Vol. 25, No. 39
India in Focus artists explore the interplay between traditional and contemporary cultures
“Most of us straddle the world of modernity and tradition with ease and unease.”
By Bill O'Driscoll
Hacking The Sims with Angela Washko and other fun and games at VIA
Festival’s art offerings are as cutting-edge as the music
A new survey explores reducing congestion in Pittsburgh
Make My Trip Count asks what it would take to get people out of their cars
Cameron McLay getting high marks after first year as Pittsburgh police chief
“This chief came in at a time when we needed an uplifting of our spirit.”
By Rebecca Nuttall
Port Authority instituting a new era of equity and transparency
“Equity helps us to weigh our decisions against the other, more pragmatic qualifiers of cost and effectiveness.”
By Ryan Deto
This Just In: A look at local news online and on the tube
By Frances Sansig Rupp
Yoga classes exemplify brew-pub community-building
Cold beer, warm hearts is a thing
By Celine Roberts
Bill’s Bar & Burger
This upscale-comfort-food restaurant stands out with its excellent trademark burger.
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
Slice Island makes Spirit Lodge a destination for pizza-lovers
“We banished the Pizza Boat to Slice Island.”
By Margaret Welsh
Littsburgh is a new online hub of local literary resources
“We felt there was a need, since there’s so much going on here.”
By Whitney Hayes
Circe
By Brittany Hailer
In its third year, Thrival Innovation + Music festival continues to expand, boasting a new stage in Hazelwood, and headliners Raekwon and Ghostface Killah
“We’ve taken a hard look at how we can be good stewards of Pittsburgh’s innovation story.”
By Caralyn Green
This year’s VIA breaks the festival mold, offering a lineup dominated by female-indentifying artists, LGBTQ artists and artists of color
“A lot of the women I talk to are like, ‘I don’t want to be tokenized — I just want to headline a bill.’”
By Shawn Cooke
London-based Krar Collective brings its modern Ethiopian music to Pittsburgh
In light of the group’s basic instrumentation, it has been dubbed “the Ethiopian White Stripes”
By Mike Shanley
A new zine, Women in Sound, aims to change the way we talk about women in music production
“So much media that talks about women in any creative field is really focused around ‘what’s it like being a woman that does this thing?’ Which is ridiculous.”
By Alex Gordon
Critics’ Picks, Sept. 24-30
Shows by Big Smo, Chip DiMonick, Diet Cig, Yo La Tengo and Shemekia Copeland
By Andrew Woehrel and Troy Michael
Quantum’s The Winter’s Tale
This operatic adaptation of Shakespeare is exquisite
By Michelle Pilecki
Choreographer Olivier Tarpaga recalls his home continent in Declassified Memory Fragment
“Africa is not just about violence, Ebola and AIDS.”
By Steve Sucato
Black Mass
Scott Cooper’s well-made docudrama about Boston gangster Whitey Bulger teaches us nothing new about anything
By Harry Kloman
Everest
Baltasar Kormakur’s docudrama re-visits the disastrous and deadly 1996 season on the Himalayan mountain
Goodnight Mommy
Austrian psychological thriller mines the quiet horror of a mother-and-sons relationship
By Al Hoff
Meet the Patels
Amusing documentary about an American man trying to please his marriage-minded Indian parents
Pawn Sacrifice
Docudrama focuses on the early years of chess superstar Bobby Fischer — from youth to fabled 1972 championship
Stonewall
Roland Emmerich’s docudrama about the fabled gay-rights event proves joyless and disappointing
Duquense Football: Cheap, classy and on a roll
“This unique football stadium rests high on the Bluff, with views of Downtown, the Mon and the Allegheny County Jail.”
By Mike Wysocki
Savage Love
“What does it mean when you find a pair of tit clamps in your ‘vanilla’ boyfriend’s dresser?”
By Dan Savage
Stuff We Like
By CP Staff
Lynn Cullen Live 9/24/15
Audio & Video Archive
Lynn Cullen Live 9/25/15
Lynn Cullen Live 9/28/15
Lynn Cullen Live 9/29/15
CP Weekend Podcast - Sept. 25 - 27, 2015
By Celine Roberts and Aaron Warnick
Short List: September 23 - October 1
Texture Contemporary Ballet does time; Tracksploitation meets Chamber Music Pittsburgh; a supermoon blood moon; and The Moth touring show
By Mars Johnson
Both the Evergreen Cafe owner and his adversaries are calling authorities over the new loading zone
By Matt Petras
Under mounting allegations of sexual misconduct, Pittsburgh's Anti-Flag has become a disappearing act
By Amanda Waltz
Affordable-ish Housing in Pittsburgh: Sights in the Heights edition
By Colin Williams
Ed Piskor exhibition postponed over sexual misconduct allegations