Vol. 26, No. 42
A retrospective gives Alison Knowles her due
A Fluxus artist’s journey is mapped in beans and unconventional “books”
By Nadine Wasserman
An indefatigable artist gets a retrospective
This art is about resistance
By Amani Newton
This old mill town turned tragedy into economic opportunity
“Folks here were not going to fold up the tent and go home.”
By Ryan Deto
Robert Morris researcher Annette Förster weighs in on the torture debate
“There are cases where it is effective but I think for most of the cases you can say no, it’s not effective.”
By Rebecca Addison
Picturing Fineview
City Paper teams up with Instagram collective @SteelCityGrammers for a photo essay from Fineview
By CP Staff
Weird Pittsburgh: An app that identifies local stank, a rooster on the loose in the Hill, and a clown hunt in State College
No clown was arrested or even confronted by police
By Nick Keppler
Forget gnomes for your garden — how about gnomes making your beer?
“The dancing gnome is how I envision passion and hard work in an entity."
By Celine Roberts
Pittsburgh City Paper Booze Battles: Meat & Potatoes vs. The Livermore
Vieux Carre
Station 33 Firehouse Red
Retail Price: $4/glass
The Vandal in Lawrenceville offers an assortment of fusion cuisine in a casual setting
There are four menus: breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner, with some crossover
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
Under the new ownership of Lou Ickes and Janessa Walter, Brillobox retains its neighborhood vibe
“If I was just hanging out, my day would be Sunday brunch.”
By Margaret Welsh
Corn Pudding Culture
A sacred family recipe with an edge of competition
By Emeran Irby
The Iroquois White Corn Project and Conflict Kitchen work together to bring light to indigenous peoples' cuisine and history.
The living history of the Haudenosaunee people can be found in the kernels of white corn.
A conversation with Tig Notaro
“It’s a kind of cycle of giving to each other and healing each other.”
By Sam Leonard
With Jaye Jayle, Young Widows frontman Evan Patterson swaps melodic aggression for menacing, slow-burning minimalism
“I’ve been obsessed with blues music for a long time.”
New Releases
A review of Love and Violence by The Hipsters
By Alex Gordon
Pittsburgh indie-punk stalwart Laura Lee Burkhardt grows her project Rue into a full band
“Our sound really changed for the best, and we’ve become much more harmonious.”
By Lauren Rearick
Critics’ Picks, Oct. 13-19
Performances by Naughty Professor, Post Malone, Okkervil River and the Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet, plus the annual Cat-tivo-Howl-O-Ween Bash
By Margaret Welsh and Meg Fair
Talking donuts, DIY punk and old-fashioned rock ’n’ roll with Seratones front woman AJ Haynes
“I know in a lot of different punk scenes, there’s this big machismo, anti-feminine, anti-woman pussy-fear, and we didn’t have that.”
By Charlie Deitch
The River at Quantum Theatre
There are so many layers and word plays in this fish tale
By Michelle Pilecki
Intimate Apparel at University of Pittsburgh Stages
What an exquisite piece of playwriting this 2003 drama is
By Ted Hoover
Diary of a Madman and “Poe’s Last Night” at Metropolis Theater
A pair of solo shows interprets two 19th-century literary giants
By Bill O'Driscoll
Playboy of the Western World at Carnegie Mellon Drama
Joe Essig looks so comfortable in his role that he can make you forget you’re watching a play
By Stuart Sheppard
American Honey
Andrea Arnold’s road-trip movie documents one girl’s coming of age, as well as the battered state of America
By Al Hoff
The Girl on the Train
Taylor Tate’s adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ novel makes an unsatisfying transition to the big screen
Extreme Weather
Impressive footage of the dangers of catastrophic weather events omits information about climate change
Shin Godzilla
Japanese bureaucracy is no match for a mega monster
Pittsburgh Penguins Preview 2016
Pens starting the season with one focus: To keep the Cup in Pittsburgh
As the Penguins embark on the franchise’s golden season, the focus is on silver Cups
“You have to be ready every night and expect everyone’s best.”
By Stacy Kauffman
Pens winger Scott Wilson looking forward to a full season on the ice
“You dream about doing this stuff when you’re a kid.”
Can Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan avoid a Stanley Cup hangover in his second season?
Not only did he make them contenders, Sullivan won the Stanley Cup.
By Mike Wysocki
Five factors crucial to a Pittsburgh Penguins Stanley Cup repeat
Keeping the momentum alive will be doubly challenging
By Andy Mulkerin
Second-year Pittsburgh Penguins ready for the big next step
A full season of Sid feeding him the puck will be fun to watch.
A photo essay from the Penguins Oct. 5 preseason game against the Red Wings at PPG Paints Arena
A photo essay from the Pens Oct. 1 preseason practice at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex
Three Pittsburgh-related fantasy-football options to spice up the season
Terrelle Pryor could be playing five or six positions in one game by season’s end for the Browns
Inventor hopes his new game will replace cornhole in backyards and at tailgates across the country … or at least Pittsburgh
“Every game can be its own universe.”
By Kim Lyons
Tie games may be the worst thing ever
So what have we learned here today? Mainly that ties suck.
Instead of owning up to what he’s done, Donald Trump doubles down on arrogance
The real problem for Trump is that a lot of us do understand what he said
Savage Love
By Dan Savage
Lynn Cullen Live 10/13/16
Audio & Video Archive
Lynn Cullen 10/14/16
Short List: Oct. 12-18
Alan Cumming talks and sings; the world’s steepest foot race; Science Center debuts BodyWorks; author Kwame Alexander
By PJ Patella-Rey
Now Hiring in Pittsburgh: The Talent Group, Chatham University, American Eagle, and more
By Morgan Biddle
These historic Pittsburgh cookbooks are a roadmap to our culinary roots
By Stacy Rounds
By some metrics, Fox Chapel is a sundown town
By David S. Rotenstein
Pittsburgh loved its disco days, and Thomas Jayson packed the clubs
By Rachel Wilkinson
