the show’s dialogue and lyrics, that police hauled her…
The only purpose of English-only legislation is to obstruct the real business of government
Butler County Republican Daryl Metcalfe wants English to be the official language of the state of Pennsylvania … again. The plan would force all written state materials to be printed only in English. It would also force state and local governments to conduct all business in English. He’s tried this kind of thing before. He…
Lynn Cullen Live 9/30/15
Video Archive You can listen to the audio archive here. Kim Davis meets with the Pope. Duncan, S.C. has a xenophobic meeting. Visa programs abused for American job replacement. Audio Only Archive Listen to the Audio Archives on with our new Apple and Android Apps or the computer audio player.
