Pittsburgh premieres of two notable plays
By Bill O'Driscoll and Amanda Reed
Carnegie Mellon professor’s new memoir revisits her brain injury
“It might help other brain-injury survivors.”
By Amanda Reed
Tags: Book Reviews + Features, Books, Deb Brandon, Carnegie Mellon University, CMU, But My Brain Had Other Ideas: A Memoir of Recovery from Brain Injury
Local author Carrie Ann DiRisio parodies YA-lit tropes
“It’s ‘punching-up’ humor, in a way to make fun of the rich, mega-hot white dude.”
Tags: Book Reviews + Features, Books, Carrie Ann DiRisio, Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me, Broody McHottiepants
Pittsburgh-based Lynda Schuster’s memoir of her life as a foreign correspondent and ambassador’s wife
“I lived in this rarefied bubble where it’s all cocktail parties and state dinners.”
Tags: Book Reviews + Features, Books, Lynda Schuster, Dirty Wars and Polished Silver: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix, Dial Torgerson, Dennis Jett
WESA cancels longtime radio show Prosody
Tags: Prosody, poetry, WESA, public radio, Pittsburgh writers, WYEP
Holiday Magic! brings lights and festive flora to Oakland
Tags: Pittsburgh, Phipps, Phipps Conservatory, Winter Flower Show and Light Garden, Holiday Magic, Holidays in Pittsburgh, Christmas Lights
First Night 2018 attractions announced
Tags: Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Events, Holidays, Music, First Night, arts event, New Year's Eve, 2018, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Pop-up Nickelodeon begins Downtown on Friday
Tags: Entertainment, Screen, Theater, movies, Downtown, Light-Up Night, First Night, cinema, silent movies
wats:ON? Festival Returns to Carnegie Mellon University
Tags: Art, Carnegie Mellon University, architecture, performance art, wats:ON? festival
Local author attempts serialized email novel
Adam Dove’s The Truth comes to an inbox near you
Tags: Book Reviews + Features, Books, Adam Dove, The Truth, University of Pittsburgh
Short List: Oct. 19-26
Women serial killers sing in Angelmakers; the future of work; Harry Belafonte; Resonance Works season-opener
Tags: Short List, Events, Angelmakers: Songs for Female Serial Killers, Xanadu, Kiss Me Kate, Into the Fire/Poet’s Love, Harry Belafonte, Ploughman’s Lunch, Timothy Kelley, Funny Ladies: A Much-Needed Night of Laughter, Artists Studio Tour, Romeo and Juliet, Touch Update, CM Burroughs
By Mars Johnson
The speakeasy was born in Pittsburgh and is still hiding out a century later
By Rachel Wilkinson
Now Hiring in Pittsburgh: Allegheny County Parks and Rec, Sewickley Valley YMCA, East End Brewing Co., and more
By Morgan Biddle
Transit Talk: The Way of the Bollard
By Colin Williams
Eat along the water at these riverfront restaurants with killer views
By Aakanksha Agarwal
