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New Album 'Songs Of Lake Volta' By Pittsburgh Band Bends Genres
It isn’t exactly jazz, but has its roots in jazz – and in West Africa. That’s the fast take on the new album Songs of Lake Volta: Ghanaian Traditional → Read More
What's Old Is New: Traditional Sign Painting Is In Demand Again
Brush and Pounce is the name of a modern business steeped in the aesthetics of another century. One local artist is embracing traditional methods to → Read More
Pittsburgh Singer Jimmy Beaumont, Co-Writer Of 'Since I Don't Have You,' Dies At 76
Jimmy Beaumont, then an 18 year old from Pittsburgh’s Knoxville neighborhood, took some lyrics written by his friend Joe Rock, and set them to music in → Read More
New Production Explores Life With Parkinson's, Other Challenges
A new Pittsburgh stage production is rooted in the exploration of Parkinson's disease. In the Company of Ghosts looks at how challenges like disease affect → Read More
Thanks To 'Community-Minded' People, Afro American Music Institute Thrives After 30 Years
On a recent Saturday afternoon, Howard Alexander instructed a group of young musicians at the Afro American Music Institute in Homewood. As a Xylophone → Read More
Technology Offers Fresh Venues For Artists Headed To Market
A non-traditional business model is helping to bring together a local artist and a wide range of prospective clients. Marie Silver lives in San Diego but → Read More
Musicians Find Common Ground In Folksy Blend Of Appalachian And Asian Influences
AppalAsia is one of those artistic ventures which, seemingly, could only happen in Pittsburgh. The musical blend of Appalachian and ancient Chinese folk → Read More
Revisiting The Rock Station That 'Dared To Be Different'
Only on the air from 1986 until 1988, radio station WXXP fostered unexpected cultural changes in western Pennsylvania and left a lasting impact on → Read More
Garfield Artist Hopes 'Gentle Gentrification' Invites Neighborhood Reinvestment
Ceramic sculptor, printmaker and mosaic artist Laura Jean McLaughlin has welcomed patrons to her Penn Avenue studio for 14 years. She was an early → Read More
Tracksploitation Deejays Take Pittsburgh Chamber Music To New, And Different, Heights
An event Thursday at Boom Concepts on Penn Avenue in Garfield combines a contemporary approach to music with a style that has been performed, pretty much → Read More
At Arcade Comedy Theater, Learning The Art Of Making People Laugh
The art of making people laugh and teaching people how to make others laugh come together at downtown’s Arcade Comedy Theater. This is a venue for → Read More
'Saints Tour' Journeys Through A Braddock Both Real And Re-Imagined
The Saints Tour is a fiction inspired by, and then layered on to real places, and sometimes real people. Playwright Molly Rice creates this fictional → Read More
At Biddle’s Escape In Wilkinsburg, Artists Find An 'Intimate and Welcoming' Venue
On a recent Friday evening, acoustic music was presented at Biddle’s Escape, a coffee shop in Wilkinsburg. Singer and songwriter Barbara Klein appreciates → Read More
Through Collaboration, Artist Alexis Gideon Brings 'The Crumbling' To Life
Alexis Gideon is a multimedia artist who has recently relocated to Pittsburgh. The New Hazlett Theater is a center for collaboration as well as an → Read More
As Slow Danger, Artists Find New Ways to Merge Music and Dance
Anna Thompson and Taylor Knight, who create both dance and music as Slow Danger, were drawn to each other’s willingness to explore new ways to interact → Read More
Living Waters of Larimer Initiative Aims to Repurpose Rainwater
With help from artists, geologists, lawyers and others, the Living Waters of Larimer initiative encourages people and government agencies to think of → Read More
How the Iron City Aerials Combine Dance and Acrobatics
Iron City Aerials has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Zoo, the National Aviary, the Science Center and the Kelly Strayhorn → Read More
At This Wilkinsburg Print Shop, What's Old Is New Again (With Video)
Before German immigrant Ottmar Mergenthaler invented the linotype machine in the late 19th century, type was assembled one letter at a time. But the → Read More
How Poet Jessica Server Finds Freedom In The Writing Process
Poet Jessica Server likes the sense of freedom she gets from writing and appreciates opportunities to present her work to audiences. She considers it “an → Read More
How Friends of the Wolfe Sisters Responded to Tragedy with Art
After the murders of Sarah and Susan Wolfe earlier this year, a community of grieving artists and friends were faced with the question of how to move on → Read More