Vol. 27, No. 14
Silver Eye’s Fellowship 17 impresses
Photographers Kris Sanford and Francis Crisafio offer different takes on identity
By Bill O'Driscoll
Real News About Fake News
A media-literacy guide for navigating news in the fake-news era
By CP Staff
A guide for navigating “good news” and “bad news” in the fake-news era
We’re losing our grasp on what counts as reliable information
In the current news climate, it’s time to question where news outlets get their information
“If people are going to be more skeptical of us, then we have to be better too.”
By Ryan Deto
Media consumers are taking memes at face value, but they often contain misinformation
“Offering superficial comparisons between elements from now and back then is not likely to contribute much substance to today’s political discourse.”
By Rebecca Addison
Local TV newscasts keep it local
This chart shows the lead stories, and whether any national or international news was covered
By Al Hoff
TV news is not the best place to “go local”
Weather topped the news in 35 percent of the shows
Evisceration Nation
Toothless takedowns and the 2016 election
By Alex Gordon
The Eight Stages of a Golden Shower (Story)
How an unverified, error-ridden document made its rounds through the media
How Journalists Can Mislead Readers: An Annotation
Pittsburgh Left: Our paper may be alternative, but our facts are on the money
Just because there’s more than one side to an issue doesn’t mean they’re equally valid
By Charlie Deitch
Real News About Fake News Quiz
Test your knowledge with this media literacy quiz
“New England” IPAs are all the rage
“It’s when and how you utilize the hops, and then what varieties of hops you use.”
By Drew Cranisky
Pittsburgh City Paper Booze Battles: Stagioni vs. Pork & Beans
Garden in a Glass
By Celine Roberts
Green Chartreuse
$55.99/750ml
DiAnoia’s Eatery, in Pittsburgh’s Strip District, offers all-day dining
It’s an Italian café, bakery, deli, bar, micro-market and casual sit-down restaurant
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
Icing for Icing Haters
Hell, I don’t like cake that much.
Café Carnegie’s Sonja Finn strives to keep local and seasonal all year long
“We’ve been able to continue to source locally even in the dead of winter and coming out of it.”
You Eat With Your Eyes First
Food styling with Quelcy Kogel
Exploring modern mothering through an economic lens
The knowledge that neoliberalism makes economic insecurity indivisible from motherhood today is central to Mothering Through Precarity.
By Amani Newton
10,000 Dads
By Lauren Shapiro
Julien Baker on DIY, faith and where to get good coffee
“You’re screaming loudly because you NEED to scream loudly.”
By Meg Fair
Jazz trumpeter Peter Evans brings his experimental style to Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum
“The overarching thrust of my work these is to make sure that the music provides something different, something directly opposed to the superficiality”
By Mike Shanley
New record from Charly Bliss tackles inner demons with catchy pop hooks and joyous self-deprecation
“It makes me laugh about things I’m ashamed of.”
Pittsburgh’s Molly Spear fights a creative rut with an album a week
The releases vary in style, but are all comfortably rooted in abstract, ambient traditions
Critics' Picks, April 6-12
Check Out performances this week from Leggy, Misaligned Mind, Great Lakes Swimmers and The Rizzos
By Alona Williams and Meg Fair
Lights Out at Pittsburgh Playwrights
A drama set on a Pittsburgh subway is never dull, but it’s also never as absorbing as it could be
By Harry Kloman
Peter and the Starcatcher at Pitt Stages
The level of commitment is through the roof
By Ted Hoover
Baltimore at Pitt Stages
A play explores how we talk about race
By Stuart Sheppard
Miwa Matreyek enters her own animations as a live shadow figure
The effect is magical and something audiences around the globe have marveled at.
By Steve Sucato
The second annual Japanese Film Festival takes place at Row House Cinema
Samurai Cat, House and Sailor Moon R are among the offerings
The 11th annual Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival Faces of Identity continues in Pittsburgh
Five films, on topics from eagles to Earth, close out the final week
Ranking the best Pittsburgh Pirates second basemen since Bill Mazeroski
I’ll be honest, we didn’t see it coming either
By Mike Wysocki
If you must share fake news, make it sports
Believing that story doesn’t really hurt anyone
Pittsburgh Obama Academy junior Sead Niksic makes a splash in state swimming tournament
“He’s one of the top swimmers in the region and state.”
By Billy Ludt
Lynn Cullen Live 04/17/17
Audio & Video Archive
Lynn Cullen Live 04/14/17
Lynn Cullen Live 04/05/17
Lynn Cullen Live 04/06/17
Short List: April 6-13
Broadway musical Fun Home; Quantum Theatre’s Collaborators; Non-Punk Pittsburgh rocks SPACE Gallery; comics star Ed Piskor’s solo exhibit
By Mars Johnson
Pittsburgh’s street trees are free upon request. So why do they often go to the city’s wealthiest residents?
By James Paul
The mayor and the tenor: when Masloff met Pavarotti
By David S. Rotenstein
Pittsburgh’s Dawn Hartman is bringing a new lens to her LGBTQ-centered Intimacy Project
By Jessie Sage
The cassette-tape comeback has reached Pittsburgh's record stores
By Ethan Beck
