Vol. 26, No. 4
The Carnegie’s retrospective on silversmith and product-designer Peter Muller-Munk is thoroughly satisfying
Silver to Steel illuminates a pioneer of mid-century design
By Nadine Wasserman
In some ways, new gas-drilling rules are pretty limited in scope
“This is an important step in the right direction.”
By Bill O'Driscoll
Winter Guide 2016
Don’t mope about the house: Let CP’s Winter Guide help you find fun and interesting things to do this season.
By CP Staff
Winter Art
Winter Stage
Winter Music
Winter Kids
Winter Outdoors
Winter Literary
Winter Other
A friendly Pittsburgh City Council has been crucial to Mayor Peduto’s half-term successes, but has the relationship been too cozy?
“City council needs to hold him accountable.”
By Rebecca Nuttall
Land trust will help low-income residents purchase homes in Lawrenceville
“We want to work to ensure security and stability in the neighborhood.”
By Ryan Deto
Second Latino-owned business in Pittsburgh’s South Hills vandalized
“There’s going to be a hater somewhere, and unfortunately we found him.”
By Ashley Murray
Peduto gets mixed reviews on affordable-housing programs halfway through his first term
“I am upset about the forced displacement of black people.”
Low-alcohol drinks are as complex and tasty as their beefier cousins
Prop up your New Year’s resolution with shims
By Drew Cranisky
Caffe Mona
This Penn Avenue casual eatery offers well-prepared and interesting options for breakfast and lunch
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
Ephesus Mediterranean Kitchen offers the stuffed Turkish flatbread known as pide
Similar to pizza, it’s a thin, crispy dough combined with meat, cheese and vegetables
A Conversation with Justice-Reform Advocate Bryan Stevenson
“If most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would feel the same way I do about reform.”
For Baltimore’s rootsy singer-songwriter Stephen Lee, emo isn’t a bad word
“A lot of that genre is — instead of writing these grand stories — writing about the themes and ethics in your own life.”
By Margaret Welsh
Scott Stapp breaks free of his own prison
“It’s been overwhelming. There’s been a tremendous outpour of support.”
By Shawn Cooke
CMU’s Arts Greenhouse uses hip hop to grow confidence and social awareness in high school students
By Seth Pfannenschmidt
Critics’ Picks, Jan. 21-27
Performances by Funeral Chic and The Toasters, plus the Mr. Roboto Project revives a fundraiser, and the PSO takes on Aaron Copland and Bon Iver
By Andrew Woehrel
On its fourth record, Sweden’s Graveyard continues to give hard rock a good name
The band succeeds because it doesn’t set out to redefine the terms, but to stake its claim within the canon
By Ian Thomas
Be Our Guest at the Theatre Factory
Twelve crazy people are just too much for one show
By Ted Hoover
New play explores the of role ex-Nazis in the U.S. space program
Some Brighter Distance world-premieres at City Theatre
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
A rah-rah actioner from Michael Bay offers explosions rather than drama
By Al Hoff
In Jackson Heights
Fredrick Wiseman’s new doc shines a spotlight on the diverse New York City neighborhood
Ip Man 3
Prepare for a mix of cartoonish martial arts and quiet melodrama
Norm of the North
You should avoid this poorly produced animated comedy about a polar bear
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
This bio-doc of the modern-art collector and patron is a must for fans of art and of iconoclastic women
Wysocki: In terms of churning out talent, Aliquippa may be the greatest town in America
Had Henry Mancini stayed in Cleveland, he might have just won a couple of Daytime Emmys
By Mike Wysocki
Stuff We Like: Winter Edition
Savage Love
I’ve heard about dildo graveyards, but burying sex toys isn’t environmentally responsible.
By Dan Savage
This Just In: A look at local news online and on the tube
Ice, Ice Baby
By Frances Sansig Rupp
Lynn Cullen 1/20/16
Audio & Video Archive
Lynn Cullen 1/21/16
Lynn Cullen 1/22/16
Lynn Cullen Live 1/25/16
City Paper debuts new podcast
This week we talk to Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and visit Smallman Galley in the Strip District
By Alex Gordon, Ashley Murray and Celine Roberts
CP Weekend Podcast - Jan. 21-24, 2016
By Celine Roberts, Aaron Warnick and Ashley Murray
Short List: Jan 20 - 27
Downtown Gallery Crawl; The Rec Room: Winter Games debuts at Spirit; Little Women at Pittsburgh Opera; Quantum’s U.S. premiere of Ciara
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
Affordable-ish Housing in Pittsburgh: density or destiny edition
By Michael Machosky
The cassette-tape comeback has reached Pittsburgh's record stores
By Ethan Beck
