Vol. 25, No. 38
In redevelopment of the Civic Arena site, public subsidies, community-benefits agreements remain unresolved
The Lower Hill is not an asset for the Penguins to sell, it is a debt for them to repay
By Charles Rosenblum
Jeremy Beightol and Brian Holderman impress at The Gallery 4
Joint show takes fantasy elements into intriguing terrain
By Lissa Brennan
Look again: Jacqueline Humphries’ paintings at the Carnegie
They have a cinematic quality that comes from her ability to manipulate perception through tricks of light and shadow
By Nadine Wasserman
Fall Arts Preview 2015
Upcoming art, film, stage, dance, music and more
By CP Staff
India in Focus festival a likely highlight of the fall arts season
Programming includes visual art, theater, dance and music
By Bill O'Driscoll
Modernism at the Carnegie, India in Focus Downtown, and much more on the fall visual-art schedule
Other shows include more Factory Installed at the Mattress Factory, and Silver Eye’s Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity
New plays and new voices take to local stages
Whether you prefer searching drama or Evil Dead the Musical, there’s something for you
Famed authors, internationally acclaimed poets and even a Feminist Zine Fest mark autumn’s literary calendar
David Mitchell, Ruth Reichl, Richard Blanco and more to visit
Variety is the word for Autumn’s musical offerings
Via and Thrival Fests kick off the concert season
By Margaret Welsh
Fall Film Preview
Autumn brings festivals and lots of docudramas
By Al Hoff
From a Michael Jackson tribute to Attack Theatre and an ambitious Pittsburgh Ballet season, fall dance looks busy
Texture Ballet, Baker & Tarpaga and Bodiography are among the other troupes presenting new work
By Steve Sucato
Acro-Cats
Traveling circus cats bring their act to Pittsburgh
By Erica Cebzanov
Should “micro transit” have to play by the same rules as PAT?
“They are filling a need where we do not have service.”
By Ryan Deto
Local Talent
City Paper talks to Pittsburgh-based artists featured at Wizard World Comic Con
By Ashley Murray and Aaron Warnick
Give brown ales some love this fall
These mildly flavored beers go perfectly with the root veggies and hearty meat dishes of fall
By Drew Cranisky
Sichuan Gourmet
This Squirrel Hill restaurant offers both familiar Chinese-American dishes and more flavorful Sichuan cuisine
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
Pop-up food service Onion Maiden offers a fun and nostalgic take on vegan food
“People are really excited to have nachos again.”
Tom Verlaine returns to town, this time with seminal 70s punk band Television
Between the Ramones’ primal, two-minute-or-less power chord blasts and Talking Heads’ herky-jerky attempts at pop, Television occupied a unique space
By Mike Shanley
A long way from his early days playing house parties, British folk-punk artist Frank Turner is selling out venues around the world
“Every time I release a record, somebody, somewhere says, ‘It’s not like the old thing!’ And I say, ‘I know!’”
By Kimberly Olsen
On the Record with Dr. Lonnie Smith
“When I play, it’s like electricity going through my body at that moment.”
Local electronic label MISC Records helps kick off this year’s VIA Festival
“There was music being made in Pittsburgh that I really wished to support and release on a label, so I decided to start one.”
By Tyler Miller
Critics’ Picks, Sept. 17-23
Concerts by Twin Shadow, Echo & the Bunnymen, Mac Miller, Godflesh, and an all-bangers dance party
By Shawn Cooke and Andrew Woehrel
The Musical of Musicals at Theatre Factory
Director Nick Mitchell’s assembled a fun cast with terrific voices
By Ted Hoover
Games of the Mind at Throughline Theatre
As usual, F.J. Hartland doesn’t disappoint in the laughs department
Dead Accounts at Little Lake
This is a production that both celebrates and laments life’s general complications.
By Gwendolyn Kiste
The Trans-Q Live! performance showcase returns
“We are interested in more radical expressions of gender and desire as an artist than in someone’s sexuality.”
Food Systems: A Night Out
Documentary goes behind the kitchen doors of the local restaurant scene
By Celine Roberts
Queen of the Earth
A spare and enigmatic melodrama depicts the breakdown of two women’s relationship
Grandma
Paul Wietz’s latest film is mélange of comedy, mini road trip and coming-of-age story, and a showcase for Lily Tomlin
The Tribe
A somewhat harrowing drama set in a Ukrainian school for the deaf, and told only in sign language
The Visit
M. Night Shyamalan tries a horror-comedy with some success
The Pittsburgh Passion are building a new, old Pittsburgh tradition
“The players in this game have an intense love of the sport.”
By Mike Wysocki
Savage Love
“Sexsomnia is a real thing — sleepwalking plus sex — but it’s an exceedingly rare thing.”
By Dan Savage
Stuff We Like
Lynn Cullen Live 9/15/15
Audio & Video Archive
Lynn Cullen Live 9/17/15
Lynn Cullen Live 9/18/15
Lynn Cullen Live 9/21/15
Lynn Cullen Live 9/22/15
Pittsburgh based artists display talents at Wizard World Comic Con
By Aaron Warnick
CP Weekend Podcast - Sept. 18 - 20, 2015
By Celine Roberts and Aaron Warnick
Short List: September 17-23
Gregory Porter at the August Wilson Center; RADical Days returns; Come Out & Play Pittsburgh gets in the game; Pittsburgh Fashion Week
By Mars Johnson
Affordable-ish Housing in Pittsburgh: The g-word edition
By Michael Machosky
The cassette-tape comeback has reached Pittsburgh's record stores
By Ethan Beck
AG candidate Keir Bradford-Grey wants to be "the People's Lawyer"
By Maia Williams
Pittsburgh loved its disco days, and Thomas Jayson packed the clubs
By Rachel Wilkinson
