Vol. 26, No. 44
Scott Hunter’s paintings keep score on love
The subjects in Hunter’s surreal large-scale works are deeply saturated with color, full of emotion, and unaware of the scope of the moment
By Natalie Spanner
Running with the Devil
Signs that Donald Trump may be the Prince of Darkness (or is at least his golfing buddy)
By Charlie Deitch
Discourse in the Pennsylvania Senate race has suffered under the weight of the presidential election
“I fear this is the effect of Donald Trump on our political discourse. It now feels like a school cafeteria.”
By Ryan Deto
The Mulder and Scully of Beaver County
Brian and Terrie Seech from the Center for Unexplained Events and the Center for Cryptozoological Studies
By Em DeMarco
Pennsylvania U.S. Senate
Katie McGinty vs. Pat Toomey
Pennsylvania Attorney General
John Rafferty vs. Josh Shapiro
By Rebecca Addison
Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District
Erin McClelland vs. Keith Rothfus
By Stephen Caruso
Weird Pitttsburgh: A cop caught napping and a crook caught collecting
“The cop in the front seat is like knocked out, asleep, head back, mouth open, catching flies.”
By Nick Keppler
Pittsburgh City Paper Booze Battles: Harris Grill vs. Carmella’s Plates & Pints
Bloody Mary
By Celine Roberts
Paul Dolan Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 2011
Price: $18/glass; $72/bottle
By CP Staff
Maggie’s Farm releases a falernum, a logical companion for its rum
“We’re the zestiest place. We should buy microplane stock.”
Hines Ward puts his stamp on Table 86 in Seven Fields, north of Pittsburgh
At a restaurant whose fundamental appeal is its celebrity association, it was impressive that the food reached such heights while hitting so few lows
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth
Award-Winning Bread Pudding
“The winners are selected by the attendees and this was a crowd-pleaser.”
By Jay Poliziani
Alex Blinn’s Gourmade delivers fresh, chef-cooked meals to lunchtime office crowd
Boxes include full cooked meals that simply need to be heated up
An herbalist returns home to talk about Appalachian remedies
Are there medicines and remedies growing in your own backyard?
Author Irina Reyn on The Imperial Wife and the immigrant experience
“What I love about fiction is the ability to make history both accessible and relevant.”
By Jody DiPerna
A conversation with novelist Alice Hoffman
“I write at a very emotional, almost subconscious level.”
By Caralyn Green
With a new concerto, former R.E.M. bassist bridges the gap between rock and classical
“There are a lot of very difficult passages in this thing, and it was really fun to see those come to light.”
By Bill Kopp
For GWAR, touring is an exercise in managed chaos
“We’re always coming up with new solutions to try to streamline. If a costume piece repeatedly breaks, we try to re-engineer it.”
By Ian Thomas
Critics’ Picks, Oct. 27-Nov. 2
Performances by All Get Out, The 1975, Danny Brown, plus some Halloween happenings
By Margaret Welsh and Meg Fair
New Releases
Reviews of records by Danvers, Boonie The Kid and Tanning Machine
By Margaret Welsh
Pitt’s 46th Annual Jazz Seminar and Concert offers a diverse lineup, including trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire
“I am very impressed by his sense of form and structure within an expanse of free expression.”
By Mike Shanley
A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Little Lake Theatre Co.
Troupe often hits the heights in Shakespeare’s fantasy
By Michelle Pilecki
Carrie: The Musical at Split Stage Productions
The cast commits to a show that is ill-conceived and, on a fundamental level, unplayable
By Ted Hoover
Married couple among the leads in Pittsburgh Ballet’s Giselle
Classic tragic romance gets a traditional staging
By Steve Sucato
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
It’s a lackluster slog through quips, chases and fistfights, plus Tom Cruise
By Al Hoff
King Cobra
The movie can’t decide whether to be a true-crime shlocker, a campy riff or a serious film
Need a new NFL head coach? Mike Wysocki suggests taking a drive through Western Pa.
While one out of 80 Americans lives here, we provide the NFL with almost 10 percent of its head coaches
By Mike Wysocki
Sports Illustrated writer S.L. Price paints a beautiful, painful portrait of Aliquippa and its football program in Playing Through the Whistle
“I don’t think anyone gets out of Aliquippa wholly clean.”
Could a Democrat with progressive ideas finally be the candidate to oust Republican Daryl Metcalfe?
“Daryl Metcalfe has burned a lot of bridges.”
Savage Love
By Dan Savage
This Just In: A look at local news online and on the tube.
By Frances Sansig Rupp
Lynn Cullen Live 10/24/16
Audio & Video Archive
Lynn Cullen Live 10/25/16
Lynn Cullen Live 10/26/16
Lynn Cullen Live 10/27/16
Lynn Cullen Live 10/28/16
Best Local Radio Personality
Mark Madden, WXDX
Short List: Oct. 26 - Nov. 2
Virtual refugee exhibit in Schenley Plaza; Bricolage re-animates the Living Dead; the art of Star Trek at the ToonSeum; Down & Derby embraces Stranger Things
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
